The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-23

senator from Kansas to be a senator
of the whole state and of the whole par
ty. I appreciate your support; L appre-
ciate the support of those who started
with me in the contest, and appreciate
the support of those who came to me
at different stages in the contest. One
word more: If I am elected to this hlgn
office next week. it viii mark the close
of relations close and cordial that I have
had with the Seventh district IN TINS
state. There has been much said in this
contest about party organization; about
the organization that we have had IN
the Seventh district. I say to you that
believe in organization; 1 believe in
party organization. I believe in organi-
zation that has for its purpose the ad-
vancement of the interests of the Re
publican party as whole. The organl-
cation in the Seventh district was
brought about by the necessities of ex-
listing conditions. It is an organization
that has grown uD in ten years. am
not the leader of this organization-it
has no leader. It is an organization of
members of the Republican party that
had for its purpose success at
the polls. It would not have
been oragnized had it not been
that we had very close district,
and the result has been that it is now
safely Republican. But in leaving the
Office of representative in this district I
am aware that I no longer belong to
that district, but that / belong to the
entire state and to the party of the
whole state. and it will be my purpose
to exercise the duties Of the Office in
the interest of the state and to recog-
nize all members of the Republican
party.
7 want now again to thank you for
this high honor and assure you that
whatever of ability I may have: what
ever I may be able to do, I promise you
to devote my energies to the very best
of my ability to the service of my par
Il thank you
Then Mr. Curtis was introduced, and
he too was cheered. While Mr.. Long s
speech was evidently a guarded state
ment, it was just as apparent that Mr.
Curtis remarks were more spontan-
eous He intimated that he had not
been treated fairly in some quarters
and it was supposed that these remarks
were directed at Governor Bailey and
I Cyrus Leland. In closing he made the
usual remarks about there being no
sore. spots on him, but listener after
wards remarked that they were stick
ing out in welts all over him"
Mr.. Curtis first sentence won him
the closest attention of many in the
audience who felt the same way. I
feel more deeply he declared, the de-
feat of that Republican leader that
Republican warhorse, Ed Eoch, than
do my own.
7 am here this afternoon to thank
the friends who stayed by me so loyal
~. I am proud of the fact that the dis
trict have been honored to represent,
gave me nine out of the eleven mem
bers. 1 am proud of the fact that I
had representatives and senators for
me from every section of the state. I
am thankful to the gentlemen who OPP
posed me, for the fair treatment I have
received at their hands, with three or
/ four exceptions. ] say to you this af-
ternoon that it will give me pleasure to
join hands with the gentlemen of this
caucus to build up the Republican par
ty of Kansas and will do all that I
can to make the six years of Mr.. Long
in office successful.