The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01

The school book law and the stock yards
OF the school book law Mr.. Stanley adj
mitted its good qualities, but he pointed
publcans.
Issues of the War.
Returning to the great national ques-
the doctrines of Republicanism to never
haul down the flag once erected in
freedoms name, there it should float for
OF the navy and Cuba Mr.. Stanley said:
markabie growth during President Harri-
sons administra ton, for during that period
Massachusetts. New York, Montgomery,
Columbia. How well the Republican pol
icy OF bulIding a navy was justified let
There were no Populists in the days of
PRESIDENT Arthur Had there been they
ization Of that party they have. opposed,
the building OF modern battleShips and
there was no sneering Populist statesman
from the seventh congressional district
with battleships? They can't plow corn
That may be SO, but our splendid sea-
in the warm waters of the Philippines and
Cuba they can cut ice: Hardly had this
needed it for the very purpose foreseen by
President Arthur nearly seventeen years
The navy having been created in pursu-
ance OF Republican policy, its use was
first demanded to. carry out another Re
publican policy, for the Cuban question
In 1896 three great parties met in ma
tional convention, the Democratic party,
party There We're Several others 9oiii but
are discussing they need not be mention
The Democratic convention, speaking on
the Cuban question, said: We extend our
heroic struggle for liberty
The POnuliSt convention d0Pl9rp6
I'VE tender to the patriotic people of
struggle for poiticai freedom ''i and i inde
come when the United states. the great
that Cuba is and of right ought to be
free and independent state"
The last is better than the first. The
sympathy expressed was deep sympa-
thy; the independence mentioned was
political independence. 1t recognized the
greatness of the United States and was in
favor of recognizing the independence of
Cuba. mistake that even congress might
have made had it not been for the honest
but weak man. occupying the presiden-
Struggling. nations are, like struggling
men-sympathy is all the help they gener-
ally get. Even while these great c0nven-
lions met, the story of Spanish oppression
struggling, dying Cuban were touching all
tender hearts.
preparing platforms Ito get in on that
they had no hand of mail for Spain and
no hand of help for Cuba. In their i'm
potency they said we couldn't do anything
but extend sympathy They took up the
Wrong forever on the throne But there
God in Israel and his servant came
out of the darkness and finished the quo
tation:
yet beyond the dim unknown, stitch
God within the shadow.
Keeping watch above his own
The first step in the bright pathway was
when the Republican party laid the found
alton for the splendid navy which has
brought such great honor to the nation
and which has placed on the very top of
hOnor's shaft never fading wreath to
our brave Dewey and his heroic men
VIII you entrust the management of our
affairs to a party whose nearest approach
to a statesman in Kansas can see no use
for our navy save as IAN asylum for
dudes and can interpose no other OBJ
lection to its construction except 'it can't
plOW corn?