The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-30


deed since supper this meeting has be-
come "a thing of beauty and joy for
ever" I understood the ladies were to
be requested to sit in the gallery so
that these sordid minded men might,
for once in their lives, be sure to have
their affections centered upon things
above.
EuIogizes Republicanism.
Now whatever my subject may nave
seemed to indicate, I had no intention
of talking politics. Politicians do not
thrive in January, they are INTENDED
for a warmer climate. But I had
hoped here tonight to enter upon a
small, ten-cent eulogy of the Republ-
can party, and in a wholly nonparusan
way to show that after the manner OF
all good things, that party was IN It's
origin indigenous to the soil OF kansas,
In this I have been disappointed 1t
isn't true. The Republican party lived
and had its being long before Column
bus conceived the idea OF discovering
Kansas. By reference TO the scrip
tllres YOU will find that beth RepuBil-
cans and Democrats existed way back
in Biblical days. The New Testament
often speaks of the ''publicans and sin
ners,' and more correctly of the pub
licans and hea hens" And 1t goes 50
far as to saw that the Lord came not
to call the righteous (meaning the
DubIicans) but to bring sinners unto
repentance (meaning the Democrats
It may seem strange to you that the
Savior should thus manifest His prefer
ence for mere political faith, but the
evidence is conclusive, for the same
text recites that when Jesus came
along one of the sinners climbed tree;
thus confirming his Democratic pro-
clivities, for the principal character
istic of the Democratic party IS that
it's always cup tree. Ihe passage
goes on to say that this same sinner
was rich But where did he obtain his
wealth2 He could not have been
Standard oil magnate. Knew nothing
of the modern scholarly and sclentlhc
principles of rebates, long and snort
hauIs and frenzied finance So We are
left to conclude that he was probably
a Democratic alderman, or 1t might DC,
president of the Jerusalem IRE lAsuI-
ance company. Then. too, when we
think of Rockefeller, it seems barely
possible that the Sunday school may
have been his nursery. But we ought
not to condemn the sunday school ioi
its connection with Rockefeller. many
heathens worship the true SIou- ~
do I believe that such a fortune could
have had its origin in the SUNDAY
school collection. 1t would De TOO
often empty. Indeed think nave
heard it said in defense OF RockeleiieIs
that often has he been within reach OF
the collection box and has never YET
taken cent out Of II.
Roasts Kansas Avenue Pavement
After hearing me dabble AROUND neI So -,
night without any apparent incense license llolit
anyone you are probably thinking VIA
the old lady said to her boW-leggeq nus
hand ooh dear, John, why don You
either stand llp or sit down. But IN sell
defense I affirm to you that ! am he-
publican The fact is we could hardly "
ANYTHING else if we wanted to- because
out here in Kansas there ism I much elss
to be-except iointkeepers-an even thal
affectionate fraternity. under the stfellu-
Gus administration OF the last few months
has gone out of politics. It's deNoIed
members are ALTERNATING. and even mere
in Topeka whose cellars have been iiooo-
ed more times than the Kansas river
knows anything about, and whose stIests
were paved with good intentions long pc
fore lime and mortar were discovered
am told that unless YOU have the grip
password signs and counterSiehs. =
iointist is about as hard to IND as a TAD
poIe in the Pacific ocean.
You see I am unusually optimlstc. oul
was born in Kansas. I belleNe IN It's
gnectacllIar history. its reverses ana rev
olutionS its John Brown and Jerry ollip-
son and Mary Lease and the whole DeN-
lin business" There can be no uetofn-
ifv like the deformity of uniformity
Mans living is important only IN TINS;
that his career is a medley: that no hand
arranged the plot upon which the paths
If his checkered course are laid: no IN
teI1igence appointed a destiny which his
ambition NAV not attain or his perverslty
destroy And standing here tonight. in
the capital citv of the great state of Kan
sas 7 wouldn't barter one square meal
Of Iife's privileges and possibilities for
intending centuries of socialistic peace
and purgatory.