The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-26
Plan A BIG DAY.
Marion Made Great Prepara-
tiOns For Stanley.
A Hundred Vehicles Decorated
For a Parade
TO BE TWO MILES LONG
But the SnOwstOrm Spoiled the
Festivities.
A Crowded Indoor Meeting
Held, Nevertheless.

Marion. Oct. 26.-The heavy snow
Monday night followed by a sudden
thaw Tuesday upset the plans Tor
monster Republican demonstration here
Tuesday afternoon. Marion county,
during all the years of uncertainty
which has attended Kansas election re-
suits has never been carried by the op~
position to RepubIicanisn. By the NOM
ination of w. H. Carpenter, a Democrat,
who is now stumping the state for STAN
lev the opposition landed him in the Of
fee of county attorney in 1890, but since
that time the fusion nominees have been
bowled over by majorities ranging
from 500 to 1,200, the heaviest vote being
cast in presidential years. The Men
nonites. Protestant Russians, have
saved the day for the Republicans
through several years. They are TO-DAY
the bone and sinew of the party, which
is managed largely by z. W. Hoch, ed
itor of the Record.
There was a liberal use Of bunting
and flags for the Tuesday afternoon
meeting. Private residences through
out this hourishing city of 1000 people
were gaily decorated. An immense
picture of Mckinley was suspended
across the principal street, and car
riages and bugg1es were covered Win
The pIan to hold the meeting in the
park had to be abandoned on account OF
the snoWstOrm and the court house was
used.
This was Mr. Stanley's first visit to
Marion county and the reception at the
Elgin hotel amounted to an oVaton-
Delegations were here from Peabody,
Florence and other towns. While Mr..
Stanley was shaking hands with VOTERS
Mrs, Stanley, who Joined him at We'll
lington was being entertained by the
ladies in the parlor, and the Peabody
band was playing in front OF the hotel.
A parade two miles in length had been
planned This meeting was to be
monster. Sixty local wheelmen have
been working for week decorating BIZ
cycles for the occasion. Fifty were COM
ing from Peabody and twenty-five from
Florence. Slowed away in barns it was
said were 100 buggies and carriages dec
GRATED with great care, which could not
be brought out on account of the
mud Ferd Funk said the parade
would have been beauty, if the wea-
carriages he said, were decorated as
nicely as those which appeared in To-
peka's flower parade" The Women's
Republican club was to parade with
broomsticks. These features will be
presented at a rally to be held in two
weeks.
The court house, where the meeting
was held, was not equal to the crowd.
The chairman of the meeting an
nounced that providence had been I'M
kind in sending bad weather" To this
Providence was not unkind. You
selected the wrong day, and this snow
is making wheat for next year, and this
is a blessing
Mr.. Stanley and Mr.. Miller spoke at
the afternoon meeting, Mr.. Lambert fill
ling the night engagement. Mr.. STAN
ley inquired:
what have the Populists been doing
for eight years in Kansas? In politics
there is bitterness and strife among
neighbOrS and friends. In the early
days we touched elbows and co-operat-
ed in making great the state; to devel-
op it's resources. Then with our faith
and enthusiasm, we builded and forgot
for the moment, to use our judgment.
We caught the cOntagion and then
bonds and mortgages were all the rage
in Kansas. The pendulum swung far
out, but pay day came. Then came too
hot winds and grasshOppers. Then
came the demagOgue. The Simpsons,
Leases and PETERS and others who took
advantage of the distress. They plead
ed for control and secured it. Then they
went to Washington and proclaimed
that the sale of all property in Kansas
would not pay her debts. They put
US under the ban of Reputation and
shame. Then they sought to array
class against class-but you do not hear
that now. The last five months have
settled that question. (Cheers.) Up the
hill at Santiago went the millionaire
from New York and the poor unknown
cowboy from the west and the colored
boys as well. There they died-giVing
their lives for a common country and
for our grand old nag (cheerS) and to
answer these questions.
To-day it is more splendid to be an
American citizen than ever before in the
history of our country. (Cheers) And
we are going to put Kansas over into
the column where it will be grander to
be a kanSan than ever before. Then
we will put our public institutions upon
such a plane of decency that their af-
fairs and management will not cause
the blush of shame to mount the cheeks
of our citizens. The man who has ira
duced Kansas is now out of business
and we are facing a glorious future
when Kansas will be taken out of her
degradation and exalted to the SKIES
Referring to the congressional situa-
ton Mr.. Stanley said; "I believe Mr..
Martin, the fusion candidate is an esti-
mable gentleman, but what does he reD-
resent? There is but one issue; Nc
Kinley or his critics Where viii fbe
Fourth district stand?''
with Mckinley" was shouted by a
number in the audience