The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12
BOyle's Speech at Columbus.
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plain Of; It is the deeds Of omission Why
is 1t that in this very audience there are
scores Of gray-halred men who were zeal
ously supporting the Republican ticket
when that party was making these laws?
1t is because the policy and the principles
Of the Republican party have shifted in
their course. It Is because from a tendency
to uplift the masses the disposition has
been to elevate the classes. You men who
have voted the Republican ticket left Il
because In your judgment the Republican
party was not true to It's original mission.
It is true we are all interested In the past.
We love to read of glorious deeds of par
ties as well as of men But, my friends,
we cannot support existence upon the re-
lections Of the past 1t Is not the mama
Of the past that will support life; II is the
bread Of the present that makes blood.
What DO Repub cans Offer?
The question now is, not what the Re-
publicans have done, but what they now
intend to do. What is 1t they offer this
people for their future welfare and ad-
vancement? The trouble is that In the
politics Of the present there is too much
politics and hypocrisy Let us go into the
open, not scurry for the brush The voters
Of this State are entitled to know where
every public man stands on every public
Issue To illustrate, simply for the purpose
of impressing one idea. It is a little thing,
but 1t shows the drift and the disposition
Of certain men of the Republican party to
dodge and straddle. There are great
many men and women in Kansas who are
anxious to discover where different candi-
dates stand on the resubmission question.
Is this a matter to be lodged and avoided?
Why cannot men come out frankly and say
Here is my standard; !. plant 1t here The
people are entitled to know. Yet, I chal-
lenge your attention to the fact that not q
man on the Republican ticket has specified
in clear and certain terms his attitude on
this question. And why? Simply because
thaV ms n ha
from the south, from the east and from the
west. In prohibition community the can
didate is Prohibitionist; in resubmis-
sion community he Is a resubmisslonIst.
He shapes his sails to catch the various
winds. This kind of politics Is not along
the lines that will keep the people.
The Stock Yards Matter.
Referring to the stock yards case, Mr.
Boyle said: Our opponents claim that we
have driven the Kansas City stock yards
out Of Kansas, and they seek to throw a
red blanket over the stock yards law and
the contests incident to it's enforcement by
striving to alarm the people, declaring that
we have driven this great institution out
OF our State. Let us examine briefly what
Kansas has lost and what Missouri has
gained and for the sake Of clearness will
state that the Kansas City stock yards
was organized as a Kansas corporation
and so continued until two or three months
ago, when it organized as a Missouri cor
poration and 1t Is in reference to this last
reorganization that our Republican friends
make so much fuss.
The "LOss" of the Stock Yards.
1.-THE Kansas City stock yards are com
posed OF something over 300 acres Of land
situated at the State line. Two-thirds Of
the land is located In Kansas and one-third
In Missouri. The State line cuts the stock
yards In the proportion Of two-thirds to
one-third. Where is it that Missouri has
gained by reason Of this corporation now
being a Missouri corporation and what has
Kansas lost? Has there an inch of ground
left the State? Has Kansas lost dollar Of
taxes? II we can control them as Kan
sas corporation, we certainly can control
them as a Missouri corporation. The only
thing Missouri has gained is that one dollar
for the charter"
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rangements to take the speeches Of the
other leading Populists who are holding
meetings, and win present some Of them
each week