The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02

/ best men. but during thirty years IL has done
| wonderfully we'll There Il one remarkable
| Circumstance In its history. end that is the
control of this country for one and thirty years
for l do not count the trst reien OF Grover
! Cleveland as interrup.ing the succession. for
we were then living under republican institu-
lions and republican laws" [Applsuse.l
Some Lessons from History.
Are you aware how remarkable that fact is
| In the history of the world-in the history Of
/ the world that continues for thirty one years
| the same party In power: 1t Is without par
allel Take the great Puritan upheaval. when
| Oliver Cromwell was surged to the top Of the
| wave. How many years did that last: Why.
It was only eleven years from the death OF
| Charles L to the return OF Charles II. Charles
| the tyrant went out and in eleven years came
/ back Charles II. with his mistresses and his
/ dogs. The French revolution was the greatest
/ upheaval that ever conyulsed a nation And
| yet from 1928 to 1914. about twenty years. a
| score of years. In that case from Bourbon to
| Bourbon was twenty years and in our case
| thirty-one. iGreat applause.
In that case from Bourbon to Bourbon was
twenty years, and in our case thirty-one
Laughter Now in what. on what rested that
long reignt Upon one thing undoubtedly
! Upon the fact that during that period the re-
publican party represented the average senti-
ment and average feeling OF the American peo-
~
cording to my theory of government, that is
high praise.
Now am going to tell you one thing also
friendly to the democratic party. l believe
that these last two years will make the demo-
crats-even those that remain unchanged-bet-
ter citizens than they ever have been before.
[Applsuse.l During the last thirty years. IL
may say so in all kindness. they have been
more or less morose. Laughter They have
been inclined to be severe in their criticisms
OF US. Every small failure has been magnifed
into a crime. Now that condition Of mind was
perfectly natural. for for thirty years they
have been the subjects of continuous defeat.
Ask yourself. II you had been in their position.
would not your feelings have been precisely
theirs. and would you not have become soured
and embittered: But hereafter 1t cannot be
SO.
What Democrats Must Think or.
Whenever a democrat more vehement than
another shall be heard to declaim in the old
fashion against our wickedness in our next
thirty years Iapplausel. some iudicious demo-
crat is going to take him aside and whisper
gently in his ear: This is all undoubtedly true
but don't you remember the two years when
We were in power: lLaughter.l l hope my
democratic brother will pardon me my little
jest and say to himself after all that II is not
entirely Jest. and that we may all live to-
gether hereafter in greater happiness and with
less dccTOily.
Now. my friends have not spoken to you
about your state politics 1t would be unbe-
coming in me. as a stranger. so to do but il
you VIII permit an observation from an OBJ
server from q distance. will say to you that il
seems to US that the democracy has given you
state government and city government
worse than the national democracy has given
you national government.
What in the world ever caused you to make
the mistake OF 1892 can't imagine. Laugh
ter. Every incentive In life you had TO do bet
ter. Even now the great state of Illinois
which has in It Chicago, which is the wonder
Of the world [applausel. is the first manufac-
Ing state In this great union. Under thirty-one
years of republican rule your growth in wealth
and power has been simply amazing. Jap
plause.l Nobody doubts your future. Never
theless your future will fall you unless you use
human lnstrumentalities. Come then. beg of
you, out of this valley Of the shadow OF death
and climb the hills OF happiness and prosperity
and go on to your rightful position as the fore
most state in the greatest country that the sun
shines on" lChsers.