The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-13
esTHE COMING CONTEST" !"
J.K. Cubbison's Address at Chicago
Lincoln Day Banquet.

Chicago. Feb. 13.-The fifteenth an
nual Lincoln day banquet of the Mar
uuette club was given last night at the
Auditorium hotel, covers being laid for
500 guests. The banquet hall was hung
with pictures of Lincoln, Mckinley,
Dewey, Schley and Sampson and the
various generals of the civil war. The
president of the club, Henry B. Wick
ersham, presided. After the president
had delivered his address, Geo. Z. Ad-
ans spoke on Abraham Lincoln
Murat Halstead spoke on ''zrhe Con-
servative Character of Lincoln"
J. K. Cubbison, of Kansas, spoke on
1.-THE Coming Contest"
He said in part: 'sThe Republican
party is in favor of retaining the Phil
ippine islands. The Democratic party
is in favor of giving them away. The
Pops are in favor of selling them and
dividing the proceeds per capita
New conditions make new issues.
The Republican party is the party of
progress, and therefore makes new con-
ditions and new issues. To become a
Republican is to be born again.
THE Democratic party has but one
positive idea and that is opposition to
the Republican party. Its platform is
rotten from age and defective from use.
Only one new plank has been placed in
it's platform during the past forty
years, and that plank was sawed in
Arkansas, transported to Chicago by
Coxey's army as the Kansas Pop
says became the buIwarks of the Chi
cago convention. Free and unlimited
coinage of silver is the only new song
the Democratic party has learned to
sing since the civil war, and that song,
like the song of the dying swan, be-
came the melody of the dying hour
'"The Republican party has been MAX
ing history so fast during the past two
years that the Democratic party has
been unable to adjust its opposition ma
chinery. With silver a dead issue; with
the entire country prosperous and rich
beyond the dream of ayarice; with our
country's starry banner floating over
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian and
Philippine islands, the Democratic
party stands dumbfounded and can only
calculate the historic words of the ia
nous Democratic congressman from
Alabama, Where are we at?'
Mckinley is the grea test popular
idol ever known in American politics.
He is the only statesman whom the
people nominated before the politicians
met in convention. NE have had mil
itary heroes who have been nominated
for president because of their military
services to the country. Washington
and Grant were carried into the preSl-
Dental chair on a wave of victorious
patriotism. Mckinley will be reelected
president of the United States because
he represents better than any living
American the home, the battlefield and
the forum. His home life has been the
incarnation of love and fidelity, and,
an inspiration to the American people
A beardless boy he stepped from the
schoolhouse to the battlefield and, amid
the shrek of shot and bursting shell,
he held aloft his country's starry BAN
ner as bold and brave a soldier as ever
marched under the clouds of war.
''As he was a loving and faithful hus-
band, so has he been a bold and fearless
champion of American honor, Ameri-
can labor and American industries. He
90 tho MCKINLEY
bill in the face of approaching defeat
because he knew that the bill voiced
the sentiments of American labor"
James It. McCleary spoke on THE
Union Lincoln Loved"
1.-The Destiny of Our Country" was
the subject of Hon. Bartlett Tripp.