The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-30

over this fair dominion and is the hid
ing place of her most cherished keep
sakes.' The years have been many and
long since first this old bureau was CIV
en- place in this Kansas home, in the
days when husband and wife first be-
gan to keep house in the good old Kan
sas way Her mate and her sons. and
her daughters, have one by one arrayed
themselves in the robes of immortality
and she awaits alone the summons TO
join them on the other side of Jordan
in the sweet fields of Eden And in her
solitude, how much more closely she
guards the contents of that lower bu-
reRu drawer. Often in the even-tide,
after the days work is done, just before
exhausted day sinks to rest in the farms
of waiting night. that Kansas mother
steals away from the farms busy din,
to commune with the mementOS of
sweet past. so different from a lonely
present Look within that bureau
drawer. There is a faded tin-tyDe OF
him who in manhood's haloyon days
promised TO cherish and protect her.
There is the worn and torn marriage
certificate. There is a lock of silken hair
tied with baby ribbon. There is
battered and much abused tin horse on
wheels. There is plain band ring,
alas! time has demonstrated in this case,
that all is not gold that glistens. There
is a wee bit wax doll sans ewes sar3
cheeks, prove that its small owners ma
ternal instincts were secondary to her
purely desire for something to chew. And
over in one corner hidden by shadow,
there stands a pair q tiny leather shoes.
the baby's first so small that fairy
might have worn them. Kicked and
scuffed, buttonless and toeless, even yet
they reveal the outlines of sturdy little
feet. Absolutely useless, the shoes are,
and still are more precious than beaten
gold. Note with what unutterable ten
derness the mother fondles them. How
the sight of them sweeps away time and
care and disappointment, and how the
mother revels in the reeollections Of the
days forever past and gone.
only q little while before that Kan
sas mother had given her stalwart son
once the proud wearer of these same
shoes to her country and to her Geo.
Out upon the plains of Luzon that bon
ny boy had fallen. amid the roar OF
the cannon. the hum OF bullets. the
shouts of the Victors and the GrOan of
the dying, SOOthed to sleep by the jul
laby of shot and shell. his last words
being mother and Kansas And the Icy
al woman thanks God that her son was
true and brave, that he had died in the
cause of humanity. for the glory OF
Kansas and the betterment of a people.
Sirs, tbs a far cry from that pair of
shoes in the lower bureau drawer 10
Maralo, the Bag-Bag and San Fernando,
but that Kansas mother bending over
Kansas boy keeping his eternal vigil
under the southern cross are links IN
the mighty chain that binds together
Kansas and the Philippines
Conner Davies Reasons.
Conner T. Davies, whose subject was
Justification" said:
There are many men who have a
/ curiosity to know what may be said
of them when they are dead. 1t comes
to few men to have that curiosity salts
fed. I am fortunate in being one of the
/ number to enjoy that peculiar sensation.
Post prandial efforts, at least in
/ Kansas, usually begin with the relation
4 of a story or else the speaker says:
4 This calls to mind the following ia
miliar passage of scripture
Frankly, 1 viii admit I am not re-
/ minded of any pleasant story in con-
nection with my escapade-
Mr.. President, l am not vain enough
] to believe that my appearance here to-
night is a compliment wholly personal
1 to myself but rather s a representative
of d variegated assortment of political
prodigals returned to their fathers
/ house
Permit me to thank you, Mr. Presi-
dent, for this manifestation of cordiality
on the part of this most representative
body of Republicans of our glorious
! commonwealth
1T is a mighty good indication of the
welcome accorded US and fOrceful
! omen of the future unity of Republicans
gave Harrison majority of 50, 600 in IS.
who. after years of enlargement,
| again fell in line to give q Republican
candidate for governor, a majority of
nearly So 1000 in 1902
Tt is the Republicans who really do
things in every instance-in every re-
form. Even the Populist movement
would have died, premature, spineless
embryo. without the blue blood of Kan
sas Republicans which coursed thrOug
it; putrefaction set in when they with
| drew.
The late election returns would in
dictate that the Republicans who fol-
lowed the leadership of Garfield, OF
Blaine, and of Harrison, declined to be
buried with the Populist remains in the
political grave of Democracy.
In returning home we ask for moth.
ing, expect nothing for ourselves, save
the privilege of aiding in charging the
majority of $4,000 for Bailey in 1902 to
10O, 900 for Roosevelt in 1904
I'VE have danced our ghost dance to
the end; even the ghost has vanished;
we are through.