The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-30
NEED LESS OF MACHINE.
Rev. T, W. Jeffrey Says It Is Manhood
Republicans Should Cultivate.

There was one preacher on the pro-
and 5ii he IS pastor of the Methodist church
at Winfield. His friends have been
praising him highly and his speech
showed that they were justified in doing
so.
There has been some talk of running
Rev. Mr.. Jeffrey for congress in the
Third district because of the tangle In
which the congressional situation has
become involved down there, owing to
home fights on nearly all of the num-
erous candidates, but no announcement
has been made of Mr.. Jeffrey's can
didacy.
The subject of his address was ''Po-
litical Manhood" and he said in part:
1.-The best product of the earth is its
manhood. 1t is proof against all sea-
sons. The fierce heat of summer adds
to its strong currents of life and the
winter winds cradle it's genius. No
storm can hurt it and no earthquake
can lay it PROSTATE. 1t remains when
all the forms with which it was associ-
ated while in building, lie buried in one
common grave. Like some tall cliff,
standing above the seas wild tumult
when all it's associates are swept clean
by the winds of the centuries, it stands
serene and indestructible.
What history urns more sacred
names than ours? Virginia is great be-
cause it furnished US a Washington and
raised a stage for the portrayal of his
exalted genius. Illinois is a name not
to be forgotten, because it gave to US
and the world that lofty character
whom we call Abraham Lincoln, but
whom the toiling millions, lovers OF
liberty from the worlds ends, call THE
Friend of Man" Ohio's claim to fame
lies in the fact that it furnished
pedestal for ! Se elevation of that SPLEEN
did life which went out since last we
met and in going out threw shadow
across the world and struck deep the
lance of pain in millions of hearts. In
reverence and with a deep hush falling
upon our spirits, we speak the name
of William Mckinley. New York, New
York, vast in territory and rich in his
tory, claims a place among us for from
it came that disciple of the strenuous
life, that intrepid leader of men, that
fearless exponent of civic righteousness,
that dignified statesman who has won
his laurels by the force of a blameless
life-Theodore Roosevelt.
''Then what makes for the growth of
an untarnished name is reckoned among
the indispensable things of this life.
Whatever retards this growth or places
an obstacle in the way of the largest
development has upon it the marks of
evil. If wealth increases and manhood
decreases then the nation must decline.
If we give ourselves to the requirement
of fortune, forgetting that good deeds
live longer and are of far more value,
ruin. If we live for ourselves merely,
unmindful of the sweep of the years,
we curtail the force of our lives and
make ourselves of no great value.
Manhood is for use and must serve.
The stronger the manhood the greater
the service. 1t passes its might on as
does. the mountain stream, as does the
sun, flooding creation with lambent
flame. Manhood~is character embodied
in living person. A name is manhood
made immortal by character and left
among the heights to inspire men to
larger living.
My plea then is for the larger man
hood which inspires confidence, for so
long as people believe in US and the
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unbroken line to the enemy and one
whose strength is known. We need