The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-04
MAYOR DAVIS TALKS.
Kansas City's Chief Executive
Speaks to a Great Crowd
At HAMILTON HALL LAST NIGHT.

He says Missouri Never Had as Much
Reason 60 he Ashamed or Herself
as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS People Applaud
the Sentiment and seem to Like 1t.
Mayor Webster Davis of Kansas City,
Mo, is striking speaker. He addressed
an immense crowd at the Hamilton hall
Republican rally last night for two hours
with no signs of fatigue to the audience.
Mayor Davis is a Kansan by education
and a Missourian by mistake. He is
man of athletic form, coal black hair,
mOustache and eyes, and wore a suit of
clothes that tit him. His command of
| language was good and his voice is as
clear bell His eccentricity IS that
his voice requires range of about one
octave in ordinary conversation, and fully
two octaves in making a political speech.
At times he sang his speech with the
vim of the leading man at an old Missouri
camp-meeting.
Mayor Davis was given a good intro
duction to the audience by our James A.
Troutman He said: kansas City is
the market for our products. It is there
our grains go. 1t is there our cattle go.
1t is there our men GO" Mr.. Troutman
was Interrupted by applause but ex-
planned that he didn't mean it that
way
When Mayor Davis began to talk the
various hambeau clubs began to pour
into the hall. He started to speak, but
his voice was drowned by the din. Il
have talked against circuses and steam
calliopes,'' he shouted "but / can't talk
against a Topeka 1amb club
When the noise had somewhat sub
sided, Mr. Davis resumed: Il was edu-
Gated at the Kansas State university, and
/ know something OF her history and
her resources and her people. l didn't
think she would make the stain and
Inf on her OLE haf
makes her notorious. You used to talk
about Poor Old Missouri but Missouri
was never guilty of this. When the ban
ner of Morrill, and Troutman floats over
the state capitol then indeed viii the
news 60 abroad that Kansas is redeemed
This you must do if you love your state
You cannot afford to remain longer un-
der Populist misrule The trouble is not
with the masses of your party, but the
one-horse, rag-tag. bob-tailed, rundown
at-the- heel politicians who run their
party. Down with the bewhiskered.
sJckless lot. We need more patriotism
and less Populism."
Mayor Davis was almost eloquent in
telling how the British manufacturers
''were happy and laughed" when Mr..
Wilson referred to free trade when he
was banqueted by the London cham Der
Of commerce.
"They were happy and laughed"
Mayor Davis said, ssbecause thousands Of
British furnaces have been started up
by the Wilson bill at the ex-
pense of multiplied thousands of
American workmen who have no work
Let US see if the British manufacturer
will be happy and laugh after the next
election when we will proclaim to the
world that America is for Americans,
independent of Lombard street Let US
stand up for Kansas and Missouri as
against any country on earth. We can
do 80 by voting for protection. We favor
tariff reform. but we want the reform to
work in our favor instead of England's.
James q. Biaine's mantle has fallen on
a worthy successor IN William McNin-
ley (great applause). Did any of you
ever hear of either Blaine or Mckinley
being banquetted by the London money
kings? No indeed
democracy said to the workingman,
Don't pay a quarter of a cent duty on
your tin dinner buckets. Let's bring 'em
in free The laborer said ALI right,
and he hasn't had any use for his dinner
pail since. The poor devils who wore
tin roosters on their hats and marched
for Grover in the last campaign have
eaten their BOOSTERS and have marched on
to Washington. They marched to ask
their old friends for relief Instead Of
that they z 'durn you, keep off the
grass These are good old Democratic
days, boys. How do you like 'em as far
as you've gotf"
which originated in Kansas about Mis-
souri,, merely changing it to bring Kan
sas into ridicule instead Of n issourI:
"A sweet lutte girl over in Missouri
had been taught to say her prayers every
night She had heard great deal about
the Kansas administration, and one night
when she had said her regular prayer
she added, Good bye, bod, I won't see
You any more for two weeks. I'm going
to visit in Kansas I don't mean TO SLAM
der Kansas. l love Kansas am let
ting the weeds grow in the streets of
Kansas City because / want to help save
Kansas"
Mayor Davis closed with a touching
reference to the old soldiers.
The music for the occasion was fur
nished by four coIored men who sang
"Republicans Get on Board" and made a
great hit. James A. Troutman made q
speech while the crowd was coming in.
He showed conclusively by figures from
the state treasurer's reports that the
economical Populist administration has
cost more money in every department of
the state government than any year for
six years under Republican control.
The attendance at the hall was very