The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-17
CENTER OF POWER
In This Country Rests In the West
Says Editor McKelway.

Chicago, May 1.-THE eastern mem
bers of the Associated Press arrived in
Chicago from New York last night in
a special train over the Baltimore &
Ohio road. The trip was made consid-
erably Under schedule time. In many
instances miles were made as low Sc
seconds. They will attend the regular
annual meeting of the Associated Press
to be held today in Recital hall at the
Auditorium and in the evening will be
present at the annual banquet to be
given in the Auditorium banquet hall.
The members will return east over the
Baltimore & Ohio Thursday.
St. Clair McKelway, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, was among the party.
In an interview he said:
Every time l come to Chicago or go
farther west, I am impressed with the
need the east and the west have for
one another and with the senselessness
of misunderstanding between them.
THE east is the curb rein, and the
west is the spur. Both are necessary.
Neither need quarrel with the other.
As progress is the rule of a nations
life, the spur has more to do with the
pace of the national nag and Uncle
Sam among riders has never failed of
purse, or place in the worlds sweep
stakes.
Missouri born, New York-raised.
wspaper-trained, 1 frankly admit
that the heart, history and future of
this republic depend on questions that
are going to be settled by the great
west The west is going to teach the
rest of the country how to solve the
problem of squaring political economy
with the rights of humanity. The east
sees little but hard and fast doctrines.
The west mixes sentiment with them.
The result is efferveScence in both
parties, but moneyhood and manhood
will soon find they must agree-and
that manhood must come to the top
THE destiny of expansion was
stamped on this country when eastern
adventurers opened up the western re-
l.
pushed beyond the Mississippi. Both
spread over the prairies, till they gath
cred strength. cause and purpose to
break a trail through and over the
Rocky mountains to the Pacific. And
the like spirit has planted our flag in
the Philippines-there to stay. 1t was
not accidental it was providence, it
was prophecy that Lincoln, Grant and
Mckinley, weSternerS all, have wrought
out the greatest issues of the century.
The first abolished domestic slavery.
The second saved the Union. The third
brought to an end European oppression
on American soil and started this ma
tion on a nations role in the world of
nations Who sees not western pri-
macy in this can see nothing Alright.
THE two great sections really differ
less than they are aware. Prosperity
has settled the silver question. In an
inevitable expansion is involved the
open door that settles protection for
the sake of protection. Our world wide
duties will solemnize US all and SOlidify
US all for that civil service reform
which Great Britain learned from the
colonies, not the colonies from Great
Britain. We will have our local ring
scandals and our local labor troubles,
but they will yield to local treatment.
Eastern precision and western push
will respectively steady and propel the
united nation on the path of a noble
destiny-and the center of power will
remain where the center of purpose
and of population is in the west.