The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-01

OF print. The name OF the author is well
nigh forgotten, because the book con-
tains only error Truth alone lives On
sBut since he (Cockran) gives us no
facts we are not called upon to contra
dict his groundless assertions
we are the creme de Ia creme Of the
human family.
Strong men came to this country. We
have been needing mechanics We have
been making the best guns, and what Is
of far more consequence, we had the
best men behind Them" turning to the
old soldiers; I'VE have been breeding
shooters in our country.
Bryan is a socialist: so is Annie
Diggs. Chief Justice Doster is a. social
ist; so IS Hoffman. Every leading Pop
ulist is a socialist, although he is not
saying SO. Annie Diggs said to me she
was supporting Mr.. Bryan because he
was the logical socialist candidate as
she understood it. And Lord Macaulay
said our troubles would begin with the
rebound of immigration upon itself;
when our western limits were reached,
and the lamentations of socialism
would be premonitions of the coming
storm.
wv. ]. Bryan, Bourlxe Cochran ana the
Democratic party are giving aid and en-
enlargement to Aguinaldo and his Col
lowers (Yells). say to you, old sol
dierS, we under Mckinley propose as
you imposed government on Jefferson
Davis without a. thought for the consent
of the governed, to impose government
on Aguinaldo in spite of Bourke Cock
ran and the Democratic party.
If Cochran wants to make himself
immortal, let him return to New York,
overthrow the Crokers and cleanse Tam
many, instead of coming out here to
Kansas and preaching to US corruption
in politics.
1--WE will teach the Chinaman to eat
refrigerated beef instead Of rats.
IF he lives a thousand years he can
never undo the harm Of that statement
referring to Bryan's speech at Salem,
Ill, wherein he said that the Republican
party would win by buying votes, brib-
ing, coercing and intimidating. II brand
it false. He did not mean to tell a
fa1seh0od, perhaps, but saw defeat star
Ing him in the face. If fathers tell their
sons to be scoundreIs they will be. I be-
lieve there is more honesty than dis
honesty in this country today"
The thread of Mr.. Burton's argument
was that COckran'S description of prop
erty was terse and accurate; that he
ought to answer himself, the case stand
ing Cochran VS.. Coekran-the Bryan
Cochran of today against the Mckinley
Cochran of four years ago. He said
Cockran's Louisiana purchase state
ments We're not true, that Napoleon
first approached Jefferson to sell Louis
lana, first because England was about to
strike him in that quarter, and second
because he wanted money to fight Eng
land elsewhere" He also argued that
expansion was our destiny, by means
of which to escape Lord Macaulay's
prophecy; that by having new territories
to colonize we could shake off our imrni-
grafton and disturbing troubles and
avoid socialism.
Mr.. Burton also put much time to ex-
posing Bryan's false theories about
money and the business of bankers.
In conclusion, the eloquent speaker
said, with great oratorical effect:
Mckinley and Roosevelt club Of Topeka:
You have hOnored me away beyond my
deserts by extending this invitation to
talk here this evening There were fears
last springs that, for certain reasons that
will not name, there might be defec-
have sore hearts, no doubt, about an issue
you all know what it was. I'll not men
nag flag You ali rise to rally around it, You
belonged to an army that performed
greater service for mankind than was
ever performed before in the history of
the human race. L was never a soldier
but am a son of q. veteran and brother
of a veteran; my father and my brother
were your comrades; yes, they are yet
your comrades, but they are In the larger
camp over yonder. Soon you will all join
mortal As the mountain peak stands
out more distinct in the distance when we
are further away from it. so your grand
work viii be more clearly seen and bet
IT would help, honor and bless the SOL
der while he lives, and preserves his
memory sacred when he is gone At the
time the soldiers perhaps did not realize
fnlly the great work they were doing.
save the union. They did not volunteer
to free the negro. yet they did it; they
never thought about emancipating labor
and yet, perhaps their greatest work was
in the cause of labor. They did their
duty, and doing it, they builded better
than they knew; they struck the shackles
from the bondsmen, they preserved the
integrity of the union, they dignifed and
ennobled labor, labor which is Gods
greatest blessing to man. In the sweat
of thy face thou shalt eat Bread, was
pronounced a blessing and not
curse. Labor has given every good
thing we have. It has lifted mankind from
the depths of barbarism to the heights
of civilization The corner stone of the
Republican party is the preservation of
labor. During the great struggle and
while you soldiers fought God Almighty
took your blood and mixed It with the
tears of your wives and children, and
brow of labor and wrote thereon the
word honor After all, was not that
your greatest work, and your most en-
during monument? Again, I thank you
from the bottom of a grateful heart.
And now one work to the Republicans
of Kansas respecting our state ticket. No
cleaner or better state administra ton was
ever given this or other state than
that of Governor Stanley's. AS a man he
has met bravely and honestly every obi
cation of life, but it is not so much as a
man, a Republican candidate and lead
er that he now appeals to us. He has lent
his high office for everything that is good
and noble-through the long weary days of
last summer and this fail he has borne