The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
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RALPH BURTON.
lie Gives the History of the Two Great
Parties and Points From the Record
That Prosperity Can Only be Had by
Return to Administrations Should
Not be Degraded But Honored and Pro-
tected-The Interests of the Knights of
the Dinner Pail Should and Must be Re
spected-This is Republicanism-

fected-The Interests of the Knights OF
the Dinner Pail should and Must be Re
spected-This is RepubIicanism
Hon J. Ralph Burton Of Aboline, was
in the audience at the state convent ton
yesterday and was called out by
hundred voices who desired 10 hear the
eloquent exponent Of true Republican
ism, and there was not person in the
great building who was disappointed.
Few men can drive the truth home 10
the hearts Of the people without injur-
ing and wounding the opposition as the
favorite son of Abilene can. His plea
for unity and the laying aside of al
isms and personal grievances and unit
ing with one voice TO bring 10 the coun-
try prosperity. was an eloquent appeal
TO the reason and not the prejud;ces of
his hearers. He was frequently APP
plauded and among other things said:
The administration that ended in 1861
went out under a dark cloud Of trea son,
treachery and crime. The administra-
ton that will end one year from now
will go out under a dark cloud of in
competency and imbecility. The pros
porous period of our country was under
Republican administra ton; the times of
depression and national adversely have
ever been when the Democratic party
was in power.
From 1873 TO 1893 was the most pros
porous period in the history of our coun-
try, barring, Of course, localities where
all business methods had been abandon
ed when the boom" had full sway.
This administration, like all Demo-
cratic ones, has given fresh and en-
phatic evidence that that party does
not now, and never did, know how to
run this country.
That party has swaped a surplus for
a deficit and tries TO make US believe we
are the better off for il. That party has
degraded public credit and insists that
it does not hurt US. That party has in
a great measure, destroyed confidence
at home and abroad.
When the Republican party was in
power our flag was respected every
where throughout the world. Our party
bore our national emblem higher than il
ever had been before.
Under Republican rule our credit was
the best of any nation on the earth.
The Republican party turned over the
country to Democracy with full purse
and labor employed, mills running. and
prosperity on every hand. Today our
industries are struggling 10 recover
from the paralytic stroke of Democracy,
while labor seeks employment in vain or
works at greatly reduced wages.
The Democratic party does not COM
prehend the genius of Americanism-
their principles are antagonistic TO pro-
gress. The Republican party under
stands this country-it realizes the
great wealth of raw materials, the fer
tile lands. the forests, the oil, coal,
stone. the crude and precious metals
that nature has given us. and all locat-
ed in the best climate in the world. Our
party realizes that this people is made
up Of the best blood Of the world, and
organized under the best laws, and that
under liberty and freedom here vouch-
safed to the citizens, this raw material
should be taken by labor and from ii all
things manufactured that ministers TO
the necessities and pleasures Of man,
and that the labor should be here on our
side, and not in England.
Here then is the corner stone of the
Republican party-prOtection 10 Amer
can labor.
Labor that has given us every bless
ing we enjoy; has produced our wealth
and given US every good thing; should
not De De DdSeu OcS Iducu
It is the mission of our party to IN
shake free labor now as il broke the
chains of slave labor thirty-one years
ago. And as il has set its face against
having this land flooded with goods
made by the pauper labor of Europe,
so too, il will see TO it that the pauper
/, himself shall not be imported as a
chattel to these shores.
Now one word as to Kansas. In
the past we have, as Republicans, been
over anxious to lead in everything.
We have at times confused the issues
by magnifying local questions in ma
tional campaigns. We can get lessons
Of success by looking at the party or
CARNATIONS and party policies in some
of the older states like New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.
We will not surrender any OF our in
dependence by thinking much over our
own mistakes.
We should have the same kind Of
Republicanism here.this year that they
have in all the other states. There
should be but one kind, and its prin-
ciples will be embodied in the platform
TO be made az St Louis in June. Let
US take that platform in Kansas, and
let US nave no other this year. Wheth-
er we agree with every part OF II or
not let Us not forget that the supreme
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