The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-10
PECK ON PATRIOTISM.
Former Kansan Talks at a Gold Love
Feast in Chicago.

Chicago, Nov. 10-Republicans and
sound money Democrats gathered in
the Auditorium to the number Of 5000
Saturday evening to exchange congrat-
ulations over the victory of last Tues
day. There was music by the Iowa
State band, rousing songs by Charles
H Mcdonald and the Weber Quartette,
and speeches by a number of men who
We're found up to the close of the cam
paign in the thickest of the fight
George r. Peck was one of the speak
erS. Mr.. Peck said. Ladies and Gen
tlemen: Tt is altogether proper and
becoming tonight for Chicago to rejoice
and be exceeding glad. Not less fitting
is 1t that from all the homes and fire
sides of Illinois praise and thanks
should be offered up for a great deliv-
erance And the people of this en-
tire nation, as they think OF the deadly
peril that confronted them, may we'll
salute the flag and proudly say, In that
sign we have conquered Save only
during the civil war, the four longest
months this country ever knew began
with the Coliseum convention and end
ed with last Tuesday night That con-
yention was not a deliberate body; it
was from first to last swayed by an
absolute frenzy of passion. Hate was
enthroned and reason banished- The
patriotic aspirations which ordinarily
bind American citizens together We're
silenced. While the carnival was on,
men who loved their country held their
breath in amazement.
But, ladies and gentlemen. the Unit
ed States is not easily stampeded. After
the first surprise was over the flags
came out and all the land was bright
with the colors that stand for justice,
truth and honor fOreVernOre. Mil
toms sublime conception was realized
as we saw noble and puiSsant nation
rOusing herself like strong man after
sleep The issues were sharply drawn;
they gave US the gospel Of sectional
ism; we gave them the gospel of pa
fff
dice; we gave them the American doc
trine of the equality of all men before
the law They gave us population; we
gave them national honesty They
gave us Bryan and we gave them Nc
Kinley.
GLAD TO BELONG TO THE PARTY.
The battle is over the victory is
Won And by whom2 BY all who stood
fast for the honor of the United States
/ am a Republican, I believe in parties,
and I am proud to belong to that great
organization which has counted Lin
coin Grant, Blaine, Harrison and Nc
kinley among its leaders. But in the
struggle through which we have passed
who shall presume to say what the re-
suit would have been if the patriotic
Democrats of the country had not been
better and Drawer than their party2
Gladstone is England5S Grand Old Man;
but when America counts up her
WORTHLESS she will not forget two old
heroes, whose gray heads would not
bow to the behest Of party, and will
forever enshrine Palmer and BuCllner
in the hearts of the people. Let not
Republicans in this hour of victory for
get their gallant allies, who, risking
far more than we. deserve the graft
tude of patriotic people everywhere.
1T has been a notable campaign.
Our children win read of it when we
are gone, and will wonder how so des-
perate a fight could have been waged I
for so miserable a cause They viii ask
a bout Bryan. and how it happened that T
men could be deceived by his shallow (
elOquence. They Will never understand /
how it came about that a youth who I
thought that a financial system could 4
be devised which should make it as
easy to pick up shining silver dollars +
as it is for children to pluck primroses Z
by the wayside could ever be nominal I
ed for the presidency. And no one viii I
ever be able to explain it to them.
GREAT LESSON WAS PATRIOTISM. /
Let US all be glad that the victory
is so well assured. There are no doubts +
to vex no queStiOnings of the result, +
except one fiery blast from Blackburn +
Of Kentucky, who has served due and f
proper notice that he will never be ta-
ken alive. Perhaps. too it ought to be 4
stated that Jones of Arkansas is not so [
cheerful as he was last Tuesday. When +
he read the returns he resembled that +
ancient mariner of whose terrible voy-
age Coleridge tells.
He went like one that hath been
stunned,
And is of sense fOrlorn;
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn
Fellow citizens, the lesson of the /
campaign has been patriotism The /
Republic is safe, and this day looks Sc
renely forward to a welcoming future. /
The whole world now believes in Amer
can honesty andAmerican honor. When .
YOU read this morning Mr.. Bryan's tel
agram of congra tulatiOn to the presi-
1ent-elect you saw in it the prophecy
Of better days; of labor rewarded; of
confidence restored, and above all you
saw the majesty of self-gOvernment &
once more indicated in this nation.
We too, congratulate Mr. Mckinley,
and with him we congra tulate Hobart
and Tanner, and our victorious con-
5ressmen. Finally, we congra tulate II
inois and we congratulate the United
States In this joyous hour let us not
forget that what we struggled for is
worth infinitely more than it has cost
Liberty and law. peace and order are
The greatest of human birthrights
These are the jewels that are saved
Some day q new Tennyson viii sing
newer, truer song of this land, greater
than the mother from which she
sprang.
A land of settled government.
A land of old and just renown,
Where freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent to precedent.