The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02
is WARMLY ENDORSED.
Nearly All the Leading Shawnee
County Republicans
Were Present at the TrOutman
Meeting Last Night.
Troutman Greeted With Enthusiasm
His Speech Mostly Confined
to National Issues.

campaign the veteran Republicans OF
Topeka told the people Of the state last
hight that Shawnee county has but one
candidate for governor-James A. Trout
man.
There we're about $50 people at the
meeting and nearly all were prominent
Republicans.
Mr.. Trontman was On the stage when
the meeting commenced last night. but
Sc many hattering things we're said that
he first hid his face behind the man who
sat in front of MIN, and afterward TO-
treated from the stage. A man with
less modesty than Mr. Trouiman might
have stayed.
Three OF four times during the meet
ing there were calls for Iroutman, but
not until the last speaker had sat down
did he come before the audience. His
address was frequently interrupted by
applause.
Dir. IroUtman said.
mo act of courtesy or manifestation
Of confidence draws So heavily upon
mans gratitude as the unre5trdined
loyalty and devotion of his Immediate
friends aud neighbors. This propOs ed
organization, embracing SO many men of
commanding influence in this county
and state, to be formed for the purpose
of promoting my interests in the coming
contest, nils me with sense Of obliga-
ton which no words aG my command
can properly acknowledge.
"My residence in Shawnee county
covers all the years of my life of which
4 have any distinct recollection. Since
the perilous days Of March, 1865, now
more than thirty-one years. Il have come
and gone among the people Of this com
munity. And / realize tonight more
profoundly than ever how largely / am
Indebted 10 YOU. You have generously
magnifed my virtues aud magnani-
mOusly forgiven my many faults Ally
purposes ia life have been stimulated BY
your praise and my ambitions enlarged
10y your constant approval If / have at-
tanned any distinction which gives me
place among the men who are deemed
worthy Of the highest political hOn0rs
within the gift of the c0mmonwe alth, 1
owe TO all to you. And / am as grateful
10 you tonight as can possible be ia
November. should we meet 60 celebrate
my election
'tFe are just entering upon a campaign
of merited distiD ctioc-one of the most
important in its scope and one of the
most significant ia its purposes ever
known ia our national history.
I'VE are beginning contest that VIII
reach from the smallest subdivision
known ia our political system clear up to
the citadel of national power Local,
state and national issues are involved In
this contest. ard the duties Of citizenship,
this year, carry with them a weight OF
extraordinary resp possibility. 1T is q mat
ter of congratulation that so early in the
campaign there are evidences all over
the state and nation of a determination
upon the part of all the people 70 meas
urs up TO the full responsibility Of
American citizenship The caucus
and the convention are the primary
sources Of good or evil in poll
TICS. and the man who fails to par
ticipate in these neglects one of the
highest duties of citizenship. it has
always been a cherished belief of mine
that ia every nation, in every state, in
every community there is a preponder-
ance of good and intelligent people, and
IF the good and intelligent citizen always
did his duty there would be perpetual
triumph of right in politicn. If political
caucuses and conventions are controlled
by cliques and rings, if bad nominations
are made and wrong principles Eromul-
gated, the fault as a rule, is with the
good but negligent citizen who yields the
primary control of politics 80 the unscFu-
pulOus and designing.
@Ihe most majestic force in civil life is
the determination of the average man to
be a factor in the solution of political
problems. Our party viii be Infinitely
stronger and our government immeasur-
aIAE l8lA6E by h4a aLAAA4 BaAAAEl llaAA4u OF
all the people in the elementary move
menta of political contests.
"The millions do not care who is pres
ident or who is governor, but they are
vitality interested in such an adjustment
of all the affairs Of government az will
Insure for the capitalist a fair re-
turn upon his Investment and the la
borer a just reward fer his toll The
chief interest in this campaign viii cen
ter around certain industrial and eco
nOmic problems, the solution of which is
so vital to all the people. With that bold
and felicitOus prOmptitude of genius the
Republican party is the first in the field
md with an aggressive heroism that al
ways presages victory will present % the
people Of this state and nation invincible
tickets standing upon impregnable plat
forms
Three years of Democratic supremacy
ard Democratic adversely ia this nation
nave presented to our people the most
appalling industrial paradox ever known
in civil history. Too many cattle and
sheep and hogs and not enough meat.
An overproduction Of wool and cotton
and an misrepresentation of clothing. Too
much wheat and a scarcity of bread.
That is Grover C!evslnnd's free trade
Democracy Too many cattle and not
enough steak is an industrial para
do1 never known under Re
publican administrations. Too many
hogs and not enough sausage is a gro
tesque anomaly for which the RepubI
can party was never responsible. Toe
many sheep and not enough mutton is a
strange condition that can only be ac-
counIsd for upon the theory that fos
several years we had too much mntton iu
congress and too much Oleaginous mat.
ter in che White house.
Republication says that for every
bseast that fattens upon the imperial
plains Of the west there should DO a pro
htabls market somewh0re-thatt the mea-