The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-29
HORTON FIGURATIvE.
Kansas Man Used Metaphors In
Discussing Conditions
at Home.

Judge A. H. Horton has been inter-
viewed in Denver with the following
result:
kansas is all right said Judge
Horton to the Times. 1T is sound and
sensible politically, and it is strong
financially. The hot winds of Populism
that withered US have passed forever.
The sixteen-to-one grasshoppers that
were consuming US are disappearing. The
drought of Organism has been succeed
ed by the blessed rains of Republican,
ism producing a crop of prosperity
Kansans are enthusiastic expansion
lists. 1 recently returned from a trip
to New York and other eastern points
and found that out on the Kansas
prairies the sentiment favoring a
Greater America is far stronger than in
the east With US Democrats ana Pop
ulists, thousands of them, approve the
administrations policy on this ques-
ton Bryan's attitude of vindictiVe
bitterness has alienated many of his
old followers in Kansas. 1t will cost
him many thousands of votes in our
state. Unless the Kansas regiment re-
turns to give evidence against the adj
ministration's policy in the Philip
pines-Which 1 do not anticipate-the
Democrats can not stem this tide that
has set in. 1t will engulf them if they
attempt it.
Kansas. a peaceful, agricultural
commonwealth has always been a most
patriotic one AS a young state, it
sent d very large proportion OIL It's men
to fight for the preservation of the
Union. In our recent war it has furnish
ed the most conspicuous state regiment
in the service. Where the American
flag has been once raised, there shall it
forever remain, is the universal senti-
ment of our people; and Kansas is a
dangerous locality for the man who
would suggest hauling down that flag.
THE free silver remedy for Cleve-
land industrial depression is fast being
recognized in Kansas as a quack nos
trum. Ingenious advertising of the
Bryan patent panacea humbugged our
people for a while. But they are COM
ing to understand that it was adrOit
fraud to catch their votes. They have
recovered from their ills without it's
use, and they are now glad that they
escaped its poison. They were made
to believe that McKinleyism meant de-
struction. The horrors of it were pic
tured to them in the reddeSt cOlOrs, and
the prospect frightened them. Instead
of being turned into slavery as they
really expected to be- they have been
emanCipated. Instead of fulfllInent of
the awful predictions, they have found,
under the administration that was to
bring such dire distress upon the farm
er and laborer rich compensation and
ample emplOyment-prosp such as
they have not known in years. With
their eyes thus opened to their delusiOn,
it is natural that they should hereaf-
ter shun the confidence games by which
they have been Victimized in the past.
Kansas viii be good for at least 25, 900
majority for the Republican ticket,
state and national, next year.
Money is plentiful in Kansas. The
banks have more than they can use.
Cattle and hogs are bringing big prices,
and with the movement of an enormous
corn crop this fall our farmers will all
be in independent circumstances. IN
terest is lower than it ever has been.
Loans on farm property may be had
at 57a and per cent. I know farmers
who are loaning out their surplus to
their neighbOrs at 5 per cent. Under
such circumstances the voice of the
calamity bowler will be drowned by the
noise of prosperity
What will Kansas do for her return
ing vOlunteerS?'
They will be brought home from
San Francisco on a free train. The ex-
act plan has not yet been determined.
The cost however will be betrayed
from the state treasury. The Legislature
may be called in extra session, but it
is more likely the money will be ad-
vanced and an appropriation made for
its return at the next regular session.