The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-31
THE BOSSES MUST GO.
Charlie Curtis Sounds the Keynote of
the Republican Campaign.

In responding to Kansas" Charlie
Curtis, who came from Washington to
make the speech, sounded the keynote
of the Republican campaign. He said:
kansas, the child of free statehood
the commonwealth of schools and
churches, the grandest and most fertile
state in the union, needs no word or
praise from me.
Her five thousand churches speak
for the Christianity of her people. Her
nine thousand school houses give evil
dence of her intelligence. Her bursting
granaries and overlooking banks tell of
her prosperity. Her nine thousand miles
of railroad show the extent of her de-
velopment, and her $4,000 ex-Union SOL
diers are proof of her loyalty.
1.-The history of the United States
would be incomplete without the devO-
ton of pages to this Opulent state of
ours. Old John Brown, whose soul
goes marching on Jim Lane, whose
natural eloquence stirred the early set
tiers upon more than one occasion, and
tory, laid a solid foundation for this
splendid state of Kansas. The trials
which they suffered caused fear and
anxiety to cloud their brOws and de-
press their hearts, but the air of Kan
sas, always full of patriotism and loyal
ty, brought peace and prosperity, if not
to them, to their children and to their
successors. They hunted the buffalo on
lands now covered with fiourishing or
chards; they trapped the quail and
prairie chicken on fields which now
yield abundant, golden harvests of
wheat, corn, and oats; they Travelled
miles without seeing the smoke of q
single hut; they listened in vain for the
welcoming bark of a house dog; for
leagues and leagues there were no evil
dences of life, save the birds of the air
and the wild animals of the plains. But
those pioneers were the advance agents
of civilization and prosperity and they,
and those who followed them, have
made Kansas the brightest star in the
galaxy of states.
who were the brave men who first
came to Kansas? They were those who
feared not the hardships of uncivilized
life, the tomahawks of the red men of
the plains or the swelling, lawless tide
of the border rufTians from Missouri,
who respected neither life nor Justice.
They feared not slavery They came
expecting to meet all these and van
quish them. How we'll they triumphed
I need not say. Kansas of today tells
the story.
Now our pastures are overstocked
with cattle and sheep; our bins are
heaped with corn and wheat; our or
chardS are attracting the attention of
citizens of other states; our houses and
business blocks compare faVOrably with
those of older communities, and the de-
posts in our banks and the money in
the possession of our pepople give US a
per capita which exceeds the Populist
dream of 1890, but, Notwithstanding all
this, I am sorry to say there are still a
few Populists in the state.
ssJJp to 1890 the history of Kansas was
written by the Republican party and it
was a history of physical, moral, mater
ial of intellectual Improvement. OF
it we have reason to be proud. It is
record of advancement, of progress and
of undyfng development It is unnec-
essary to trace the progress of events
to which this state owes her prosperity.
At the time of which I speak her elo-
qUent and matchless ingalls, and her
tireless Plumb were leaders in the Uni
ted States senate, and in the house her
Republican delegation was ranked only
by the delegation from Maine, led by