The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-13

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Lincoln day banquet of the Republican
State League of Clubs was held tonight
in the dining hall of the Clarendon
hotel.
1t was 1880 O'Clock when the guests
sat down. Governor Bushnell occupied
the post of honor as postmaster and
was fianked on the right by Hon. NJ.
a. Hanna, Senator ThurstOn and Hon.
S. L. Everett; on the left by Presi-
dent Leach of the state league. Presi-
dent Woodmansee of the National
League, Major Dick, Congressman Nc
Cleary. Van Voorse and Northway.
The banquet occupied two hours and
at 1890 President Charles f. Leach
arose and made a spirited address.
He then introduced Governor Bush
nell as the postmaster who, in few
witty remarks, presented Senator
>Thurston of Nebraska, who responded
to the toast Abraham Lincoln
Congressman James I McCleary
spoke to the sentiment, The Ameri-
can Congress.
Then came the toast of the evening,
ITO the chairman of the national COM
mittee," which was drank standing.
Hon. NJ. A. Hanna arose and in
brief sDeech thanked the members of
him and complimented the work of the
organization
Responding to the toast: What's
the matter with Kansas" Mr.. White
said:
I have been invited here to tell you
what is the matter with Kansas. and
/ have come nearly 1000 miles in the
middle of winter to say there is abso-
lutely nothing the matter with Kansas.
For six or seven years, however, Kan
sas has been under the spell of dema-
gOgues., From 1890 to 1894 all parties
We'd with one another in putting
Tommy Rot into their platforms You
gentlemen here in Ohio have doubtless
noticed with CONSERVATION what fads,
what foolishisms what rank nonsense
have passed current for Republicanism
at one time or another out in Kansas.
When jerry Simpson ran for congress
the first time the Republicans in his
district stole his platform bodily and
then absolved the Republican nominee
from the duty of abiding by the house
caucus. The people could not vote as
they pleased. They had to choose the
less violent of the two lunatics. For
years q crowd of fellows, dominated
TIE Republican party in Kansas, whose
motto was: ''MOlaSSes catches more
flies than vinegar" AS a result, the
state platform was more after a fly
trap than declaration OF Republican
principles These gentlemen saw that
Kansas was built on the installment
plan, TO be paid for in small monthly
payments They preached a bogus way
out of debt, because they believed that
it was q sure way into office. The
political economists of the soft-soap
school would stand proudly on a plat
form recommending moOnshine as a
legal tender, endorsing astrology, de-
Claring for blue glass and the bare foot
ism and WhOODing it I'D for free and
unlimited coinage of flap-doodle. Think
of what Kansas escaped with these
ghost dancers leading the conservative
party for half a dozen years. The Won
der is not that the state went for
Bryan. but that it did not go for the
Rev. Earl Hicks and George Francis
Train.
THE people were so glad to get a
chance to vote as they pleased, to see
the Shiny old barnacle scraped of the
Republican ship that they piled up
Republican vote which was defeated
by narrow margin only by the triple
alliance of green, anarchy and colo.
In that great battle, whose line is
forming between patriotism and an
archy, Kansas may dedicate to her
country's service men worthy to fight /
beside the patriots of Ohio-Americans /
as fearless as John Sherman, as
dauntless as Foraker. as powerful as
Mark Hanna. And one day Kansas !
may give the world a knight, without |
fear and without reproach-worthy to /
stand in the nations history beside |
William Mckinley of Ohio"
Professor Booker T. Washington of !
fuskogee, Ala. spoke eloquently on /
Solving the Negro Question in the /
Black Belt of the South"
President D. D. Woodmansee re- /
sponded to the toast. The Nations 4
Verdict
Major c. F. Dick spoke on the Work
OF the Last Campaign"
Senator Foraker. who was TO have
to the toast, The Duty of ,
the Republican Party" was not pres
ent.
Tonight's banquet made more appar-
ent than ever Hanna's hold on the
working Republicans of Ohio. Every
reference, however remote, was cheered
TO the echo. He sat at Governor
Bushnell's right during the banquet.
and they were apparently the best of
friends.