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The old-time campaign speeches are
occasionally brought to light. Some
noted for the encomiums passed on
about the candidates. Others speech
.es have to tell of the beautiful sun
shine, the wonderful climate and,
mayhap Of the good thing to eat
found in the course of vigorous
campaign from place to place. The
following was delivered by one Will
lam H. Wallace. At one time Wal
lace was a candidate for governor
and also for U. S.Senator. Also Mr..
Wallace,became famousIyears ago as
one Of the prosecutors who appeared
in court against the James Brothers,
famous Missouri brigands. : And in
spite Of the following eulogy Of Mis-
souri,, Mr.. Wallace was fighter on
the side of prohibition. His present
home is1in Independence, Mo-. The
speech was delivered in 1892.
Grand, beautiful, magnificent Mis-
souril Where rolling prairies, fertile
valleys, mighty forests, placid lakes,
majestic rivers enchant the eye and
WOO the heart; where flowers Of every
hue and cline freshen in the evening
dew till the green ivy of the North
and the fragrant magnolia of the
South meet each other in a common
home, and rebuling sectional hate,
entwine their arms in tenderest love;
where birds Of every note and plu-
mage wend their merry flight, from
the hummingbird that flutters in the
honeysucl1le to the eagle that builds
his eyrie in the craggy cliff, while the
nightingale and the bobolink wake the
forest with ringing melodies sweet
sas those that rose in paradise; where
the perch, the crappie and the bass
leap in the sunbeams and the hunters
horn rouses the fleet footer fox and
the bounding deerl
aFertile, bounteous, exhaustless
Missouri Where yellow ,harvests are
iocked In the golden sunshine rich as
those that ripened in the land OF the
Nile; where corn and cotton flourish
in q common soil, and the apple and
the peach grow in lucious beauty
side by side; where exhaustless beds
of coal, lead and zinc lie sleeping in
the earth and mountains OF iron await
the blazing forge.
"Enterprising, majestic, imperial
Missouri Whereii imore than " mil
lion souls have swelled our numbers
during the last decade; where the
lights Of d genuine Christian civiliza-
.tion like vestal virgins, hold their
virgils unerring and undying as the
.silvery stars, and where under the
soft and hallowed flame Progress, like
the Hebrew giant, bursting the withes
protection is ever tying about his
limbs, is leaping forward in the great
race for material wealth and glory
with bounding strides, unsurpassed
in all the sisterhood Of states.
Educated, intelligent, God fearing
Missouri Where school housesl so
thickly dot the hills and plains that
voice meets voice of merry children
romping on the lea till one vast Choir
mounts the skies; where from every
CITY, village and hamlet the graceful
:spire and the church going bell call
the way to- heaven; where thousands
OF Christian homes cluster by the
rivers and on the hilltops with the
open fire and dancing flames, with
the old arm chair and the well worn
Bible-cherished scenes where first
we learned to lisp the name Of father
mother, sister, brother. Sacred, ten
der, halloyed old Missouri soil! Be
loved land of mingled joy and grief!
Where all the flowers Of youth have
bloomed and grown and childhood's
merry laughter in gleeful echoes ling
ers still to cheer and thrill the droop-
ing heart. Where many hope has
perished in an hour. Where our
mothers first taught US to kneel IN
prayer, and where under the willows
and by the brooks the form OF loved
ones gone before await our coming to
slumber by them until the resurrec-
tion morn. Beauteous, glorious, con-
secrated old Missouri soil Let
Others defame thee as they will
thank heaven, in life, in death, you
are good enough for me-"