The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-30

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FRANKLIN MATTHEW'S.
Atlantic, Harpers Magazine. Harper's
Weekly, HarPer,s Round Table, Chautau-
to which he has been a contributor.
In the recent eaInpaign for governor, nor. Of
Open New York in Harper's Weekly and
made, Tammany and Croker froth at the
He left Sunday for Chicago to take a
edia TOT for 1bs re he absent I'M
His address, which was enthusiastically
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the Kan
sas Day Club:
nave SO hospitality given me think | can
best express my attitude by quoting the
where his work was referred to in words
OF praise: What more can say; what
less can say than thank your
1t is an intense pleasure to meet the
bright political conditions in Kansas. We
of the east have never made any pretenSe
Gated and devious ways of politics in Kan
sas, but perhaps 1 might illustrate our
because there is political sunshine over
your state once more by a story recently
seem at the outset to all of you Michael
Maginnis, ESQ. had been on terms Of
ridge one morning in the quarry and had
been scattered to the four winds as a re-
to break the news to the widow. He
Mrs. Maginnis. it is me painful dhuty
t infarm yez that somethin' ,dridful has
frindiy with a dynamite cartridge. an We
anither lot, his legs in anither. his body in
anither, an were quote shure he mustn't
The widow stood silent in grief. for a
moment and then with a smile and sense
of pride that were pardonable under the
'tShure that's Moi1e all over!'
We of the east understand that you had
part Of last November and that through
out the commonwealth you found the
that when the newspapers told the news
the following day to the presiding genius
donable pride the worthy sentiment:
surely that Is P + SIN an ha over end be
leve in these days of a united country
th3e II means f 3Hst 1aat eelf from the east
that l bring you is very old, very simple
to be worth a Journey of 800 miles to
say-a journey by one who has no right
except as an individual into whose life
perhaps some unusual opportunities of OBJ
which recent events have recognized and
made almost unnecessary. 1t is this mess
from you of the west: that use precise
ly the same business methods that you
mercially politically; and. astounding
that anyone should think it necessary to
most glorious flag 1t is not only a mess
age. but it is also an assertion that the
question of sectiOnaliSrn in this land; who
aItenpts 70 SET tne We5I asaInSt the east d
been done in recent years; has no BIRTH
right among US and is really public en-
THE EAST NOT so BAD.
It vas my privilege. gentlemen a few
the. story of Kansas in particular to the
1T-T1T~i n
beliefs were held by the masses regarding
to do Sometime to to correct those ideas
YOU tonight somewhat opens the way. 1t
Is NOT stranee that these errors have
sprung up. Did not the foremost man in
the Democratic-PopuIist party refer to
whether it was said in jest or earnest-as
in the impassioned and revamped speech
that won for him the nomination to the
how great a danger to this country dem !
agOguery may become; a nomination that |
cheapened the highest administrative Of
flee in the worId-did he not say in speak |
ing of the east and the wrongs it had in |
ed and our petitions have been scorned- |
We have begged and they have Knocked !
more. We entreat no more, We petition |
no more We defy them!' What rot and /
Did not the recent governor of your own |
state picture in recent message to the /
ignorance of our population in New York /
city2 Did not hundreds, yes thousands, of [
public speakers cry out against our robber |
barons, our despots, our vampires, our |
Even one of your own RepuD- /
lican candidates for high office in this /
state told me bluntly that the general |
opinion of the masses here was that there |
was no patriotism in New York city, that I
the place was given over to SordidnesS and |
frightful industrial and financial slavery, /
with millionaireS rolling about the streets |
in vulgar show of their stolen wealth
A TOPEKA PREACHER'S SEAMAN |
SHIP.
Astonished and even shocked as I was |
at this observation, 1 thought 1 could I'M !
derstand something of it all when later |
tifuI city to listen to one of your fore
most pulpit orators. He was a fascinat-
ing speaker, no heads dropped in sIumber |
and everyone listened intently to his
words. Well do I remember how wildly |
he pictured a noble ship gliding out of the
harbor with all sails set and gilded by the |
setting sun! Wen do recall how the
captain of the ship observed a stress of
weather and anchored, with all sails set, |
near a dangerous reef: how the winds |
blew and drove that ship, still with all
sails set, on the reef; how the ship and
all hands were lost in awful crash and |
wreck amid the breakers 1t wcs good |
good theology, but 1 want to say TO you
that it was dreadfully bad seamanship. |
When left that church wanted to take
that preacher home with me and teach
him something of the rudimentS of get
ting a ship out of port, and when have
many of your people, through no fault of
their own. have about the east, l have
wished that they all could go east so as
to sea Us as We really are