The Topeka state journal., 1900-01-10
CURTIS CLUB PLATFoRM.
Declarations Concerning the Cause in
Which the Organization is Engaged

The platform adopted by the Curtis club
Whereas. The Curtis club, having an
assured membership of 5000 Republican
voters in this county and believing from
the spirit manifested by those who signed
the agreements contemplating this or
ganization that ninety -nine-one-hun
dredthS of the Republicans of Shawnee
county favor his denomination for con-
Whereas, The standing and virility of a
congressional district in national leg1S-
lation depends upon whom and what is
representing them, it behooves those
whose private interests are so closely in
terwoven with the Industrial and COM
mercial prosperity of the whole country,
to look well to the selection of a repre-
sentative in congress. The power of the
south and of New England and several
western states in congress- notably Iowa
IS due to the fact that men are retained
term after term, until by their knowl-
edge of national affairs, and training in
legislation, they become invaluable to a
Whereas, The events of the last few
years have thrust upon us new, untried
and unsolved problems which will test
the highest legislative ability and exper-
Resolved, That we commend to the Re-
publicanS OF the First Congressional dis
trlcl HON. ChaTles Gurus, VINO mas never @
been found unequal TO any task imposed
upon him by a trusting people.
We commend him for his loyalty to the
domestic virtues which he maintains at
We commend him for his fidelity to
every confidence placed in him, in private
and public relations.
We commend him for his zeal and eff
cheney in promoting the varied interests
of a large and eXacting constituency.
We commend him for his evident ability
to grow into the full dimensions of the
important place he has filled so accepta-
bly, for six years last past.
We commend him for his stateSmanlike
qualities, which have enabled him to in
augurate and secure remedial legislation
in several important matters, notably the
regulation of affairs in the Indian Terri
tory by the Curtis act.
We commend him for his mental poise
and courteous demeanOr, which have won
for him recognition and the esteem of his
associates.
We commend him for his alertness in
standing up for Kansas, when her good
name and fair fame were aSSaiIed by de-
tractors who by political misfortune were
pushed to the front.
We commend him for his activity in be-
half of the veterans of the civil war and
their dependent ones, and for the pending
bills presented by him in behalf of those
whose every interest is SO zealOusly
guarded by him.
Finally, we commend him for the sug-
gestion that the currency committee
should consist of those who had not been
prominent in the public discussions of
financial questions, upon which SuggeS-
tiOn the committee was appointed and
whose work formulated into a measure
was so acceptable to every Republican
member of the house and a goodly num-
Der of Democrats.
Resolved That for these and other rea-
sons, none the less potent for omission
here, we are confident that no man can
be found in this district who can so ably
represent it for the coming term as the
Hon. Charles Curtis, and therefore we ask
the other counties to assist US in securing
his denomination.