The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-15
A PATRIOTIC SPEECH.

To saw that the west is more patrl-
otto than any other section Of the coun-
try is not sectionalism- PATRIOTISM
cannot be sectional The record OF
patriotic speeches. whether in the Unit
ed States congress or on the platform,
for the last quarter of a century is for
most part made up of the speeches OF
men of the middle and extreme west
ern state.
Not the least benefit to be expected
from the election of Mckinley is the
blow to sectionalism which it will give.
1t will be happy result Of this unu-
sual and extraordinary campaign that
the very effort that was made to intro
duce sectionalism as factor in Ameri-
can politics will be the instrument that
will wipe out sectionalism from all
future campaigns. Mr.. Bryan has
gone I'D and down the land preaching
his gospel of hate. arraying class
against class and section against Sec
ton. 1t was left to the Chicago con-
vention to attempt TO make a political
issue of geographical lines. 1t was
left to the supporters of the Chicago
platform to try to establish as perm
anent American policy the notion that
there is an inherent enmity between
the east and the west, the north and
| the south.
Senator Wolcott is fighting the battle
of sound money in Colorado single
handed and almost alone. His col
leagues left the Republican party in
the interest of mine trusts and COM
bines of his state. But Wolcott in
face of the political machine and OF
the press of Colorado, stands by his
convictions of honesty. He is not
only a man of strong convictions and
elquent, but patriotic. Few indeed
are the utterances to be found of any
man more sublimely patriotic than
those delivered by him in the Republi-
can state convention with these men,
orable words which should be presery-
ed:
Il ellOlW CitILtA6. Hc iCo
of the states which form our Union are
ina ginary, not real; the mountains
Wonder. which look down upon US,
stand like a serried column; yet just
beyond our view they open to the west
in gentle undulationS, and our fertile
orchards merge and blend with the
commonwealth of the Occident. To
the eastward the plains slope into
great prairies, the grainaries of the
world. The rivers which find their
source in our mountain craigs wind a
tortuous course through many sister
. states before they fret their way to
the sea. From the gray summit Of
the mighty peak which now casts its
shadows over us on, on to the rocky
coast of Maine, there is but one land,
fed by the same dews, watered from
the same heaven and warmed by the
same sun. No Stockades or bristling
forts divide Us. We are of one race,
one destiny. one common and immortal
hope. In the century now dying, we,
who are the inheritorS of liberties Sc
cured us by our foFefathers, will build
no barrier of sectional hate to sunder
us from brothers whom we love or to
exclude from our vision the hills and
valleys far away, where our child
hood was nursed and our dead lie
| buried The sacred memories which
cluster around the contest Of 81 are
too near our hearts for us, in our day
and generation, to find room for hos
tile or disioyaI sentiments toward any
section Of our common country or any
class of our fellow citizens; and with
fervent lips and patriotic impulse our
| greeting and message today to every
true Republican within the borders of
DIR dear Colorado shall be: One coun-
| try, enc hope, one flag. and every
} where within this commonwealth,
whether on its broad plains or in its
! as Gcd gives us grace TO see the right,
as God gives US grace to see The right,
and the courage to stand by an honest
opinion"
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