Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-29
KANSAS BEST GOVERNOR.
Energetic True, and
Unswerving.
Thoughts from His
Speech of Ac-
ceptance.

is the highest honoc that can be
paid to any man in the State.
Every member af the administration
has been loyal to me and without
their support the administration
could never have been made sue
cess.
"We have been standing up for
Kansas in the past two years. More
than that we have been standing up
for the State of Kansas. We have
State here that we may be proud of.
When our friend, the Federal Judge
of Arkansas took it into his head to
run things his own way In this State,
he told Mr.. Boyle and Mr.. McNall
that they should disregard the laws
of the State and do certain things.
Mr.. Boyle and Mr.. McNall told him
that they were flicerS of Stlte that
was State, and proceeded to ignore
the Federal Judge. and when he saw
the way they were acting he said,
We'll, If you folks are going to act
up tt is way I'm going back to Ar
kansas and see what the law says
about it, He's there yet, and as far
as it concerns the State, l haven't
noticed that Mr.. Boyl is losing any
flesh, and as for McNall, he couldn T
becaus he is only skin and bones
now. (Cheers and laughter.) And
it wasn't long ago that the Secretary
OF War found out that we had a
State ont here IN the West. When L
diers as officers of volunteers, an
officer of the United States came to
me and told me that the Secretary of
War had ordered that no pensioners
| should be sworn in. well, sir
said ], Il intend to commission these
old soldiers, and the Secretary of War
can DO as he likes about swearing
them H. That was the first tine the
Secretary of War found out that
Kansas was State, and after he
found it out he was as shy about say
ing anything about not swearing in
old sCliiers as he was at the battle OF
charlottesville"
''Will we abandon the proposition
of regulating the railroad because the
Supreme court handed down an ad-
verse decision in tho Nebraska freight
rate law? Why, of course we won't.
1t will only increase our efforts in
that direction. We will simply have
to get the Supreme court before we
get the railroads. The Supreme
court must either be corrected OF
abolished"
The Kansas miners are little bet
ter off than the Cuban reconcen-
tradoes.
If a law was passed regulating
rates so that the miners would be able
to ship a car load of coal for the same
rate as the large operators, their
condition would be materially bet.
tered.
The Republicans claim that in the
past two years we haven't carried
out our promises. Maybe we havn't
but l want to say that the Republic
cans will have no trouble in carrying
out their promises because they
havn't made any. We have adopted
platform with many more pledges
and l promise you that if you elect
me and these other State officers we
will faithfully cooperate to carry
them out during the next two year:
as we have co o-operated to carry ou,
the pledges made in our platform
two years ago.
I'm conclusion. gentlemen, l want
you to realize in this campaign We
will have pitted against us every
thing that money will buy. l want
to empress on your minds that thi:
is no Sunday school excursion we ar,
going into. We will have to take of
our coats and work with Will; bu
if we do this, l am satisfied that mex
] November the Republicans will b,
buried deep under a tremendous ava
, lanche, and will never wholly re
: cover in this State"
THE State Board of Charities hav,
let contracts for supplies fer tn