The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-09
GLOWING WORDS OFPRAISE
For Kansas and the Twentieth by
Governor Stanley.

Governor Stanley.
Chicago. Oct 9-Governor Stanley
telegraphs the following to the Times
Herald from San Francisco:
When the nation takes up its march
and the band plays patriotic airs Kan
sas is in the procession and pretty close
up to the head of the column. We have
been very busy in Kansas this year dig
ging out ores and minerals from the
bowels of the earth and astonishing the
world with the wonderful products
which have been grown upon the sur
face. Kansas has raised enough corn
the past season to denver more than
four bushels to every man, woman and
child in the United States. Our forage
crops are the largest ever raised by a
single state, and we have constantly in
creasing herds to consume them. Our
bank deposits have been keeping pace
with the increase of the products of the
orchard and the field. Just now Kansas
is about the most prosperous as well
as the most contented place in the land.
Our corn stories. all based upon fact,
rival the most fanciful tales of Mum
chauSen, and the real accomplishments
of our farmers and miners outvie the
magnifed achievements of Don
Quixote Some of the advanced milH-
ners are converting the tasselS and
blades of our fields into bOnnets for
windsor castle, the White House and
Wall street Our farmers have IOOs-
ened the Wristbands of their trousers,
and our business men are walking on
stills This is not however, due wholly
to our wonderful business success or our
splendid agricultural achievements.
The Twentieth Kansas is coming home,
and we are on tip-tOe of expectancy.
Kansas will give her returning soldier
boys the most rOuSing welcome ever ac-
corded a returning regiment Politics
and religion alike will be forgotten, for
a time at least, when the boys get
home.
ryba sD1apdid x-o,1ne- manhood Of the
three regiments heretofore enlisted and
now at home will turn out to meet the
boys who had a better chance but were
no more willing to fight The gray and
bent veterans of former war, out of
the greatness of their generosity. viii be
accorded the place of honor at the re-
cepton. The young men of the colleges
Will make the air resOund with more
than dozen college yells, as they lend
their enthusiasm to the occasion, and
our charming and vivaciOus young WO-
manhood will greet the returning SOL
dier with a smile. The queen of all the
carnivals will be there.
With rings on her fingers and bells on her
And She will make music wherever she
goes.
The reason of all of this demonstra-
tiOn for the Twentieth Kansas will be
because we are proud of them. Since
Kansas made her early battle for ad
degraded the banner of patriotism, but
she will exalt it just little higher than
ever before when Johnny comes march
ing home" Republican and Democrat,
Populist and PrOhibitionist, Methodist
and Baptist, Presbyterian and Uni
tartan, Protestant and Catholic, orthodox
and heterodox, black and white, men
of all ages and women without any age
will participate in the glad welcome,
because the Twentieth belongs to no
party, no sect, no religion, no creed, but
it's herOiSm and bravery make it part
of the nation. as its achievements are
a part of the nations history.
The Kansas soldiers in the Philippines
emphasized the Kansas desire for wa
ter by swimming the Bagbag in the
face of a murderOus fire. and accord
ing to the Kansas custom were always
ready for a scrap and with typical
Kansas energy always won. Funston
was a hero; Metcalf was a hero; Little
was a hero, the subordinate officers
We're all heroes; every man in the ranks
was a hero.
There was not a man in the regiment
that could not write his name, and ev-
cry unmarried man in the regiment
could write an Intelligent letter to his
girl in his own hand. The Kansas SOL
dler IN the Philippines was a surprise
to everybody except KanSans. We were
not surprised. The mothers and fathers
who had wreStled Kansas from the saw.
ages, converted a wilderness into a gar
den and the Great American desert in
to a paradise. who had made of an arid
tract the most productive agricultural
state in the Union, who had supplanted
savage barbarism by the highest
character of Christian civilization, were
just the kind of parents to raise boys
who could swim rivers, wade SWamps.
penetrate jungles, endure hardships
and win victories that would dignity
the very name of American ValOr
Out here Roosevelt is a hero; Funs-
ton is an idol. The rough riders had our
praise: the Kansas soldiers have our
admiration and our love. Our splendid
resources afford us cause for congrat-
ulation. Our splendid young manhood.
from which such patriotic soldiers
sprung. is our pride and satisfaction.
The autumn sun is shining brighter now
on Kansas, and soon will be touching
all the leaves of the forest with Grim
son and gold; but through the windows
of hundreds of Kansas homes its light
viii come with a softer glow and cast
brighter beam across the hearth.
when the boy who clad himself in blue to
march out under his country's flag and
answer his cOuntry's summons comes
home. w. z. STANLEY.
Governor of Kansas.