The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-24
DISCUSS ISSUES.
John w. BrefdenthaI Addresses
Meeting at EmpOria.
ProvesHe Knows How to Make
Campaign Address.
HE ABUSES NO ONE.
Says Nice Things About Cover
nor w. e. Stanley
Deyotes Much Time to Financial
Questions.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
Public Debt viii Continue MS
Long as They.
Believes Partisanship IL Dam
gerous Menace.
DeyOtes Much Time to Financial
Questions.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
Public Debt Will Continue MS
Long as They.


John W. Breidenfnals FUSION nominee
for governor. spoke at Emporia Sat
urday afternoon. He was escorted
from the hotel to Fremont park by
about 100 members Of the Bryan and
Breidenthal club, each man carrying
small American flag.
Some one told me Breidenthai
couldn't talk" said an intelligent look
ing farmer after he had heard the
speech. 1.-THE fellow that said SO didn't
know, for 1 consider the speech today
one of the most convincing have ever
heard"
The fact is that Mr.. PRESIDENTIAL
makes an exceedingly good impression
in his speeches. While not an orator,
his style is forceful and his logic simple
and convincing. There is an utter alb
Eence of bitterness in what Mr.. Brei-
denthaI saws. He does not abuse Re
publicans, but admits that they are just
as honest as the Pcpulists. He says that
ne has nothing but kind words to say of
Governor Stanley; admits that there is
much in his administration to admire,
but says there is much that should be
condemned.
One of the most remarkable state
ments in Mr.. Breidenthars speech was
that he hoped the time may come when
he can go before the people not as the
representative Of any party but the
champion of measures. This fs In vivid
orator, who would have his hearers be-
lieve that all the good Is confined to
the party which he represents. and all
the bad to The party of the opposition.
A person might have shut his eyes
while listening to some portions of Mr..
BreidenthaFs speech and concluded that
he was listening to a business man max
ing a non-political talk All this leads
one to the conclusion that Mr.. Breiden-
thai is not a modern politician.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
the audience was interested in Mr.
RreidenthaPs speech. It was a novelty.
Though he talked OF things which are
usually considered dry and uninterest-
ing. there were no signs of impotence
and what he said was neither stale nor
lacking in interest.
The stand was situated not far from
the Santa -F'e tracks, and the speaker
was often interrupted by the screaming
OF whistles and the rumble of trains
why the local politicians should have
chosen such spot for q. political meet
3ng is one of those unexpiainable
things that occur frequently in political
campaigns. The SUMS rays almost
clustered the audience. whose physical
comfort was not improved by the low,
rough pine board seats. A speaker who
can interest any one under such con-
ditiOns deserves great credit, and that
Is what Mr.. Breidenthal did.
The size of the crowd at political
meeting is always a matter of great
concern. The Republicans are number
blind at a fusion meeting, and the same
ailment troubles fusionists at Republi-
can meetings That is why the esti-
mates Of political audience are always
at such variance. The man who looked
at the crowd at this meeting through
mon-partisan spectacles saw a fair sized
audience numbering between 400 and
600 people. It was not large, but should
properly be called a fair sized audience.
The number might have been larger
had not the date for the meeting, which
was originally arranged for G. A.
lod nd fh0
committee not failed to advertise the
change; but ii is not a. question of life
and death whether 200 or 500 people
were at the meeting, so the Repu blican
reader may say that the crowd was
very small and the fusionist is also en-
titled to his opinion that it was very
large.
SPEAKER NEARLY LEFT BEHIND.
The line of people carrying American
flags marched past the Whitley hotel
shortly after 2 o'clock The carriage in
which Mr.. Breidenthal was to ride stood
in front Of the hotel as the procession
passed, bat the commander of the
marcherS was either unable to give the
command to halt or forgot to do SO, for
the procession did not stop and Mr..
Breidenthal and his escort were a half
block behind the procession when they
left the hotel.
In the carriage with Mr. Breidenthal
was ex-Mayor Vim. Adds, who was re-
ported to have deserted the fusionists,
wv. T. McCarty. and ex-Representative
Morse, who has again been nominated.
There was wait Of about a half hour,
during which a drum corps made a
noisy demonstration intended to at
tract the attention of the curious.
Mr.. McCafty, the chairman of the
meeting, was then introduced. He re-
ferred to Mr.. Rreidenthal as the man
who had conducted the banking in
terests of the state for the past eight
years to the satisfaction Of the people
of the state and with honor to. hina-.
self. and who will for the next two
years fill the gubernatoriaI chair"
MR. BREIDENTHAI4 SPEAKS.
Mr.. Breidenthal appeared a trif7e EN-
barrassed at first, but he was soon per~
fectly tease. Il regret" said he, that
it is necessary that i should be intro
duced as the candidate of any political
party. / believe that the greatest evil
that confronts the people OF this ma
ton today is the craftsmanship which has
been developed. There are few people
in Kansas whose interests are not iden-
teal: the legislation that benefits one
will benefit another, and the good and
evil come to Populists and Republicans
alike. Their interests are one, but par
fisanship keeps them apart.
Il am not here to educate you. for
you have been educated in the school
of politics for the past Is years. and
you probably know as much about pub
lie questions as / do, but want to call
your attention to a few of the incidents
of the past quarter Of a. century.
You remember the first serni-poiit-
fcal organization after the war. 1t was
called the Grange. and Eaa an orRani-