The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-04-07
MEETING OF THE STATE
LEAGUE AT TOPEKA.
WENT WILD OYER MAJOR MKlELEY.
The Mention of Ills Name by President
Hoch ElicIted storms of Applause
Resolutions Adopted and New Of
hcer, Chosen-Charies Shell
don of Osago County the
New President

TOPEKA, Kan, April G.--The sew
enth annual convention of the Kansas
Republican league began at IL o'clock
yesterday morning at Hamilton hall
President Il. W. Hoch called the
meeting to order, following which
Secretary G. NJ Sheldon read the call
for the convention and the address of
the executive committees
Mayor 7. w. Harrison of Topeka
delivered an address of welcome in
which he said Republicans were al
ways welcome to Topeka, and Presi-
dent Hoch in a short reply assured the
mayor that he need not increase the
police force on account of the presence
of the league in the city.
Following this, President Hoch de-
livered his annual address. He said
that the meeting of the league this
year was under peculiar circum-
stances. The Republican party was
out of power In state aud nation, and
yet il never had SO strong hold upon
the Judgment and conscience of the
people as to-day. When last the
league met in Topeka, Anarchists in
high places had well nigh plunged
the state into civil war and while
this WINS BoinB Vn az h""eo '"N
nation was just entering upon a
bitter experience. The great
change for which the people had
, clamored and decreed should come
he'd been ushered in but few days
before. The party whose history was
| luminous with glorions achievements
had Just surrendered the helm to
other pilots, and the ship of state was
already piunging In a turbulent sea.
From Republicanism to Democracy"
! he went on, from prosperity to
paralysis, from Harrison to Cleveland,
from Blaine to Gresham, from Raum
to Hokc Smith-my countrymen, what
a change"
History, the speaker said, always
indicated the Republican party, and
~ proof of the assertion he allude q "a
the "freless furnaces" empty tir
buckets" free soup houses, work
less workmen," "Coxey armies, gov.
ernment bonds" "tre milling pension.
ers," Hawaiian blunders" and "quo.
rumless houses" but he claimed that
the people were ripe for another
change and that a beginning was made
last year in Kansas and Iowa and this
year in Pennsylvania.
The only demonstration made 10y
the convention during the reading o
Mr.. Hoch's address was when he re
ferrcd TO william Mckinley as tn,
next president of the United States
A portrait of the Ohio governor wa
set in front of the stage hidden be
hind an American flag which Mr.
Hoch deftly pulled aside as he men
toned the name, and the audienc
went wild.
After the appointment of the usu a
committees the conve ntion ad jour ne
until . o'clock.
At the afternoon session the repor
OF the committee on resolutions wa
adopted. The resolutions reaffirme
the platform of the national Republ
can convention of 1892, and de
nounced Cleveland's administration
Nothing was said about equa
suffrage or prohibition. The claus
in regard to the Populist stat
administration is as follows:
We denoun e the pro ca; stst, ,im' ni'trl
tion tor its reckless AMI prOniyate IN INA Z
ment OF public anal FOR its wilful and III
grant dsre ard OF law for the socialistic u
terance' OF It's leaders and for that spirit
anarchy which brought the state tn the veT
verge OF ciyll war. We Piled e ourselves
renew exertions TO restore the supremacy
spedi, pSd sood Ss1 Pams of Kansas may be
! estabilshe / and the laws again be made 81
pTeme
New officers of the state lcagu
were elected. as follows: Presiden
C. NJ. sheldon of Usage county; vic
president, w Y Morgan of Emporii
secretary, Charles y. Gait OF Topek'
treasurer, Judge j. J.. Culver of En-
G poria.
: The evening session was devoted I
| speech-making and music.