The Colorado statesman., 1906-10-20

maintain it's self-respect and the re-
spect of the nations of the world?
Kansas.
Here in Kansas the issues are as
well designed as anywhere.
| We have at the head af the two state
ticket men well known in public life.
One a Republican from birth and
standing for Republican principles. A
set of gentlemen candidates for the
lower house imbued with Republican
principles and standing for the adj
vocacy of the same
On the other hand we have at the
head of the Democratic state ticket
an ex-soldier of the Confederate army,
| a known stalwart in the advocacy of
Democratic principles and the things
for which they stand
You may depend upon it that he and
his associates who are seeking cleo
tion to Congress as Democrats will
stand for the measures advocated by
their party as party policy.
What are we to do? Is there one
who will not claim that our state is
prosperous? Is there one who will
claim that it is not a place of oppor-
tunity? Is there one who will not
claim that the dominant idea OF Kan
sas is freedom alike to all and equal
opportunity for all? 1t may be possible
that the Republican party of Kansas
1t do.
1t is enough to understand, however.
that 1t has done all for the Negro which
mas been done in the state. We can
understand and realize that we in Kan
sas, have more to hope for from Re
publican administration than from a
Democratic administration.
Is 1t not better to place our friends
in power and ask of them the things
we desire than to place our enemies in
power whom we can not reach and on
whom we have no claim?
This great state of Kansas tried the
experiment of Populism and fusion,
and that era of depression and repudi-
alton brought upon us the contempt of
the American public and lost us the re-
spect OF those who had known Kan
sas in the days of it's stalwart Repub-
licanism.
Kansas has resolved to look no more
TO the darkness but to the light. No
Bile, indeed, was the Kansas pioneer.
1t was he who came West singing:
We crossed the prairies as of old
Ihe pilgrims crossed the sea,
To make the West as they the East
inc iOmtSltdu OF the Tree.
we go TO rear a wall of men
On freedoms southern line,
And plant beside the cotton tree
rugged northern pine"
Ii was such a state as this which
gave us John Brown of Ossawatomie.
whose soul goes marching on, that has
given us train of heroes from the
days of Jim Lane until now. 1t was
thls Kansas, glorious state, which set
on foot the movement which swept
Ger our western prairies and made
this land of the free, immortalized our
state in song and story.
IL was this Kansas, great in material
wealth, in farms and barns and bins
IN mines, IN school houses and in
cnurcnes, with colleges, giving to the
world men who shall go forth and helm
to make greater the state with
churches where the sons of God are
taught the principles of right and true
Christianity
lis mere intelligence and true worth
are cherished by all who realize the
true grandeur of the state.
don't believe that such a state or
such people will join hands with
party whose policy has been one of
staghatlon, injustice, Acknowledgement
ana ruin. know Kansas will place
"Si SCH III tue forefront OF those states
which stand for all that is great and
noble, and when the election i'm No
vember is over. Kansas will be found
IN the Republican column. giving cour.
age to ner national leader. Theodore
Roosevelt, the foremost man of the
present age.
predict national victory because
OF the principles at stake, because of
the conscience of the American peo-
pie.
rms reform movement is sweeping
the earth. Theodore Roosevelt. IT'S
greatest exponent, stands to-day as the
m1ghtiest ruler of his time. He has
done his work and done it well. ana
IN order that there may be continu-
ance of that nigh policy which is a
part of his nature and with which the
American people are thoroughly in ao-
cord, We must elect to Congress and
TO the Legislature that set of men
VINO sand for the rights of the peo.
pie, the interest of all, the perpetuitv
OF our institutions-examp of the
principles of the Republican party.