The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-21
HOCH OPENS UP.
He Formally Begins His Cam
paign at AtchisOn.
May Now Be Considered Ac-
tualIy in the Race.
AUDIENCE NOT LARGE.
Bad Weather Was Probably the
Cause.
AUDIENCE NOT LARGE
Says Question Is Whether Ma
chine Methods Shall Continue.

Atchison, Kas., Jan. PIE. w. Hoch
opened his active campaign against
Governor Bailey here last night. There
were about two hundred people present;
the actual number, according to the
careful count of reporter. being lS1.
The weather was unfavorable. The hall
in which the meeting was held was less
than half full. There was no especial
enthusiasm manifested in Atchison.
The fact that Mr.. Hoch read his speech,
instead of delivering it without manu-
script, made the effort somewhat for
NAL. There was little interest shown
here this morning over the meeting.
The meeting was held in Turner hall
at Atchison. c. H. Young introduced
w. T. F. Donald, and he in turn intro
duced Mr.. Hoch. Young and Donald
seem to be the leaders of the anti
Bailey movement in Atchison county
They were the chief representatives at
the boss buster meeting in Topeka,
they were the committee which went
to Topeka to invite Hoch here, and
they ran the meeting last night. Mr..
Hoch's speech was as follows:
The history of the Republican party
is a history of contention and struggle.
The Republican party was born in the
throes of violent controversy and
Graded amid the fierce fires of result
ant conflict Enemies from within as
well as enemies from without have
menaced its existence, but with brave
heart and strong hand it has expelled
the one and repealed the other. In wax,
and in peace it has been equal to every
emergency. It found two flags floating
where God intended should float but
one; 1t found a divided country and
ma 10 xrrHA1
ing wounds and healed them; it found
an empty treasury, and filled it; it
found an impoverished people, and it
enriched them; it found the country s
pulse, with new life. Its history is
luminous with splendid achievements.
Grand old party, how we love it! The
old men who were present at its birth.
who voted for its Fremont and its
Lincoln. are proud of it's history, and
the young men who bear its banner to-
day must hand that banner as unsul-
lied to their children as their fathers
delivered it to them.
The Republican party has wrought its
! great work and thus adorned and glori-
| fed the pages of history not by acct
| dent, not by chance, not by force of
fortuitous circumstances. 1t has won
| it's place in history because it has al
ways had its finger upon the pulse of
! the people, and its heart beating close
/ to theirs: because its leaders have ever
been men with large hearts and big
| brains.
HANNA AFTER ROOSEVELT.
I'VE are at the threshold of another
great quadriennial national contest. Our
national banner is untarnished. Our
national platform is not prOblematical.
Our great leader is already selected,
and his name is Roosevelt. But let me
turn aside to say that while this stare
is unanimously and enthusiastically for
| the nomination of the president, a fact
which needs no assurances from any
| politician, but which will be amply
demonstrated by the people in their
| convention at Wichita, yet it is not
necessary for any Kansas Republican
in order to be for Roosevelt to say un-
| kind things of that other great Repub-
lican leader. Mark Hanna. Each OF
| these magnificent men is all right, as
Samantha Allen would say, in his
spere,' and I am hoping, for one, that
| when our present president has COM
pleted the full tenure of his presiden-
tial possibilities, Mark Hanna may be
called to succeed him.
Every Republican, every Kansas Re
publican, is ready for the national bat
tie to begin Every Kansas Republican
is proud of his party in the nation
But the party in this state is rent with
internal strife, leaders are arrayeC
against leaders, faction against anti
faction. 1t was not always So In the
preliminary contest of 1902 it was my
privilege and pleasure to accompany
in their tour of the state, the many
distinguished gentlemen who were theI
aspiring to places on the Republican
, state ticket. The courtesy and gooC
nature which distinguished that friend
, ly contest is pleasing memory. Thu
state convention, likewise, while char
l acterized by fervor for favorites ende,
in excellent spirit, and the party, uni
ted. harmonious, enthusiastic marched
in solid phalanx to glorious and over
: whelming victory. No party ever as
sumed the reinS of government unde
more favorable auspices.
why this change of conditions? Wht
is responsible for the present deplora
, BILE condition of affairs? Certainly no
: the rank and file of the party, The
great army of faithful, loyal voter!
whose hearts are always attuned Il
, harmony, and whose every impulse il
, for good government Your speake
! has already answered the question, anC
a can do no better than to repeat tina
, answer here:
UNWISE LEADERSHIP.
7 " Tt grows out of unwise leadership
of unfair standards of RepublicaniSm
t of factional intolerance; of the multi
plicity of useless offices; of extrava
gance in public expenditures; of enor
nous increase in the burdens OF taxa
ton; of the interference of co
+ ordinate branches of the state govern
ment with the functions of each other
of the trafficking in public trusts t,
subserve private and fractional ends. Il
a word, it is a eliminating protes
r against the skull and, crossbones il
: politics.
1.-The record of the party for the pas
year evokes apologies from one side
denunciations from the other, and com
mendations from neither. Fellow Re
publicans, we must face the fact
t fairly and squarely. The only wa,
for a party to gain and retain the con
S fidence of the people is to deserve il
Can our beloved party regain and re
Z tain the confidence of the people b
: continuing the policy and practice
which have characterized its manage
ment the past year? Let every lover @
the party and state put his ear to tn
= ground and ne will get an answe
J. which will alarm him. Can any Re
= he ct 1n