The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-10
+. DUMONT SMITH
NOMINATES HOCH,


With T. A. McNeal acting a chairman
of the convention at the request of
Chairman Stubbs, who had been leading
a rather strenuous life, nominations for
governor were declared in order and Sen
ator F. Dumont Smith placed E. ".
Hoch in nomination in the following
speech. which was punctured frequently
with applause:
In the presence of this magnificent body
of representative Republicans, fresh from
the battlefelds of the party. it would be
idle to ignore the fact that there has been
a fight. Some of the scars are yet visible,
some of the wounds it may be, are yet
bleeding but time will heal the one and
efface the other. And the purpose and
object of this great convention is not
merely to record the result of that battle.
to voice and announce the common pur-
poses and plans OF our party. but above
and beyond that to declare that the war
has ended, that here and now peace shall
begin.
We are not met here as victors and van
quished, the one eager 20 trample upon a
beaten enemy, the other forced to bend
the knee and pass beneath the yoke. We
are met here as friends, fellow Re-
publicans with common ideals and hopes
and aspirations, and every note of undue
exultation and every note of unnecessary
humiliation, is a discord in the Republican
chorus
Forgive and Forget
On the threshold of this building all
acrimony should be dropped, all bitter
ness forgotten. mindful only of our re-
sponsibility as representatives, of that
great party that is the only hope and sal
walton of our county. This convention
marks and records the most profound and
revolution in public affairs ever
in Kansas or elsewhere. This
imperial commonwealth. by turns the
pride and jest of the other forty-four-
the breeding ground and the nursery of
every political microbe the world has
known, vibrating always from farce to
tragedy, but always holding the center of
the stage, had apparently subsidized to the
dead level of common place, and then as
always the unexpected happened. We
knew that there vast and growing feel
ing of unrest within the party. of dissat-
sfaction with existing conditions. but we
It could be stifled and smothered
We forgot that Kansas Republicans
know neither gag nor shackles.
That unrest grew to movement. swell |
ID to an outburst. became political cata- |
,lysm Before its overwhelming force old 4
landmarks were submerged. old leaders /
swept away, and every citadel of organ
zation and patronage fell in ruins.
The "Prairie Fire."
That movement came from every part
md section of the state il came from
he marts of trade and commerce, from
he forum and the pulpit. from the print
ng Office and the farm. 1t came from
he corn-fed jewellers along the Solomon
nd the Kaw. It came from the sweating.
-rimy toilers who delve and burrow in
he southeast. II came from the warning.
tribes Of Wyandotte. and
t came from the spurred and belted rid
rs along the western border.
1t came as the winds come, when for
ests are rended.
Came as the waves come. when ma
vies are stranded.
Even the gloomy political Businesses Of
rock-ribbed and ancient as the
ills. felt the thrill and crepitation of that
tremendous movement. And yet. and yet.
hat movement vast and spontaneous as
was would have been failure. would
ave been as futile as a Fenian rebellion,
5 idle and hopeless as a reform move
tent in Missouri. had II not been for the
hsracter and personality Of one man.
ax-,o-{erCaf7 rlo1E+5~iav- Ror-o .
repaired a platform for this convention.
ave spread forth the usual fy-paper
ronises TO catch votes but say 10 YOU
nat Ed Hoch is ali the platform this
arty needs He represents in himself I
very ideal and aspiration Of that remark
bic uprising. / am not here 10 pro-
ounce his eulogy or reCite his biography.
-either are needed in this convention HIS
Re IS an open book that every KauSan
as read His character his record. his :
artv devotion ard service are as we'll [
noHn in Kansas as the Decal0gue and ]
1e Golden Rule lie represents in him
nd every ideal of the old. He embodies j
le standard Of civic righteousne~~. tie 5
5ligations Of neightor and friend ana The :
snctity o. home and freside The wora-
3 OF Kansas are for him. and his sue 5
IS like that 81 another leader beloved
y the nation marks the triumph q ideals 2
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