The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30

cities. related this circumstance. He
said every one in the omnibus and on
top of it. being travellers, were spell
bound at the beauty of the scenery, on
the right and on the left, of the great
buildings of the French capital All
went into raptures in their descriptions
of what they saw All marveled at the
architecture. All gloried in their OBJ
serVatiOn, except one lady, about th1r-
ty, serene, self-poised, and self-contain-
ed, who sat quietly in the midst of this
rhapsody of enjoyment, and seemed to
be utterly unconcerned. She was not
enthused. She was not thrilled Her
associates supposed she lived in one
of the great cities of the earth ana
that these things were commonplace to
her After it had gone on long time,
they were curious to know where she
was from. She promptly said she was
from Wichita, Kansas. daughter and
applause.) I sent her the best paper
IN America free for one year she was
a patriot. She allowed nothing to rival
the unriValled Wichita. If the con-
gresham from that district hadn't dis
covered someone before, would sug-
gest a fusion. (Laughter)
IS POPULISM DEAD.
You speak this evening about Popu-
ism We had some POpulism in Iowa,
hut we had it before and we had 1t IN
matches and we didn't get it all at once,
as YOU seemed to do. Just the other
day one of our Populist statesmen was
asked do you really think the Popu-
list party is dead?" He says, Il wish
I knowed!" Oaughter.) He says, Il
wish I knowed. hev a chance to mar
~ a ten thousand dollar wilder eff I'll
cut my whiskersi" Qaughter)
Now, fellow Republicans, I am re-
minded of man from Texas, from the
frontier outposts, who with some diff
Guilty was corralled by the police for
making a great deal of noise. He said,
I'm a wolf and this is my night to
&c
night to howl.
It is a great thing to be a Republican
-(applause) a Republican who always
takes his medicine and abides by the
result. applause I will tell you, my
friends, that a hurried tour through
your historical department makes me
feel like saying word, before l begin
anything on politics, for the old nag.
When I looked on all the pictures of the
men who went into the cabins and
homes on the bleak, uninviting plains
of Kansas and raised there the flag OF
liberty, I feel I would rather be pat
riot than a partisan tonight, and when
I remember the glories of the wonderful
days of 1898, when partisanShip was
swept away in the common cause of
patriotism, I sometimes think that the
old year of 1898 was the greatest year
of the American republic, certainly since
the great war of the rebellion. When
Europe was specializing as to what
would become OF this country, when it
be a combination of the powers against
us, when there was scarcely a friendly
voice raised for the Yankee, where the
common conception of Uncle Sam was
that he was an Indian fighter. a Wild
West Buffalo Bill with knife in his
boot, unlettered in diplomacy, imma-
ture in craftsmanship, the chief thing
under the gathering conditions cOun-
try with races of men speaking in the
various tongues, of various compilations,
and never knowing their minds from
spring to fall, with nothing but poll
ticians, what did we do? This was the
estimate in which we were held in the
old world, which we were gathering
E around the bulletin board in this great
land to learn the latest news to see
whether it was to be peace or war in
the great republic.
UNDER ONE FLAG.
Populism way down had a patriotic
soul and it needed but the danger OF
the flag to bring it manfully to the
front, for we are all of one blood. You
will remember that in the American
congress, While the world wondered,
while the world felt that the south that
had been in rebellion would join with
the enemies of the country at the first
opportunity. while the world was won
dering if there was to be a division of
this great land, the old governments
were commencing to plan on casting
lots to see what their particular part
would be of this great land of Column
bus, Planning TO apportlOn and divide
It up among the other nations. Look
ing on, what did the American con-
gress do-the Populists, the Demo-
Gratis, the Republicans-all The mo-
ton was to appropriate so millions of
dollars and place it unquestioned in
the hands of one man, William Nc
T<inley, with which to buy the NUM-
lions of war, and when that vote was
called, there was not a solitary no.
(Applause). Every man said Aye
and they arose in their American man
hood and sang America