The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-05

When Mayor Harrison,s speech, which
was repeatedly cheered was finished,
President Hoch replied in few re-
marks, most highly complimentary to
Topeka He was greeted with cheer
after cheer
He said. sTopeka is the best capital,
the cleanest capital, the most enlighte
ed capital of the most enlightened state
in the union. The only state capital in
the union in which there is not a sin
gle open saloon.'
He said Topeka people and Kansas
people had been too busy to join Coxey's
army and that was another thing to be
thankful for.
or Harrison's addr ess were concluded,
President Hoch delivered his address.
Hoch's Address.
The formal address of President Hoch,
as given below, was received with great
enthusiasm. He was frequently cheered,
and his many timely references wer g
frequently applauded. His reference to
Sheriff Wilkerson was given the first
applause, and his mention of Artz in his
gorgeous uniform, with the gasoline"
gun, were greeted with laughter. He
was greeted again and again with cheers
and applause all through the address
and at it's close. When, in his speech,
he mentioned the name of VIM. Mckin-
ley, Mr.. Hoch lifted the flag which re-
vealed the portrait of the governor of
Ohio in front of the speakers stand.
The delegates were aching for an op-
portunity to cheer, and cheer they did
again and again.
He spoke in detail as follows:
With pardOnable pride in its past,
with higher purposes for the future, and
with an intensified devotion to the best
political party ever organized, the Re
publican state league of Kansas con
venes today in seventh annual convention.
l give you cordial greeting. We meet
under peculiar circumstances. Our par
ty is out of power in state and nation.
and yet it never had so strong a hold as
it has today upon the Judgment and con-
impatience an opportunity to call it
again to the management of public af
fairs.
The past year has been an eventful
one. When we last assem- bled here the
anarchists in high places who had we'll
nigh plunged this fair state into civil
war, had just yielded reluctantly to the
mandates of the courts and to the omin
Gus sentiment of an indignant and out
ragged people The noble n ational
guards, who had been too loyal TO law
to make tools for petty tyrants, had fold
ed their tents and gone quietly home.
The patriotic citizens who had rendered
their services to the gallant sheriff of
this county to preserve the peace, and
had preserved it, had gladly gone back
store, in field, and in workshop. whence
duty and duty alone had called them.
The business thOrOughfares OF this beau
tiful city so recently thrOnged with eX-
cited men were once more thrOnged only
by those engaged in the peaceful and
ordinary activities of life. Even the
changing sword of the gorgeously array
ed warrior from Colorado had ceased to
<esound through the corridors of the
capitol, and the "gasoline" gun was min
us more than the one celebrated "crank"
as it stood in harmless heIpfulness on
the capitol sward it had happily
failed to crimson. In short the POpu-
list conspiracy and revolution, which had
contemplated the accomplishment by
force what they had failed to accomplish
by ballots, and which included in its
scope the violent seizure of the house.
the deposition of the supreme court, and
the ruthless overriding of the will of
the majority, had signally failed. Law
had triumphed and peace prevailed.
The Na.ion's Bitter Experience.
But while the clouds which had hung
like pail over this great state tor nearly
two months, were then rapidly disap-
pearing, the nation was just entering
upon bitter experience. The great
change for which the people had clam
ored and which they had decreeG by
their all-powerful ballots, had been
ushered in but few days before the
sembling of our last convention The
party whose history is luminous with
glorious achievements had Just surren-
dered the helm to other pilots. and the
old ship of state, freighted with the
richest cargo of human interests ever
gathered together by wise management
in this world, was already reeling and
plunging in a turbulent and uncertain
sea- Changing the figure, wise, far
seeing, profoundly able statesman had
been succeeded by one whose lack of
qualification for his exalted Office grows
day by day more and more painfully APP
parent to every proud and loyal Ameri-
can. From Republicanism to Democ-
! racy, from prosperity to paralysis, from
Harrison to Cleveland, from Blaine to
Gresham, from Raum to Hoke Smith
My cOuntryne what a changei
History always vindicates the Repub-
lican party. Time always proves the
wisdom of its policies and the correctness
of its contentious and today every tireless
furnace, every empty tin bucket every free
soup house, every workIess workman,
every Coxey army, every new govern
ment bond, every trembling pensioner,
every quorumless house, every Hawaiian
blunder, every act of the incOm petent
party in power is a mute but still
eloquent tribute to the Republican party's
wisdom and worth, and attests the awful
mistake of the change. But the Ameri-
can people can be trusted to correct
every error and right every wrong. They
have been busy the past year at this bus
mess, and they can be depended upon to
keep at it until the job is completed.
They made a splendid beginning in Kan
sas last year, and in Iowa, and in New
Jersey, and in Colorado. 1t is also rumor-
ed that the vox populi has been heard in
Pennsylvania; and the wires are yet
warm with the glad tidings from Kansas
City and from all the country, in fact,