The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-17

all the floods aud foundations that
have ever visited this state were
condensed into deluge as mon
strOus as that of Noah's time; if every
grasshopper and locust we have had
were TO be concentrated and consolidated
into one great animal of destruction, all
these would not have compared IN injury
and loss and detriment to what this state
has suffered in the public estimation, in
the price value of its politics since 1890,
and [ want it distinctly understood that
am not speaking the language of resent
msnt, although myself one of the poor
victims of that great revolution, aud a
very scientific campaign, too.
ut was Democratic votes that put
Lewelling in the state house; it was Dem
field; It was Democratic votes that sent
John~M artin to the United States senate,
to which he never was elected.
ITO overthrow the Republicans the
Democratic party voted for candidates
they det6sted, standing upon a platform
that they despised and repudiated, and
1 want to say to you that in many parts
of this state they are doing exactly the
same thing today, and if they can con-
troll the legislature Of the state and send
a Democrat or an opposition member to
the senate of the United States they will
do it if it is within the range Of posi-
bility, and therefore, I do not fully coin =
eide and concur with those who declare
this is purely state campaign.
at is far more than that 1t has great
national aspects The vote of the senate
Of the United States may depend upon a
man sent from Kansas The delegation
in the house from this state may deter
mine the complexion of the house of
representatives., and it may determine
who shall be the next president
OF the United States. in case
there should be no election by
the people, and I want to admOnIsh the
Republicans of johnson county not to for
get in their ambition and desire to re-
deem this state that this is a national
campaign, and that it is important tn at
the congressional complexion should be
Republican and that the legislature
should be Republican: and I want to say
to our Democratic friends, if any of them
are fatigued with the results of their ex-
pertinent, the best thing they can do is
to vote for David Overmyer like a man.
in my judgment, one of the great
causes of the errors and heresies into
which the American people have fallen,
one great occasion of the difficulties IN
der which Kansas has labored in the past
four years, has been from the inattention
of the people to the discharge of their
difficult duties and obligations. We hear
great deal in these latter
times about the bad government in
this country, that this is a government of
the milIionaires, that it is a government
of the plutocrats. that it is a government
Of classes, in which Republican legisla-
ton has been enacted for the benefit of
one class, and for the oppression of other
classes. / want to say that the people of
this country have exactly as good govern
ment as they deserve to have.
ssThe government of this country is ex-
actly what the people of this country
see fit to make it I have heard the SEN
ate of the United States described as a
syndicate of millionaires, as a bankers
club and l want to say that il
there be in that body a dull, vacant
and degraded millionaire, with not
intelligence enough to vote audfbly when
he is called on the ayes and nays