The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-04-01

years. ne wonder is not that the State
went for Bryan, but that it did not GO for
the Rev. Ira L. Hicks and George Francis
Train.
When the National Republican party last
fall demanded honor and courage from its
men this ''smooth thing gang in Kansas
organized itself into phalanx that came
tumbling head over heals into the Populist
party. They left Kansas to vote as she |
that these flini-fam game fellows were gone
they cast the largest Republican vote ever
polled since the days when Kansas was the
banner Republican state in the union. That
Kansas increased her Republican vote after
the six years course in Mysteries indicates
Courage, an intelligence and an integrity
| among the people that should command
your respectful admiration. From horseplay
| to few thousand votes short of horse sense
is long jump, but Kansas made it.
The people were so glad to get a chance
to vote as they pleased, to face an honest is
sue squarely, to see the Shiny old barnacles
scraped off the Republican ship; they were
so glad to find a party above its politicians,
that they piled up republican vote which
was defeated by narrow margin only by the
triple alliance of greed, anarchy and colo.
They can't beat us again, for money marbles
or chalk.
That is whv came so far to.tell you Kan
sas is all right. Don't worry about the Kan
sas man. If he happens to be Populist, he
is no worse than the Ohio Populist When
you wake up in the silent watches of the night
and begin to fret over the moral decay of the
4 I7o, 900 Kansas men who lined up with Mr..
Bryan, turn over and go to sleep, resting in
the sweet assurance that there were 474,ooo
men in Ohio who did the same awful thing.
When your children tremble at the tale of
the terrible atrocities of Jerry Simpson of
Kansas, soothe their childish fears with the
honeyed words of wisdom that drip from the
: lips of J. S. Coxey, of Ohio. Remember that
Pop in any state is just as sweet. Popu-
lism is not Kansas complaint. 1t is in the
blood of men. Sometimes it becomes epi-
!; demic. Then, too often, it brings out all
the envy in man, all the covetousness, all
the malice. Then it is not conviction-it
!. is a temperament. 1t affects its victims
nearly all alike. The Kansas Populist is not
t one whit worse than the men of all ages who
have let their envy get the better of their
honor, and who have desired to make men
| equal by dividing some other mans prop
erty. Cain was the first Populist. When
!. he saw that his brothers gift was1aceepted
by God and that his own gift was not accep-
table, Cain did what every Kansas Populist
would do, what every Ohio Populist would
do, and what the Nebraska Populist would
t justify in glowing rhetoric. Instead of getting
. out and hustling for a better offering, Cain
f got club and went after his more dilligent
: and successful brother-just what the Popu-
, list is doing today. Gentlemen, from the tree
t that grew the club of Cain has come every
plank in the Chicago platform.
t In this great fight before the American
| people for the preservation of American in
t stitutlons, gentlemen, you may depend on
Kansas. She is flesh of your flesh, bone OF
. your bone. The Republican party in our
, state has been chastened and strengthened
, for the great work. The last year has taught
5 the Kansas Republicans the greatest lesson
, of their lIfe-the lesson of courage. We have
, the iron in our blood-iron that makes men
, strong who shall make Kansas great, for
I estates are not great.
ExceCt as men make them;
Men are not great except they do and dare
And in that great battle whose line is
forming between patriotism and anarchy,
: Kansas may dedicate to her country's service
men worthy to fight beside the patriots oi
> Ohio-Americans as fearless as John Sher-
man, as dauntless as Foraker, as powerful as
Mark Hanna. And one day Kansas may
give the world knight without fear and
without reproach- worthy to stand in the
S nations history beside William Mckinley,
of Ohio.