The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-30

blot out one line of those splendid chap
tiers in our country's history, which
gave to the world a Lincoln and a
Grant, and to our race the memory of
their deedSi
But as peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war, so has she her
problems demanding solution and her
emergencies calling for the best blood
and Drawn that God has given to man.
kind. For forty years the Republican
party has written the history and
carved the monuments of the fieeting
years in our land. New conditions un-
been successfully met and nodded into
form harmonious with our institu-
lions. Financial difficulties which were
like the Alps before the armies of Han
nibal have been calmly faced, met and
passed, and the Italian fields and skies
of national and financial solvency and
prosperity are some of the results the
Republican party has wrought out. The
gospel of national expansion fOreSeen by
Hamilton, brought into life and being
by Jefferson, fostered by Harrison,
choked by Cleveland. revived and re-
suscitated by Mckinley, is reborn the
child of the Republican party, which
must accept responsibility for it, and by
it must stand or fall. BY virtue of the
resistless evolution of events, directed
and guided by the Republican party, we
have taken our equal station among
the powers of the earth to which the
laws of nature and of natures God en-
title us. The Republican party is re-
sponsible for it, and must live or die
emergency, with it's problems great as
any Lincoln solved, hard as any that
beat against the adamantine will of the
silent Grant, the Republican party
needs at the head of this government
the mightiest intellect the greatest
moral uplift. the purest personal char
acter, the strongest physical, moral and
intellectual force that the great events
of our recent history have developed.
II have spoken of the west and of the
qualities that characterize the western
man; and it is among such men that
we must look for the one. of all men,
whose presence at the head of the gov
eminent in 1904 will most certainly as
sure that the great evolution, with
a new phase of which the Republican
party illunined the dying days of the
old century and astonished the dawn
of the new shall not decrease it's ratio
nor reverse its roll
None can equal these emergencies
but one whose person, mind, character
and life are cast in the heroic western
mold, whatever place may own his
birth or whatever state claim his allie
glance There is a man to whom the
finger of Fate unerringly points; one
to whom the mind of every Republican
who hears my words unbidden turns;
one whose voice is always for justice
and right; with whom there can be no
compromise with wrong; one in whom
the people instinctively believe and
trust; one whom they have sought out
and claimed for their chief. In mental
and physical action he is western to
the core; in public and private life, in
peace and in war, he is the ideal west
ern man; in the full blaze of that fierce
light that beats around the throne he
stands the peer of those giants of the
west whose great names generations to
cone shall link with his own. For that
mantle strongest single personality in
the world-the Republicans of Kansas
give their voices in unison, as his own
successor in the presidential office
Theodore Roosevelt, the western man
of the United States of America