The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-17

lips AT any moment AIr. Ihacher said,
.sIt is forty years ago this month that
the great Kansas struggle began by the
introduction In che senate Df rhe United
izatIon Of the Territories 9f Kansas and
Nebraska, embodying the repeal off the
Missouri compromise and the renuncia-
ton of the sO-called princi pie of squatter
sovereignty. More than the period of "a
generation of man has passed TIE men
Of mature life when that struggle began
have almost all passed away. III IS start
ling to read over the list of senators and
Representatives wac voted upon the final
passage of the Kansas ard Nebraska bill
and to recognize among them not sim
gle name now prominent IL public life
Galusha A. Grow Of Pennsylvania. who
after long retirement from public view,
has ust been nominated DY acclamati0n
by the Republicans OF Penusy lvauia for
congressman at-large from THAT stale.
eM here are Seward, Sumner. Chase.
Hamlin. Giddings, Ben Wade, Of the one
side ana Douglas Casss Atchison Mason,
Slideu, Toombs and John Petit Of the
ctherg Gone-al gonei They are mere
historic names like Washington. etfer-
son ana Adams. The young men Of that
day who were just entering upon public
life who still survive are the veterans OF
today, pacing the downward slope or life
with their faces toward the setting sun
and with night and darkness not far
away Among them all, Senator John
Sherman, the early and fast friend of
Kansas venerable and illustrious man, is
almost the only survivor In the hall Of
congress. With the lapse Of SO many
years tile events 1f that early period be-
gin to assume truly historic rsDectiYe,
and we are enabled to form 8 more COR
tors IN that great struggle. 81 e. can see
what events were f0rcetul Impressive, !
lasting Ia influence, and what were tenn
porary, incidental and ephemeraI
Referring TO Colonel Phillips. Mr.
Baker quoted Ar. Ihacher as saying.
ssIn 1898 Colonel Phillips came 10 Kan /
sas as the regular stall Representative Of +
the Tribune, position which he held T
for many years. He maintained close re- +
latIons with THAT great paper all his life, I
being frequent editorial contributor to Z
It's columns. His connection With the <
Tribune gave him great opportunity to Z
assist tile free state cause IN Kansas
That paper was in Che very zenith 9t its T.
career and was beyond Eli question THE
most able and influential newspaper III
America. Horace Greeley. enc of the
greatest and most original men this
country has ever produced was its
editor in-chiel while Charles A- DANA
the best newspaper manager that the
old school Of Journalism has known,
and who still maintains his posi-
ork paper, the SUP was his HHst leuten-
amt, assisted ov q b1SlLant stah of think-
ars and writer's, the whole organiza-ion
producing journal of unique and re-
mend0ua Influence ( suppose there
were more men ID the United States who
swore by the New York Trio ia the
fateful years DC 1890 rs 1850 and 1861.
than ever followed the Intellectual lead
arshIp Of any other newspaper ia the
world, before or since. Ut stirs the Blood
like trumpet to read the Tribune edi-
-oriaIs ln those days, even now The
youthful Phillips must have been deemed
a man of rare power to have been put in
command Of SUCH Az outpost lf the great
Battle Of freedom as Kansas then was.
The whole country was his audience
when he spoke through the columns of
bis journal, for it was q fact significant
0f the power aud ability of the Tribune
That its enemies read At almost as much
as its friends. They could not afford to
ignore it.
"lts resources were SO great ITS powers
OF presentation Sc marvellous ITS energy
and enthusiasm 50 absolutely unhasrging
and It's circulation for those days 80 VAST
that II commanded attention ana respect
everywhere. Presidents ana cabinets
read II and feared its the pioneer IFS his
rude cabin on the vast prairles of the
p est named with indignation as he read
IT, accounts OF border ruflan outrages in
kansas. The Kansas question was the
live and burning question Of the hour
ana the Tribune was the champion