The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
Keynote OF Chairman Hackney's
Speech to Democrats.
Wellington Man Reviews Situa-
ti0n I'm Kansas.
USES BAILEY'S DEFEAT
Says People Were Blinded by
Cry Stop Thief.
Asserts That Democrats Are
Bound to Win.

Ed T. Hackney. temporary chairman
of the Democratic state convention
spoke as follows upon taking the
chair:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
thank you most sincerely for the great,
unexpected, and 1 can truthfully say,
unsought honor, you nave conferred
upon me today. 1t is indeed a great
honor for any man to preside over the
elaboration of a great party conven-
tion. But especially, gentlemen, do I
esteem it a great honor to preside over
the deliberations of the great unterri-
fed Democracy of the great state of
Kansas. You may talk of the great
charge of the Light Brigade, of columns
advancing. repulSed and advancing
again, but where. where in all history
have men battled as they have in Kan
sas for the immortal principles laid
down in 1875 at old Independence Hall
as expOunded and vitalized by Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew jackson. You,
gentlemen of the old guard, have fought
the good fight YOU. with undaunted
courage, breasted the waves of $4,000
majority and came out smiling the air
and painting for another onslaught in
which you We're to drive from power
the Republican party. You have fouSht
the good fight, in victory sometimes,
but more often in defeat, but ever with
the courage of the right. Your motto
has at all times been. Lay on Macdun,
and damned be he who first cries
enough And we young members and
more recent recruits in this great bat
tie which you have been waging to
preserve the birthright won to and for
us on the dark and bloody battle fields
OF the revolution have given heed to
your example and COnned well the his
tory of your needs and imbibed some
thing, 1 think of the indomitable spirit
you have exhibited in the past, and we
join you now on this centennial ami
versary of the great Louisiana pur-
chase that great deed of our patron
saint which made possible the great
ness and grandness of America, and on
this ground preserved to us by brave
old Andrew Jackson at New Orleans,
we again set up our banner and go for
ward to wrest from the disciples of the
Monarchical Hamilton the reins of the
government of this state and nation
and. gentlemen of the convention, we
are going to win. We are going to set
UP in the public places of this state and
nation the incarnation of that great I'M
ostentatious statesman. Thomas Jeffer-
son, that we may at all times interpret
the great charter of our liberties Alright |
and not read into il a congress COM |
posed of the president and his kitchen
cabinet monographs. A supreme court
composed of the president and his
chameleon, whose judicial decisions all
bear the coloring of the presidents coat
sleeve. That we may follow precedent
instead of within and caprice in filling
the high offices of the e<-ny and navy
to the end that our destinies in the
time of war may be in the hands of
tried and true soldiers and sailors in
stead of in the hands of chill doctors
and despatch writer's. That we may
look to the constitution and Declara- |