The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-12
After Declaring That They Are
Entirely Suited
With the Present State Admin
istratiOn Throughout.
DR.. Lawrence of Ell Dorado, is Made
President of the Bimetallic
League.


Seventy-fve persons We're present.
Among them were: S. I. Hale of Rush;
w. J. Hurd of Holton, Taylor Riddle of
Marion, T. ]. Hudson, Fredonia; Webb
McNall r. w. Turner, George Smelling.
Ed. Little, AlbertGriffin, w. P. Tomlin-
son, C. L. Bradshaw of Cowley county,
private secretary to Congressman J. D.
Botkin; w. T. Upton, j. a. Davis, VII
son Keith Rev. VIM. Irelan, L. A. Steb-
bins, J. v Randolph of Emporia, o. o.
Howard, Frank w. Elliott, Represen-
tatiVe J. N. Doyle of Republic county,
}. ; Caldwell, Leotl; Judge + r An.
derson Kansas City, W. M. Quarels OF
Kansas City, w. S. Martin and Rev.
w. H. Light of Eureka
DR.. T. 3. Lawrence of Ell Dorado,
was chosen chairman. In accepting
the office of chairman DR.. Lawrence
made a short but enthusiastic speech
He referred to Bryan and Organism
and pledged himself to the cause of
the next national campaign. This Gre
ated much applause He said: "Bry-
anism is Americanism; the talk of in
ternational agreement is toadyism. II
it is put in practice it becomes traitor
ism or treason. Instead of a govern
ment of the people we have a govern
ment by the classes for the classes to
elected an issue greater than Bryan
himself The man who leaves his party
for principle is a patriot. This is a
meeting of patriotic men who refuse to
E. c. Little congratulated the con-
vention upon the election of Hanna in
Ohio. He said: This will bring to
the silver ranks, several thousand re-
cruits which we will all welcome. Han
ma is a personified corporation. A
man whose only idea is to make money.
He has no honor, no love for home,
only an overwhelming desire to fill his
Golfers with gold. He is in the senate,
not the representative of Ohio, but the
representative of the corporations of
L21r7 a 1cAT-ir.c -faR "a
Such man has no interests in common
with ours. He controls the ambitions
of thousands of people, and is not the
kind of man the people of this country
wish to see in positions of Importance
Speaking of prosperity, Mr.. Little
said: "A prosperity which comes as
a result of the distress abroad, is not
permanent. We want that which is
permane nt, but we must seek it through
the agency of the cause for which we
now assemble. hope to see the time
in this country when we will have, not
POpuliStS; not Democrats; not Repub-
licans but Americans. Yet such cOndi-
tionS cannot obtain while such pOt-bel-
lied Whelps as Hanna are engaged in
framing the political futures of the
American people"
Mr.. Little expressed a desire to some
time see 2 law which will prevent the
use of one name by one political party
for more than twenty or thirty years,
something which he thinks will tend
to destroy the abuses which have be-
the present time.
Mr. Little said: 1.-The state admins
tration which you gentlemen helped
place in power is both respected and
with any the state has ever held. 1t
is one of which the people may well be
proud
Webb McNall made a short speech,
being introduced as "a man whose
backbone is made of IRON Mr.. McNan
said: Speaking of prosperity it
might be well for us to ask the nation
al administration why prosperity has
not visited the miners of Pennsylvania
and the cotton-miIl operators of the
east" Mr.. McNall apOlOgized for hav-
ing once "hOwled" about a tariff bill.
He said: THE Dingley bill helps none
of US It, on sugar alone, causes an
additional outlay of about $12 per year
in my own family.
You never heard of a Protestant go
ing to bed at night and waking up in
the morning a Catholic. Yet, you have
seen the Republican party go to bed in
Kansas and wake up in the morning,
read the st. Louis platform, and at once
declared that the doctrines they had
been preaching for twenty years were
all wrong Yet, the developments
show that the trainers of the St. Louis
platform lied when they promised pros
perity; that they knew it then; we
know it now Why are Kansas, Ne
braska and Missouri the states which
went against the gold standard, so
prosperous, when some of the old, rel1-
able eastern states who delivered body
and soul, find their mills idle; their
sp1ndles stilled and factories smOkeless.
The promises have not been fulfilled.
It remains for US to take it up and
place the financial interests of the gov
eminent and the interests of the peO-
pie upon a plane of honesty as well as
honor, then may we expect and antici-
pate the permanent prosperity which
will not come as a result of present
conditions"
]. V. Randolph of Emporia made a
short speech in which he urged that the
Populists, Democratic and silver state
committees should hold a joint meeting
and issue a call for a union of all forces
in the next state convention. The sug-
gestion provoked favorable comment
but no action was taken.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs declared that she
is in favor of a combination of forces
which will insure the defeat of the OPP
position representing the corporate in
terests of the United States.
The Kansas Bimetallic league and
the free silver Republicans, as devel-
oped at the annual meeting which adj
journed Tuesday night, desire that no
changes be made in the list of the
present state officers, whom they want
renominated and stand ready to give
the ticket, as they did in 1896, uIQuali-
fed support The sentiment of the
two bodies was in favor of harmony
and fusion. particularly the latter, and
although the resolutions We're silent on
those points, the various speakers
openly avOwed their intention of sup
porting fusion and not a single objec-
ton was raised during the convention.
The delegates have departed for their
homes resolved to work for the re-elec-
ton of the entire state ticket. a
small number of Populists We're pres
ent during the convention but Repub-
leans who revolted at the St Louis
Republican platform conducted the af-
fairs of the body, and the Popu1ists
took little part.
The scheme to have a conference of
Populists, Democrats and silverites. for
which the recent PopuIist conference
adjourned, failed Nothing of the kind
was attempted. owing principally to
the absence of the Democrats and Pop