The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
ATWOOD'S ABLE ADDRESS.
Noted Kansas Orators Remarks
Seconding Nomination Of Bryan.


Kansas City, July 6.-John H. At
wood of Kansas spoke as follows in
seconding the nomination of Mr. Bryan:
Who says we shall fail? Who thinks
we shall fail? Who doubts the cause
of the people or the success of Democ-
racy when on one platform in one day
appears their champion Webster
Davis and David Bennett Hill? (Cheers-)
When the paeons of praise of the words
that they have spoken are swelled by the
voice of Democracy from rim to rim
of the whole continent, from Atlantic
states, and the strong voice of Tam
many, too.
why are they here? Why do they
speak? They speak for the exaltation
and the uplifting of that man who votes
in Nebraska but whose home is all
America. (Cheers.) He is brave and
he is pure, and SO the trusts fear him,
for in dealing with men in official life
they meet only with the weak or with
the wicked, with the towards or the
capricious. In the man we love, in the
man whom we honor, you will recog-
nize the man who has at once courage
and a conscience. The trusts fear him,
for, like every beast of prey, they know
their natural enemies.
The rattlesnake and the prairie dog
lie down undiSturbed, and neither or
them fears the scurrying of the coyote,
but when the foot of man IS heard then
the rattleSnake will sound his signal or
alarm and is in battle array, and so 1t
is with the trusts of this country. They
the f1utter of ain owl like Mckinley, or
by the harmless chattering of a prairie
dog like their vice presidential nominee
daughter and applauSe) They are UNI
disturbed even by the howl of the wolf
like Hanna. But whenever they hear
the football of a man like him who Is
our leader, then millions are massed to
accomplish his defeat. All, my friends,
arrayed at his back are the millions of
the American people, who are so mag
nificently represented here today.
Brave do call him, aye, brave enough
to acknowledge truth when found on the
lips of any man and brave enough to re-
buke wrong whether haunting itself in
high places or groveling in low. AS the
chief of this nation and it's greatest cit
izen he will not seek to Slay the man
who is struggling for his liberty, wheth-
er that man be the brown man of the
Philippines or the white man of the
TranSvaa1
All, my friends, the gods never saw in
all the times that have passed a crime
so black and so bloody as is being
wrought out today on the veldts and
plains OF South Africa. Great words
have come LAUNDERING to us down the
colOnnadeS of time. The old guard of
Napoleon said. when asked to surrender,
THE old guard dies, but it never sur
renders Lawrence on his sinking ship
and in his dying hour, said, Don't give
up the Ship There is now, my friends,
another legend and another saying They
are the words of dignity and strength
winch were uttered Dy LnaC rugged OLD
burgher, Dom Paul, when he said, THE
Transvaa1 shall be republic or it shall
be a grave
And when our leader is clothed with
the power of so millions of people, when
he grasps the scepter of power and
reigns as the peoples tribune at Wash
ington, another legend will be added to
the heroic words of history, and those
words shall be, ''Tyrants, stopI British
empire, stay your hand! America will
not sit quietly by and see the death of
the only republics that are like our
own" ((Cheers). And that is all that
will be required. The ipse dixit. the
word of America, will be enough. And
not only will the victory of Democracy
next fall mean the rehabilitation of all
| the principles that we love; it will mean
the salvation of the cause of liberty
throughout the worldi Is it any wonder
that we ask you to do what you are go
ing to do, vote for Bryan? (Applause)