The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-21
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we made Mckinley president, and all this
is what he typ1ies and stands for. We
here nominate him again. and, in Novem-
Der next, we shall elect him again; be-
cause it has been given to him to per-
sonify the cause of honor abroad and pro-
priety at home, of wise legislation and
straight forward administration We all
know the old adage about swapping
horses while crossing stream and the
enough alone. To change from McKin-
ley now would not be to swap horses It
would be to jump off the horse that had
carried US across and wade back into the
torrent and to put him for four years
more into the White House means\ not
merely to let well enough alone, but to
insist that when we are thriving as never
before, we shall not be plunged back into
the abyss of shame and panic and dis
aster.
We have done so well our opponents use
this very fact as an excuse for turning
US out We have put the tariff on a
foundation so secure; have passed
such wise laws on finance; that they ac-
tually appeal to the patriotic. honest men
who deserted them at the last election to
help them no, because, forsooth, we
have done so well that nobody need fear
their capacity to undo our work. am
not eXaggeraIing. This is literally the
argument that is now addressed to the
gold Democrats as reason why they
need no longer stand by the Republican
party. To all such who may be inclined
to listen to these specious arguments. [
would address an emphatic word of warn
Remember that, admirable though our
legislation has been during the past three
years. it has been rendered possible and
effective only because there was good ad-
minfStratiOn to back it. Wise laws are
invaluable, but, after all, they are not as
necessary as wise and honest administra-
ton of the laws. The best law ever made
if administered by those who are hostile
to it and who mean to break it down, can
not be wholly effective, and may be who'll
ly Ineffective We have at last put our
financial legislation on a sound basis, but
no possible financial legislation can save
US from fearful and disastrous panic if we
trust our finances to the T1anaG6n6nT OF
any man who would be acceptable to the
leaders and guides of the Democracy in its
present spirit. No secretary of the treas
ury who would be acceptable to. or who
could, without loss of self-respect, serve
under the POpulistic Democracy, could
avoid plunging this country back into fin
ancial chaos. Until our opponents have
principles, which in 1896 they professed,
and the leaders who embody these princi-
pies, their success means the undoing of
the country Nor have they any longer
even the excuse of being honest in their
folly. They have raved. they have foamed
at the mouth IN denunciation OF trusts,
and, now, in my own state, their foremost
party leaders, including the man before
whom the others bow with barred head
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in a trust which really is Of infamous,
and, perhaps. of criminal character; a
trust in which these apostles of Democ-
racy, those prophets of the new dispen-
sation, have sought to wiring fortunes
from the dire need OF their poorer breth-
ren.
l rise to second the nomination of wfll-
! lam Mckinley, because, with him as lead
/ er, this country has trod the path of ma
/ tional greatness and prosperity with the
/ strides of a giant, and because, under
] him, we can and will once more and fin
| ally overthrow those whose success would
mean for the nation material disaster and
| moral disgrace. Exactly as we have rem
! edied the evils which, in the past, we un-
/ dertook to remedy, 50, now when we say
that a wrong shall be righted, it most
assuredly will be righted.
! We have nearly succeeded in bringing
/ peace and order to the Philippines We
! have sent thither, as to other islands to.
wards whose inhabitants we now stand as
! trustees in the cause of good government
men like Wood, Taft and Allen. whose
| very names are synonymous of integrity
| and guarantees of efficiency. Appointee:
| like these. with Subordinates chosen OF
| grounds of merit and fitness alone, ar'
| evidences of the spirit and method in, anC
| by which the nation must approach it!