The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-20
IN KANSAS AGAIN.
[Concluded from First rage.I

handkerchiefs, hats, umbrellas, canes
and every available object
Governor Mckinley said that no greet
ing was SO sacred as a welcome which
came from his old comrades of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He thanked
Governor Morrill, from the bottom of his
heart for the welcome so sincere and
earnest He remembered his service
with Governor Morrill, in the national
house of representatives. He remem-
bered him most because he SO faithfully
stood by the flag and his comrades of the
Grand Army.
Here Governor Morrill, was visibly af-
fected and his eyes filed. Governor
Mckinley too, was overcome and he tried
to rally by saying in a jocular manner
that he was glad to come to Kansas be-
cause much of Ohio was here, but he
could not recover and the scene ended
with prolonged cheering.
Songs by the Modoc club followed and
reception to Governor Mckinley. Gov
ernor Morrill, by his side. Thousands
filed past and shook hands with them.
After the reception, the crowd dis
persed for luncheon, but soon fastened
back to the tabernacle and at / o'clock,
the hour set for Governor McKinley's
address to old soldiers, every chair and
every foot of standing room beneath the
expansive roof was occupied
Governors Mckinley and Morrill, and
their stats, and Mrs. Mckinley and Mrs.
Heistand occupied seats on the plat
form. Surrounding them were several
hundred G. A. R. officials, state officers,
politicians and notables.
Governor Mckinley read his address
from manuscript When he arose to
speak it was some time before President
Anthony could restore order, the crowd
sending up cheer after cheer.
Gov. McKinIey's Speech.
Gov Mckinley said:
There is born in every manly breast
the determination to defend the thing he
loves. We strike down the enemy who
would invade our homes and guard
family and Preside at the peril of our
lives. There is no sentiment so strong as
love; no sacrifice too great for those we
love.
"This is the underlying principle of
true patriotism, the foundation of true
loving his country is willing not only
to fight, but if need be, to die for
it. 1t is this sentiment which
gives to human governments their
strength. 1t is this sentiment which
nerves the soldier to duty and gains his
consent to service and sacrifice.
1.-THE strongest and best government
is the one which rests upon the
reverent affections of its own
people and the nearer the government to
the people and the people to the govern
ment, the stronger becomes the senti-
ment of patriotism. The laws are of
them the respect of the people.
When patriotism has fed from the hearts
of the masses the country is nearly dis
solution and death.
"Patriotism is an absolute conservation
to country; it is the total abandonment
of business: it is the turning away from
plaus which have been formed for a
lfe's career; it is the surrendering of
bright prospects and the giving up of
ambition in chosen work; it is the sur
rendering all the ties of home and family
which bind us to those we love.
sit is the conservation of self to the
demands of country. 1t may mean dis
ease contracted by exposure or from
wounds in battle; it may mean imprison-
ment, insanity or death; it may mean
hunger, thirst and starvation.
Gin our own civil war it meant all of
these. In this Land of the free and
home of the brave there were nearly
three millions who so loved liberty and
union, that they were willing at any cost
or sacrifice to follow the flag.
THE blood of half million men was
exacted in that fearful conflict to save
the country, and there are men today, by
the tens of thousands, who are suffering
from disease contracted in the service of
the government. and as many thousands
more bearing wounds, from which they
suffer every hour in the day aud some of
these, alas, are ia distressing poverty.
"Our asylums contain many more of the
poor fellows whose hard service de-
throned reason and unbalanced mind for
ever.
"Can we ever cease to be debtors to these
men? Is there any reward in reason
they should not receive? Is there any
emolument too great for them? Is there
any benefaction too bountiful? Is
there any honor to these patriotic
men which living people can be-
stow that they should not extend? What
the nation is. or may become, we owe
Loyalty to them.
elf there is one of these old patriots
sick at heart and discouraged should not
the cheerful and the strong who are to-
day the benefciaries of his valor, COM
fort and console him?"
Governor Mckinley compared the
manner of honoring the old warriors in
different countries, aud said the gratitude
of the people of this country is of the
grand patriotic character that recognizes
no title, permits no DETERMINATIONS and
the soldiers, whether of the rank or the
file. the line or staff, who fought and fell
for liberty and union, are warmly cher
ished in the memories of this great and
glorious people.
Then the speaker said he would not
withhold the most generous eulogy from
conspicuous soldiers, living or dead
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Mcpherson,
Meade. Hancock Mcclellan, Hook er, Cook,
Logan and Garfield-who were the very
incarnation of soldierly valor and vigor
before the eyes of the American people.
He then paid beautiful tribute to the
private soldiers: to the rank and file