The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
my country, it's of thee.

OWGSL Oh liberty,
| in union and in harmony. Oh, fellow
| Republicans, wasn't that a great time
| when the souls of men went out to
each other as they had not gone for
nearly 40 years. The old world looked
on and marVelled. Germany at that
time had been hesitating as to whether
to take a part against the United
| States. France, forgetting the posi-
lions and relations of the past, was
supposed to be a possible enemy. Italy,
small, but with as great a navy as our
own, was ready to go into a great alli
ance against the great republic. And
what turned all this around? What
opened the eyes of the world to Amer
ica's unity? Dewey's guns at Manila
| Bayi (Applause). When they read the
dispatches that one George Dewey, with
the same number of vessels that Com
modore Perry had on Lake Erie, sailed
into the unknown harbor, over I'M
known mines, in the grey of the morn
ing-who said, "Gridley, when you are
ready, you may fire. and Gridley fired,
and they sunk a part of the fleet, and
then retired to the ofhng for Self-cOm-
munion in American style and had
| breakfast and went back and sunk the
other half-they marvelled some more.
The German emperor said, We'll, L
dond know boud dot: I guess l wait;
1 guess L keep out of dot row." When
they had heard from the men behind
the guns, that could aim a gun at them
from five miles distance by mathe-
NAUTICAL calculation, without seeing the
object. only asking to know the DIST
ance and the height, they marVeled
still more. Italy, the home of de mac
aron' " and de monk" wondered. You
may have heard. by the way. of some
one who inquired If one had seen the
beauties of an Italian sunset, and some
other one replied, NO. but have seen
a Da-go." Qaughter) Italy decided
to stay out. France suddenly remem-
bered and said, 4 guess we will set
aet,s 1,o4
and we viii keep out of your fuss"
Then we come to England, the one
time mistress of the seas. the race from
which we mostly sprung. The English
man that had talked back and forth to
US for a hundred years after the fight
was over, the Englishman said, Come
to my arms. Uncle Sam, you are my
long lost brother have discovered
the strawberry mark" Laughter) He
discovered it as the country boy dis
covers the means in the town school to
take care of himself. You have to whip
the bully to establish a standing. The
nations of the world understand no
language better than that spoken by
the red tongue of fame from the can
mons mouth. Uncle Sam has to con-
vince the world once in a generation
that he is not coward, although he is
gentle-spirited gentleman. They
don't seem to realize it until they hear
from the man behind the gun.
8 CONGRATULATES YOUNG MEN.
1 am glad to see so many young men
here tonight who can fight the battles
of ReDublicanism. l am glad to know
1 address a club that is devoted solely
to building up the principles of the Re
publican party, leaving all else to the
consideration of elsewhere. We have a
club in Des Moines called the Grant
club, named after the old commander,
in which no man is allowed to men
ton a candidate for office, in which no
action is taken until the ticket is
fashioned Republicans, who have taken
the oath to stand by the party and
ticket after it is settled. You will re-
member that Garfield, in one of his
wonderful campaigns, looked out on the
vast multitudes when he was a candi-
date for president and said, "Oh, the
loyalty of these people overwheIrns me.
L see men before me that have sup
ported me year in and year out, and
never asked the simplest favor at nv
hands,