John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tensing, 145 Plaza Dr.

, # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.

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John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.

John Alexander Martin, newspaper dippings. 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tensing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.

|e Lyons Republican]
•., •- 1;-'' •"•''
jrKjci,nf ii'i, ,:t)i .'. • i ' —~;!-i';~i:
ie;radlrrtnd strike is ended, and
pV.7.wv8s'l8 going nu u.s usual. We on
he'Santu Fa knew nothing practl-
I
J|(ly "of5 the extent or the inconveu-
ii^Qe^pf,; t)iia\ disturbance. But the
Missouri.'Pacific and its bruuches wej'o
*efffecil8F 'by It to the extent tbalfno
fifeiglilS''dbuld be moved, Gov. Mar1-
H% W i i ? P P l e d t 0 / d r kelp and.fce
g»Sfi O f w a to.. the • 'settt^oft' warl'
fceoHrt'etcfbe; strikers tri consultation, ,|
MliNve'flmth tlieM 'tir ifamiuwfl
[oij»Jtli.:.th>. offlcerB.^l^e
Lo.uk>..-, This n^t beihg.suf-,
MLei^it./ber-wit^ tire (JotorrtlMiofrtfft;
5EPT fcp***i.'-^.'MIil-Sw
it'WjwaUftcuJitWii. u-nd business was Jre-
|^amechthe?next Monday. 'T(w> iriucb.
r l x n u AlU '7;1!*"i J .. W.I.. U.iVluk t.l'u
Ihthti* of tlve woi-lc itigm oil'Utkl yet
jj'ii cWrespiw'fli iiti"• r'rJapecV for the
[ ftolMkh W»\kW °4 -sun >.««*) i i o., .udj usi-;
rile'iit'of the difficulties In such u way
#'tb':lleii\»iio hard revengeful feelings
I
•a.
ifi*Me',;tote«sla of either party. He
p v^s jit^y^ seconded by others, It is,
^yy.et-to' John A. Martin, In a;
tfrewf.iueasurev Is .the hupny rcnalf,
^wMj?M0***?*Vld*M>:tlwU K ntiwa's
% the report of oar reanlon held at Leav-
.' u«ilt!r/nu,».) .r.j Si»r.'jjH(»u-.l :o I
rRWiihttlni 1-,-iii Vl'l8«r«ii« <•:•• ii
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i&fitE PATRON J
.^PCBLISHED EVERY TJHJRSDAY,
iij^ifrgB* •, —Dy tho—
islnson County Co-Oper&t/e Association.!
^Knights of Labor Hall.
OtATHE. KANSAS. j
•'•••".• March 21st, i885. )
At a regular session of Olatho Local
u,
Assembly, xr«
No. 0177
2177, held
neia «on March
21st, 1885, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted i
JiMOiM* That,we as an Assembly
of the Knights of Labor, who are.own-
estly struggling for ^ J » £ J
between labor and oajd a i Do most
hearty indorse (regardless of party
SS8S&M) Governor John A Martin
and the Railroad Commissioners of the
State of Kansas, lor their unprccedont-
ed courage, and manly, jotlon. ins g
A a
±S!/ &.ac r of^oreso :
e K
S« pS^on.^d U^^
d o n e r s of t h e g 8 ^ i - - ,
The following circoiar has been issue
by Governor Martin, president of the
Eighth Kansas association:
HXASQUARTXRS ElODTH KANSAS, \
ATCHISON, KAN., Jane, 1886. /
DEAR COMRADK—Twenty years ago the
Eighth Kansas disbanded as a military
organisation. About eight years ago a
few members met at Leavenworth and
organised a Reulmental Society, with at
that time bnt few names on onr roster—
«nd your secretary is pleased to report
that the roster now contains of Company
A, 17: B, 80: 0,87; D,41: R83; F,34; G,
25; H, 27: I, 27, and K. 3—total, 274
names and addresses. There are many
names yet to be added, and It is espec-
ially requested that all menbers having
enworth two years ago, will examine the
list of names, and report all names
known to them not on the list, giving
'company and address to the secretary.
T take (treat pleasure in informing yon
that the Eighth Kansas will hold a reg-
imental reunion at Topeka, Kansas, Sep-
tember 20th, 80th and October 1st, 1886.
during the general soldiers' reunion, ana
yoa are earnestly requested to attend,
with yonr families and comrades, and
make this* reunion a grand success. Yoa
can obtain all necessary information In
due time, as to railway rates, time of de-
parture of trains, etc., from your G. A. R.
poet, or the£rsllroad agent of your town.
Fraternally yours,
JOBM A. MAirriN,
' *' '•" (• • President.
CDAB. W.BCST, Secretary.

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TCBSDA.Y. EVENING, JULY 88, 1880.
WAI B ATI LOYAL Tft<U01
Mr. Reeffanqt-hlV claqaers are wMt>
perinlTlnBoWr'thatrRay'-played a slick
I game in getting liis. appointment, and
t—I
that while he pretended to be using his
influence with the governor for Heed's
appointment, lie was putting in two
§ words for "himself'for every one he
spoke for Reed. To refute this lie, also,
Judge B»v sent, to "Governor Martin,
i requesting him to return the batch of
letters1 which" he* TOote to him asking
o
o" Mr.Jte»d% appointment. The governor
reMfne'd^ them' and they are now
>
oo" in thePiucs8'omcef wbf*eany "doubt-
©
ing Thomas" can satisfy himself of the
sincerity of .ludge Bfty'n advocacy of
Reed's cause by calling and reading
them.11-Accompanying them Governor
Martin writes the following ^letter
which is worthy of publication as
showing the manner of Judge Ray's
appointment and the governor's
motives in appointing him.
I STATE OF KANSAS, (
1 TO*EKA~ .fuly 3
JuDot i/Lkui X . R A Y .
I Dear sir:-
Mr. Stotler informes me that you
00
00 want, the letters you sent me during
the judgeship content last winter,
touching the subject. I send them en-
closed—all I think, that I ever received
from yqut "*"•"•- *.
.1 I.nVay'add that only ten other citi-
zens of Wellington wrote me, favoring
1 Mr. Reed's appointment," while a large
u numWr wrote me favoring Capt. Law-
rence, or protesting against Mr. Reed,
The most 'earnest supporter nf Mr.
Reed had. so far as I know. wan your-
self.
In speaking of the letters written by
citizens of Wellington,'of oo time I do
I not include the petition you sent me in
M|. Reed's behalf.
I may add that, when Judge Oruer
resigned, It seemed to me that any de-
lay in making an appointment would
bave'irievitably resulted in two things:
First, it would have renewed the strife
and disagreement over the judgeship;
and second, tj&e district court in Sura-
; £ county would have " u a a Jo
'. • pqplppned' for "" weeks, to the
greattdetrimeht. of lawyers and Ilti-
gajpta. Hence prompt action seemed
naceasary.
Two weeks before Judge Orner re-
signed he. called on me, and told me
that he contemplated such action. I
appealed to him not to resign; stated
hqwit would embarrass me; that the
old quarrel would be revived, more in-
tense and irreconcilable than before;
that r Was satisfied an agreement on a
candidate was impossible, etc. He
said he believed be could suggest a man
not in/-the old tight, an a candidate,
whose appointment would give satis-
faction, and named yon. tasked him
not to hand in his resignation;, to. con-
sider it fully, before acting; but that,
If he was determined to resign, to go
back, look over the fleld carefully, and
ascertain who-wonld give most general
| «iatisfAction.
rTe returneu* fi'» about I wo weeks. hand
erf ih his resignation and reiterated.;
_hls'atfttefoent that he knew of no one/
Vn" !:umner rounty whose appointment
would give_' more general satisfaction,1
or xho was hetter qualified for the-
place, thou you would, or than you
were, Later,you Cfclltrd &nd expressed a
wlllihgness to accept the place, and' I
appointed you, Thin is the whole his?
| tory of the matter.
I don't write thin, of course, for pub*
lication.or for the public. I have no"
apologies to make to any one for my
action. I did what my judgement
then approved, and still approves.
I* And after all, it neems to me that a
(al je issue, or an Immaterial issue, was
jade after your appointment. The
stltution and laws devolve on thu
scutlve the appointing power, )n cer-
M(n cases. When lie exercises that
power the question Is not. or should
not. be' win* reoommended this arj-
pointmeni, or why was It made? The
pertinent inquiry, rh« just question In:
"la the tappoiuteeiupableand honest?"
It he tnltils these requirements, whit
more is rheie i<> ny.or what objection
can reasonably l,c msdef
••" With my best wishe* fur yum M I C - |
•cess and prosperity,. • .
Vnnr.s Ihily.
»<*»»•* .'.-.. .INO.A. MAKTIV.
1.^

^TBDNESDAY MORNING ,IULY 8, IMS.
M E INDIAN OUTBREAK
& • ,
REPORTS RECEIVED MY THE GOVERN^
\i OKRELATIVE TO THE HATTER.
He Bend* Telegrams to the Various Mill
A tla Commanders of the State Intormtng
1
Them of the Facte and Oommandlna*
Them to be Prepared to be Called Out
On a Moment'* Notice.
-,!;At.about 7 o'clock last evening people
on the street were considerably aroused
by the reported receipt of a telegram by
the Governor from Kingman stating that
the Cheyenne Indians had broken from
their reservation and were destroying
property and taking life on every hand
in the^ counties of Pratt and Commanche.
Investigation substantiated the rumor
and the associated press dispatches for
the afternoon were proof of the state-
ment that the Indians had broken from
their reservation. Until a late hour it was
a difficult matter to hear or leain any
thins; which would point to an authenti-
cation of the dispatches of the early part
of the evening. Later, however, the
following information was gleaned from
the Governor's office:
[THE GOVERNOR'S TELEGRAPHIC CORBKS-
"'',,lj' . PONDENCE.
At 7 p.m. Gov. Martin received the I
It no
I fallowing from Col. Quigg, of the Santa
ie:
"Day operator at Wichita says that an
outbreak waj reported in the southern
part "of Pratt county to-day. Several
killed and balance of the people driven
off. Stock all driven out. One man
came in to Pratt to'day, says he is the
only one left in his family,balance killed
but operator does not know how many
were killed."
. About the same time the Governor}
received the following dispatch:
'N; KINGMAN, KAS., VIA. WICHITA,
, _ July 7, 0:45 p. m.
Go*. John A. Martin, Tpptka, Mantai:
; People are pouring into the city from
the western part of this county and |
Pratt county seeking safety from a sup-
posed Indian attack. Reliable parties
from Pratt county and Saratoga report
that the people of southern Pratt are all
rushing tojtbe towns, reporting that In-
SiiaiiiiiaisjMj^ij^^^^^^Bg^^^;
mans are Durmng ana ravaging every-
thing, killing people. Many farmers from
Lawndale, twenty-four miles southwest
of here, in Pratt county, have brought
their families to town for safety. They
were warned to fly by rumors from
southern Pratt. The report has just
reached here that Nescatunga is in the
hands of the Indians, who have sur-
rounded Cold water. These reports may
be sensational, but we want to prepare.
Please give us an order for State arms
and amunition at Wichita. We have
men to use them.
(Signed) S. S. BAKER, Sheriff.
WHAT ACTION TI1ET WILL TAKE.
Gov. Martin went to the telegraph
office and sent dispatches to the Com-
manders of the State Guard at Wlnfield(
Wellington, Sterling and Larned to be
ready lor orders at a moment's notice.
He sent the substance of both dispatches
to Gen. Augur, at Fort Leavenworth. He
also sent to Frank GUlett, the Mayor of
Kingman, to Mayor Wright, at Dodge,
to Gen. Timothy McCarthy, at Larnerd,
to Adjutant General A. B.Campbell,at
Larnerd, to Sheriff Fulton, of Garden
City, notifying them all to be in readi-
ness and to Bend out runners to warn
the settlers south of them. The Govern'
or answered Sheriff Baker that arms |
would be,aent at once.'
Col. Quigg and Superintendent Nick-
erson telegraphed to many points on
the Southern road, but received a reply
from Dodge only; that was to the effect
that the Indians had made a raid into
the Panhandle of Texas. The absence
of the operators eoemed to Indicate that
there was no alarm at those places
At 10 p. m. the Governor received a
reply from General Augur that he baa
report from Reno, but will telegraph
there at once.
It is well enough to sny that Governor
Martin telegraphed to General Augur as
early as June 20 to station troops on the
southern line of Comanche, Meade and
Clark counties. Ho also informed the
President and the Secretary of War of
the dancer of a Cheyenne outbreak.-
LATEST DISPATCHES RECEIVED.
The following was received from the
Mayor of Dodge City:
DoDtiuCiTY, July 7.
7& Qnxtrnor John A. Martin.
Dispatch rtceived and forwarded to
Ashland and Hupply. Have sent all our
arms to settlers below. Send US fifty
or one hundred arms and ammunition.
We will get men ami horses. We await
your orders. Answer immediately.
[Signed] B, M. WBIQHT.
 , Aughr teljagrap.
$ 5e Uommauding tienerar 01 this cie
::M-P;m. ^ f p t
. Four troops • of cavalry at Fort' Riley
are under orders for Kiowa. Will send
them as soon as cars dan be had." Will
telegraph for them to-night. Will also
send four troops of cavalry from here
as soon as cars can be had. To what
point '..should troops be , sent?
Remember that It am with-
out information and must ' depend
just now upon you for it. The rumors
© should be verified, as soon as possible
r<> that we may know exactly whit to do.
i
i—<
i : ><>?;'? • ,: ^;;;-Atigfii,JBrig.Gen. ';
., jit will • be seen from the above that
g ever1/ pxertion Is being'used now to pro-
<
on
tec* 'the lives ' and „. property
9f . ^Vour jj . cttisens from
outrage. It is feared however that con-
siderable damage will be done before the',
troops can be brought to the scene of
action. m & ifi#fc*$# M
xaavuDiA
i
so
If the newB of the killing of our citi-
zens in the Western,parj of the State I
proves true, as it seems at this writing,
Gov. kartln can have ,rthe satisfaction of
knowing that he has done his duty.
V") For weeks past tie chas written and tele-
graphed Gen. Augur, Secretary of War,
I and the President? -Gen. Augur poo~|
I pooed at anything he was told about
-<3 them, and said there was, no danger*
We hope ;for the best, but old Ramans
know that a squad of Indians can
£ follow the trail they did In 1869, kUl
five hundred to a thousand men, women
and children, and get' out of the State
00 be 'ore one of them can be captured. If
they are actually in the State, the out*
look for some of our people is simply
90
00
lawful.
•JjftTTKnVltOW MOV, HAIIT1N.
ft STATU, OK KANHAS, EXKCUTIVK DKIMHT- \
V MKXT, Topekn, July «, 1885. )
MKUHUS, D.utuow & WATMWI—
& GENTLEMEN:-'! have received the
petitiob., signed by yourselves- and
other citizens of Comanche county,
requesting that urnis and urn muni-
tion be; furnished ftrt protection u-
uafost the Indians. We huve a very
limited' supply of arms, mid little or
no ammunition, rtnd have received
tippeulsyfroni half « doaen different
sectionsAof South-western Kansas,
similar to, this. But I have referred
your letter to the Adjutant General,
with the request that he give it his
attention, aiKl comply with your re-
quest, if possible.
I am in daily communication with
mriment, who assures ma that he
ias a sufficient force now at Reno, 4-
;h Indian territory, to prevent an
outbreak of the ChbyehhS or other
Indians. He expresses himself en-
tirely confident of his ability to keep
the Indians within the limits of
their reservation. I hnyc given the
matter prompt ruid constant atten-
tion) and huve Called the attention
rjf not only the General Command-
ing this department, but the Secra-
j;ary qf War. to the reported dissat-
isfaction among thn Ihdiaiis. and
the apprehensions entertained by
bur people, that the raid of 1878
might be repeated. 1 also bad the
(Senators from Kansas? who were in
Washington two weeks ago call on 1
the Secratary of War, add the Gen-
eral commanding the Armies and
I
present the facts to them personally.
1 have Jilsd rot nested the General I
Commanding thw dbpurtineut to
Keep trirJ cohstai tly adffoed concent-
iiig the situation in the Indian Tcr-
|'Htory. and in the eveht that be is.
lit any time, doubtful of hiri power
to suppress any Indian outbreak,
that Mj would telegraph me at oiice,
tuid telegraph, also, to the points,
nearest the threatened territory, so
that messengers' might be dispatched s
ut mice to inform the1 settlers: 1*
Vim will see.. Brora these stute-
Ineuts thut I huvcadontfd all possi-
ble precautions for tno protection
Of our borders, and I sincerely trust
ihut they will prove effective. I
Miink,- however; that it would be
well for the counties lying along
the southern borders Of the State.
Including the si'ttlcrs Uf Harbor,
pomanche. Clark, and Meade coun-
ties; to perfect hiilitury organiza-
tion.^ alid arrailgo for a prompt no-
t iliciiiioji, .in I he event of any raid.
I ma sorry thiU 1 have no funds" now ut
hiy disposal for r>«e Inum h ait em'ergeuey
lis the present. For u number of yours
bast the legilliiUlH1 Man rr^itlarly appro.
printed ii fund fyr thw, protection of the
border*. None of It luut been used for
Veara past, and *o the last legislature
ueemed it nnnf'es.sur.v to continue «uch
'in appropriation. Ifi'iicc. I luive no
bioans directly at my disposal which
'.ould lie HeVoted t5 establishing pii-ket*
}>» the Ihffdew, rJir Hiv purpose of watch-
ing the Indians iiild -giving tlmeJ±;uotlee
to the s«drler.s. All'J tU|» wqr^IWUA«
Mono ut all, .will have to Do doTlRfi.by'*B%
bottlers tlicJiiseRc',
 Jidb&jj
K
' m f confidence has bagn greatly
jSried-^tlittt fte Unltel^tate^orc-
,. ejjqal to the task of siippresssiu& any
. Jap Oatbi-enk, and preventing any inva-
ai^QftfuV borders. "'"'" '"
I^SiSfeSlSjfeS Commanding Cfen-
;the departed! of tlie Missouri
btect'fbehord^^^ansas, dnd to keep
flans witmdfheir reservation.
m| Tours, Very respectfully,
kW>v/^ft!' . iTbitNA- HAHTI:X'
^ — — m m
PIUY MORNINO. 55E? 11.1886
fflET gSTORED.
[AN EXdlTEMBNT ENTIRELY]
fjgf^-;; SUBSIDED. _.
_ 3orre«pondeuce Which the Govern-|
ori» in Reoelpt of From Gan. Aug-ur
_ AUve to t i e X jvement of Troo p •
to Where They Will Obtain T h e i r
*"-—'lei.
itant General A. B. Campbell re-
am Dodge City yesterday. He
Drto that the people of the vicinity
y r p c h h e came are.all quiet now
jS-^n'pursue the e v e n t e n o r 0 f their
ame as they did prior to the
trancejof the Cheyenne In-
i the* state a few days ago. He
iat the people of the border
inties of Clark. Comanche and Meade
£«»mW!&" ••*•• :.. . . . . . .
^thoroughly organized that in
. . . Indians were to attempt to enter
Hs't^ey could be driven back with-
J.e,AwUt)j$ce of the soldiers. He
, . . J p to each of the above
p $ u h u e s and a company of fifty
grangers was at once organized
^'several
to each town*and fiftyinmore
company case can
the
j i t y arises. • ed, he believesthe southwestern frontier
ftf-seems that iu Clarke and Meade
ounties the settlers had expected some
^fQppn.ble with the Cheyennes
Bid made preparation for them by
J anizing companies of rangers. As
jpnaa the news of the reported trouble
|;ched th'em the, captains of these va-
companies p^leeded at once to
arms deST
[general.
Gen. Campbell says that while he was I
in Dodge, a man arrived there whoj
live! but two miles from the Indian
Territory line right on the trail the |
Indians would have taken had tbey en-
tereefthe state, to obtain information
relative to the outbreak. He had heard
something of it but came to Dodge to I
learn facts. As soon as the correct state j
of affairs was told him he went home !
perfectly satisfied. This shows almost I
conclusively that no further trouble is j
anticipated by the settlers.
The general received a letter this|
morning from Cimarron, on the line of
the A. T. & 8. F , a few miles from Gar-
den City, asking for arms. As all the1
guns under his control have already
been given out he has, at present, non i
to send them. Bat, as Cimarron is oi
the trail which the Indians might take
if they attemnted «ny of their murder-'
ous work in the State, he will try tr1
supply their wants in this line in a fe\
days.
COL. PROUTY'B STATEMENT.
Col. Prouty, editor of the Dodge City
Cowboy, arrived in the city yesterday.
He states everything is quiet out his
way, and that the excitement of the past
few days no longer exista. Business has |
been resumed, and the settlers are re-
turning to their homes.
The Goversoi'* ()orr«e>pondenee.
General Augur commanding this de-
partment, tends Governor Martin copies
of the following orders, issued to the
commanding officers oi the troops now
In southwestern Kansas. In transmit-
ting these orders, G neral Augur sends
a letter to the governor, a copy of which
is appended.
Governor Martin states the action of
General Augur has been prompt, ener-
getic and effective, and that, with troops
stationed as General Augur has direct-
will be fully protected, and an Indian
invasion will be made impossible.
The orders issued to Lieutenant Colo-
nel Compton and Major G.8. Sanford are
as follows:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT or TUE )
MitmuUKi, [•
FOUT LEAVENWORTH. KANSAS, J
J u i v », 18MA, l2:4o ,,. w .
Lieut. Col. Compton, V. S. A., OmmanUing Troopt
trostficld, Knxuat:
The commanding general directs that
aa soon as possible, after reaching Cross
 you W1J1 put your command __
march due west, until it reaches a point
where the road from Dodge City to Fort
Supply crosses the Cimarron. In that
vicinity you will establish your camp J
and receive your supplies from Dodge J
City. You are authorized to hire a I
guide. Acknowledge receipt and state
when you leave Crossfield, and when
you reach camp, A month's supply of I
sub-istence and grain will meet you at |
i the new camp. *"
Major Sanford's command will be at I
Qroatfleld, and will send scouts toward |
1 vou along the Indian Territory frontier
You should scout east and west along-
<
i
the frontier. ••••»' "i
[Signed.] _ MABTIN, A. A. General.
1 pBABqUABTKES DlWfJOV tHZ MISSOURI, \
FT. LIAVENWOBTH, Kits.', July 0, 1886 , ,
\MiijnrO B, Btmford, Commanding Troopi, KingA
1 •man, Kuntat;, „.*-.-
(J Commanding general directs that as
o" soon as possible after reach 11 g Kingman
j> you put your command in march for
CroBsflela—present terminus of the
Southern Kansas railroad—and estab-
lish your camp in convenient distance of
* that place, to which your supplies will
be sent. Col. Compton's command will
be about fifty miles south of Dodge City,
0,
on the road to Ft Supply, and will send
scouts toward you on Indian Territory
frontier. You should send scouts along
the frontier, east and west. Acknowl-
edge receipt, and rtate when you leave
Kingman, report also when, you reach
Crossfield. (Signed)
MABTIN, A. A. General. ,
The following is the letter from Gen]
2 I Augur to Gov. Martin:
HEADQUARTER DEPARTMENT OK THB)
ENTOF TUB]
| Miss,
* * — J U R I . F O B T LSAVBNWORTU,"
M T U . K A X , , J.
t-»" July 9, 1885. J
I Dtar Governor Varttn:
1 enclose copies ol tolegrams to officers!
oo
oo commanding troops in southern Kansas.
Those new locations will cover all the
ground referred to in your telegram this
.a morning, and lathe beet that can bo done
1 with available troops. All the cavalry
in the department is now in the field.
As I am to be retired from active service
to-morrow, this will probably be my last
official act with yourself in striving to
give confidence to your frontier settlers,
and to guard them against the possibility
of an attack by hostile Indians.
I still believe there need be no out-
I power to put an end to it by refusing to
break, and that with judicious manage-
I ment there will be none.
With great respect, very truly yours,
[Sign ed. ] C. C. A va UH,
Brigadier General Commanding.
m boys to offer them in common with other
COURT AJU
"PROTECTING T B S BORDER.
( -h;
Ample Protection to be Given Uie South-
west from any Indian Outrage* that may
In response to a letter written by
Governor Martin to General Angar, con-
cerning the exposed condition/ of our
southwestern frontier, and urging that a
force of cavalry be stationed on bar bord-
ers, General Augur, under data' ;of July
8th, writes: ^-;'
"Nothing has been received' From Fort
•'•''
Reno that in any way change my views
as expressed by me in previous letters,
as to the apprehended outbreak of the
Cbeyennes. In my judgment, there will
be no such outbreak. " m .,
I know very well, however, that this
opinion is not going to relieve from anx-
iety those settlers on the frontier whose
families are directly exposed Id, CAM of
hostilities on the part of the Indians,
To give confidence to these settlers on
the borders of the Indian Territory, a
camp of four troops of cavalry will be es-
tablished as soon as oosslble in the vicin-
ity of Kiowa, whereby frequent scouting
towards Fort Rano, information can be
obtained in time to afford protection
against any threatened invasion.
I feel satisfied there will be no serious
trouble. The commissfoner if now with
the Indians, and I believe a satisfactory
solution of the trouble will result.' -
JUSTICE TO KANSAS DAILIES,
r
Governor Martin Writs* a Vary Commend-
able Letter to" the Board of Railroad
i CommUelooerj. •' ;;
The governor yesterday addressed the I
following letter to the Board of Railroad j
Commissioners:
7b the Honorable Board of Railroad Commit*
iloneri: • jt, • .-• i
I respectfully direct your attention to
the article subjoined, taken from thej
Topeka COMMONWEALTH and Leaven-
worth Timet.
I do not know that you can do any-
thing to remedy the outrage complained
of, but it is an outrage and ought to be
prevented by some means. The railway
companier, in my judgment, have ampk
permit the News companies access to
their trains unless they afford all Kanai
daily newspapers a fair and equal ohanc
for eaie by furnishing such newspaper
to train boys, and compelling said train
nawspapers published in other States.
I suggest that you call the attention of]
the managing officers of the Atchison,]
Topeka & Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and
its Kansas branches, and the Kansas Pa-
cific to this outrageous discrimination
against Kansas journals within the lim-
its of Kansas and on Kansas roads.
JoHxaffllumM,
'Governor.
 pernor Martin'* Communication,
< Jttly. : 9.—[Special.] The (Indian
i kfftmt brer. The flow of telegrama bat
$ ;«nd little more hat come from'Qle
r • 'co'kntWa that can be doemed reliable,
aorr pf^the burning of' a towu In the
^Mft'oif Comanche county reaches here
>• Larue d,' but with tho, rumor' came
'it could not be traced to any reliable
ae thing bat been tttltftctorily
ed during the pitt,two weeks, and
'tUy during the two days last past—
^artfn'haa be;n determined to ate nc
*^iiure» to protect our people oa ibii
"« hat also secured the aid of tb<
rernmetrt, and troops enough' ha v<
I along/the border to counteract anv
Borne" or "bad medicine" that IS)
l or tny other tribe of Indians may
ijfolr itanual dances. Without
"to , lpqu'ire what may hate
^ t r e a t m e n t ' , of these Indiana
"ed StAes goyernmaut, the governor
'de'teriblned: to administer "good
.thev crossed our borders. He doet
h{k,t Kansas oltlaens should suffer
pperty for, the wrong doings, or
"1 doings, ot ,fho Unlied states
ding Inquiry he determined to
era! government with-a number
I cpndltion either to preserve or
crematories that need encour-
^5«^,y.,^».<, ~-r',*\,:]i';.y v& '•
in by Governor Martin to pro-
lan euro the Indian disease will bo
r those settlors who, In tbelr
TA.l»ame.and. property. With the
years ago In remembrance, the
• Nj wopdered at- There are Io-
e Clmmaron river, where tbey
,be. ' Having been seen tbero by
apectors,It It not wonderful that
l> traveled north, and that a'
,vs» who had canse to follow
tlncta were credited with the
pillage that all expected,
e country, the rumors of. Indians
Hjnlfled into murdering hordes,
«rebecamo burning towns. ' ?'-.•
ugh arousing of the eptire country
—){movement of troopa wfQ bajyu a
10 demonstrates the fact thai po
ds, at left a desolate path though
'ever again occur. Iialso demon.
P ? ""i""""""••»-,
i thing—that if contractors desire'
ndlana for future gain, thoy mutt
I$ & ? • ??f?P_ J l,
md tho limits of our present
b Bl ,ttrt
•paction 1through Comanche, Clark,
« to- d »tPn a
/Seward counties, and will report,
i»S 9; fi mo r, to 'oe governor, jfnecea.'
B5Bg2?. tt "» written this afternoon
Bor/Mirtln to t h o ' J w B w f S l S
\$r<»<*ueetloo
To
thoroughly: - "41
**TSu b * " A . Kit., July 9, 1885.
fS'*£!?J *°rtr-«'fc"bt honrt paat a dozen
to|outhwe.ternTUn*at have boon in a
Wdexcttemont and panic. Oftousanda of
lt»**ab»ndoned their hoinW their crow
to town
WSASSi
J^heLsunpoaedftf ' F 'bto're*ircoold
danger had * proUctlo^J
& ! ^ T ^ i b e t t M , l n n ? * ^ « "B»tf* ore-
^ ' ' ^ • i m m l n e n t danger.of such a
EsnhTl^nde r eoar
kabw
? P K discontent-
s5& * H , , southweatarn bordort
and dtrfenaeless. Mare than two |
norablo
socretary of war to this situation of affairs, and on
tbo 96th of June laat, I earnestly requosted tho
general commanding thla department to station a
cavalry force on the southern border ot Kanaaa,
between llarber and Meade counties, In order to
prevent an Indian Invasion and give oaauranco of
protection to our peaceful clllzone.
It the national gomrnmont locato* In the Indian
territory largo numbere of savage, dlacontonted
and dangerous Indiana, It I* Its plain duty to pry
vide ao ample force to restrain them within tbo
boundarleaot that territory, and on their reserva-
tion. The etaio ot Kansas cannot afford to main-
tain a atandlng army on Ita aouthern border, and
ought not to bo'compelled to maintain such an
army, in order to protect Ita bordera from Invasion
by Indiana, and to give assurances of safety and
protection to Its citizens. This Is a duty which tbo
general government, not the state, should dis-
charge.
8o long as the Cheyennea, or other turbulont and
dangerous tribes are In tbo Indian territory, so long
will the bordera of Kanaaa bo menaced by such
dangers and disasters, such suffering and losses
u Uuve rosultod during tho paat forty-eight houra.
It la tho plain duty of the national government,
It seems to me, to atntlon a permanent and adequate
military force on the southwestern borders ot Kan.
eae. Posts should bo located and maintained at con-
venient points from the west Duo of Burbar to
Seward county. And these posts should bo con-
nected with oach othor, by plckote or vldetu out-
posts, at to guard all that aectlon ot Kansas. Tbt
troops stationed at Keno and Supply afford llttlo or
no pmteetion to the bordera ot Kanaaa. The In-
dians barn only to move westward a few miles, on
tbelr reservation, and tbey aro out ot rear.b of tbe
troops, with tbe bordera of Kansas exposed and de-
fenseless, within easv alriklne distance.
Calling your attention to this condition ot affairs,
I request that prompt and adequate meaauroe bo
adopted for the orotectlon of tho borders of tbls
stste against any possible Invasion by tbe Indians
ot tbe territory. In the name ot the people of Kan-
sas, I enter a oroteat agalnat a further continuance
of the policy, civil or military, which hat twice bo-
fore permitted the Indians to Invade our borders
with Are and sword, and which, during tbe past
forty-sight hours, baa sent thousands of people—
men, women and children—floelng In terror from
their peaceful homes. i
It may be that thla panle Is without reason. It
may bo that no Indiana have croased tho line,, B
Is, however, certainly true that more thai 100
Cheyenuee—the worst of their tribe—have escaped
from their reservation, and gone, ao the command-
ing officer at Iteno believes, to tho hoad of tbo Cim-
arron. Out whether tbla panic Is bnseloss or not,
whether tbe Indlsns bavo Invadsd Kanaaa or not,
so long aa tbey are where they are, and what they
are, ao loan will Kansas be menaced and apprehen-
sive, and ao long will the alliens ot our south-
western counties ho liable to such panlca, with
their resulting demoralisation, loases and suffer-
lag-
The commanding gsnersl of this department has
lust ordered eight companies of cavalry to our
Southwestern border. This force. If stationed aa I
havo Indicated, and permanently maintained, will
be ample to grve the cltlxena of the exposed country
assurances of protection. And I sincerely hope
that permanent military posts will be osiaollstaod
along the border, at tho polnta I have mentlonod,
ao that tho people of tbls stste may, In tho future,
be permitted to pursuo thoir peaceful avocations
with tbo conBdent assurance that thero la no
dancer, no possibility ot an Invasion by tbo Indians
of tbe territory.,
I have thuhonor to be, with vary great respect,
your obedient servant, J o n * £ MA««,,*..
Governorot Kansas,
"H& i„ri

MARTIN TO LAJfi
Tbe Governor In a Letter to the Secretary
of the Interior Objeota to the Transfer
of the Apaebee From Arizona to "Mo
Man's Lund."
Governor Martin addressed the follow-
ing letter to Secretary Lamar yesterday:
STATE or KANSAS,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
TOPKKA, July 11,1885 4
2b the Son. 1. Q 0. Lamar, Secretary ojthe
5. Interior'
J
WoiMngUm. V. C;
SIK—In the Associated Press dis-
patches from Washington, published this
morning, I find the following:
Washington. JulylO.-Q. Gordon Adams, and
several other rtsldents of Arizona, havo had in-
terviews with tbe secretary ot tbe interior in ref-
erence to itar proposed transfer of tbe Apaohesou
the S*u Carli s reserration to ine IQIUAU Territo-
ry. Tbe secretary examined tbe legal status of
the Indians, and found tbut tbe act of Kcbruary I
17.1879 lorbld tbe trauifir of ibe Apaores, or any
other Indians In Arizona or New MrS'oa, to tbe
Indian Territory until congrea* should have leg-
islated further upon the auojiot. . dering and destroying ail in their path-
"I'he Arizona delegation wa» somewhat oon-
fouedtd wbt-n trtt-lr attention wasoalled to tble
aot, theexisienceof wblcb was unknown to ibom.
It was •unrated to ibein ihat the Apache* might,
without violating the statute, be transferred to
"No Man • Laud, wr»tor tbe Indian Tcrrltory.or
to Oreeoeouuty, tvxas, a tract olaimtd by both
Texas snd tbe Indian Territory In tbe event that
it shovld be founa to belong to Texai. Trie sug-
gestion was accepted ty tbe g n lemen, and
toey will make a urong eiTirt to secure the prusl-
dent's consent to the pian."
I am, of course, unable to determine
whether this dispatch embodies an ac-
curate statement of what transpired at
the conference had with the honorable
secretary of the interior by the delega-
tion from Arizona. But I nave the right
to assume that such a dispatch has some
foundation, and I enter my earnest pro-
Test against the propoatd transfer of the
Apache Indians to "No Man's Land."
Such a transfer would, in my judgment,
be a grosser violation of the spirit, if not
of the letter, of the act of congress of
February 17th, 1879, than would the
transfer of these turbulent and savage
Indians to the heart of the Indian Ter-
ritory.
The intent and purpose of congress, as
I am informed by gentlemen who were
members of that body when the act in
question was passed, was to prevent the
transfer of the wild and lawless tribes of
New Mexico and Arizona, and especially
of these savage Apaches, to a region con-
tiguous to tbe peaceful homes of the peo
pie of Kansas, Colorado and Texas. Yet
the transfer of tbe Apaches to "No Man's
. Land" would locate them in much closer
proximity fo the settled portions of the
states mentioned than would their trans-
fer to the heart of the Indian Terri-
tory.
The honorable secretary of the interior
must be aware that "No Man's Lund"
has always been considered by the public
and corgress as a part of the Indian
Territory. Certainly congress, in en-
acting the law of February 17ih, 1879,
must have so regarded it. For the pur-
pose of thelaw-makinx authority.it isvery
ioroid tne transfer of tfie
savage tribes of Arizona and Now Mex-
ico to a closer proximity with the peace-
ful people of Kansas, Texas and Colora-
do, whose representatives suggested and
secured the passage of the law referred
to. v •
I sincerely hope that the suggestion
said to have been made, that the Apa-
ches be transferred to "No Man's Land,"
will not be accepted by tbe authorities
of the United States. I protest against
its acceptance as an evasion and viola-
tion of the clear purpose and spirit of
the law of February 17th, 1879. I protest
against the proposed transfer of the, Ap-
aches as menacing tbe peace and secu-
rity of the citizens of Kansas. I protest
against the location of these lawless and
bloodthirsty Indians in a region Imme-
diately contiguous to the homes of
thousands of peaceful citizens-of the
United States; in a region from whence,
at any moment, they could invade the
borders of three states of the union, mur-
way.
I have no doubt that the authorities
and people of Colorado and' Texas will
regard this proposed transfer as
I do, and that they will protest
against it as earnestly and
emphatically as do tbe authorities and
people of Kansas. But in any event, II
desire to enter my emphatic protestI
against a proposition so menacing to tbe I
peace and security of the people of this
state. lam, very respectfully,
JOUN A. MABTIN,
Governor of Kansas.
*P&c €kj#t*tj
rrt$?
J, Z* HUDSON, i^tor and Proprietor.
T#?*r
TUKflDAV MOBNTNO, i
General Phil SheriSnToom^naT
chief of the armies, accompanied, by,
[brother, Colonel Mike Sheridan, and if
eral Miles and Colonel Corbin, a r m / '
this city last night otfthe midnight'
General Sheridan is gent to the scerie of
the anticipated Indian troubles by order
of the president for ; the purpose
adopting some means to quiet the
skins. They left Chicago , on Sunday,
reaching Kansas City yesterday slier-
noon. The party started from Chicago in'
a Chicago, Burlington Sc Quinoy'
which they retain until they
well, Kan., which is the end of
ney by rail. At'-,- Caldwell
8heridan and the" others J pi ""the
party will take fast stages to Fort
Reno. At Caldwell the uartv will be
 or Martin yesterday received the
ifbllovring oommunication .from the de-
partment of the interior:
J". - , MO»»ICBS OF INDIAN" AriraiBa, )
city he r ,j V^WASBINQTON, July 22,1885.]
,H6n. 'SmniJ.< 3Tartint Governor of Kan-
-ierid 1
> aas^Toptkdy fCamas. *•(&'".
"Shim1 v
- 'BXfSWBmSi^k' receipt of your
letter of the-'-lith inst., ' received in this
office By department reference, in which
'you t>rote*V' against the settlement of
-j^xa 'Aptwhas la. the Indian territory, I have
the honor to say, that under the provisions
of the act approved February 17th, 1879,
(20 statue at large page ''SIS) the removal
of said Indians to. the Indian territory is
' rohibited unless the tame shall be hereof-
authorixed'by acV'of congreMi. and I
.1 assured'that there is1 no effort or in ten-
on on the part of any bureau, or depart-
ment of the government to • violate either
e language or spirit and intent of said
j K Very reapwtfullS .• -^W> .; .;,
',?<?.. './. U. U. ATKINS;, Comralssioner.

5^yS
M^THB PEONT
&»E9giiS
BfRstsrfltutlsssr*TK
HHT-JK

jjfyta fc.lowiS'S
[^QeiWtok to**!*"*
* Qfrernar Martin morning:

^'&<jF**
si,
I.have received your
and 20th. They have
IBS
ofJi)y,l«th
wo mea-i General Miles, who tti_. M«r«d:>
faltffft aa.'W m here tor
Fort Supply to-morrow morning, and' wUl
make an examination of the country and
ints jou mention as military stations,
tOTent^ TXi'v^Wht B lere need be no fear on the pari of .'the
settlers of southwestern Kansas - from
luties. Ha
1CMQ» V3f hostilities from the \ Oheyeane and
Arapahoe Indians. 1 have rfbne down
<fi$«?T'••*?* to the bottom of affairs hpre, Tabd know
ling the a that the irritation was the rendf
i active a* <•0**>J eontrol and , oppressive '"'$
I hope for a correction ecthVievils, and
kflx confident when I lean ' V,the p*o-
pie of Kansas may gather i >p*aad
jdoep peacefully at night. '•
is'an officer of good judgraeatwbo will do
all that is necessary to restore confidence
from a panic so paralyiirigln its effects as
ttu one has been to the industries of year
.itftte. •;•, P. U,'&uamAX,' '.••'»••
m>V.'J:V: •[ . •. lieutenant General,-
v?he jpress dispatched
t u t the interior deparlm'
oy.er to General SheriSah'j
I troVof the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reter-
I j i V - ' " -* -HI t • I ^..^asMl
 ___:""' '•'''''•.jiv
THE SOUTHERN CATTLE^ I T
TOPBKA, KAS., July 29-l8pecl«l.J .'At'.'this I
time there Is much interest manifested
in the movements of cattle in the |
Indian territory, caused by the order*
from Washington, which means the prac
tlcal destruction of the cattle trade, or at least
the business of many men now engaged in that
trade. Desiring to get an expression from men
who bad. inado this question a study, your cor-
respondent called on Governor John A. Martin,
who consented to pa Interviewed wben hi* at-.
tentlon was called to the deep Interest mani-
fested, not only in Kansas City, but in the en-
Ire Weat and South. The first point was the
eases, and the question was asked:
"What do you think of the order concerning
tto cattle leases In the Indian territory 1"
"I regard It u arbitrary and unjust The
United States government has insisted on pre-
serving the territory at a home for the Indians,
and has treated it, In all Its laws and In Its
dealings with them, as tbclr property. The
Indians leased the grass, on. certain lands, to
the cattlemen. Whether the cattlemen made a
good or * poor bargain with the
Indiana, " I do not • know, but
It Is certain tbat for the first tlmo In their lives
the Indians received something for the grass on
their lands. And for the first time, also, the
vegotatlon of the Indian territory .has' been of
usp to the human race. For centuries It has
.aimply gone to waste, blooming and blossom-
ing in rank luxuriance, but of no valuo to and
used by no human being on the faco of too
earth. The government say*, in effect, that it
shall continue to bo so wasted, and
to bo used for the benefit of no-
body. The Indians don't use It—the
government says the white* shall not use it.
Thus the Indians are deprived of tbn reserve
they received, and «tbo cattlemen, who have
been acting under what tuoyi supposed to bo
legal leases, for which they have paid the stipu-
lated price, are seriously damsged, If not
ruined."
"But hns there not been considerable opposi-
tion to the occupancy of the Indian lands by the
cattlemen I" -i*.-!
"In some quarters, yes. But it was a thought-
lets opposition, or crew out of a 'dog-ln-the-
manger* spirit, which Influences many men.
People ssw the cattlemen there; tbey thought
they had what ia called a 'good thing;' and so
those outside, who couldn't get insido, growled
and declaimed. Yet, the occupancy of thoso
lands for grazing purposes, Injured nobody.
Tho Indians were benefited In the money tbey
received; tbo cattlemen wero benefited In secur-
ing pasturago for their herds: and the people,
generally, were benefited, because the occu-
pancy of theie lands aided In tbo work of supply-
ing beef for public consumption. A disputed
from Dallas, printed In the Kansas City JOUHNAL
the other day, stated that Texas cattle bad ad-
vanced fully'J5 per cent since the president's
order was issued. Is au lnoroasod prlco for
beef of public benefltl"
"Do you anticipate any trouble from tho at-
tempts of tbo Texas cattlemen to drive their
cattle Into or through Kansas!"
"I hopo nono will occur. Our laws nro ex-
e licit and I havo directed tho lrlvos stock sani-
iry commission to soo tbat tbey arc rigidly en-
forced. Kansas shall not bo desolated by the
Texas fever If I can prevent it. Tho presence
of a Text* steer from south of tho thirty-
seventh parallel, In any section of Kansas
means tho destruction of evory head of native
cattlo In tbat section. Texas fever Is far moro
dangerous to the cattle of Kansas than is pleuro-
pneumonia. Texas cattle poison tbo grass, tho
water, the earth, wherovcr they go, and Kan-
sas cattle, grazing on the grass,
drinking the water or moving over the high-
ways where Texas cattlo have been, are doomed
to certain destruction. Texas csttle have no
legal right in Kansas; their presence Is fatal to
the stock of our own people, and It is our plain
duty to protect our stock Interests sgalnst such,
losses as the Texas cattle spread lu their trail.
Do you think the sheriffs aud other ofllcec
In the Southwest can and will enforce the;
,tfr
law?" u ' i
"I have no doubt of i t They will have tho
whole population of their counties to eustalu
them, for every Kansas man realizes the neces-
sity o£excluding Texas cattle." • -..,. .„•.
^ j ^ •^™*»«SMsssssMasssssMs^i***^***fa***^*»*1
MARTIN TO CLEVELAND.
| The Letter Wnloh the Governor Addressed
to tne Pretldeut a> Few Day* Ago With
B«f«renoe to tha Indian Trouble *.
The following is the letter which
| President Cleveland referred to in hia
reply to the representatives of the cattle
owners, who appeared before him on
Tuesday, and which he stated came
I from the governor of Kansas:
TOPEKA, KAS., July 31,1886.
D> the Presfctmf ,'
I deem it my duty to call your attea-
I tlon to the condition of affairs in the In-
dian Territory. You are aware tbat tbe
Territory lies directly south of Kansas,
and that, in the event of an outbreak
among the Indians, this state would be
exposed to the dangers of an invasion
I by them.
Two military posts have been estab-
I llsbed on our southwestern border, one
near Kiowa, Barber county, and one at
Deep Hole, Clark county, and Generals
Sheridan and Miles have assured me
that they will be maintained until all
danger is over. I have earnestly re-
quested General Sheridan to estab-
lish another post on the Cimarron
near the 100th meridian, and hope that
I my request will be compiled with. I
will not feel assured that the borders of
| this state are adequately protected unless
! these three military posts are estab-
| lished and maintained until the troubles
In the Indian Territory are finally set-
I tied. ^
I write for two reasons: Fir$t, I want
| to say to you, as the chief executive of
I the nation, that I am not at all assured
that all danger of an Indian outbreak is
| over; and, Second, To appeal to you to
maintain the military posts already es-
[ tablished on the south-western border of
Kansas, and to see that another post is
established about fifty miles west of that
at Deep Hole.
I am not assured that our borders are
I secure, because the IndlanB are armed
I with the Implements of war, and because
II do not believe the causes of irritation
among them have been removed. By a
new enrollment of Indifcnv, recently
1
made, their rations will be^Krgely cut
down, and by tbe expulalo^Hwlhe cat-

reduced. .Those of the Indians
e irritated by the presence of
IvUIifora brief time, remain
•"but on the other hand, th$
ho favored the cattle leases
v be irritated, and in a brief time
|B51e body of them begin to feel
ta of their reduced rations and
aia1»;;thiB'irritation will spread
Sdfnterest, either 'directly or
- in the cattle leases, and in
• pn, MK president, I beg to
Jte protection for the peo-
western Kansas, and to urge
ion of such precautionary
twill'insure the borders of
gainst aay' possibility of an
i or invasion^.' •••' '&&*&&*£
*h outbreak among the In*
likely to' occur, 'the Jm-
'niaintaing ah adequate
Palong the southwestern
tas should be apparent.
J IndUtris are where they
;''they are, and the borders
if--exposed to invasion by
la "likely to occur at any
.Jlting In.'-"wide-spread de-
L and pecuniary loss.
i of 'peaceful settlers have,
"ftlyemonths been flocking
glands in the southwest-
(. These citizens go
ads in compliance with
He ' United •'States. And
uk you wilt acknowledge,
not only to' absolute pro-
pdlan raids and outrages
.ection as will give them
J'prevent any panio or
them.' This assurance and
'hot be established un-
sts are maintained along
.„-n border of Kansas,
a similar representations to
Qthorities, and I do not
derstood as expressing any
'hcVih their disposition or
pish the safe guards I re-
d e e m it.my duty as the
,ye of Kanaas to present the
as" the chief executive of the
lO'.qix may- cleargr under-
^ubn; and "may, if neces-
our authority.. The general
Ocate'd the' Indians • in the
is its duty to we that they
^In; the borders of that terri.
nitI the , peiiceful citizens of
*is are protected, not only
"''.'but against alarm and
_J that, In my judgment,
abuld be disarmed. There
reason why these savage
light in rapine and mur-
tgjprmed as if they consti-
I'-force in time of actual
i do not need arms for
!fo*
.,~ir~fhey use them at all,
[only for unlawful and criminal purposes,
either to wage war against one another,
or to assail, plunder or murder peaceful
citizens. An Indian, with a gun in his
I hand is a standing menace to every
[citizen in his vicinityV.f' If the govern-
Iment desires to make him a self-sustain-
ling citizen, it should disarm him. So
I long as he is permitted to carry a gun.
I he will never take hold of the plow.
I have the honor to be, your obedient
(servant, JOHN A. MARTIN,
Governor of Kansas.
" A P T T I " ifappa „...
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JWB0NK3DATkoRMUf^OOXJaT 5 UsT
•BtttltaMMaMM •*•
OOMOBBXIMOINDIAN CLAIMS.
OorraipSfifonM B«tw««n th» Oommlulon.
•r of Indian Aflfclriand lb* SUU Ag«n t.
The following correspondence, con-
cerning the claims of citizens of Kansas
for losses occasioned by Indian inva-
sions, explains itself, and will be of in-
terest to many of the people of this state.
It will be seen that under date of July I
18,1886, Gov. Martin addressed a letter
to Hon. S. J. Crawford, the state agent
at Washington, calling attention to
these claims, and asking him to ascer-
tain what steps had been taken to becur*
their adjustment and payment. Tbe|
governor's lotter was referred to the
commissioner of Indian affilrs, who,
under date of August 20, 1885, replies.
The letter of the commissioner and that |
of ex Governor Crawford furnish Infor-
mation to claimants as to the steps]
necessary to secure the adjustment and
payment of their claims. The corres-
pondence is, therefore, of public Interest I
and is furnished for publication. The
letters are as follows:
. . BTATB or KANPAS,
BUCUTIVK DKI'ARTMKNT,
TOFKKAJUIV 18,1885. * )
Bon. 8 J. Craiiford. Tbptka. A'unw»:
DBAR ir'in: Under chapter 112, sessionl
laws of 1870. a commission was appoint-
ed to iirestltfate certain losses subtained
by citizens of Kansas, by reason of an |
invasion of the Cheyennes in 1878. Th is
commission made its report under the |
law, and the claims allowed and audited
by It were transmitted to the proper au-
thorities in Washington.
Recently I have received several let-
ters making inquiries concerning these I
claims, but have been unable to inform
the persons making such inquiries what
rogress had been made towards an ad-
 ment and p g j i
the general government. Will you
please inform m e what steps have been I
taken, in this matter, towards securing
an allowance of these claims, and what
prospect there is of their ultimate pay- J
ment. Yours Very Respectfully,
SJfflU JOHN A . MARTIN.
To this letter Gov. Crawford replied as |
follows:
WASHINGTON*, ;!>. 0 . , August 21, 1886.
Bon, John A. Martin, Tcptka^Kanicu: •••<|
DBAB SIB: Your letter of the 1 S.th ul -
timo was received in due time, and re-,
ferred tojhe commissioner of Indian af-
fairs, whose reply I herewith enclose.
As will be observed from the commis-
sioner's letter, congress, at its last ses-
sion, passed an act providing for an in*
vestigatlon of Indian depredation claims, j
and directing the secretary of the inter-
ior to cause a list of the same, "which
J may be approved," etc., to be mado and
6
(>resented to congress. This will doubt*
f ess be followed at the proper time by
an appropriation for the payment of such j
> as may be approved by the secretary and j
oo" commissioner. . ' ' .<
o
Many of the claims on file were doubt-
lees established to the satisfaction of the
state board, but whether the evidence j
submitted there will be sufficient to sat-
isfy United States authorities is a matter
vi of some doubt. The probabilities are
that unless further proof is submitted, J
I l^meoflbe claims, wm.be reduced in
amount, and others, disallowed entirely. |
i It Is therefore important that all claim-
ants should put themselves in communi-
cation with the commissioner or some
I attorney here, who will attend to the
matter for them. Truly yours,
a. J. CRAWFORD.
The reply of the commissioner ol In-
dian Affairs above referred to is ai fol-1
lows:
DEPARTMENT or TUB INTERIOR,
' OFFICE or INDIAN AFFAIRS "•I
oo
oo WASHINGTON, August 20th, 1885
Bon, S.S. Crawford, Washington, D. C '
"7
SIR,* I am In receipt of your reference
of a letter dated the 18th ultimo, from
Governor Martin, of Kansas, making in-
quiries regarding claims of citizens of
said state, on .account of depredations
alleged to have .been committed by hos-
tile Indians, and in reply thereto,! hare
to inform you that 450 claims on account
of depredations by Kiowa, Comanche,
Cheyenne, and other Indian?, committed
upon .citizens of Kansas between the
ears 1860 and 1871, which were exam-
Eled and reported upon by a commission
authorized By an act of the legislature of
Kansas; approved February 27th, 1872,
were transmitted to the honorable sec-
retary of the interior under date of
March 4?h, 1874, by Hon. D. W. Wilder,
state auditor of Kansas, said claims ag-
gregating the sum of 428,021 and 20 100
dollars. At the request of Hon. J. M.
Bright, cLHr*. of the committee of
aim .
claims were transmitted to congress
IJanuary 21, 1876, without any action
taken by this office. . ,^ ? fc/"j
Under senate joint resolution No. 1 o
the laws of 1879, (State of Kansas), a
commission was appointed by the,gov?,
ernor to examine and audit claims for
losses sustained by citizens of Kansas by
reason ol the invasions of Indiana dar-
ing the year 1878, said commission re-
ported upon 116 claims recommending
in allowance of 101,766 and 80-100 dol-
lars, jihd disallowed twenty-six Jtfaims
/'for want of evidence or Decause -not
.provided for by the act creating the com-
mission," aggregating the sum of 15,488
dollars. A number of those allowed
have been examined and reported to
congress recommending allqwanoea
which have been made and paid to
claimants.. 7f$iU\i
In the act making appropriations lor
the current and contingent expenses of
the Indian department, eta, for the year
ending June 30th, 1886, $10,000 was ap-
propriated "for the investigation qf.un-
certain Indian depredation claims; and
in expending said sum the secretary of
the interior shall cause a com pie ti 31*1
of all claims heretofore filed in $e7ta-
terior department, and which have been
approved in whole or in part and, n°w
remain unpaid, and also all such,,claims
as are pending and not yet examined.
on behalf of the citizens of the United
States, on account of depredations com-
mitted, chargeable against any trib* of
Indians by reason of any treaty between
auoh tribe and.the United States, includ-
ing the name and address of the claim-
ants, the date ot the alleged depreda-
tions, by what tribe committed, the date
of examination and approval, with a,
reference to the date and clause of
the treaty creating the obligation fox,
payment, to be made and presented to
congress at its next regular session;; and
the secretary is authorized and empow*
•red, before making such report, to cause
uch additional investigation to be made'
and such farther testimony to be taken
as be may deem necessary to enable him
to determine the kind and value of all
property darr aged or destroyed by reason
of the depredations aforesaid, and by
what tribe such depredations were oon*
mitted; and his report ahall include hit
determination upon each claim, together
with the names and residences of wit-
nesses, and the testimony of each, and
also what funds are now existing or to
be derived by reason of treaty or other
obligation out of which the same should
be paid." ; *,
All claims heretofore reported to'con-
gress and not acted upon by that body
nave b*>en returned to this office for re-
examination in accordance with said law.
A cursory examination of a number of
the 450 claims referred to baa been made,
and it is found that the declarations in a
majority of the claims are, not prepared

i witn the rules ana regu._^
gji'of the department, approved Jdljr
18,1872, (copy herewith) nor is the evi-
dence in support thereof in accordance'
therewith, i f caimants will place them-
selves in communication with this office
instructions will be furnished to enable
them to' prepare their claims in accord-
ance with said rules, in order that they
may be acted upon without unnecessary
delay..,,.''^if. "'•'*/, * •" ' • •' •'*
The. governor's letter is herewith re-
turn e d ^ * * - * ^ , ; ; ';$£
Very respectfully, - -»%
a>:^^^-v,|AvB.UPSHj4W,A
Vfl&y&r'-.
•P- •'. .Acting Commissioner.
\ V ; H . MuiKiAX. I&litoruud Proprietor.
THURSDAY, SEL»T. 3, 1885,
OOTOINOB'S ADDIIIS8.
w$aVtht Hair; Kr<iun<1w yestnr-
day^oo luorinK tho tlimiuiutt Ing weather,
ifclV upto t1<o expectation of the
wnsot icnt, and our people listened to
msna r Marti n't* address with Intorwd
r^^jure. It was not an ollbrt to
draw out enthusiasm, but waa Intended
ruthor to Instruct thau amuse, and we
feci BHfo In the assertion tnut the Govero-
or gave lis thought* that will In time
Kormlnatei and bring forth good fruit lit
the near future. At Knout tho hour men*
tionod In the program, tho large audience
was called to order by I'rof.T. M. l'ottvr.
President of the association, wbo briefly
Introduced tho speaker.
'" Boverttrtr Martin o|touod his remarks
In hi* usual modest way, by. Stating that
be hud never boeii a former, not oven In!
theory, hut like many another tnhtihltar.'
of cities, bad a dream or doalro lor tin
quiet and repose of a country homo.
Still ho could make KOIUO suggestion
from observation. And ho At snimi
length dwelt upon tho pecuniary value o
homo adornment)*, by their Indirect:
stimulus upon tho occupants. Ho plead
with tho farmer to make lilt* Kansas home
pleasant, by planting troes, Mowers, etc.,
nud pictured the Hqualor of HOIIIO IIOIUOM
WIIOMM owners wore uinplv able to liavn
better surrounding*. All could have
trees for HIIK'IO, and gra*a. tlowerH and
nnro air, Hnlrt the sneaker "<)f what
benefit IH money ls>lt dooa not purchase
some of tho comforts of lifer Of what
value are expanding aertjs and luxuriant
crops if they (hi not bring In their train
tho dollghti* of a plnisaut Mid choerful
homo?" 'V r • i.'. •
He thou M|M)lco of the necessity of a
good hurn —a I'entiHylvnuia barn—a dou-
ble-decker, where tho fttoott of a quarter
Hcctlou could live Itetow, and Iho produce
of tin* farm he stored above; together
with UK implement*—alluding IneTdent-
all.v to the frightful waste of exposed
iniichinery and Implement
next touclietl trpon -road making,
and favored a law putting this matter un-
der competent supervision, wttb moans
enough to execute. The coat of frequent
trips whon ouo would answer; tho wear
and tear, ote., woro touched upon and
fully appreciated by ovary man who ev-
er hauled a load up u hill or through a
mud hole.
Aftor thus particularizing under tho
headings of tlio pecuniary valuo of homo
adornments, the exposure of farm imple-
ments, the iniportaiice of barns and the
Improvement of roads, bo gbmeod over
the .Stale and spoke of its past, present
and future. Hut one-fourth of tho State
Is In cultivation. The governor ue.xt
gave us sonic statistic* of IMS.'*, as follows:
Assessed valuo, $248,8iW,:J<W— increaso on
IKH4, Sll.NOH.fiO.".; the valuo of real estate
increase represents nearly six millions
of this sum. Tho railroad proporty Is
valued at fclfl,iVi7,820, an increaso of
OI.OH.IIlst, and wn have 4,180 miles of
completed railway. All tills was tho
growth of the past thirty years.
After showing tho udvauce westward of "a
the rain lino from the liluo river, thirty
years ago, to tho foot bills now, be stated
Unit the rain holt kept pure with the
plow and tho settlements and closed by 00
npoMtroidilKltig thai Htuto uud Its vast 00
capnbllitlo'*. .,•'•*
The address, thus faintly outlined, was 00
marked throughout ,by ,y#vornor Mar- 00
tin's plain common souse nud good tiisto.
It was a practical address/ to practical
people, by a praetfoal thiiiv'aml ovbryono
i
was ploaso I, lulorcstod and Instructed. *r
a.
H
s
•TODAY MOaNINU SEPTXMBEU tl, 1M8
. JLTCUISON is happy over the location
I -<sf the orphan asylum at that city, It is
•••ported that the governor told a mem*
1
bar of the board, whom he asked to vote
o
>fjtr Atchison, on being told that It might 00
fluurt his future political prospects,said,
£
""£ would rather'get the asylum than to
feegovernor a second term." The Cham' p
jsSm tries to give Khron the crexllt for
tbm location, but it does the governor an
•ajastice in so doing It was bis little
hafichet that did It, and he should have G
«tt the credit for it.
ft
VO

^HE TATTOO.
JheLast Day of the. Great Beunion of
Kansas Veterans,
•A TfiBMENDOtIS OHOWD TUSNED OUT
o Pollock Post, G. A. R., No. 48.
[Topeka and the Surronndlng Country
v-i
Emptied into the Pair Grounds.
i THE TWO EVENTS OP THE BIG DAT |
A Moniter and Magniflosnt Parade and a
• v Very Suooesifal Sham Battlo. n
¥> MILITIA STILL IU THEIR TENTS1
,L
oo"
o Washington Drum Corps.
The Kansas National Gaards Remain in
Oamp Two Dajs Yet—Acoidont, Eto. ' Wlnrtald Juvoulla Band.
OH THE DIG DAY IN CArvIP ORANT.
VI TorxKA, Oct. 1.—[spoulal.] Kolrcat Un» boon
lounded, tbe last cempflre held, and Cnmp Grant I
presonUadeiortedappsarnnco. Bnfnras Ml thai 1
s to ttako up a camp of vatorans li concerned,
1
E Ijrossnt encampment b u boon a groat success,
larger gathering baa over boon icon In Kansas
oo any occasion, and nothing haa boon recorded to 1
mat Ike ploaaaroa of tbo occasion. Ronnlona of I
1 Grand Arm lot, states and rogltnont* bavn boon bold
pad. in many instance* companlo* found enouga
pembere to bold reunions. A notable reunion of
[his lattor kind was that ot Company H, Forty-sixth
.a iidlaoa Infantry, thirteen member* finding oach
oo othor. So far as known Ibis woi tlio largest num-
oo ber (fathered together from any ona company, out
pldo of Kansas troops.
V) Tbo morning oponad wst. rainy and glnomyJ
00
00 Four* wuro antortnlncd that this mat day would ba J
gjfallure, bat abant 0 o'clook the *rin »hono throng!
(and dlapollad tha clouds, giving us a. day that waJ
I ell that could ba askod. I
Tito Grand Purndo.
LougbcforolQo'clock the special trains, *troe
cars, wagona and carriages began pouring a atrcun
r Of peopla Into tbo camp until tbsro teemed lo b
scarcely room for another portnn on thu immen*
r ounds. That portion known a* "thu lint" wa
ack with visitors, wbllo the various divisions n
votoran* wore nllvo uud resembled, from adlttanco
groat colonics of boos. At. 11 o'clock iho division*
formed and started, taking up the Una of inarch for
the city. Wbon fully formed and on tbo march the1
column was ttireo-quartura of an hour pacing -
given point. Tbo column was formed a* follows:
Ruth's Zouaves
Bulleno Guard* Drum Corps.
Oon. Puller and Htntf.
Third Hcgimrnt II uul.
Third Roglmont—Com nine* 0, V. If, B, II, A, O, T).
fourth Rfgloirnt H.-l ml.
Pourth Ri<glim<nt Drum t.'nrp*.
Fourth Regiment—coinonnles U, D, I', C, A, F,
(». K M.
Oan. Roberts and Staff.
Flrat llcgltiient Baud,
Flr*t Regiment Drum C-irps.
[TiraTRcgmion. . ~. ~, - . - , •
Socond Regiment Hand. .
Second Regiment Dram Corp*. ••
Second Regiment—Companies C, A, E, G, D,
F. B, U.
(Jen. Carmll nnd Staff.
I Mothor Dlckcrdyko aud President and Secretary
Woman's Relief Corps.
Mexican Vcternua.
Department Commander M. Stewart and Staff.
UiRiiatch Band, Clay Outer.
Ex-Prisoners of VV*nr.
> I. O. 0. F. Band, Pcabndy.
Ponbody Pout. (1. A. R. No. .SO.
Past Commander Wnlklnsbaw and Staff.
Wamogo Cornot Band.
Waraego Post, G. A. R, No. BS.
Monitor Post, O. A. R . No. aaS.
iol.'i Poat, 0. A. It, No. ;W.
Hiawatha Post, 0. A. It.
Oskaloosa Cornet Band.
Commander W. II. Pond and Staff.
Fort Scott Drum Corps.
Caslln Po.it, G. A. R, No. 117.
Franklin Relief Corp*.
Frnnltlln Pout, G. A. It., No. 18.
lie 'ook Pout, 0. A. R, No 61.
Pleasanton Cornet Band. '
Gail. R B. Burnett and Staff. #
Mound City Drum Corn*.
Ollpatrlck Post, G. A. R. No. ISO.
Buru*liln Post Drum Corp*. '
Bnrnaldo Post, U. A. R, Wyandotte,
Moiilton Post, G. A. R, No. 10.
Washington I'oat, O. A. R, No. IS.
Buck-kin Hand, Arkansas City.
Dnilghtors ct Veteran*.
Sherman's Bummer*. *
Cranr do Leon Band, Parson*.
Mound City Post, G. A. It.. No. 158.
Yates Center Baud.
Woodson Post, G. A. R, No. 83.
Burlington Drum Corps.
Allison Post, O. A. R, No. 14,
Son* of Votoran*. \
*ommnnder Pourth Brlgndo and Staff, •>
Knlubt* of I'y thin* Hand, Emporia,
Etkrldgo Po«t, 0. A. R, No. 75.
Chalk Mound Post, U. A. R . No. 848,
Lyndon Post, G. A. R, No. 19. .
Rico Post. U. A. R. No. 71.
Osage City Baud.
Second Kansas Vol cram. V
McPhcrsou Drum Corp*, Kun*as City,
Scott Rides, KAIICH* (,'ity.
I Wagner Post. <). A. It. No. 08, Independence, Mo.
Uoldcn Post, G. A. It.. No. 6.1. lloldon. Mo,
Col. Urovur Post. Wnrreuabiirg. Mo.
Cbllbovvi-ic |>imt, Cluiliowrle, Mo •'
I'lfili KHIISUS Vuloraii*.
Sixth Kama* Vstorsns.
Boveuth Kansas Vet era to.
Atchison Cornel ll.tud.
Klgbih Kausa* Veteran*,
Twenty-dfib Illinois Veterans,
Ninth Kalian* Veterans,
Atclilhon Drum l.'orps.
Tenth Kiumas \"eiernns.
First Knu*an Battery, Voterana.
Eleventh Kansac Veteran*.
Ttvvlftli Kansas Votoran*.
.Sixteenth Kausa* Veterans.
Lyons Post, G. A. J U Atchison,
Junction City Drum Corps.
fnnctlmi citv Post, G. A. It.. No. 133,
Lew Urovo Post, 0 . A. It. No. lltt.
Abilene Drum Corp*.
-•
Abllciio Po«t, G. A. It. No, OS.
Clay Center Veterans.
Tlendersoti Post, G. A. It, No. M.
Mlltonvald Post, 0. A. It. No. luO.
Belolt Post, li. A. It, No. 117.
Don. A. I„ sMillnrd and StaX
Blngnld Band, UutcUliisnn.
Joe Honker Po»t, (J. A It, No. 17.
Newton Drum Corp*.
Mi-nde Post, G. A. I t , No. 14.
Oallo Pluine Pont, U. A. It., No. 3S7.
Jaiuen Shield PoM, (i. A R No. 67.
Ellenwood Cornet U.iud.
Newton Post, (i. A. It No. —.
tTnlley Center Post, G. A. R, No. 35.
Bilver Uku Post, G. A. R No. —.
Topuka Cornot Bund.
"ort Pillow Post, G. A. R^ No. 4.
desso Nelson Post, G. A. R , No. UU '
Seventh Kansas Veteran Cavalry (on foot.)
Old Soldiers and Citizens In Carnages.
 eroi vr. a . iv. pom, roj>rWoiTto"orin
Grant, tailed to fall In aa organisation*, tho mom-
bora proaent attaching themselvo* to other poet*.
The display waa a grand one, much bettor than wa*
anticipated an hour boforo the march commenced.
Alrtnd timeof'startlngit soemcd that all the citi-
zen* of tbe city were on tho ramp ground*, but
-when tho column arrived In the city Kanaaa avenue
on'both a Idea waa lined with people, from Third
street to Tenth atroeC The four rnilo* traveled
was accomplished lb a little over mi hour. Not
more than two-third* of the veteran* took
place* In tbe line, a* many of thorn wore too
old, or elae wore orlpplod. Thoy could not
endure tbe fatigue they so bravoly boro during the
early day*. Toueka will never again witness such
a grand eight aa waa laen to-day. It would be welt
to mention In this connection that Col. John A.
Martin walkod at the bead of tho Bightb Kansas,
and Col. William* walked with tbo boy* of the
Tenth Kanaaa. TUoro being no olllcer of tho Ninth
Kanaaa cavalry, tbe boy* (elected Al Oreono a*
tbelr'oommandcr, and tho old JOUIINAL, correspond-
ent, Joe Fluffor, bravely bonded tbo b!>y* with
whom he ha* had many, many good Minis, and ob,
now many bard dayi. Col. Jonklns staid with tho
c
Boventh Kanaaa, while Col. Voale headod tho Sixth
Kia*ae. It waa. Indeod, a grand sight, one recall-
ing dear memorise to ovory soldlor, to tbo* soo of-
tcer* and men fratarnlilng.
Batgjralng to Camp Grant at noon, tbe dl Heron t
dlvlafons paraded tho camp, marching and counter-
taarchlng, and Anally broke up, unit wuro resolved
Into group* saying farewell, as ludced It will bo to
W ma»y of thorn.
- ..-.•«»' *,.
Ion Kichth Kftu«a« Veterans)
Voluutcor lufuutir.
o Society of tbe Eighth Kansas
Yeteraiis,Volunteer Infantry assembled
aVtiiel? ^eaclquartew on the grounds at
fTopeka at 10:30 a.ra.,on Thursday, Oc-
tober 1, 1$85, about 100 in number, and
after a general hand-shako all around
orders were given by Col. John A. Mar-
tin to assemble in Floral Hall and or-
ganize for general business.
I After coming to order the roll of all
members on tho roster was called and
the following mombers, present and by
[{letter, responded to their names: Colo-
S nel John A. Martin, Lieutenant Colonel
> John Conover, Lieutenant Colonel J. L.
Abernathy, Chaplain John Paulson, Ad-
jutant Sol. K. Washer, George W.j
Hogeloom, Assistant Surgeon.
Company A—Lieut. Eli Balderston, J.
A. Dell, Christian Goodwin, C. W. Her-
ington, J. Jagger, J. Lucius Powell,
Matuew McMichael, J, F. Young.
Co. B. Lieutenant Charles Arthur,
C. F. Branor, Henry Hagner, Hubert
Knipe, Benedict Kolmus, Charles Long-
wood, Edward Rupert, Felix Tbubautb,
Peter Wettstein, Eugono Welke, Chris-
tian Marx, Leo W. Rich.
• Co. C. Captain Goorue W. Robb, W.
C. Black, Barney Blanker, Wm. S. Cain,
Teaser, Daniel Faltz, .THenTFJI
Gherett, Abe H. Martin, .Nina. C. Mo-'
Clellan, Jacob M.-Price, Charles W«;
Rust, Henry Shriner, J. S. Tucker, Geo-
E. Wright, A. M. Williamaon, Wra. K.
Grenewait,; Henry Kuhn. ^ •'
Co. D. Lieutenant Tbos. Adamson,
John T. Bjarnes, Ohelon Carter, C. B..
Haslett, EarjBAHortqn, G. W. Johnson,
William Lawa, S. M. Lanham, Peter
Shavey, J. F$$ne, Benjamin F. Hicks,
R. Griffin, M. Y. Anderson, John B.
Bitler, W. C. Wjatt. " i|
Co. E. Lieutenant E. D. Rose, L. V.;
Bryant, Leonard A. Hail, Theo. Inger-
soll, Zepheniah Johnson, J. Polk Ken-
dall, W. M. McCI$ary, J. H. Poppinger,'
J. P. Richards, Edward Russell, Robert
Roobford, A. Rambo, Wm. Richardson,
S. J. Spear, P, M. Stamp, Napoleon
8harrois, H. Spnrgeon, I. Strite, An-
drew J. Smith, Francis M. Weaver,
Albert L. Watkins, 0.0. Leonard, Wm.
II. McClary, E, Brullette, T. O. Hill,
James Barnes.
Company F, Lieutenant W. S. New-
bury; C. H. Carpenter, John Cozad, Jas.
H. Day, R. A. Frederiok, Chris. Rudell,.
L. B. Welsh, Isaac Welsh, John Iieighny, J
B. D. MoDowell, Joseph Kirk. -'
Company "G, Capt. Robt Flickenger,'-
Lieut. David. Baker, Lieut. Joseph Ran-
dolph, Nilei Anderson, John J. Green-
halph, Chris. Herman, James Pickard,
Joseph Wadbaus, Jacob Miller, John E.
Pickard, Vl>6. Madouet.
Co. tt—Captain, Sam'lStanley; Lieu-
tenant Frank Curtis*; Lieutenant A.
OowertjTrVjO. Breckenridge, fl. D. Elli-
son, W. D. Healy, John M. Holt, Alfred
Hawkins, W. W. Mye, Geo. M. Smith,
H. B. Strong, John Waugh, A.D. Craig,
Felix Toupain, J. H. Hurst, J. M. Hurst,
J. H. Rodgers, J. D. Lucus, H. H.
Pierce.
Co. 1.—Lieutenant, Chas. Slawson;
Lieutenant, Byron Slemmons; L. Fuller.
Edmond Joslyn, Lafe Mulnix, James
Sutton, C. A. Newton, John L. Noah,
Josiah Sheppard, J. Y. Robinson.
Co. K.—I. N. Roso, John Taylor, Jacob
Kyer.
Co. not given.—Thomas B. Ball, S. N.
Robertson.
After (toll call tho society proceeded
to tbe election of officers for the ensuing

E r ^ e f o f John. A. mf, BVM EapBSrt I
Knipe^Co. ftf&ovfE Sobb,;rCo>WG,
W. Johnson; Co. X).,TS. t). Base* tJo. E.i
L. B. Welsh, Co. P., John J;*-$reen-
h*lgh,,Co. G., John H. Holt, Co. H.,
Chas; Slawson, Co. I , and*°£ N.V Bose,
Co. Kyifyioe-Presidents; David Baker,
Treasurer; Ohas. W. Bust, Secretary;]
O ma and Chattanooga; the battle of Chlokamau-
and stomas Adamson, Color-bearer. A
r—,
oolleotibn was taken up for defraying
OS
the expenses of the society which was
responded to' liberally, and all debts
m •lege of Chattanooga, and commanded the Pint
p were}'paid and a balance left in the
hand| of the treasurer. It was resolved
that Jhe society hold another reunion in I
l ^ ^ t h e time and^lace to be hereafter
U Kansas to the National Republican Convention
d ;ann»unced. '$&
1
With ffireecheers for Gov. John A.
1
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Martin, tt?e society adjourned to meet at
o headquarters at. 10:80 'io-morrow and I
Joiiro the grand parade, every member I
feeling proud that he is onije more al-f
lowed" to fall in and march with, his old|
comrades ron f,he free soil of Kansas.
After the parade and sham battle]
bettle many of the boys met at head-
J quarters, and with,tear dimmed eyed
quivering lip and trembling bands, bid I
farewell to each other, promising, if
•life and health permits, to meet next!
year, .and never forget or cease to "re-
vere and love each other.
r OHAS. W.Ttwrt^Becretary.
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THURSDAY, October 1,1885.
I 82nd Tear. Whole No. 1625,
Oonmor Martin of K a u u .
i Bo
Bogers,
L
[• followtu
of the Second National,
for publication, wblob
WMol raska paper:—
d from a Nebraska
artln waa born Marob 10, 1839, at
;•, Fayette Court?, Pa. while a
s he learned the trade of print I ug in the
office of TUB Baowxevn.L» Currea. in the
^ •prlng of 1WI be wont to Pittsburgh and work-
ed atljU trade ror a short time, In October of
the aaino rear he emigrated to Kane**. He lo-
cated In Atobteon, and for a abort time eet type
for the column* of the SqwUtr Sotirtion. He
purchased the Sqtutittrr B<mr*ign in February,
1608, changed its name to JV»ioW« Champion,
andfcnthe 20th of the same month oommenoed
bli l*og editorial eaxeer la Kansas by the lave
or tub Oret number of the paper with whloh he
baeeiooe been to honorably Identified. Since
that time he liu been elected to eoveral office*,
ulllnathem to. the utmost aatUfaotlon of bl*
constituents. He w u Secretary of the Wyan-
dotte > ConitHutlonal Convention, and waa
elected state Senator before be waa tweuty-
one. He nerved a* delegate to the Territorial
convention,, at ^ewrenoe, oi«*.prn ur ii
During the rammer of 188i he assisted In
ganlzing the Eighth Kanaar Infantry, of]
which he wu appointed Lieutenant Colonel.
Early In 1«62 be wa* appointed Proroat Mfcrehal
of Leavenworth, and In Marob of the aame <
year hi* regiment waa ordered to Corinth, Ml**.,
and thoreatter during; the whole war it (erred 1
In the Army ofthe Cumberland. Lieut, Col. .1
Martin wa* liromoted to be Colonel on the l»t of
November, IMi, and waa ProTott Marshal of
Nashvitlo, Tnnn., from December, 1863, to
June, 18(33. ibe regiment under hi* command
took part in the battle* of Perryvllle, Ky., and I
Lancaster, Ky,; tbe campaign against Tullauo-
ga; the liege of Chattanooga; the •tormtag of |
Mission Ridge; the campaign In Eastern Ten-
neaeee In the winter of 1883-4; tbe campaign
from Chattanooga to Atlanta; and the subse-
quent pursuit ofHood north w ard. CoL Mart In
commanded the Third Brigade during the
Brigade, Third Division. Fourth Army-Corp*,
from August, 1884, until his muster out at Pu-
laskl, Tenn., NOT, 17, 1864. Returning borne,
he rosuraod control of tbe Atchison Champion
early In January, 188S. He ha* been Com-
mander in-oblef of tbe State Enoampment,
Grand Army of the Bepubllo; a delegate from
of 1800,1808,1873, and 1880; a member of the
United States Centennial Commission and one
of the Vice Presidents of that body; wa* elect-
ed by tbe two houses of Congress one of the
Board of Managor* or the National Soldiers'
Home* In 1878, and ro-eleoted in 1883, being
Second Vice President of that body until 1884,
and waa eleoted Mayor of AtohUon in 1868.
He wa* elected Governor of Kansas In 1884, de-
feating ox-Gov. Click, the Democratic candi-
date, by 40,000 majority,
m t. g
•'*
•*—*•
J. IL HUDSON. Mtor jpd Proprlrtor"
WEDNESDAY HOHMHts. OOTOBEB M, 1888.
''" "Ii J ' ,
SflE&RAND LODGE i
The Session': Opens In Bepi
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Hali: {
a*v»< W.OEK
A O R A H D DA*Y'S
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Governor Martin. Visits >he v
' m m
'"e^v|»''^evfw.1iyelooi
ay B
SOL
of the Indepen'deni^nter of T
commenced ye'sterdfty morning
Gran^a^?*^;^,
chair, and ^||o^ptly / al
mentioned itteJ|j|ound ' ^
gavel thundered 'through rep
hall and it watannounoea,thats
-''.!. ''AIH'JLUNUONT^
lfce$^#j&ifteW
voted tipv hoarj n g the
During the a^poonftat^rp^dTPi
John A. Martin,

a •" He was 'welcomed •' ant
^ctic^SgfengrJaidi
l a n s a f . ^ f ' ^ t f Fou
it, hjVrraojiious )^ao' profty,
.d tk tate return to your SOT-
f | | a h ^ a m l y and linoerelyi
ous reception jou have (riven
"jOOjapUmeitary term 11 in
y^randfllaster, baAMn-
And T sincerely trust
....•charge of my official
luties, find in "my walk and conduct a< I
iitizen, I shall do,nothing to make you
' hamed of the fact that I am a member
jthia honorable fraternity, but that, on
f contrary, I mav always deserve at loast
Is will not further trespass on your time
o'r.'bterrupt the business you are assembled
lo^xansadt. 1 thank you aguln.and salute
ml^Sse^i^M ^ ^ u
Cfct ffmnnumtocdft*!
WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER M. ISM
AT THE COMMONWEALTH 00.
THE ADDRESSES
OB* GOTOBNOU JOHN A. MABTIN AMD
/ B O N . OBO. W. IlKED.
J e l l v e r « d » t t h e Grand O p t r a Hon lit Last
,*«reninE at the Entertainment Tender
'od'theVUItlDjEoleotKnlgh'i. / <
Oor. Martiu't 'Welcome to t h e S U t t ,
Gentlemen: When requested by the
local committee, some weeks ago, to
welcome to Kansas the Select Knights
of the A. 0. U. W., I very willingly as-
sented. For, although not a member of
your organization, I knew enough of its
[)urpo30), and of the principles'on which
lis founded, to assure menot only that it
was wot thy of the respect of all good
citizens, bat that it worthily represented
in its membership, the best citizenship
of the United States and Canada.
The ceremonial addresses of this oc-
casion are, however, only the outward
manifestation of the cordial welcome
with which the people of Kansas will
greet you. The real welcome will be
extended in the outstretched hands, in
the open doors, in the generous hearts of
your friends and brothers throughout J-
this commonwealth.
S iman nature demands society and
dship. The impulses which lead
men to band themselves together in as-
sociations, are far deeper than any ten- oo
dencies to individualism and isolation. oo
Out ot this craving for fellowship has
grown your order, and all other societies s
of similar structure. It is not a very a.
"ancient" organization, unless, as 1 have
beard it said, this country of ours has f
lived a fall century during the past ffi
twenty-flve years. But it nas grown !
and prospered until Its lodges are scat- H
tered from the Atlantic to the Psoiflc,
and its membership In over 150,000. Tfiis
is the best possible ovidence that the I
Order of United Workmen deserves to
live. The American people, food as s
they are of organized fellowship and so-
ciety, are intelligent, discriminating and
practical, and no organization having J?
unworthy aims or ideas, can long sur- =tfc
vive among them.
o
I congratulate you, heartily, upon the 00
prosperous condition of your order. I
congratulate you on the harmony and
and enthusiasm prevailing in your ranks
i
J!
and on the manifest interest and pride p
that is felt, by all of your members, In
the preservation and growth of your or-
ganisation. And I welcome you, sin-
cerely and cordially, to Kansas.
A quarter of a century ago, William
H. Seward said that in tno future "men
will go up to Kansas ai they go up to
Jerusalem." Whether you came hero
in this spirit or not, you will feel some-
thing of its inspiration before you go
away from our borders. I warn you,
here and now, that there is Irresistible
fascination in the atmospherejof Kansas.
The history, the growth, the prosperity
of this stote are all exceptionable. Not
yet twenty-flve years of age, Kansas has
outstripped,,in population, wealth and
all tho elements of an advanced civiliza-
tion, more than half the states of the
 lose m i r a c l e s , all
first prists at the international exposi- Ffljj w h a t the m o s t s a n g u i n e anil en-
tions at Philadelphia and New Orleans. t h u s i a s t i e Iv.insans never d r e a m e d , lit'- \}_
It leads the proc;ssion in the reports of teen years itjfii, c o u l d lie done.
the national agricultural department. It A f t e r t h e h a l t l e o f Mission l{i<l«.r«\ ( ! e n . IS
has built nearly 5,000 miles of railway to (lOi'cli'ii ( i r a n k e r r o d e silonsr, I lie lines o f j
carry to market the largest crops Ill's vielnri,>ii.-.*|r, .ops— I lie M.l.liers ivhii.se ;
ever grown on Amaricaa soil. e n t h u s i a s m a m i e m i r a t e lutil c a r r i e d
It has assailed ignorance with i h c m , w i t h o u t o r d e r s , up I h i ! l»la;'.injH
seven thonsand school he uses. Of ]it<i<;hl.s a n d said, s i i h s l a n l i a l l y ; " I IIMHI !{j
its 270,000 voters, at least HO.OOo were y o n are, 1ml how d i d y o u net here? Y o u j |
soldiers during the civil war. The map w e r e o r d e r e d t o t a k e I ho w o r k s al tin
of the continent was disfigured by a de- l o o t <if I ho I'liljfe, a m i y o u have I t i k e i i j l
sert—\hese people touched it with the those o n i i s s u m i i i i l . Y m i oii<rhl In have jj
<3\ magic wand of industry and enterprise, k n o w n y u i i i-iiiildu'l l a k e i l i i » p o s i t i o n !
Y o u a r e here in delianee o f m i l i t a r v
1 and lol a garden blospoms in its stead.
To populate a county thirty miles square r u l e s , uf l a d i e s , a n d of order.-, and
within six months, and round out the h:H have a i i i . l j i u i h i have y m i a l l e o u r l - j S
Jliarlialed!"
half yeai with a fight over the county
seat between six toiras, or to build a fair I l l v e r y innell t h e s:une s p i r i t , I c o n h l
sized city within a twelvemonth—these n a y t o . y « " i people uf K d w a r d s e o u n l y :
achievements may seem like a fiction, " l i e r e ymi a r e , in delianee uf a l l ore
but they have been realities in Kansas. | ilieliniis ami helicf! 'The p r o p h e t s a l l
Willi t t u i l t h e w e s t e r n I h i r d uf |]ti< state
Beware, I say to you again, lest you catch W o u l d n e v e r |ir<iduee crops. I'nlili<
the contageous enthusiasm of Kansas, NiMilinienl a j j r e e d that. I his w a s a «rraz
=3 and, telegraphing for your wives and i n y e o i m l r y , u n l i l IV.r g e n e r a l f a r m i n g .
and children to come by the next train, Vet. here voll are. h o l d i n g Ull a y r i e i l l l in'
00 return to your old homes no more. I
o 'al f a i r , a n d c v h i h l t l u u im|*« a n d w h e a l ,
don't want to break up the A. O. U. W. oats a n d r\ i«, [IIUCIOOH and p u m p k i n s .
in other states, by transferring you at a i l l l e v c r \ I hine; else t h a i l l l l l i e r - i eUe
once to Kancas, and so I give you this where produce. ViMI hllve c o i i i c m n n l
friendly warning. I h e p r o p h e U ! Y n u have !.lolled nlll Hie
But whether yon come as visitors, to ileseri. Y o u have eslnh|i>lied ;;a r.l.-ii*
enjoy, for a brief timo, our hoapitality.or i l l I he w i l d e r n e s s , Y o u s h n l i h l a l l lie
as immigrants to become permanent citi- eoiirt-martialed!^'
Z3ns, I bid you welcome, thrice welcome
s to Kansa*. I know you will like Kansas,
\ o u r l r i u n i p l i / i i \ er I lie adver ,e f, .i ee>
«>l n a l i i r e is a s m a r v e l o u s m i l l a-, n u n
§ and I am equally certain that Kansas ] d e l e as was vvnn Ml M i.--iiill l!iil::e. a »»»l,
H will like you. We are all glad that you ns a K M I I S M I I . I a m u n u i d of i i . There
•p came here to hold your uiennial con- is soim t h i n ; ; s p l e n d i d in ilie m a r c h n|
clave, and, speaking not only for your c i v i l i z a t i o n i i i i n and I»VI r an utijpi op.'eij
imcuil hosts, the United Workmen of l a n d - u i i i e l l i i n ^ : ; r a m | c i ' , , \ e n . lli.-ni
Topeka, but for tho largo hearted people flu* march " I a U e i o r i o i i * tinny. || >,
of Kansas, I can say: J i c l l c r In h l i i l d u p I h u l l il is In i|e«.lr">
"Hit*, jou are vtry wdcomo to our IIOUMJ; J&fllr i i v l t e r ! ' , ' i v d ' . e m a tl«/*tr( l l . a u k i n:aj.e
II Diu-l appearlu other wnyi Hum wnrilii,
oo Ttior. foro I team ihis brciutilug courleny."
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¥ * i i n v i l a i i o i i . i l ' v i i i r n.miMii-iee. I.eeiiu.si' I
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e v i d e n c e s u l l l i i l l a - f l i M l ' l U H ' I •»••»• "H 1 '
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i d e i - l i n d WllHl
v m i h a d done, a n d ii,»«r y j j i l ••«• ••;•;
d i i ; o t M i . » ' - - » * • . • M M . ' " ' • " • " • f t
s.te^ir.ss^i'ss!
,. V e.| l e i l l i ' . n d o l l a r s Mil
n.-ai loll
Pi Idesi.c.l. a . s a . i l i / - . x a a - a s . D :ik v d i l i a r c h e s value.
n l V i n v h a l ill l l i i ! pre - n e e ul " • • / ; • ' .
w o m e n Who have l - r e wj^MUrhJ.;
.'«•'"r'm-- m*
 illion uoiiara, "iiavo noeii nuilt within
its b o r d e r s . In u t h o u s a n d inaniit':uiuir-
mjj establishments,- liflcen thousand
busy w o r k m e n :u-o employed, yi.x
million head of stock g r a z e on iis rich
gruHHOH. Its farm products for the year
18*5, will a g g r e g a t e in VitlUu fuliy $110-
000,000. Tin) assessed value ii( its prop-
erty equals $!>()() nor capita fur iis popn-
lation. Wealth is m o r o c q u a i l distribut-
ed in K a n s a s than in a n y o t h e r portion
of tlio habitable glpUl, for we have few-
very rich men and as few who a r c pau-
pers. This I'H tlm c e n t r a l state, ihosun-
(lower state, the soldier stale, and with-
in its borders prosperity and order, in-
telligence and sobriety, e n t e r p r i s e and
industry, g o h a n d in h a n d . • Q82{ Scotland, 2,7*8; and France, |,lft|,
Ami they are w o r k i n g out a m n r v e P
'ous destiny for Kansas, Few. even of
:our oWa people, fully iindersfand what
wonderful strides o u r stale has m a d e
antt is m a k i n g . Admitted into the
Union in 1861, K a n s a s took rank in 1*70
as theS'Jtli s t a t e ; In IH'.'O it was the 20th:
land it is now in population, the l.jth
Jstato of the Union, r a n k i n g next Hi
|.Virginla, which from 1700 to IS10, was
itho rirsr;8(ftfe. It has passed ail the
g o u t h e r i x ' s t a t e s except six, Missouri,
JKonlHclcy; Tennessee, (leorgia, Texas
;ii ml Virgin in., and nil of the n o r t h e r n
latits, except eight, New York, Pennsyl-
v a n i a , Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Massa-
c h u s e t t s , Michigan and Iowa. At the
ilose of the present decade Kansas will
i am confident, rank as the elevelilh
_ tate of the Union, and it will round out
Rjhc nineteenth c e n t u r y as the sixlh or
Seventh,
• In 1801 wo had not a mile of railroad
SyiMlin o u r burdors. In IWiO we liad !):;o
m i l e s ; in 1880, 8.IJM miles; mid we have
f yW nearl v 5,000 miles.
i n 1800 the t r u e valuaiiou of Hit; prop
Srly of Kansas a g g r e g a t e d mil)•^•'H,.'Wi',-
§00; in 1870 it a g g r e g a t e d ^|s«,Mi:.',0(K);
giui in 1880 itreaeliedfil.'i.OOli.OOO. Kun
s>jis ranked in ISO!) as the IHtli stale in
f reallh; in 1870 it WW llui Ullli; and in
880 the 20th. i n lfOO the true valua
on of t h e ))roperty of Kansas averaged
202 per capita; in 1870 it averaged $»(Vl
ml in 1880 It reached 1*517 per capita.
,'nxalion averageil #.". p e r e a p i i a i n p-'so.
intl ut tlio fbity seven states and lerrl-
Sirica, K a n s a s r a n k e d in a v e r a g e taxa-
§ o n |Hii' capita the clHh. T h a t is, laxa-
Qon was g r e a t e r per c a p i t a in twenty-
| i g h l states and territories and less in
eighteen. T h e public indebtedness of
Kansas, state and local, averaged $|n
p e r capita, seventeen slates having a
l a r g e r a g g r e g a t e debt, and nineteen a
l a r g e r per c a p i t a debt.
T h e total a r e a of Kansas is M.'.'Hs.ooo
acres, anil of this vast territory only III,-
730,000 acres, or oue-lifih o f ' l h e total
was in 1SK0 u n d e r fence. h\ I Hit) there
were only .'tn.202 farms in Kansas; in
1880 there were l.'iS.aill. T h e increase
in I lie n u m b e r of farms d u r i n g t h a t de-
cade was v78 per ecu!; wlijlo tliu in-
crease in the total farm a r e a was 27.s
per cent.
In IHK) the population of Kansas was
but. a fraction over one person io id,.
s q u a r e m i l e ; in JB<0 it was over tour
llllil in 1830 over twelve. T h e stale,
although 20lh bi population in 1880, was
30lh In the destiny of its population, it
has plenty of room for g r o w t h .
T h e c h a r a c t e r of the population of
Kansas is notable. Out of a total in
18M) of OOO.O'.'O inhabitants. IIO.OMO were
of foreign birth, and s.so.OK) were
natives of Ihu United Slates. In o t h e r
words a little, over 11 per cent of o u r
population is foreign, and over eighly-
oight per cent native born, (icrimuiy
ooulriniitod U8.0U1; E n g l a n d and Wale's
111,2(10; Ireland, I4,!lii:i; C a n a d a . 12,.W>;
Sweden and Norway, 12,.Wi; liussia, 8,-
T h e whites n u m b e r e d O.V.'.sW.) ami Ihe
colored poopjo -|:|, 107.
Of the people of Kansas, only e i g h t
p e r c e n t lived in towns having over •!,-
000 population. Only a little over throe
and one-half per cent of I lie people over
ten y a r s of age were unal-io to road,
ami only live and one-half per cent
w e r e uiiiihki to write. T h o s e e n g a g e d
lit a g r i c u l t u r e a g g r e g a t e d (it per cent
of tlio population, those e n g a g e d In
Personal, and professional services, 1'
p e r cent; in mechanical and mining
pursuits II per eeiii; a n d t r a d e and
t r a n s p o r t a t i o n H per cent.
Figures are always dry I know, but
1 have presented-those to establish what
i have asserted eoneei ning Ihe wonder-
ful g r o w t h and d e v e l o p m e n t of Kansas,
n n i l t o show at I h e s a i u e lime what room
t h e r e is for future g r o w t h . Kansas is
still in the. biMOiu of her y o u t h . With
the light of the m o r n i n g on her fair
y o u n g face, Kansas is moving on to the
full realization of her magnificent
destiny. Loving freedom aiiilloyal to
the c o r e ; believing in education and re
• peeling law; striving to keep Imr
y o u n g manhood sober, clean and h e a r t y ;
never a feeble imitator, yet always
willing to l e a r n ; not afraid to experi-
ment, and nlwiivs ready to lead; enter-
prising, intelligent, c o u r a g e o u s and
e n t h u s i a s t i c - - I b i s is the Kansas of o u r
love ami our faith, this Ihe lair mistress
of o u r h e a r t s , to whom, a d o p t i n g the
l a n g u a g e of lluth lllid Naomi, we say:
" K i l l r e a l me not to leave thee or to re
turn from following ••tier thee; for
w h i t h e r thou gowd I will go, and w h e r e
thou lodges!, T will lodge| thy people
shall be my people a ml thy (ioii my (bid;
w h e r e thou diest will I die and there
will I be buried."
The Kinsley Mercury.
ISllUSUlHTloN, (One Vear). ifl M).
B Y 3. .ST3?STES2T'.
rtxTl'itn v v, tnTuiii;u:u. is--,v
mmmzMmm?:
 vi it'jfc* goto•tostth» ta
, - C i-A^Mt mtt iua",
rlly earliest recollections ..
TT^I^S •ational church!of Tepefca^L.
J. JE.HUDSON., Editdr^^j^rdprieto^ Wiring of 18611 A iffl™
ie state assembled on MaronJ
UfclWSDAY MOBNXNG. NOVEMBER *, <£the senate'meeting in &<ly
ipnilding that stood? in^jtntf
tier of Kansas/avenue apfl "
$ line House In a building' son
i
' of this. There were rumc,
i-H >tr in which the house'' njet^
0\

i etfi WtWI 'of\ ' W

mM
;mbers, JJut when w t t j
[toniy.Deat upon it:
>e honorable represL
, : Kan'laa cohdluded ft:
i 1 M
•A (•bHQTOiTIOTOQHURi
Vi'i'j inoyp. , And su, on the lit
iouWadjourhld-;to^

o Anniversary of toe Paatori/-

I B 5 U # I.^BlakesIey^;'.'^
>
oo" ^
naSd.#a^rtl
H^rfcpubUc^!
...i
o niJ—•'—
/iOONTINt?ATIO* OF TjtlE SKRvicM. J ^ «
mlevening the Kan.aYCity Congrega- lature, and; »
tiohaf-blub held its. sixth meeting*!
meeting at the Kit was «| edb
Juwh. ' .This
First church. -was aa continuation
W i was continuationof
of iad atte,'n(T
a, iro'ctedinats of the previous day. and I .. sOmethin „•"£
fteld specially swith reference to the t | the so
tanebus anniversaries of the church, „op^|pH^v
| '',pr John A. Ma/tin was expected to, remember that' th^se a M .
" n&3WK&M addie«i,/bat waf* thelaw-maljeriofthpi
I ' m$£&Atchisoh^^|3$
•>or s^hfc thefollowingloiter f
it I mtastu1«iJBjWWr'
- all her.busy tfafh,". 0'
•pii-bnrtd'^ine^aiaMe.
eoir; Kan., NoTomber 2,1886, L intended to'explain why t
with yon this eyening, and
* ^RSIR:—'WhellyousQMndlyin• present my regrets and pw
e ^o be present at the anniversary -company assembled, for^my,;.
absence. • Toury, yery trnfrrl''
oo
oo
• "r-.-. Jno.'^J
H I II i I II

oo
;thm^6re", 'either. forego a pleasure \had, M ^ 1 ffia
,. U j J <. ; ^ g
oo feathigheTtduty of AmWioVnol««S5Jp! I | ,^ * ^ > ! ^ * ^ %
atteWt^pe'at the pol(s o* election day. 1 j • • ' '^'- a ^ ;^"
t what I hUve decided'to dp—remain at home,
luttVftftw election. ' f f :%^'?3pl
•'-^il/Wiv^-^^7*^
[ . X HTOSOK. Editor
I lr$helhirtioth anniversary of the. First t
.tional church of TopekaJ" That 1 L
S ie state pearly six years. To-. I
en UtUe more than a name on'"
rr&*lL^
iap,*if indeed it had yet attained that, A large number^pf the ci
jbtfcn. And Kansas, a strange, uri- ka, andmanrj|ointhe^ei^_
if(nf country, representing an 'idea
s I rather thai\tho metes and bounds of a ,
'were present at'the masi;
evening in Representative,'' f
I tuture'gTeat statd, was jast beginning to
to be discussed, written about and won- sidn being the meeting of _
dered At, as it has been during all the ' tional League. The inclei!'
years that ha*e since come and gone. Mr. I weather deterred many'from
Whittle* was a prdphot when/* year be- 'I who otherwise wpnld have ^
fore your churoh was, ei^tabUshed, b* -
sang-/- • . , , . ' ^^Xm^M od, and helped to give^ the mi
i "W«go to pU&ihn oommoa^oMw • ;,.>^ oess which it so richly de*
was, the large halloas coni
•id'all were edifled'by the1
the exerdises.v The..Jtalenf
sefs delivered
iotic ardor an< mi' and
 'bill a 'Vital ;Quo8tIofi;''||p k
The folio win sr letterof ^ Governor Mar-
tin's, addressed to the Kansas delegation I
in congress, is upon a question which de-1
mauds attention, and is of peculiar inter-'I
est to the inhabitants of the counties with-1
• 'l*5!
1..
«& .mm
BTA.TE OF KAlfBAfl,
IXCaUrlTC DirikBTifllMT,
nam,> v. Jl
.'" ' •-; • r 14,1885.1 , ; ,1
TorucA, November
Meters. WorrM, Funeton.'Perkins, Ryan,
Anderson, Hanback and Peters? '$'•$%
Mr DEAR SIUB: I address you, as' the
gtepreseritatives of Kansas in congress, on
> subject of gr*ve. interest to man; of the
"tizens of this state. • :. ^ fc|aj
As yon know, a very large population
as, within the past year, settled in the
unties of Barber, Comanche, Clark,
Meade, Seward, Finney and Hamilton.'
;; These counties are located in south;
^western Kansas, adjoining oc near the,
Indian 'Territory. v The cUis»ns ' wad]
Hare occupied them are tiwtp. by in-
TitatioDr.pt the U.nvt«T\<«ta?e|S
_ government, extended through'its laws for
the- settlement of tho publio''domainV
i They,are peaceably industrious,'v intelli-
gent peop'e. Thousands of them served
in the tanks of the union, array during tho
late .ciyil war. And they are, one'and all,
justly entitled to the protection pf the gov-
ernment., ' ,'jg * r. •• -*•.•;', • "* \ ' P .'V''<i\
f : Sfiuth of the counties mentioned' the
jWViTutnenthaslocated Boverali tribes of
in*. Matly of UKHO Indian* i r e say-
turbulent and dan gerous,; I "The. f ocij
they are peaceable to-day is n6 guar-
" ant|e" that they will be peaceable next
;*%«.,,pr 'next . month. ^ S o ' l o n j r
a s l ' t n e y are. where iroey are,
• what they arc, and Ue borders
anios are left exposed and defenseless,'
le of the counties lying next, the
arritory will be uneasyvahd appro-
•sjV* Indian raids are possible at any
m& ' TKev*6 U'nothinir to prirerit 'jn im
n of the horders of Kausas, or to pro-
bur ottticpnw> f r o m i t o W*vdtu>g horrors:
taof Kun(v'« caanotaliyrdto.maji^
y iU u
Ming a r V $ ll *rW
b o r d e r fo J P J L & « • £ & $
oold not be e x i H o V ^ i T , * " ™*^
y in order to prdO* * " £ " " * ;
..and givei them b£*$£r?l
This is a duty i f W W ? A GREAT ASSEMBLY.
ully devolves on tho g0.Tern*,
United States. . '» :' ' V V
judgment, absolute protection
• cannot be guaranteed to the
^southwestern Kansas unless the
•erninent ' established at le-vst
posts on or near our southern
no. One post should bo estab-
f the southwestern itorner of
^Barber county, and another near the south-
western corner of Meade county. And
these posts should "be maintained as long
as the Indian territory is reserved for the
occupanoy of Indians having tribal rela-
tions^'
IVmay be said that there is no dange*]
or an Indian, iljntt)i»aK«i^J,nac w; always]
the reply of* the 'governmenttothe demand |
of its citizens for guarantees of immunity.
But twio). withm the past few years, have!:
the borders of Kansas been invaded by the f|
same Indians who now occupy the coun-
try adjoining southwestern Kansas
Knowledge of thaie facts naturally and in* j
eritably inspires a feeling of uneasiness
and apprehension, .The settlers do not
know; when art outbreak may occur; they!
dq kVow that no adequate precautions to
""vent an outbreak have been adopted.
i they live in constant dread oi an In-
Jiari raid, and are liable at any moment to
(thrown into u panic, which will send
lenl women and children flying in terror
ro'm their peaceful homes. Such a panic |
"cuVrecl early in July last, and the losses,,
i sufferings, the demoralization attend-'
• it wt re almost as'great and as dis- j
(sing us thqugh an actual invasion had
occurred. These people are justly en-
titled, not only to absolute protec-|
,ti6n against Indian raids;': but to I
jruch an ufauranro .of protection as
jwill) ...inspire' "confidence among' them
and prevent'""that apprehension "which
.breeds panic. 'And such assurance cannot I
Ve given unlesss military posts are e*tafc-|
i Juhed and maintained along'the south-1
western border of Kansas. , Jj'?- j
I do not know by wnat authority such
posts are located arid1 maintained. If the!
action of congms is required, I trust that!
you will, at the earliest' posniblo moment. [
introduce and urge the-pasaago of a bilil
baring this end in vf<!'w. It the posts caaT
beestaolished/byoraer of'the president j
or of the general commanding the army, f
hope you will urge vjpon ttTese officers the
vital importance of prompt" action, to tho,
end that thei people of/^oiilnwestflnil
' Kansas may not only be assured of pro-]
tection, but of such adequate sufegurdsi
as will inspire confidence and prevent j
alarm and panic. - •,, '
. I have addressed a similar letter to'Sen-
atore Ingalls V»'»» PIMM**'
DECEMliEU 29. I035.
Twenty-first Meeting of the Kansas I
Teachers' Association.
Tho twenty-first annual rnoetlnif n] the I
Kansas Teachers' association mot Inl
representedivo hall last evening under}
the most glowing circumstuncos, the,
seating capacity of the hall being entire-
ly insufficient to accommodate tho num-
ber present, which is estimated at nearly j
 American people, topi.'ibave r
spnaT iijl^rejitTO,the Irish leader."
more thin half,a century his grandfat
^JMayiwtfww. ami was oije'of the most distinj"
ons'n'ol^i of our?avy:• Hewaaat T*
oatur, and he, commanded^
*•--fm^t'jMB'P!M battles
itio:

Hi
mam mm
an than
3 that is

MB of Liberty, or who W-
to believe, that any good
cause le purpose can be 'promoted by
aasoaa i, or by that weapon of cow-
pfbrutaUS^dywrnite, ~ $ $
|£derstand the purposes anil'
^Mch Charles wewart, Par-
nell an lowera are wntendlng, in
those which, in Amer-
all the' seal 'and energy
:wne. r „
i first political campaign
ild enough to'take an &-
1 to open the, public do-
main tc^tha people tinder the beneficent
provisions ,,ojr the Homestead act. The
Irish mpM, i» contending for the
right Bt-'ftrery man to rote for
thcwe whoareto make4l*w»for his gov-
ern meat, and .this right, in America, I
hare, advocated and defended with unfal-
tering deyoHon. The Irish leader is con-
tending, iii'Juriland, for protection to home
industries,'and this, policy, in, America,
has commanded my ardent support. .The
same ideas and principles that have con-
I trolled my action in America wonld make
me, if in Ireland, a nationalist. And
surely the Irish people,'who have fought
so gallantly for liberty in every land, jtare
a just right to expect $he sympathy
[ ertr-loving_pepj(lei_fl» world orer .in
•oundn^
pioUohi .illustrated at
1
ft hehM^Waded,1
waamma
C
hafe;,pee,n •ji}p|limen-
no disaster coul
.JiJwt-sr- '
J^ye»^
•tors, 'PanM^Conneu,,...ffeKtflpoMi
-ceterv;,;.'lall, ' 1 % O P O #
Jeans, I tend my vqioe ay-eering like the
gjunder-etorm across , £hO;,AtJanuo, t^tell1
jre hoi and to remind the negro, 1 that the. J
dawn of his redemption is drawing hear»r I
:• In the aame spirit, with equal eomesVf
ness, and, let ua hope, .with something of J
,0'ConneIl's prophetic virion,lot this :meet-1
ing send across,the Atlantic its — "l
to Charles Ste wart Parnell. and tq
^thhip,a4.J
battle of 1
• J jfather U'KeiUy then more V vs>
thinks to Governor Jno. A iWd
the Modoc dub, for thej,
meeting., The inotloiFWM uw^lmou
sent to Charles Stewart Parnell,'convoying
the greeting* of the meeting. ' 'f '»•fcJ?,
vFather 0 Reilly announced a meeting
of the executive commiitee of the league,
at the parlors of the Copeland hotel Im-
mediately after the adjournment of the
meeting. , •' *' .>'
sA number of letters was read from
Erotninent persons in the, state. The meet-
ig then adjourned. ,'K- •,. {$' {,-• ^

ft • . ••' 'V" > >.*

 ^Tixe dismal weather had no effect
o j i ^ e attendance, whatever, and the
vaBtassembly presented an appearance
that pleased the eye to look upon men
•and women who have spent the greater
-portion of their l\ves in teach-
ing the young men and women
of the .state, and as the re-
portorial eye was cast over the vast
multitude he wondered not that Kansas
was fast gaining the reputation of being
one of theleading states of the Uniom
mot only in fertility of the soil, but fer-
l -tllity of the mind as well. The people
who reside within her boundary can feel
«nd speak with pride oi her educational
facilities) as represented last night in the
great minds present.
Prof. A. R. Taylor, of Emporia,
president of the
tion, called the meeting to' order
associa-
at 7:45, and the exerciseB were com-
menced by singing of the "Doxology"
which was participated in by the whole
1 assembly, led by a competent choir, after
8 which Rev. Dr. Mwrvin made a fervent
ana v earnest' prayer, pleading for t i e
guidance of Almighty God in directing
t h e meeting.
President A, R. Taylor here introduced
•GoYjyJoan A.Martin who delivered the
following- address which WAS mont
happUjr jsceiyed and heartily applaud-
JfivCftalman, LadUs and Gcntkmrn:
During my school days I frequently
heard, and occasionally took part in, an-
imated debates as to the relative influ-
ence and use fulness of the pen or the
i sword, the lawyer, the doctor, or the
minister. I do not remember that the
< lu the charming stories of that great
labor of the teacher was ever discussed
i n these eager, if somewhat callow, con-
troversies. Yet, if any thoughtful, Intel-
ligent man was asked to pass judgment
upon they comparative value of human
activities, I am sure he would make an-
swer that the public educator leads all
the rest. .' . v
-^Ifdb not say this, teachers of KHITCBB,|
because I am in your presence. Nor do I"
' say it in any spirit of flattery. I ami
speaking of the duties, responsibilities L
and opportunities of your profession D
rather than of the individuals who are 1
engaged in teaching. For, I regret t o p
«ay, I have known teachers who were no
better qualified to guide, instruct and
inspire the boys and girls in their charge
than a painted Indian is fitted to illus- Wt
t r a t e t h e virtues and graces of true C h r i s - 1
tian life and character. But the incom- g
{potency or unworthiness of individual F
steachers does not detract in the least gj
degree from the statement I make, that §
tnere Is no occupati^„ „„ ,
•the economy of the state, no profession^
130 far-reaching and universal in its in-f?
sfiuenco on society, as that of the publieCj
educator. fe
Some oue has said that t h e e is noth-g|
UDg on this earth so puie and plastic as a;;
human soil and mind fresh from thefrl
hands of its Creator. Guilelees. ques-P
tioning, impressionable, its bright youngjf;
eyes looking fearlessly into the unfath-*;
omable future, the child comos to the t,i
teacher to be armed and trained for the [.
Jaard, stern duties of this busy, care-bur-1
vieneil, practical world. How shall it b e '
developed to true manhood and woman-
hood ? How shall the ideals of its fresh,
ainBConRC.om chilhood be conformed to
tho real in humanity without making
the child either a port, superficial prig, a
carping, tmcering, sceptical pedant, or a 4
•visionary, incapable theorist? These are
the questions to whk'h tho teacher must o
anake reply.
I do not niiKiimo that I can aid you in
1
solving thcao problems. I wish os,ly to
preaent to you, HH clearly and as earnestly 00
ai pos'iblo, the grave responsibilitioH you 00
have assumed. The widest and greatest
men in nil ages and countries havo ex-
00
alted the profession of the tnacher. 00
" l'lililic education," said Napoleon,
"should bo the lirat object of govern-
ment," Hurko declared that "education
k
IB tlie c'.iiuf defence of nations." Kdward
Kverott affirmed that "education is a
better safeguard of liberty than a stand-
ing army." Horace Mann said that CL
''school houses aro tho republican lino of H
JbrtilicationB." Kmerson defined eduea-
tion as "the arming of the man." These I
declarations aro self-evident trutliB; no |
intelligent person will dispute tliom.
00
And you, teachers of KaiiBas, realizing 1/1
the importance of your respansibilities,
as I have no doubt you do, ought to
realize also the necessity of fitting your-
selvoB for the work you have undertaken,
ivi
master of English fiction, Charles Dick- ©
ons, there are sketches of schools, schol- JSO
ars and teachers that evory public edu-
cator might read with profit. 1 am I
confident we haveno Yorkshire schools o
and schoolmasters in Kansas—schools in
which every young alloction.overy kind-
ly sympathy, cv.»ry hopeful aspiration,
was 11 igged and starved to death. 1
hope, to >, that wo havo no schools like
that in which poor little l'aul Dombey g
was crammed to an untimely grave— >
ochools In which the studies "went round -f-
like a mighty wheel, and tho young gen-
tlemen were Btretchod upon it." Mut I
fear -that mechanical HchoolinasterH of
iheJJradlov Headstone class, and schools 9
like unto that of DavidCopperlleld. with
its unwholesome smells, its dirty lloors,
and its ink stained walls, are not wholly
unkuown in this country. Let us hop'o
tkey aro very few, and growing fewer as
wm
r- i .fit
•a*
 '•:"'.rJ0f'^'^'".-'
the years ge on. Kansas people take
just pride in saying that the best build-
ings in every town, village or neighbor-
hood in the state is the school bouse, and
it is pleasant to believe that the young
lift) within them all ie as sweet, aa happv
and as healthful as the flowers, the birds
and the air of our prairies. In the "Old
Curiosity Shop" there is a picture, home-
ly but delightful, of a school whose influ-
ences would run like a golden thread
through the life of every child brought
within their scope. You remember it, I
am sure—the pictureoftheslmple-hfart-
ed, kindly old teacher, whose thoughts
went wandering across the fields to the
< bedside of the scholar he loved; the pa-
1/3
tient, faithful old inns tor whose rollick-
a ing boys were one and all the childre
of his heart and hopes; ton -shrewd an
sympathetic old man who, when th
1
u
forbidden shouts and laughter of hi
children on the play ground jarred upo_
his mournful thoughts, said: "It's nat-
¥ ural, thank Heaven, and I'm vory glad
they didn't mind me."
> The way to the heart of a obild is not
© dlflicult to And. and the teacher who is
at once a friend, confidant, sympathiser
and instructor, has found it, and thus
lightened not only his own burdens but
those of his pupils. The true
teacher. the successful educator,
the really great mastar.is one who etiinu-
anc iu mi U I H minimi, eariiuiu
>»w, tuiu
teachers of Kansas, I address Shakes-
peare's la.ng.iage:
"I praise the Lord for you, and so may
my parishioners; for their sons are weil
tutored by you, and their daughters profit
very greatly under you. You are good
members of the Commonwealth."
Water Ways Convention m
•::.^ [Capital]' JM« £
Governor Martin yesterday lnfprKi
ed HomL, F. Hubbard, Governor, o
Minnesota, that no bad appoii
the fo$jj|wing delegates to rop'rel t
the State of Kansasl at the Npr$r
western Waier Ways CbnVentfo^M
Thursday, Soptembbr 3, $85$Sg&' 3
Delegates at large.—Hon. W. Wh 3
Guthrie, Atchison; Hob?' Eugene .ft
Ware, .Fjpjrt SpottJ. Captain ;.Lj§r
Coiling Sabetha Hon/ W. $L
bough,' .Abilene, Vinton St}
I^aTehworthrGolonel'A. T., S
Wyandotte; Hop. J. W.' S$qn i
Paola: J. B, Walkup, Emporia; Hpi

s I lates the ambition of his scholars, and,

with ready tact and helpful sympathy,
awakens and develops all that is best
C. E. Glfford, Clay Centie'; Jbhi
and brightest in their natures. It was
f-l his kindness and sympathy, no less than
73
his great learning, that gave Arnold, of
Rugby, his world-wide fame. It was his Non, S. 8. Cooper, Oskalobsa; HOIK
enthusiastic love for his work no lees
than his wisdom, that gave Horace .C. Claries, AJcWsbri,^ > *-\ '? . f j f
T3
Mann his high rank as an educator. Second Congressional Distrloirr. 1
Bat I am aetaining you too long. I
gladly discharge the pleasant duty Hon
on. L. W. Breyfogle, Lonexa;Hp|.
!;assigned me, and cordially welcome you s
ao
to tne Capital. That sturdy old Scotch 1
statesman, Fletcher, o/ Saltoun, writing
to the earl of Montrose two hundred
years ago, said: "I know a very wise Xkfc?:ir.D, Barker, Gfrard; H5i
man who believed that, if a man were
permitted to make all the ballads, he A. WtiUin|toii; WianW ana ^ .
I need not care who should make the laws
of a nation. I welcome you, teachers of
I Kansas, as men and women who could Fourth Congressional District-?, i
say, with far more truth: "In educating
the boys snd girls of the state we inspire
its sentiment, control its buBinBss, direct
H o r # $ . Wilson^ Tppeka;:.:&'W
Sedgwick, Emporia; S. H, Falrohild,
I
its enterprise, and make its laws." No
[•one could aspire to a nobler, greater
I'woik than yours, and in assembling here '..Fifth Congressional District.—C.
pou make manifest the fact that you
'realize the vast importance of your du-
E. Barnes, Clay Centre; Major John i
ties. I trust your meeting will be pleas- •jOfrlgnt,Junction"City; Chlirleji
ant and instructive, and that you will Iplouten, iri&Mim- •••A3KI
one and all return to your homes inspir-
ed with renewed ardor for your work, £ $ i t b Co9|ressionaJ 'DlstrMl^
and with larger, broader, more exalted j6nn,D. Eobertson, Jewell Centre.
views of its great dignhy and greater
responsibilities. To those here assem- Captain J. Sv.McDowell, Smith XJettf
tre; Major-1$. H. Downing* £lfays
Seven t] jhgressiohal

M.
E':ft-
also
"t of Leavenw

fANUAET T, 1886;
S J E E VETERANS.
J r v . ^ . t o ' i t ; - ... • '• • li -••;:." '•'•
17C
,tion of the Offlcen-Eleot of |
PuWioiw
iinooln Post.
pisSsa'
The installation of the officers-elect of |
Lincoln Post,No, 1., 0 . A. R., the largest
post in Kansas.and probably the largest in
the country, took place last night at the!
Grand opera house, bong before the time
for the exercises to begin the auditorium
was crowded to its utmo8t,and by 8 o'clock |
v A few years
the gallery and "pit ' were filled.
The stage was appropriately decorated and!
presented a pleasing appeeronco. At
either.end of the stagp was a stack of arms,
swordjyind drums. Across the stage in
front were four beautiful fern trees and
the stage scene representing a campground ]
formecf the back ground. Life-size por-
traits of General James A. Garflold, Gen-
eral -Grant, Abraham Lincoln, General
Sherman and other distinguished Ameri-
cans,' were bung at each side, and
also a portrait of Mother Bickurdyku I
and Dr. Crane, Bunting in ubundanco
and flogs of every description and embloms
pf the' G. A, R. wore suipcndod over tho |
staged '• Seated on tho platform were Col-
one! John A. Martin, Adjutant Ovneral
Campbell, Captain A. D' Thatcher, Major
T. J.Anderson, Dr. S. E. Sheldon,Captain
A.M. Fuller, Capt. Devondorf, Department
'Commander Stewart.and other oldsoldiors,
the officers of tho Woman's Relief corps,
and officers of Old Abe camp, Sons of Vet-
erans.
At 7:45 the curtain was raised and Mar-
shall's military band, the prido . of
the capital city, played a selec-
tion from Olivette. Tho audience was then
invited to sing "Amorica," and wore led
by Captain 0 \V. Fax. The chaplain of
the post, Rev. Dornblaser, then offered
prayer,' The master of ceremonies, Colo-
nel John A. Martin, tho gallant governor
of Kansas, addressed tho post. I lis ad-
dress w $ a s follows:'
Comrades oftne Grand Army, Ladies of
. the lielief Corps, awl Members of the
Sons of Veterans:
I was somewhat surprised, while read-
ing the papers this morning, to sou in tho
programme of this eveninu's ceremonies,
thttf I was announced for nn address, I
entered a mental protect against this de-
tail for extra duty. 1 do not know what I
' ave done to deserve it. I was invited to
t as master of ceremonies on this occn-
on. I did not understand, in accepting
o invitation, that tho master of cere-
onies was expected to make a speech. I ! & #
It very much, when 1 road that announce-1
A>< V~, $ ? W ; >-
ent, at oud a soldier at Ufiicamauga
he battle was just opening, the artillery
I • J.:** fas thundering at the distant lords, the
rackle of the 'more deadly musketry was
: welling to the roar of a close conflict, and
8& , regiment of our troops was moving for-
ward, in line, through the forest. Sud-
denly a rabbit started from his cover, and
ran, as only a frightened rabbit can run,
away from the advancing lines. A soldier,
expressing, 1 have no doubt, the general
sentiment of his comrades, shouted out:
"Run, you white-tailed rascal, run; if I
hadn't any more pride than you have, I'd
run, too.' When 1 saw the announce-
ment referred too, 1 felt like running.
1 wanted, also, to say a few words to the
committee that took this unwarranted
liberty. 1 should like to express my
opinion of their action, but it might not,
bo exactly the right thing to do.
ago Judge Hugh
L. Bona, of Maryland, told
me that, shortly after the war he
went to North Carolina with a party of
Boston gentlemen who contemplated the
establishment of somo important indus-
tries in that section. The natives were
S
unreconstructed, and sullen. Oae of them
owned a fine water power. The dam was
there, tit tho mill site; but the mill—well
you know tho rest of this. Judge Bond
•aid that while the rest of tho party were
looking around tho place ho engaged tho
owner in conversation, and among other
questions he asked:' "What
became of your mill?" The
native replied: "It was burnt by Misttr
Sherman." Said Bond, affecting aston-
ishment: "Mister Sherman, Miller obit'
man—why, who is Mister Sherman?"
The native looked askance at him, and
slowly drawled out: "Wall, Mister, ho 1
war a man what made hisself powerful un-
popular around this neighborhood, a few
years ago."
1 know a committee that was "powerful F
unpopular with mo. this morning, in- Cft
deed, I think that, for a few moments, I
would liko to conciliate that committee,
8
somewhat after General Butler's
Idea. Colonel E. W. Ihncks, of
the _ Sixth Massachusetts, explained
tun idea to mc, somd'years ago. During
the fall or winter of 1801, he was under
General Butler's command, and received,
one day, an order to innke a snout through
tho surrounding country, and to report at
headquarters for instructions, lie reported
and receiving from the general minute di-
rections touching the route, duties, etc.,
turned to leave, when ho remembered
i
—
that nothing hud bovu said about
how the inhabitants were to be
dealt with. So he said, "General
how shall I trcrtt the people?" "Oh,"
replied Butler, carelessly, "eonciliato 'cm;
ccnciliatc 'em " Colonel llineks saluted,
and started off. He hud his hand on tho
door knob, when Butler suddenly asked:
" Young man. do you know how to concili-
ate an enemy?" The Colonel turned and
doubtfully replied: " I do not know, Gen
 •"whether I understand what youl
men.'*^"" Well,".said Butler. " the rightl
way to conciliate an enemy is to take himl
by the throat and choke him until his eyes
bulge out." , as the years go by. Day by day its ranks
I was, however, honored by the invita-J
fcion I received to act as master of cere-1
monies on this occasion. Lincoln post of I
the G..A, R. is the largest Grand Army I
organization in the west—probably the|
largest in the country. Its members rep-
resent every army, every corps, and- prob-
!
ably every division and brigade of the
Union army. Always enthusiastic, always
• ready for duty, preserving fresh and I
'fair the inspiration that warmed
"their hearts and nerved their arms
a quarter of a century ago, and I
maintaining unbroken the ties of
comradeship which united them when
they touched elbows in the long line -of
patriot heroes stretching; from (lie Rocky j
Mountains to the Atlantic—it is indeed an
honor to be called by such a port, to pre-1
« side at the installation of its officers.
[ None the less do I appreciate the honor
of acting as master of ceremonies ut the
installation of the oncers of the RelM
corps. 1 have often thought that, after]
all, it was tho patriotio women of
the country who had the hardest part to
bear during the long und dreadful years of
- the war. The excitement of a soldier's
life.tho changing scenes of march and camp
the inspiration of coriradeHhip, the pride
of duty well performed, the sustaining/
ization andT nombers—all
eaowere denied them. Powerless ox-
Cebt'lo'sviHor, voiceless except to pray, ana
'yet patient, ' self-sacrificing ana brave,
mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts of
this lund felt every shot that echoed on the
battle-fields of the war as a wound, and
staggered under the load of every hard-
snip or privation our soldiers were called
upon to endure. The women at home
were just as true patriots und heroes as the
men at the front.
The maid who bind* her warrior'* aaah
With (mils tbat well her pain dissemble*.
The while beneath lier drooping laeh
Onealerry tear-drop hnrig« »ud tremble*,
' Though heaven alone record* ' bo tear,
And { M M shall never know her etory,
W Her heart bat abed n drop aa dear
Al e'er bedewed tlie fteld ot glory.
h The wife wbo gird* her h jeband'. a word.
. j 'Mid little one* who weep and wonder,
1
.--. And bravely tpenk* tbo oheerlng word,
What tliouuh IIT heart be rent nmnder,
Doomed ul«lnl/ in lier dreaina to beur
Tbo bolt* ot dentil around hlin ratUu,
Oath ahed aa *aor«d blond AH e'er
Wae imurod upon tbo held o( battle.
The mother wbo conceal* lier grief
While to ber brooet bor »oti eho pronee*.
Then broatbea a lew bmve word* nud Irtof,
KUalug the patriot brow eho lileh»e».
With uo one but ber eeoret Uod
To know the pain that weigh* upon her,
Bbeda bojy blood aa e'er tbo «>d
Received* on Freedom'* Hold of honor.
The boys, too,—the Sons of Veterans-
I young men and lads in whose veins ruus|
tho blood of the heroes who stayed tho re-.
public; tue rosy-'
young fellows who are your legitimate
successors, my comrades,—what shall I say
of them? The Grand Array will vanish
will shrink and dwindle, as they did,
years ago, before the fire of
the enemy. They cannot be filled • by re-"
cruiting. But I rejoice that sucti an or-
ganization ar-thw~ flomrof Veterans wJU
survive, to keep green and fair the' deeds
of their fathers, and to pre»erve the herit-
age of (rje government their fathers
maintained. The blood of the patriot
fathers warms the hearts of patriot
sons, and I have faith to be-
lieve that any emergency demanding such
sacrifices as those the pt'ople of this coun-
try were called upon to make from 1861 to
1SC5, would rind millions of young men
ready to brave all, suffer all, give all, for
liberty and the republic. • Vt 5
Mother Earth, are the heroe* dead! '•' I * *
Do they thrill tbe wul of the jenre no tuorn f
Are tbe gl 'amlng euowi und the popplee red.
All that la left of tbo bmve of yorer' i\
Are there none to fight a* Tho»eua (ought*
I'M In the young world'* mlity dawn T ' '
Or to teach ft* i be gray-belrod neitor taught f
Mother Earth, are the huroet gone*
"QoueT In a grander form tber rt««.
Deadr We may elaeo their banda In onn,' ',
And catch the light at their oloarer eyes, "£
\" i
And wreath tbolr browe withe linmortkrTOoe
Wherever A noble deed4* done, A ...
'Tie tho pulno ot a boro'a heart If i>Urrtdi
Wberovnr the right hat n triumph won,
There are tbo berooa' voice* board. V'
1 ' •&•
Tholr nnror ring* on a fairer Held i tJ t i
Than tbe Greek or the Trojnu ever tr*
For Froedoiu'a (word la the blade they •yflsld.
And tho light above la tho * mile of good
Ho in b). lale of otlm delight
Jaron limy alaepthn your away;
For the heroua live and the »kio« are bright
And the world 1* a brnver world to day.
Commander-in-chief comrades of the 1
Grand Army, ladies and gentlemen, I
await ynnr pleasure.
Tbe governor was lustily a» lauded at
the close of his eloquent add )»H. The
band gnvo another selection, ter which
Comrade W. K. Brubaker n: do a pre-
•entation address, presenting to Lincoln
post an elegant case in which reserve
the flag carried by Captain T er and
Comrade Kaskel in the procet>s; u at Gen-
E
eral Grant's funeral. Cap" in A. D.
Thatcher, post commander, o behalf - of
the post, made the response/ It was a
brilliant and flowery effort,/ tbe speaker
I
being frequently greeted With applause
He extended to Comntue/Brubaker tbe
right hand of fellowship »(the 644 bravo
veterans of Lincoln post
T
"iss rlb'rence rbV. men sung ''tJtaf
I
Spangled Banner." tho audience joining
in the chorus. The master of' ceremonies
then announced that PepartmenfCotn-
tnander Stewart, of Wichita, would in-
stall the officers-elect, of Lincoln .Post.
The following olficcrs were instalMl ! ',.^'
Post Commander, T.J.Anderson': Senior
Vice Commander, A. B. Campbell; Junior
Vice Commander, N. McGregor; Quarter-
master, E. J. Cady; Surgeon, S. E. Shel-
don; Chaplain, A. J. Garrison; Officer of
the Day. C. B. Tillinghast; Officer of tho
Guard, J.W.Tobias.
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CfliWRBitfotaltf.
Y MORNING. fEDRDAitY 0.1686
GM.KICE POST FAIR.
A GREAT OMSNING LAST NIGHT
RECAKDLESSOFTIIEMUI). J
"* '-' r" _1_ * ••
The Mtorthy Old Veterans, to be Cured for
by Their More Fotrumttc Comrades uud
Frlends-^Oov. Martin's Addrcss-Othov
Notes of Interest.
• • i. •
It is doubtful if there is a moro sonorous
and charitable community of people in the
country than those, who reside within the
boundary lines of Shawnoo county. The
reason perhaps for this is tho fact that a
majority of them hare all ntsome time or
another been subjected to tho hardships of
pioneer life,'and understand the feelings of
those who are now suffering from destitution
r other trials which to many mako life a
? urdon; and notwithstanding the fact that
Lincoln Post Q. A. B. has just closed a very
successful fair, General Rloo post lost even-
ing inaugurated a similar baozar for the pur-
pose of raising funds to bo applied to the
support of their destitute comrades, under
the most favorable circumstances.
It will no doubt prove a suocoss. The gen-
eration of to-day has not failed to learn, nor
has it forgotten the trials and suffering of
the old veterans who ontercd upon tho battle
fields in the intercut* of common humanity,
and willing hands aro ever ready to tendor
these old soldiers acts of kindness. '" •*'*'<*
The opening of Oonoral Rico post fair last
evoning at 180 Kansas avenuo, was an aus-
picious one. Tho exercises commenced by
music- from Marshall's military band, which
in itself will alono attract large crowds.
Following this, Rov. Dr. McOabo made a
fervent and earnest prayer to Him who
rules, that success ./woeJd atlond tho under-
taking. Anothor soleotlon by tho band was
then givon, after which .Governor John A.
Martin was introduced, who made the fol-
lowing characteristic and_well worded fad- -t
dress. *n r^^"^'"avv"~
Comradti:
I have been called 'upon so often during
the past year, to address assemblages of
this character, that I experience something
>of tho difficulty which porploxcd thu old reg-
imoutal band master. It was during a lung
oxbaustiug march, and thu commander ot 1,'/j
the rogimeut, knowing that a little music'
would inspire his juded soldiers with new
lifo and vigor, directed tho band loader to
play a tune. The oiel man, Himself worn
and tired as any of his comrades, responded:
"It ish all very veil to say play, play, but
were ish dor viud to come from?" So I
might have answered your committee: "It
is all very well to say speak, but what shall I
tuoak about?"
Captain Coney, in inviting me, said that I
would not be expected to occupy more than
five minutes, and I shall keep within the
imit. He stated, also, that I could talk
about anything I pleased. In fact, his in-
vitation gave mo as large a liberty as
Oenoral Sherman once gave a troop of cav-
alry. A battle was in progress, and tho gen-
eral thought they were not moving forward
as rapidly as they should. So he called out
to their commander: "Gallop, major, gal-
lop." Tho major ropliod: "Whore shall I
gallop to, general?" Instantly tho genoral-
ropliod: "Gullop anywhere, anywhere! only
gallop!" *
The grand army has several proposes. It
seeks to perpetuate the friendships, the com;
radoship, born of tho great civil war; it
sooms to strengthen that lovo of
country, that respect for law, that
devotion to the Hag of tho Union, which
warmod the hoarts and norved the arms of
the soldiers of tho Union during tho long
and deat>crate years of tho rebolhou: and it
seeks to provide for the helpless and desti-
tute survivors of that great struggle, their
widows and thoir orphans. Fraternity, loy-
alty, charity—thoso are tho watchwords of
tho Grand Army. "And the greatest of these
is charity."
This fatfr was originated for the purpose of
raising a fund to provide for tho needs of
thoso who, a quarter of a century ago, gave
everything for tho republic. Their charity
was HO largo, so broad, so self-sacrificing,
that they suffered all they hud—thoir energy,
thoir courage, their health and oven lifo it-
self, for thoir country. Their countrymon
can never ropuy theso men for their servi-
ces, but thoy can do something to show that
they gratefully remember tho soldiers of tho
Union.
And for ono I do not boliovo that there is
now, or that thnro Lam been, any disposition
on tho part of the American peoplo to forgot
thoir obligations to tho soldiers. Speaking
as a soldier to soldiers, I soy this with earn*
estnrss. Here and everywhere such « charity
as this you have organized will bo moro gen-
erously patrouir.eu than any other charity
that rnu bo dovisod. And for my comrades
generally l.want to acknowledge this fact,
and rotum thanks for it. It shows that tho
American peoplo are not ungrateful; that
they Imvo not forgotten, and will uot forgot
the heroic men who gave so much for thorn.
I have no doubt your fair will bo it grand
success. I am confident that tho loyal peoplo
of tho capital and tho straugors within your
gates will patronize it generously, and that
at ils close tho Grand Army post* iutorestod
in it will Imvo a charily fund ample to moot
tho demands of thoso whose wants they aro
anxious to relievo.
Tho over popular Modoc club hero treated
the vast assembly to one of their finest se-
lections and woro heartily applauded.
Major General John A. Caldwell wad then
introduced as the next speaker. The major,
as usual, held the attention of thoso present
for several minutes by his How of eloquence,
iu which he pictured the scenes on tho battle
fields iu II vory glowing manner, and pleaded
with thoso present to hositato not iu tender-
ing assistance to the old horoes.
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THE CAPITAL.
TUESDAY MOBNINu. TEBRUABT 16, 18WJ.
BLUE POST FAIR
Was Opened Last Night With a muster our.. When these things aro con-
Hurrah.
GOV. MAETIN'S OPENING ADDEESS.
1 Vory Largo Attendance — Generous
Ooutributions.
The third charity fair within three
weeks, was opened hist night under the
auspices* of Uluo post, of North Topeka,
at 115 and 117 LaureuntBtrcet, a few doors
west of Kansas avenue.
The audience at the opening was very {
large, in fact it could not havu been larger j
with the limited accomodations, the people t
being packed to illicitly that it was with
difficulty that they could move around.
Tho exercises of tho evening were
opened by musio l>y MarMhall'H Military I
band, wlucli, to North Tupelja's credit bo
it mild, ia a North Topeka institution.
Following the music, Chaplain Davis in- [
voked llio blessing ot Cod on tho e n t e r - '
pri'O, and prayed fur it,n ahundant meas-
ure of success. After another selection
from the h.ind, Ihe address of the evening ,
was delivered hy (iovortiurJohu A. Mar-
tin. It wits as follows:
l.'uiiirnifa HI '''i« <<ittnd Army:
In UQininK hi lore you this evening, 1 do
nol ccme witli any expectation t h a t 1 can
say anything to interest or instruct you.
Line when Comrade Arnold called on me,
last Friday* he supulemented his invita-
tion with a statement that my acceptance
would promote the object lor which this
fair is liehl, and tliiH aid liluo post of tho
Grand Army uf the Republic ill securing a
fund for the relief uf destitute and disabled
soldiers. I could licit, resist Mich an ap-
peal. I am willing, at all lim>v, to do
what, lit s in my pirWer lor such it cause,
mid so, busy us I am j i - t now, I c.uno to
your l'i rtlival Mi bid y.it t It.il Bpeed hi your
nuiile wurk, and to give ' ueil •''.'••istaneo us
1 e;vn to |:i"iuo'.e it.
11, in sou,i'l Lees as'tud why so many sol-
diers of tlie l.»li' wr.ir IH-MI| help ill tin: jiatj
lie of life, and v. ii\ iqi|i"iils in b•.-half of IwtO
the survivor.; ol tin: i n i iinm are growing
mure tnq.ienl as the \e,n< ;;o Uy't lens
of thousands ul Mild'e r.-, it is said, are nn
the pension roils oi llltl i/uVrriHMl'tlij the
nation has provided i n n f e r t ible and
%:Z
pTIftsant homes for thousands - *
abled and destitute; and why should the
generosity of the people be so frequently
appealed t o ?
Those who ask these qnctstions fail to
comprehend the magnitude of tho civil
war, the vast number of men enlisted in
tho union army, tho hardships or priva-
tions to wiiich they were exposed, tho
frightful legacy of wounds and uuuase
tiler service entailed or the
time that has elapsed since their linal
sidered, the wonder will be, not that so
many, but. that to few, uf tho soldi em "f
the union need the helpful .sympathy and m
iiRpistauei) of iheir more fortunate com-
rades, and of id! generous and gratelul
peoplt».
Nearly twenty-one jt'ars have coino and
gone siiieo the war closed, and of the
VI,700,000 persons enluleil in the union
army, probably 1,000,000 still survive.
These men are all growing old. Few of
them are under lorly years of age; the
vast majority, perhaps, aro over lifty; and
very many are ucnriiii; < r past sixty yrurs.
Kuteeblcd Oy wumich r disease, they aro,
year by year, less able to bear their part in
tho great, battle of life as bravely or as
Nuce.'ssftilly as I hoy did in the desperate
Rtrugiile to |ireserve. the republic.
It should not, !•.. forgotten that i224,:J;0
soldiers vvero di-elmru'<d from tl;o army
because of wounds iif uiseuMi, and that, a |
far larger number, unislereil out in sceiu-
t'ltttf IWiid health, had contracted tho seeds
of disease which will .shorten their lives
and enleeiilo their powers. Tho surgeon
of my regiment, a learned and experumeed
physician,once said to me that there was not.
a man in tho army of the Cumberland who
would not ultimately Huffcr from the ef-
fects of the hardships, exposure and priva-
tiouB to which t h a t aruiy was subject.
fjaid he: "Two momths of somi-starvntion
in Chattanooga woro followed by the cold
and desolalo winter campaign In east
Tennessee, and t h a t by tho alternating
rain, heat and fatigue of tho campaign
against Atlanta; and the strongest und
most healthy men in the regiment will
gome <lay suffer from tho effects of such
service.
Within a year I have rend ac-
counts of the death of fully u
dor.on soldiers, from the effects of
wounds received nearly a quarter of a
century ago." Aliout two years since a cal-
hiul officer of my own regiment was con-
&£§i lincil to his own lied for several Weeks by
the reopening of a wound received at
Chirkaiuuuga in 1'8GT Tl»«m are only iso-
lated in-tances anions thousands, but. they
fairly illustrate the fact I wish to present,
that the effects of tho war upon W. pins-
ical powers of n vast multitude of soldiers
are just, beginning to be fi it,
I dc not join, and never have joi'icd,
with thosu who assert that the ,;uverniuont
and the Ara.iricjn people hnvii f'-PgoUell
) M*$$, the obligations tl.ey are u m h r to the men
whose patriotism and valor preserved the
republic. As a soldier and an America*
• ^ • ..iMn.MS3Jjfcti«um>wp&?g^'
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HnTroi me iaci iiiat The Auditor to tho Governor.

SgWrtfon is*not true. Occasionally, I
fciow, there have been grounds for com- TOPEKA, KAN., March 2,1880.
plaint; occasionally it has seemed that the (lovcrnor John A. J/UWIH. Topeka, Kan:
war and all the noble sacrifices and splen- DKAII Sin—I have received your letter in-
did devotion of our soldiers wero like an closing a letter published in the Kansas City
old, old iitory, growing stale and uninter- Times, of February 7, and calling my atten-
esting- and now and then isolated caseB
can be cited to justify a charge of forget- tion to tho following extracts:
fulness or ingratitude. But the tune baa Speaking of tho state board of pardons,
not beeh„Mid I trust it never will be.wbcn the correspondent says:
it can be trustfully said that any appeal "In accordance with tho law, they havo as-
in behaJf'of. the disabled, destitute and sembled onco each quarter, and np to Feb-
deserving soldiers of the union would bo ruary 1, not yet the close of their first year's
unheeded; M evidence of the truth Of existence, they Imvo^drawn from tho treasu-
this statement, this fair, and those held by ry botwoon $4,000 and $5,000."
the Grand Army posts on tho south side
during the past three weeks, and tho gen- Tho state board of pardons had, up to the
erous patronage the people give to all of firstj day of February, 188C, held four moet-
them may, be cited. ings, viz: Iu April, July and Ootober, 1885,
- There are now on the pension rolls of and January, 188G. The law creating the
the "United States the names of over 200,-
000 soldiers, and over 100,000 soldiers board authorizes its members to "receive as
widows, and during the past twenty-two full compensation, five dollars for each day
years the government has paid to pen- whilo actually and necessarily engaged in
sionerKover $750,000,000. It has pro- such duties, and iu going to and from such
vidednational homes for nearly 10,000 dis-
abled survivors of the war, and these are
meetings, and all actual expenses necessarily
incurred." Tho total pordlom and expenses
1
being enlarged every year. Sevoral states of tho board, from its organization up to 8
have built, or are building, other homes:
and the people,' acting in their individual tho first of February, wore #tt,'J81.B0, or loss
capacity, have contributed millions of than one-half the amount stated by the
dollars to charities having for their object Tinii's correspondent.
the relief of disabled soldier). In brief, The second extract to which you call my
* no otjier government, no other peoolo, in attontion, is the following:
any age or country, has remembered and
E provided for its defenders, and for tho de-
"The following figures taken from the
books of tho auditor's office show the
pendent relatives of the fallen, with such
abounding generosity. amount of money drawn from tho state
*But thlijftberality, this generous care treasury by tho mombors of the state board
for the su'rnybn of the war, must be con- of charities during 1*8-1, under democratic
tinued' 'for/'ihany years to corao. The administration, and during IXK/i, under re-
heroic men who periled their own UVCB to
Rave,the life of the republic, are, as I have
publican administration: at
said, growing old, and every revolving
year adds to the number of those who are \tnrlin'n lliHinl.
p
Mllr,tif4't - / V , * / l | V m .

unable to support themselves or provide for

their dependent families. It is not right
I of just that any of these men should be
K. C R i u l k m r
I'liilip Knihn
'
I
JI1»1 III
i,liO s7
$'J1» no
'i"iM no
m
permitted to suffer the pangs of want. W. H.Crtiinii I ,i7i OO •j-is oo
I A. T . SlmriM. I I7U Ml •j:>s no
They offered all they had—health, ambi- iJiiciil) Nt.iil.,1- I XSS 00 •J7U Of

>
tion, life itself for the country. No saint
or martiyr ever gave more than tlwy. Thy
government thej people, can nev-rrepay
them, but they can can do something to
tilivk'* HiHinl.
I

Milfinji; I'rrlHvni.
I
relieve their necessities, to protect them I H. I., l i i l h o r t ! *'J-"i0 00 $111 00
from want, and to make their declining D. O. McAllislnr 77 13 m oo
years happy with the thought that their AUHIISI 11 ah n 121 JO 1.1 00
services are not forgotten. This is the | tlcMiriri' ItnifiTH 1*11 70 till 00
' AtnriiHt I inn.I i ,M; cio
noble purposes you have in view in organ- I'J 00
izing the fair; this is the inspiration of
those who patronize it; and this, I am glad "From llui above interesting llgures, it
to believe- is a duty which the American will be gleaned that under Governor (Hick's
people wilTidways reoognize and yencrous- administration tho ft ilo board of charities
ly discharge. cost the state £l,.Vi.Vi).'t, and under Governor
Martin they cost Stl.'J.V.M"."
These ligures do not show I III) amount of
money drawn from the state treasury by
} v'r*-'r"W''Vy tho board of trustees of the state charitable
k:. ••*#*$**' V^ institutions during I*"*! and 1SS">. With a
few corrections, tho ligures will, however,
tow*
SPIN." V ' " show the anion ills drawn by tho trustees
during the year IWfi alone.
A correct statement of the amounts paid
each trustee during tho year I88r>, is as fol
 Gilbert JlfiS SI
Auwst Hahn
Qeorua (!, Hod IIITM
HIS 50
1115 70 MARCH 7*188&
D. O. McAllister 113 (J
AufW.st llondi 711 00
KANSAS RULERS, \3o
Total $71* 113
On tlio rali of February, 1885, Messrs. S. L.
Gilbert, Ausuat Hiihn, Goo. C. Rodgers and
August Bondi, were succeeded by A. T . A S0LDIEB AND CXVILTAN'3 AMBITI01
Shnrpe, l'hilip Krolm, Chaa. E , Faulkner TOLLY REALIZED.
und Jacob Stotlor, nnd o n the 1st of April,
188T)j D . <). McAllister wua succeeded by
Win, 8 . Crump. Moaara. (lilbert, Hahn, Governor Martin as SoHllor, Rilltor i»nil Clilol
Rod«era and Bondi, tlioroforo, served only
ono month and tivo days during the year 'KxoouUvD-A Wonderfully llinrjr unci S u e
lrWfi. whilo Mr. McAllister aerved only three r«fHMl\l) Ofllehil C u r o o r — T l i l r l y - O v n Oltlcos
montha, and tho 11 mi res above uiven were Held In Twentr-nlnn Yearn—The New IClm-
drawn I y them during that period. ment In AilJusliiiK Labor DlfJtcultlo* Sue-
Tno amounts drawn by their successors I cessl'iilly Tried Uf Ilia ObVornor* of Kmv
during the calender year IWfp, were as fol- SH» mid Missouri.
Iowa:
Jacob SI oiler ."...$ 1,11*1 41)
Philip Krolm '.l|M N7
V„ K. Faulkner 745 411 {Written for tht Kanna* City STeMM.f. <
W.S.I trump K02 U) Colonel John A. Martin, tho present ROV-
A. T. Sharp V:i7 IX)
oriior of Kansas, canto U> tho stalo just as
Total $|,'j!| r>7 tho euinpultfn on I heso blood-stalnoil plains
The period covered by those payinenta in- was ooinlnir to a eloao. Tho bottlo had been
clude* nearly cloven montha for Messrs.
Stollcr, Krolm, Faulkner and JSharpe, and foiiKhl ami tho victory substantially won.
nine montha lor Mr. Crump. When tho llrst premonitory symptoms of
The h'Kialnt are of lSf-Zi iualruelud the board tho mighty upheaval woro vlslblo ho was >
of truateea of stale charitable institutions working at. tho "CIIHO" and IOOUII/IIIR on ft GO
to locate ami build a aoldicra' orphans' home, |
and to visit and perannally inspect all locali- small count rypnpor in Pennsylvania. Whim
ties offorillif a site for (hia iiialitution: to tho battle for prohibition was fouirht und
select a sile and let a c.outrnct for a new aay- won In tho republican party,und It had boon
luin for feeble minded youth at Winfield, decided nfter tho lleroost In or ml strtitt-
Cowley county; to build It lurtfo addition to (rlo thai tho party hail boon eiigiiixml In any
tho insane asylum at Topeku: and to erect
additions to1 tho insane asylum at Osnwut- statu, Colonel Martin stopped to tho front
ouiio, the deaf and dumb asylum at. Olilthe, us tho standard boaror of his party, anil
and tlio state reform school at Topclcu. Tho was triumphantly olootoil Rovornor. Homo
duties thus di vnlved on the board of trustees men have the faculty of bolnjr born at t.ho t
of stati! charitable institutions were in addi-
tion to their ordinary duties, and the per- rlKht time imil nppoiirlnff Just whom thoy '
formance of them involved a number of Bhoiihl. Others
extra meetings u'nd a lurtfiiamount of travel.
Chanted of realure by dlssembllnn nature. i
The law of |S7:t, crcnlinu' Hie board of trus-
tees, l u e s their pay at "three dollars per
dtein, ami uulcnue at tho ralo of ten cents
Doform'd. unllnlshd. sent In-fore their lima
Into this broaihiiu.' world. score© half inndo
I
2
per mile for actual distance (raveled by I he ii|i,
most practicable and direct route." Tho
amounts paid tho trustees of slate charitable
)Uia.-uUw«inli^)'Auivt«WrilQn!vhlr< - s
institutions lor the calendar years IW4 and That the doi;s hark at them.
ItWi were It* follows: Soiuo ill'ii always woleomo irui'Hts. Thoy
I'XI.IMDAU YKAH IWM, nnrry Ki""' <hoor with thorn alwayn. Thoir i
AIIKUHI Holm $ 57170 picMoneii luiiiKH ri'HtfulnoHS and liwht.
Mi Miihmey ISO |,(] 01 horn cast a chill Instoail of tho tflow of
A.T. SliariM. |:w 10
]),(). McAlliNh.r 575 110 KiniHliino iimr contcnliuout whornvor thoy
August Homli IDS Ml jfo. Some ponplo can always nmkn room in
H. IJ. Illll*>r« *I5 10
(Icoruol'. Ki-ucrs NrtT Ml u crowded oinnibiis. Ofhora aro always In
the way and woiibl crowd a toll acre lot by
Total $3,UJt 10 their own prnsi'tieo. Colonol John A. Mar-
I'\I,I',MI,M; viau iss.ri. tin had thotfntilUHto lm bora uiidor It lucky
S. | * (iilbcrl S |iW 110 hlnr. Ho Is always WIUIIIMI. la novor In tho
AiiKiist Holm M* M>
AumiHt llondi 7:i 00 way. uinl has I ho «ood lortuno to Kcnerally
(iiMtruc l'. Itourrs Irt5 70 iinivo at tho lijthftliiii) and In tho rijrhl
D.l). MeAUi-liT IM III
A. 1'. S l u m - 7:17 Ml place. Had ho conic hi luiusiw with IJolh
Jacob Sloll.T I,n:il) 40 Insoii and Lane and Tolonol Anthony. !io
l'hilip Krolm UW H7 would hnvo been but 15, hardly
C. K. l-'iuilkiiiT 715 40
W. S i rump «i« 00 old oooup.h lo millKlo in the!
Total $I,'.I81 50 Ilcrce nolilllfts of Iliinw early ilnyH. lie w«m
I have the honor to be, your*, very truly but. II) when ho canio ami sWUlliU 111 Atchi-
K. I*. MOCAUE.
son. Ho has always donn iv man's part.
Auditor of State. Hoy no ho was ln» lit onco eoiumcncod to
tnUouptho burdens of niniiliood and 1111
 ^Tisimrcno
and in the
S^JJSBSSK Bodputh's
ier;ihDonippaQ county. In tho anting
. 1868 t e bought out tho Squatter Uover-
^<jn;'oKange«fv* name to tho Vhampion and
has always owned and controlled the paper
since. But it awaa not a life of ease and
"comfort tnat tho boy editor courted or had
obtainedTOWOinliw to Kansas after the
'" hwfwlfte earlier cyoloulo porlod had
Boiea^f^Boonitho fevorboratini echoes of
humptefs guns Wqre heard all over the
rfdf?<*Ebey roiled up above, the Alleghon-
is and across the gtfeat Interior states and
it upon the'-blllowy prairios of Kansas
relied into agrandlohorus that sttiTod the
ids- of tho pioneer! of UaJiiipul8os
freedom and of moved
BUOh \
l
oust M o u r n i n g doslr-
^ o a u s o in whM
iojnethTug lor m~&
- ^ BOlTsOfc&IBB.
t ' ,'• '
ir oFt861 bo assisted In or-
raaix nA.^iihffi-^tanBas and wasap-
JeutMnSSsWmel. He was then
$2* &*^mk. regiment served on
^ f r l ^ r ^ d u i E g the fall and
TvriRBl'n«ter serving for a time as
It was attached w«Uv,
irelTB* command in Tonne
bseqdently throughout tho w.
fftte army of the OumborlMxdj,
Colonel Martin was proMoted]
ftelsfclp, oU m regtmeuUn, No*
JeYSor-tbtt year ana son-ed-fts/provost
ihafof Nashville from Novetfbfer, 180J,
fjtoifi, 14863. -His . w a * ' . $ , flght-
i'ftjglment'^frqm the" start, fonder his
m i l P i t i p k DartXrt the battlos of Tor-
lUp-juad'Lanoastor,. &;£,' tho dampalgn
jairiBi^TTallahoma and TOhntlanonga. the
^ t l e q f Chipkainauga, the slogu of Chutla-
4a6oga,"Ch'e storming of Mission Bldge, the
Campaign InEast Tennessee in the win tor
i©f 1863-4, the campaign from Chattanooga
fto Mutnraap'lh the pursuit of Hood north-l
>vard,/-'-0n the second day of tho great bnt-l
" '"t-CblotamaugaColonel Martin com-|
gaWe.Thlrd brlgado, First division,
iS^gfitfetb army corps. During ,th« slogo
f of Chattanooga tula foroo was led by, him.
if:From August 4,1864, till his muster out at
Kl?ulaski r Tenn. r November 17,1804, Colonol
Martin .commanded the First brigade
Third- diyi^toni Fourth army corps. The
semcBB of the boy soldlor were consplcu-
:qua,Wtmea,'bri!Uiant, always leyol-houd-
eu, pdol; 'nnimpos^ioned and deliberate.
T35HfL-'Kfr-TtJ(Utor and public official -ho has
usually displayed the same traits that wero
discernable In his career as a soldier, and
to my blind oontlrm the estlmato Henntor
Ingallsopce gave me o f John A. Martin:
•He is the most hjvel-moadod odltor In tho
state." He has- made mlstakos. flo has
been timid;at times when ho should havo
been aggressive, and belligerent when ho
should have been consorvatlvo and uau*
tioufl,*but all In all his Judgments havo been
-.earer'correct as an editor as to time and
to 'quality of his estimates. of men and
isuos than those of any Journalist in Kun-
i&.' Betumlng from tho wars with the
ell earned fame of a soldlor, his posses-
ion by right of winning, ho resumed <wm-
.jrfQlof his paper, the- Atchison Champion,
which had been left In charge of Senator
angalls and Chief Justice Horton, lessees,
'a,paper at all times brilliant during this
S period, occasionally erratic, but always
loadable, instructive and entertaining,
»nd on March 22,1865, tho Uj-st number of
uiKUditbi-shlP
Bs^sssraaffli
has ",^
mmt |Runuv. ^ —-fi oi
and odltoismi'I'.'r t
Mart In..Of
of Colonel Martin, u 41 YJ»™ , B rtu0 u,
ui WJJ,
Its freshness, brilliancy piquancy, Is du<
Noble L. Prentiss, who has developed won
derfully In tho last fifteen yours as editor,
.orator and lecturer and who If ho had pos-
sessod Colonel Martin's level head, ids
sound judgmont, his earo of tlnnnees, ids
inothouleal business ways, an«l hadniuvried
a rich wlfo would longslnce have surpassed
his chief. No doubtQOvornor Martin would
glvo ninety days of his governorship for tho
ability to write such rt lecture, editorial or
speech as FrontlsB In his Insplrutioiial mo-
meats Is oapabla of throwing out from ids
ocund and fortlle braip.
WANTRO TO BK (tOVT.nSOR.
John A. Martin wanlod to bo governor.
In wantod it bad. It was tho stimmunv
tonura of his political aspirations. He
•lovor aspired to anything nijrhar; nnvor
really wantod anythlug else. HIB polltloal
Ihough* and hopes woro all centered In
tbis ono office. He ta.Bupreraoly content
ind Buporlativoly happy In his office. Ho
s tho only man I have over known who has
[obtained all that he went niter and can
truthfully say: " l a m content." Ho Is Clio
only man whom tho politicians could safely
trust in the gubernatorial ohair. Every
man, except Martin, who has aehloved tho
governorship has cast yoomtnu: desires and
longing looks to the United States senator-
ship. Fully one.half of tho pooplo of tho
slate thought Robinson should be in the
senate when he was governor. Cumey
would havo been elected If ho had bided
his time, and not allowed ids friends to
elect him when thoro was no senator to bo
elected. Even Crawford, as unambitious
as he has always Boomed to be, suffered his
friends to use his namo tor .the senator-
ship, and but tor certain potential reasons
would havo boon elected. Harvey was
elected ono term senator. Osborn e.imo
so near it that ho got a holler thing, minis-
tor to Chill and promotion to Brazil.
Anthony was a very dangerous man in tlto
gubernatorial chair, so dangerous 1 hut lite
politicians couldn't suffer his presence
there but one term—the senate was loo
near. A harmless III tie trade, entirely
proper, In which St. John ran for tub i hird
term (left tho saint Without any show for
the Honutorshlp or anything else in Kansas
polities. Failure of tv-o|eitlon deprived
(Hick of any hope of tho foinlor-ihip. So
they have all wanted It. 'the ben has
buzzed in tho bonnet of lUem all. .Martin
ts the only man who will f|i»H wltii a sue-
Hon were In a certain sense the product of
a political necosHlty-the outc.fme of i
political oxlgonoy. Tho party wnsront
with disputations' concerning proWblUon !
ri o leaders were opposed to Tnoorporntli.g
t In dogma Into the party creed They I
g £ 9 « £ l l '""l no right In the U 1 ty-n no I
articles and confession of political filth I
numh, , t J , i,\ bt n r °" ff, ; 8t f , r o o ( H oi tlm power of t
nuniheisin a party was tho final adontlon
by the party w na11 m Kansas of prohibitionil
mdiLieaiT
political leader . who *P wl»tfoV«»opn\m1nent
favored prohibition as
A political
|ft|' " ' "question
" " " i ™ or or who who did did not
not re«
regret
its introduction Into party platforms, tit.
John of, courso, excepted. Senators Ingnlla
and Plumb, Iloprosontntlvcs Anderson. Has-
kell and H van all regretted that It hud boon
adopted ns a party shibboleth. Tho Thoch-
era. ti. U. and Dwlght, though strong tem-
perauen men. would hardly havo led off
 i) a tight to make prohibition the oardina.
point in party ethlos. The editors of the
loading papers, dally and weekly, Baker,
Anthony, Murdock, Martin. John ,A.j
HI id Martin. George W., Miller,
all protested against prohibition as
an Integral part ot party ethlos. But It came
into tbo platform and, like Jonah's gourd, It
swallowed up all the others. It became, not
vMiily part of the platform, but the platform'
'itself. At a peculiar junction and crisis of
rtlio party the logic of the situation showod
Jhat John A. Martiu should bo the nominee,
is convictions at that tlmo were of course
i harmony with thoso of the loaders on the
inhibition quostlou and In opposition'
icroto. ThusI t was an easy matter to give
10 rank and file the platform and the lead*
H take the candidate The result shows
at the numbers triumphed; the party got
o platform and the candidate also. The,
..ual change in the minds of publlo mr-
n publio questions is something ourlo„.
nd phonoiuonal. Moved by the mighty Im
iulso of the peoplo loaders arc lrrosletlhrj
ushod onto the .Ladoptipn _j>f
was . possible
1ceviotuy^'..it
em to adopt. Lincoln first doolarsd I
o union simply. Ho would, save slavs;
with the union or the union without slave
JiUthor 'oOTnmonoed simply to protest
(against some ot the praotloos of the ohurobJ
31 o claimed to be a dovotoo of the ohuroh;
11 tho tlmo.' Ho ended as a horotlo in tin
°»i*rUt of tho ohu'rdh. Tho btalhs o t t h o r e
amulluan party, with John A. Martin In the,
-limit, protested .against. prohibition. Tlv
Dirty ended with prolub.uou. Just ho
fiirtln has grown Into it lis oun hardly to
lmself. Ho has executed t h e law tr
-Humo, no hotter, no worse than his prod'
feasors hi ofltco, Gllek und St. Jolm. It"
too early now.Co Judge of Governor Ma
Liu's administration. On prohibition be,
\m rapport with his party. Ho does not*
tend the state ahull return to the lloei
^ystom. Statutory prohibition must bo the
rule in Kansas. To this tho party In Raw
sas is committed, and tin ough alow proo-
snstMW Oovornor Mnrtin, D. R. Anthony; F.
SP. Buker. M. M. Murdouk and Hoi Mijlor
Jiuvo been oduoatod. , and brought
^ip to this standard. " I n w«
gnarly part of his administration quite a-se-
|*rlous difficulty appeared with tho em.
ployes of tho Missouri Paoillo and Its em»
Stloyors. The governors of Kansas
jMlssoiul wore Important factors In sotl_
3 heso difficulties fa a juetor and mora h
pnoulous manner than they have over 1
store boon adjusted. To Governor Mai,
amoro than any one else, I think, Is duo t b
acrodlt of first formulating tho prlnolplo o
rbitrutlon loan Importantconflict botwee&j
.bor "&hd capital,. Political economist*!1
d f/olillcal phttospplicrs havo long speou-"
atou upon methods of adjustmont when
ho. relations between labor and capital be-
come strained. The Oordlan knot seems to
be untied and n fortunItoussolution reached
by moans of arbitration. During the last
twouty-flvo years great progress has been
made In the development of a higher and
purer civilization by referring to a oourt of
arbitration groat International questions.
It was mete and proper that our
country, wherein Is being buildod a
new and more splendid civilization
than tho world has yot witnessed should
Inaugurate and apply this wise und benefi-
cent principle. The settlement of tho diffi-
culties botwoen tho- railroad employes and
employers created little oommont at the
tlmo and the principle by which thoy were
adjusted was hardly referred to, but not
difficulties. Tho Knights of Labor, per-
haps tint most thoughtful, conservative and
host inforuiod labor organization yetforiuod
as tho outgrowth and product of the oooso-
loss oonillct botwoen labor aid the accumu-
lations of labor, havo adopted this princi-
ple It Is perfectly fair and ought always to
be welcomed us a happy solution ot diffi-
oulties of tho gravest charootor. By it
labor that has its rights—and God knows
KasaunVrod Its wrongs long enough—nays
to capital: "Wo will meet you half way. In a
fairly constituted court wo will arbitrate our
jdlffloultles." It (novates labor to an equal-
ity With capital, but suitors nelthor to bo
tyrant unit oppressor of tho other. On
j rock It will yot bo seen that Governor
rtln bus "buildod wiser than ho knew."
rnilBONATi UIHT011Y.
SGovornor Martin will bo 47 years old on
March 10. Ho will retlro from (he public
'iorvloo at the ngn of IP—(|iilto early lor a
Midler, n two-term governor, a man really
iu tho prime of physical vigor and intellec-
tual growth. But so tho fates seem to do-
ores and the understandings confirm 'and
require this result. Hull, if MM Blaino
should bo elected hi 1888, Governor Mar-
tin would reasonably expect first class rep-
resentation In tho diplomatic sendee, as ho
ha* l o n g boon t h e trtvat onr.uplcuouc rcpro-
sontallvo ot the Plumed Knight In Kansas,
and as a member ot tho national committee
perhaps In all tho states west ot the Missis-
sippi river. Governor Martin for a
score or more of years has
held more olUcos ot loss value
or importance than any man in Kan-
sas'. 'In was nominated for tho legislature
September, IHM, but declined, not being
of legal ago. In tho sumo year he was
elected a delegate to tho territorial froe
state convention. In the spring of 18">0ho
was elect nd a delegato to tho state con-
vention that organized tho republican
-party In Kansas, and was chosen chairman
of tut*, county committee. July, tN!>t», ho
was elected secretary of tho Wyandotte
constitutional convention. December <l of
tho sumo year he was elected state senator,
when barely Ul years of age. Ho was
probably the youngest senator who ever
served in Kansas or any other state. In
March, IMIIO, ho was elected a delegate to
tho slate convention to choose delegates to
tho national convention at Chicago. The
state convention chose him ns one of (lie
delegates to Chicago. .September '2H he
delivered the address welcoming William
II. Seward to Atchison. October 17
he wus u delegato and secretary of
tho state railroad convention held
at TopeUa. Juno 7, ItSOl, he entered
upon his duties as postmaster at
Atchison. Seplemlvr 10 ho was appointed
lieutenant colonel of tho Eighth Kiuisas.
March IU, ISIRJ, ho was appointed provost
marshal ot Leavenworth. November 1 ho
wns promoted to tho colonelcy of Ihcrcgi-
iiieul.. Dooember 10, lMII'J, ho was appointed
provost miirshnl of Nashville. Duoombcr
iBliU, ho was oloctod commander iu chief of
the state encampment, of tho G. A. It.
March 120. 1H08, ho was elected a delegato
to tho Chicago national republican conven-
tion. September, 1870, he was a deb-gate
to tho republican stale convention. August
'J4 ho was appointed oonleunlol commis-
sioner. In 18V.J ho was chosen delegate to
the Philadelphia national convention, and
by the convention was appointed a member
ottho national coiumlttoo. In September
of tho same year Im was secretary pro tern
of tho state convention. In 1871 he was
a delegate nnu secretary of the state con-
vention. Ho wns elected a director of tho
state historical society and has ever sinco
-v<fa&
•yssustt-t.
 S U i h e o i u w ; wasaiso treasurer in j«vu,
rf^'nteaident in 1877 and president m 1878.
• S l f f i j he was vice president of the
•riS*iS 4tiit«8 centennial commission. In
M 6 h e % elected a member of the state
lt«B no vyno f t n e national homes
l? oa 5fa?hfflSPdiora which 6ffloo he still
tho state editors' and publishers' associa-
tton E?om 1800 to 187^ ho was secretary
of the norSem Kansas district fair asso-
K l n W & m O ho was oleotod mayor of
hArTf thc^owd of education and president
ofthot,cK!b.'1867. In 1884 ho was
0l
He?e a r e S i r t y - n v e offices that Govern-
o S t i n b a f n e f e during the last twenty-
nine' veara ^He got his work In early. Tho
Sfflcial record commences as soon a* he ar-
Xed-attheaffeotlil. In fact, as already
Sited; he was nominated for the tegislaUure
S a 6 " h e T w o s 21 years old. It U» a long
•loovS of pSrtrtte and useful .discharge 6]
^wJiS t r u s t s G o v e r n o r Martin married
^uffiun L. Obaillss of Atchi»on. June11.
aUltnco was a t fortunate
ispeot. . It brought to QOT-
1 ployes of tho company':
f . the pleasures and ad van t
eduoation and an accomplish .
ig with tho attending influence
oletr and soolal culture supplj
or-Martin la not a pufcllo apea&M
good writer, especially In de scriptfvJi
It is unfortunate tor him or any
public man not to be an impromptu L
I cor. hot to be able to think and express f
f yself on the floor. Mr. Blaine In his
d • Volume in his analysis, or mors
"'peaking, dissecting and roasting
liorjs too noted German orator
oV-says: • ..
atorho did not meet the oxpoota-
friends. His failure was In large
> the fact that he has not the power,
g extempore. He requires careful j
ms preparation and has novor
JLXtotofT-hund PHriUmcntwry
which Colonel Benton )ikeno<
ig'on tho wing." fro. deflclent is ,
Schurz in
t f tthis
f Went that h« has been know]
to use a manuscript in an after-dlnnor rw
sponte, a style of spoooh whoso chief mors
consists in ha spontaneity, with apt roforensi
I
a.
-to Incidents which could not possibly bo for**
H06Q *?*••
p
^Governor Martin rosemblos Carl Schuts'l
' lis respeotr without tho great German
T/S power of written oratory. As gov*
or Colonel Martin la giving excellent |
.uafaction to his party rrlonds. Ho has
d his party on the one disturbing ol»«
that threatened its dissolution lu Ktuy
A la receiving fow orltlclsms as y&t
S opponents. Hla brother editors of
imocratio persuasion will chastlos
ore in lavjfcfhan In anger. It con be J
, aafely.asflomod that In this instance^
lost they,*!!! always "tell tho truth."
".'" KICKINO BUIDJ
JHfc Cnmmgnfa^It);.
ArqrjRSDArMOItNINO MAHCanf^~
T H E OBKAT GOULD STBI1
HE, Martin on th« Situation In AtcUl- }
Governor
&/.*•< c W n o r Martin, who has ju-t returned I
ty-t V
from Atohlson, yesterday favoreu a UOJ
MONWEAi/rn reporter with his views on the sit-
uation in that city, as follows: vj^
Q. What is the situation at Atchison? "^
A. It is, in many respects, a very strange
situation. I had soveral talks with the com-
inittoo representing the strikers. They
stated to me that they had no local griev-
ances which they could not adjust satisfac-
torily with the local officers of the company.
A few complaints were made, but all of them
woro such as would be inevitable in the re-
lations existing between a railroad company
and a largo body of employes. I had several
talks, also, with Superintendent Fngan, and
ho statod that, up to tho date of the strike ho
had, so far as he knew, satisfactorily adjust-
ed nil grievances presented to him, after a
full and frank conference with the commit-
tee representing tho employes of the com-
pany.
Q. What is tho fooling among tho em-
A. It differs materially from that existing
a year ago. Then the committee represent-
init the strikers woro prompt, emphatic and
earnest in staling and urging tho wrongs
they complained of, aud their statements
wero sustained just us earnestly by tho em-
ployes iioiierally. Now tho committeo discuss
grievances with apparent doubt and hesita-
tion, as if they wero not exactly certain that
they had ronl wrongs to complain of. I
found, also, that many of the employes re-
gretted the strike, and expressed the opinion
that it might have been, and ought to have
been avoided.
Q. What is tho public sentiment regard-
ing the strike?
A. Generally as unfavorable as it was
last year friendly. Last year the
people wore prompt and earnest in
rocogni/.iug the fact that tho em-
ployes of tho company had been unfairly
and unjustly dealt with, and sympathy with
tho demands of tho strikors was docp and
almost universal. Then tho public woro
willing to submit to tho annoyances and
evou the losses resulting from tho strike, if
thereby tho wrongs of which thu strikors
complained could bo redressed. Now tho
people generally, and the business men in
particular, aro complaining bitterly about
the obstruction of tho lines of transporta-
tion, and the resulting losses and demorali-
sation. I find, too, that almost universally
the question is askod: -"If tho employes of
tho company had wrongs to redress, why
did they not appeal to tho law? Gur state
| has provided a legal method for seltliug
such troubles, and it ought to lie appealed
to." '
Q, Hut our law cannot apply in the set-
tlement of labor troubles originating in
other stales?
A—No, it cannot. But at the same time
,r
V ;**fc •„•.•,•
mm '.;'. .•<, •:•'• .J\:-'V*^
•5 >.*'' -A**'
KM
 e appealed to tor tne uujusiment'
grievances or wrongs of which Kansas work
ingmen complain, and it seems to mo that
the people of Kansas, having, through their
representatives in the legislature, provided a
just and adequate law for the arbitration of
labor troubles, ought not to bo annoyed and
injured in their business, their commerce
and their industries, by quarrels originating
e >in other states. Kansas has done her duty
' in providing what the workingmen demand,
r 'viz., legal arbitration, nnd Kansas working-
* rmeu should recognizo this fact aud act upon
^ Q—What do the Knights of Labor Ray?
1 A—Excopt as I havo hoard individual
members of that organization express them-
selves, I have no means of knowing. But I
heard several members of tho order express
jthe opinion thnt there could bo no good ron-
t o n for a "strike" in Kansns because of
s;wrongs or grievances in Missouri or Texas.
L'The members of that order understand that
the laws of Kansas already embody nearly
* ovary demand mado by their organization.
I jTho Knights of Labor demand of tho states
eleven things. Of theso, our laws provido
J for the following:
First—For tho establisbmuut of a bureau
l o t labor statistics.
,o Second—Measures for tho health and
|; safety of those engaged iu manufacturing
j | and mining, etc.
3 Third—Tho recognition by Incorporation
of trades' onions and other associations of
1 the working masses.
Fourth—Giving mechanics nnd laborers a
3 first lien upon the products of their labor.
Fifth—Legal arbitration.
l!j
So far as other domands mado in tho plat-
form of the Knights of Labor- aro con-
oernod, some of thorn ore beyoud tho con-
trol of a state govornmont. But nearly all
3 essential and spociflo demands of tho order
are already rocognizod by our laws, and, in
addition, the homestead exemption law, em-
bodied in our constitution, protects the
homes of our workingmon against seizure
or alienation. In brief, tho laws of Kau-
ris, so far as tho interests of workingmon
are concornod, aro more liberal, and afford
more guarantees of protection nnd justice
than thoso of any other stato of tho Union.
Q. What do tho railroad officials say
about tho striker1
A. I havo hoard nothing front thorn offi-
cially, and have talked only with Superin-
tendent Fngnn. Ho is very reticent, but in-
formed mo thnt ho hud instructions to do
nothing without orders from the head-quar-
ters of tho company. I do not know what
tho policy of tho company is, orwill be.
Q. Whnt Hiiggrstion would you make
concerning tho trouble?
A.—I would advise tho chief executive offl.
cors of tho Knights of Labor to como bore at
onco and rovoko the orders issued by tho Se-
dalia committee, at lonst so far as Kansas is
j concerned, i vmnK tnis siriKe is one of
those described by Grand Master Powderly,
I as one of the nine cases out of ten in which
I thero was no necessity in Kansas for a strike.
In other words, it is a case in which the
strength of tho order is abused, and the
effect of such action is to injuro the organi-
s a t i o n . This is apparent in tho look of pub-
jlio sympathy with the strikers, and in tl e
{discontent nnd grumbling among the mon
themselves nt tho order issued. During the
strike of last year, publio sympathy was
overwhelmingly with the strikers, and the
ion wore as united as they were earnest.
INOW publio opinion deplores tho action of
•the men nnd fails to recognize the necessity
Ifor a strike, and mnny of the men who nre
lout Aro discontented, or nt least lack heart
|or spirit in the movement inaugurated.
Q.—How aro the men behaving?
A.-r-With remarkable sobriety, good tem
II w and good order. They nro quiet, pence*
I Wo and Rolf rosnocting. They say that they
do not intond ti violnto nny law. Their
committee assurld mo thnt they had not and
woald not forcibly obstruct the movements
[of trains. Thoy Lloclarcd that tho trains
iweronotrunningyimply boennso the com-
pany had no mon Willing to run them, and
not bocnuso the/ (l.c strikers) hnd forcibly
or illegally obstructed tho rood. They are
guarding the c o m r W o properly against
loss or dnrnngo as cnVofolly as if it was thoir
I own. ^.
THE S0LD1EK STATE.
!•
. Letter to Commander Bnrdett from Gov-
ernor alartln Showing Whit Kansas
Ha*\ Done for the Brave De-
fender* at the BepnbUe
i—Newt Notes, Ktc
Torino, M e lT.-lBpeclaLl The foveroor to-
day addressed \bc following self-explanatory Utter
to 8. S. Bardett
KXECUTlvi DSriRTXSNT, «TAT1 or K>«ses, I
\ TorsKA.Jone 10, IBM. I
8. 8. Burrtett, e*q., Commander In Chief Ottnd
Army of tho ItApubllc, Washington, D. C.
8in:-Yoor letfy of tbe IStb olt.. requesting a
statement of wha\ has been dono by too stale oi
Kansas, "tbrongh Jrovtslon msdo by the U|lslatlye
authorities, Iu sld o\ the eorvlvort of the armies on
Ibo Union, who participated In «be war of v i m
hellion, or for Ihe wlicwt snd orphan*, or for other
dependent r*t*tive*.S»aeduly received. In reply,
the following tarn an presented: ,..•._..
In \W! tho legielaluTu pa*»cd »n sol, declaringis
follow*: "That ihetUln borchy provide* for lhe
care snd in«inlenamouiid etiucallcu of allorpnana
aud miuor children, w»o, by roeion of VJ* dtelh or
service of th* parental or oaiurul protectoti in ino
military isrvlce of (tie United • tatci. dorlog lbs
Uie w«r, Io aoy volnntoer rcKimeni. be.ioi/ or DM-
islion, by eulmmcnl frceit tb»» elite, hire be«u so-
orlved of fee means of inch rare, inslnteoance' ana
education; provided, ThW act not apply In **£«•«
Uonittfter ihoOtuday of April, ito, or to minors
over the aae of 18 years." '
Other .ectlooi provided thil tb* Htalo anlversltv,
|Ul« Normal lebool, sod Slat* Agricoltaial col-
lose iliould each "rccelf. maintain »nd
 f
_ cfitldrcn, upon me terma and conditions pre* Clty or Alcnison fAh&fee, a-
bed In thla acts" tbat the gorernor fhould ap-
»«rlUe- beanttful tract of' land overloo Oitssourl
point ia board of commissioners "for the care of the rlvorand embracing iflOacree and- ilao tirOOOla-;
Jestltute orpbaneand children of tbe anldlora of
deatlti cash. The building will probabl]y be ready for the
'the atate of Kinees;" and that the regenta of the reception of orphan children by tthe 1st ot January.
State university, Normal achool and Agricultural prox.
college should "receive, maintain and educate all I need not tell you that Kansaa Is preeminently
children placed In their caro by the board of com- a soldier state. Occupying, as yon do, tbe exalted
missioner*, and ahall receive therefor a sum not posltlon at the head of the Grand Army of the be Be-
exceeding W per week." It waa further provided ubllc, you have before you facta, flgurea and (la-
that "all bills and accounts, made under tills act,
chould be sustained l>y affidavit, and approved by flallcatocatabl'ah tlita. I refer to thla only** an
assurance tbat the capacity or tho "Soldier*'or-
the cdmtnlssloncrs, tbe governor and atato auditor, phan*' bnmc" will be enlarged from lime to time, to
find paid b» the atate treaaurer ont of any mooevs meet nil demands for room for Inil Tout orpbau
In the scat?treasury not otberwlaa appropriated." cbildren ot tbe defendor* of tbe republic.
I have not been able to ascertain that any tbiug At tbe special session ot itKo, auouiur law wa«
was done to carry out the provlalooa of thla act,. II passed by the legislature, entitled "An act rebating
had reference, ton will observe, only to tbe orphan* to the appointment and employment of persons
and minor children of soldiers who enlisted In Kan-
sas regiments or batteries, or wbo were born prior who served and have been honorably discharged
to the 9th day of April, 1888, and It did not apply to from tbe array and navy of tbe United States.' I
minora over the age or id yeara. It I* provable, Inclose you a full copy of thla law, which provide*
therefore, that these limitations reduced the num- that tho living soldiers shall have J u t official
ber of orphans or minor cbildren entitled to the] recognition. Voura very truly,
bounty of tho atate, and • whose JOHN A. MAX-TIN,
er*nta or protectora were onablo *to ruam-
K 6 tin and educate tbem, to such a small number i
I that no applications wore cvor made lo tbe commie-
| alonera to make provision for the care, mainte-
nance and education of orpbana or minor children |
| of soldiers. Hen«e, It aeema that thla law waa ,
largely a dead letter on the etatnte book, and aa It
waa enacted nineteen yeara agu it la nqw, by reaaon
of the limitation embodied In tbe proviso I have
quoted wholly, .Inoperative. •>• ' i
•In 1883, the newspapers of the state presented
and advocated a proposition to take a cenfue of all
soldiers living In Kansas. The legislature'of 18*1 ,
Mgem
made provision for such enrollment, and this work
was done by the township and city assessors la I he Atehlsett I M w y '.»
1883, and again In 1885. Tbo retorna of the assess-J
era wore comptrev>by the connty clerki'nrtbe »uv- ] *•* Ttoelr B*«pe«t* to Tw» of
eral counties, and by tbeni transmitted loth* adjn- f
'tant general of the state. Tbe legislature of ltMB (Brand omeer*.
I made an appropriation for tho clerical work neces-
sary to record the name of each soldier residing In
.Kansas, and this work la now m progress, Tbo | JAn laiereatfng
5 names are being recorded In books aapeclally pre-
pared for that purpose, and tbeae records, when j
clrclei yesterday ,
completed, will give tbe poetofflce addresa of every olltjof Qrjm Ifym
Midler uow.llvlag In Kansas, the regiment and
mpany In Which
company which he
Grand Secretary" drerEuge
StlffromInwhich
slat*
he served, his rank, and tbe
h» enllstod, The records for eight Del* of the Brothl*
m
states,'vtc., KaaiaaVnilpele, Indiana, 6 8 0 , Michi-
gan, New York, Minnesola and Wlleooeln, are now
jethpltted.' Oyqr .flOjr-OOname* •*•*»• oeptlon tendered
4«« them injbe ev
relurt, ,ard of'these over TD.OOO are soldier*
*rpt» Ullnola, over 10,000 from Kansas, ovef »,0f0 Apollo' bill." The d^gulsued
from Indiana, and over W)fio from Ohio. It la be-
llaved that more than 100,000Union sold ers tow re-1 men arrived on tte r^eltfanta *>
wide n thla state, and that nearly every regiment In
the, service baa representailves In Kansas. The
at 5:86 p. m- diret^mfcoeAngel;
purpose of the enrollment thus made I* to enable | ^ p e n l e ^ ' ^ tntlr.^-jfc' They •
aoldlera to aaoertalo, on application to tbe adjutant
general, the poatofflce address of surviving com-
rades whoinay be living In thla state. ;>-
net at the depot V » •P #oW ™*
At the regular aeaaion of 1880 two law* were committee, cbniUting or Eugene
passed—one to provide for honorably discharged ax- fa. p. galUbtityJWk/JohDJon,
union soldiers; sailors and marines who may here-
after die without leaving n e n i to defray funeral Maiden, J. #)Sfoer,'E. Gibson,
expenses, and to provide headstones to mark their
graves, and the other to establish a aoldlera'
ant,If. Wexneg^ndJ. V-P**
orphans' home, and for tho govortnent and mala- illroad Centre I&g? Nojt, « f
taluance thereof,x and making an appropriation
therefor. :i^> - > 'the'BirattVtrhtori Wg«nui
'I send you a full copy of the first mentioned act.
It provides, as yon will see, that tbe old veterana ^Broth^t^1^m^;,C
who won tbe battlea of the Union, but failed In the
uneven battle of life, sbail have bonorable bdrlal at
trodueod by M* Clark, who bad me]
the expense of the public. -party at Topeka. *• v'"- ' ' •}•
The aecond act, that providing for tbe establish-
ment of a'soldiers'orphans' home, declare* that
The reception' "at tbe hall « u pa&Jlc,
"said aoldlera' orphans' borne shall bo un institu- and drew out a large attendance of .-the
tion for the nurture, education and main-
tenance, ' Without charge, for all in- firemen'and their ladles, besides many
digent children of aoldlera who served In citizens. Plremen were present ftom
the army or navy of the Union during i ho lalo re
bellion, and wbo have been disabled from wound*
or disease, or who have alncc diod in Iml.icnt c.r-
aobordloate lodges all over Kansas, Ne-
cumsiancea, and other Indigent orpuan r
children of braska and Missouri, and the affair^ ,fe-
the atato."
y-,Tble home haa been located at the city of Atehl- garded as a red letter evet?J. . • ^ , .
eon, and the building la now In uroyress of erec-
tion. The plana have been prepared to accomo-
The proceedings were opened by Phil-
date about 800 Inmates, In a building about ifcli foot lips1 Band. B. B. Clerk presided, and
la length, with an average wldtb of aometb ugovrr
fifty feet and four finished stories, but tht present after prayer by. Rev.£ B^MuUonUn-
appropriation, 130,000, will only udmit of boUdlng
one about 108 feet lo length, wltb *ccqmmoda|lnn*<|
troduced as thefirstspeaker of the evep-
for about 100, besides officers and emp'- log Gov. John A. Martin, who, as the
Chief Executive of the State, had come
over from Topeka to deliver an address of
 welcome tojthe visitingJmuxd/^oB
Qov. Martin spoke asjdl!oV«r l 4 i 4 ^ -
Ladiet and Gentlemen—Grand Offiurt of]
the Brotherhood of ZoeombfiM Firemen: I
Within the past half "century the em-
ployments of men have multiplied enorW I
mously. Thousands of people are f QW
eagerly tolling, with hand and brain, at I
occupations that, within the lifetime 'jEfj
many jiving men, were not dreamed of J
The telegraph and the telephone, now fur-
nishing a t u t multitude of men and W -
men with employment, are among tbe
most recent contributions to the world's
industry, conveniences ana happiness.
And within the present century that mar.
v^lous machine with which you are so fa-
miliar, tbe locomotive, took form and
•hape in the Inventive brain of Robe
Stephenson. ' ' .< ... «V.-»'. vl'Mi
i It is doubtful whether any invention I
any age—with the possible exception Qfl
that great motive power of all modern
life, the printing press—has brought sucb
changes In the life, work and- thought of
mankind M h u the locomotive. It baa
annihilated distances; it has wedded the
oceans flowing on either aide of great'eoh.
tlnents; it has crowded the most remote
and inaccessible regions with busy and
prosperous life; it h u transformed all tbe
methods and systems of human labor and
activity: It has so assimilated different peo.'
pie, by tbe speedy and direct cotnmunlca.
tlon It. b u afforded them, that tbe woj-jd
la becoming cosmopolitan, and it has cre-
ated a new employment, engaging a yai'
army of trained and "skilled workmen.'1;
One is amazed, on looking up tbe fact,
lo learn how brief, la the time in which
this marvelous revolution h u been
wrought, and bow t u t Is the business corv
ducted on tbe Iron net which now check.1
ers almost the satire surface of this civil.
Ized world. Thousands of me* are still
living who read the contemporary ac-
counts of Stephenson's first successful ex-
periment. His queer old locomotive, tbe
f,
Wocket," made its trial trip In September,
1820, not quite fifty-seven years sgo, an
the first successful railroad, that Trot
Liverpool to Mancbuter, England, was'
formally opened on tbe 15th of Sepujpber,!
1880. Contemporaneous erporfmenta were
made in this country, however, and op tbe
80th of August, 1830, a trial was made
a locomotive built by tire late Peter
Cooper, of JJew-York, on a road lrptu.Bal-.
tlmore to, Ellloott'a Mills. Mr. Cooper's
locomotive, however, w u a diminutive
machine of only one horse power, and On
tbe return trip to Baltimore it w u beaten
in speed by a pair of horses. Exactly four
months after tbp opening of the Liverpool
and Manchester road, or on tbe 10th day
January, 1881, a railroad running out of
Charleston, South Carolina, w u formally
opened, the motive power being a small
.locomotive built at West Point, Hew
York; and on the 0th of August of the
same year a trial trip waa made on.** load
I from Albany.to BcUenpctady, Nj»w;York.
These, however, were all mere expert-
lents, and tbeywerfl n o t uttendea wun
remarkable success. The locomotives used
MP3
were small machines, difficult to regulate,
feeble in power, and dangerous to those j
in charge of tbom. The first really suc- 5®a
cessful railroad in fh|o country WW not
opened until the lQth of May, 1884, and it
ran from Boston to Newton, Mass, a dis-
tance of about eight miles.
Our railway system is, therefore tbe
growth of only a little more than fifty
years, Thousands of living men have
S tnessed its beginning e,nd ite deyejop.,
»nt po Up present vast pioportionf And
what a marvel it |s I There are now with-
in tbe limits of the United State* fully
100,000 miles of railway track, or enough
to reach around the globe nearly seven
tiroes., Fully 80,000 locomotives drag the
aomme'roe of tbe continent over these
lines, and 30,000 passenger cars and fully
900,000 freight cars are employed In trans-
porting the travelers and merchandise of
tbe country. In 1884—correct- statistics
of later date net having been compiled—
the freight trains of the United States ran
»»ftgffregatoof 884,814,829, miles, and the
f aisebge? trains M aggregate of «iO0,ol0,~
18 miles. During that year the railways
carried 834,070,76(1 pusengers. and 300,-
074,749 tons of freight. In conducting this
•ast business—the magnitude of which
the humttii mtarl can hardly measure or
comprehend-960,46M persons wore em-
ployed.
In this State, which b u fust completed
the first quarter-century of Its existence,
there are 6,117 miles of railway track,
over which more than three million pu-
sengers and seven million tons of freight
are annually carried, and nearly 700 loco-
motives and over 7,000 people are enu
ployed in conducting this glgantfp busi-
ness.
You are representatives, therefore, of a
great army of men employed In the might-
lest work of modern times, and it affords
me pleasure to meet and greet you. {
know of no human avocation requiring
greater skill, fidelity, sobriety, endurance
and courage ' than does tbe work of tbe
men who are employed on ous railways,
and I am glad to odd that, Iq my ludg
ment, there Is no body Of tr.en in tula
country who more fairly and fully meet
the requirement! of their arduous and re]
sponsible station than do thoso who run
the trains of our railways.
And tills Is especially truo of the men/
who ride at the front, on that marvel of J,
modern m»chaulsm, the locomotive. J
Theirs Is tbe post of danger and of re-
sponsiblllty, and singularly liraye, cool,
thoughtful, watchful, intelligent men they
grow to bo. You will all, ,1 presume, be-
come locomotive engineers. The wHy to
the engineer's seat, I am Informed, is from
tbe fireman's side. J hope promotion will
not be slow. The engineers, It Is said, are
tbe best paid body of skilled workmen in
America. I hope this is true. If it Is not
it ought to be, for certainly no body of
skilled workmen- In America ryur/'"
... ^mtu'-
 responsiDje position,' lior, In my
-jent, is there a body of workmen" In
America who more faithfully and —-'-«-
^discharge the duties of their post,
engloeerg and thefiremenwho t
them are employed In a work the
""nlKardtidus^but dange*"*3 7UP'
ork that requires tier
; eye, quick though!
,jmes, 1mm
timi the oddaqn
Spirit of^;ln«Hyr.
*-xIn .war^jujiarmy
'^war. . M army rests Beourel
securely
camp by day, and sleeps peaceful
pgers or
hillB add
the cab
and fireman, sleetf-
,. Those who ride as p*aaen-
efmpilclt. confidence to, &%$*
i W r a w tad the 'esourceW
wtti the °*b' T n e j ; T!&*£;I
deep, never thtokJng W|
hey know tbat-wVfrWUA
. track, and that everyttlri*
toresfghl,care and" »kWcaq
BiMter^wUr bo a o t ^ J f a S
jerhapa, fully realize the mental
foil ot the track take tangible
f%gto*er*da *'•?»«!»» At
rdaty.ua faithful to its
ntheyjook deatttothe
over the embankment or
auction—then a\r'real^e
[ngeri they fad*, ind" ajft- j
fu) heroism ot their dally I
* j - i p , of your duties, and re-
Simles &,': however, untt-
P ^ d them'far better than do
of "railway operations to
ow -how, ,lntelHgerrtly;Md
mMM
iftst'qf your local commit.
.„J.weIcome the chief officers
& t t l o n . , I very. <#eerfuljy
Atchison, where so, many of
iraftsmen live, »nd In ttla
a-a few yeartfwUl'
ay within Mye
lU limits
.railwayottteUatafcttrfi*-
within lU limits
ft State oilarge oodyjof frem
"any > lar
t with a cofaial wel-
,s meet ..
your visit will be atf agree.
hat you will rettrfitto your
ing with you only'pleasant
"four brief sojQnrn in this
wayahosp.able city, and of those whose
noe you formed while here. •"•'
address was jlstenod to
£c I' alSention and cheered heartily.
m Swenson, was very strong. I wanted to
THE IJiflSKJtTS
i.HJ?#
FOURTH. I
How the Jfatai Day of the Independence of J
AnjeHoft Was Celebrated.
YBBTEBDAY GEHEBALLY OBSEBVEDI
Throughout the Country with Booming of j
Gannon, Speeches, fireworks. Eto.
GOVEBIOB MABTIH'B ADDBE8BI
To the People of Lindsborg on the Occa-
sion of the Bepublio's Anniversary.
•JS
The sromrth at JMnd* i>or«,
• p M t o l t o D i I K ( U H T A X . J
LlfciMBOBb, July 5.—The fourth was
celebrated here to-duy in a most enthusi-
astic and patriotlo manner, thousands of
peopleflockinginto town to listen to the
soul-stirring and eloquent address of Gov-
ernor Martin, whioh was as follows:
When I reoeifed thu invitation to
attend this meeting ,1 did not think of
" the day we celebrate," uor of what
might occurr here, nor of what I 'could
say to yon if I came. The in station to
address an assemblage of Scandinavian
people broke down the barriers of time
and place, and awakened recollections of
a body of men, bora on the Scandinavian
peninsula, who,"nearly a quarter ol a cen-
tury ago, were endeared to me by the
strong ties of coumon hardships priva-
tions und dangers. For nearly three years
the Kansas regiment I bad the honor to
command, tented, marched and fought by
the side of a regiment of Scandinavians.
And when the brave but unfortunate com-
mander of that regiment. Colonel Hans C.
Heg. was mortally wounded at the battle
of Ghicamauga, I succeeded him in com-
mand of the brigade. I speak from per-
tonal knowledge, therefore, when I say
that the -Scandinavian people who have
immigrated to this country, und sworn
allegiance to its constitution and its laws,
'are thorough Americans. I have seen
their loyalty and devotion tested in the
fiery furnace of battle, and by the most
arduous and trying campaign*. I know,
also, something ofthe work the Scandiva-
vian people have done in developing the
Msources of this fair young state. Our
eaniu* returns and our agricultural re-
port*, in telling the story of the won-
derful growth and prosperity of those sec-
tions of Kansas in which the Scandinavian
settlers are located, tell, also, the story of
their industry, their enterprise and their
thrift. And so, when I received your kind
invitation to attend this meeting, my in-
clination to accept it, as I wrote Professor
 avail my seiror lOOn at) opportunity ro^atf
knowleuged two important facts concern-
ing Scandinavian-Americans—Brat, the
sturdy courage and splendid patriotism I
had seen illustrated, by them, daring our
late civil war; and, second,, that as citi-
zens of Kansas they had done their full
share in making this a great, prosperous,
law-respecting commonwealth. This duty
I gladly discharge. With reverent grati-
tude I recall the services of the men from
the Scandinavian Peninsula who mustered
•under the flag of the Fifteenth Wisconsin,
and with admiring wonder I look around
me and see the substantial evidences of
your industry, energy and enterprise.
One hundred and seven years ago, after
the Americans hod carried the British
works at Stoney Point, the commanding
general, Anthony Wayne, sent to Wash*
ington a letter which read: "Dear Gen-
B eral: The American Hag waves here."
That was all. But it told all. To-oay the
_ American flag waves here and everywhere,
from the northern lakes to the gulf, ana
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And
wherever it waves it- is the symbol of
peace, order, education, progress and
freedom. It is the flag of
sixty million people, and dear to
them, one and all, because it is the flag of
a republic where each man is the equal of
every other man, in rights and privileges
as well as in duties and responsibilities.
It is your flag as it is my (Ian—mine by
jfbirth, yours by adoption. You have a
right, therefore, to celebrate the anniver-
sary of our national independence. The
| impulse which led you to leave tho land of
your birth and establish homes in tho new
world, was that love of freedom and faith
in humanity which is tho soul of the (treat
i'delaration. Thousands of men of your
J-race and blood have fought and suffered
I 'and died for the flag of this ropublic.
; jThcir services and sacrifices and your own
! 'choice bavo made you heirs to tho common
ijheritago of American citizenship—indi-
vidual liberty and security, a fair chance
i '-to work and win, the sovereignty of elect-
ors, and the protection of just laws. No
(government can give more than this, and
mo fair-minded and independent man ex-
: ipects or asks more of any government.
Jn exchanging the rocks ami snows of
iweden for the broad prairies and rich
, oil of Kansas, you have not only bene-
jjfited yourselves ;but you have benefited
the Htate. I do not depreciate your na-
tive laud. I know something of its his-
tory and its resources. Compared with
! 3tbe vast areas of tho United Suites, the
""xuidinavian peninsula is not a large ter-
f tory. It includes less than 1100.000
iuan' miles; it has a population not ex-
feeding MX million; and its ster-
ile soil yields grudgingly. Out amid its
j^ocks and snows a hardy nnd energetic
people have lived and worked since the
dawn ot civilization. From the bleak and
barren hills of this peninsula came the
earliest forms of constitutional govern-
ment. There, too, is found not only the
oldest aristocracy of Europe, but the stur-
people. For, of the Swedes, not one in a U
thousand is unable to read and write, and "fe
3 f f & " ? who '2« 0 ? t b e lande <- Property in 8
the kingdom. This peninsula, tooVis rich 1
in historic names. Gustavus Adolphus
and Charles XII justly rank among the
greatest ruler* and soldiers tho world has
« E L ? 0 V D - ' A . m 0 D « statesmen, Oxen-
stiem deserves his world-wide fame, and
among aiUsta there is no name brighter
than that <* Thorwaldsen. In literature'
the'writing, of onTegner, Fredrika Bremer
1
aSh'fc ?) *°* a™ " familliar to
T k f « - ?J?ea1k"1& P«°l ),e •• to tho Swedes.
Ihe mystic philosophy of Emanuel Sweden-
•students
t u t t i? tc
Ti , tcountries.
ed a n
, ^ wcrtoined the
of all And among
S 3 £ fe8-tbe • N e , l l 8 0 n ? A » o«r cen-
SffS/ e i i b li b l t l o n .' i n . im< l »Pe°t many
delightful days in tho Swedish depart-
ment, and I remember with still vivid
interest, its unequaled specimens of wood-
cartuig.andthe paint£gs in which tho
•ffect Wof moonlight on the
«!£Li* * S J "Produced with such
mamlooi fidelity and skill.. T h e f a >
haired people of the Scandinavian
peninsula have indeed stamped their iuo
press upon the history, the literature, the
arts, the industries, and the laws and gov-
ernment of tho whole civilized world, and
alwajlTthV tffluehce" exerted by their
teaching and example has been wholesome
and beneficent. .
We are interested now, however in the
Scandinavian people in America, and not
those remaining on the peninsula. The
census of 1880 shows that there are 440,262
Scandinavians—Swedes, Norwegians and
Danes—in the United States, and of these
194,337 are 8wedes. Thecenxusof Kansas
also reveals tho fact that 11,207 of our citi-
zens are of Swedish birth. This county of
McPhersou has within its limits tbe larg-
est number, or 2,117; 8aline county hasi
1,636; and Riley, Osage, Bepublic and
Clay have each over 600 citizens of Swed-
ish birth within their limits. That they
make good citizens is a fact universally
acknowledged. Wherever they have set-
tled, improvement and prosperity abound,
and ichools and churches multiply. They
are, too, thorough Americans. They do
not want to go back to the bleak, snow-
clad hills and the vast forests of their na-
tive land, nor do they bring with them to
this country that distrust of rulers and of
law which arravs them against our gov-
ernment at if it was a natural enemy.
They do not figure largely in politics; they
prefer to attend to more material and per-
sonal concerns, building homes, conduct-
ing business and manLfacturing in-
dustries, establishing schools for
their children. erecting churches
and accumulating property. They do not,
however, neglect the duties and respunsi
bilities of the citizenship they have as<
turned; they study to discharge these, not
* n '.-•••. 7-> •*-'% 4k* *"\
7: %i'Y
 ,._,*. individuality ancfpiWbrJKi, Hence,
in exchanging the rooks and snows of
Sweden for the soil and sunshine of Kan-
sas, our Swedish citizens have,, as I have
said, benefitted, not only themselves; bat
the young state with whose fortunes they
have linked their own. _»'',••
i£There are some foreigners whose com-
ing to America is a public disaster. These
ire the men who, degraded and embittered
y the oppression of despotic govern-
ments, confound liberty with license and
lawlessness, and can see no difference be*j1
tWeen the president of the United Stater
and the Ctar of Russia. The tolerance oi
our lawp, the liberality of out system o
government, allows such freedom a
speech and of action that the»e men,.,
abusing and outraging the liberty they are!
permitted, for the first time in their l{tes,1
to enjoy, at once array themselves as I
enemies of all law and all government
They cannot comprehend the fact that
laws are as necessary to the human race as)
the air we breathe. They cannot .under:
Ythe difference between an orbit)
•tism and a government "of the-
>y the people, for the people."
I " they unfurl is the flag of the rot
.. id the murderer. Their
liberty is the cry of the wo
in-*;, the forest seeking for his pre;'.'
is/'ho wonder that puolio indignation _ .
intensifying against these miscreants, audi
• that the demand for laws ^tbat will dealI
wit^them pwuipty audsttailv; is W«aU|
inginto a popular clarao?. Lesstnanal
quarter of a century ago pore thantw^J
milUon men rallied around their.count
•-^VifiM ohetffujly offered their 1
apubjlo mi
that the repuBllo might he preserve*
lajAitotiouA banner--the wayeoW'w
of the stars and stripes. ItUtbe^Mfl
..^orktown,
orktown, and Gettysburg, and ana >$hlq
-J.—. aand
aoga, „A VtMritmrcr.
Yicksburg, and Appomatw:
Appomatf
$ery man who lives where itfloat*j
leman and" a sovereign. IlisthVii_
t'of Abe only real republic on the face <
k earth. It is the flag of the only go*
Knent where every ms» 'is free to <
hateoeverbe, pleases as l$te as hVd<
.of Invade the rights andftreedpm bt L
bllf w m an.' It is the banner .of the nu
pened this rich and beautiful
tee'gift to all, native and for*
llike. And any man, no mat-
be was born, who seeks to de-
glbrious old dag, or to substi-
tute in us stead the rejl rag of the robber
and the anarchist, ought to enjbj, for an
indefinite period, the liberty of the peni-
tentiary.
I am glad to say that the Swedish set-
tlers in the United States have never been
accused or suspected of either sympathy
or affiliation with the wratooeji who flaunt
the red flag and affect to Mlieve that all
government is tyranny, ana property is
robbery.
This country is not only a free
country, but its government
the perfection of human wiadotftj**1*
vhe dawn ot its existence, the United
States has been heir to the ripest harvests
of the world's learning and experience.
England. France, Germany and Sweden,
struggled through long centuries of bar-
barism, ignorance and oppression before
they wrested from force and kingcraft the
rotection of constitutional government,
S ur forefathers brought with them, across
the ocean, the fruits of this experience.
They loved liberty, and they braved
the isolation and dangers of an unknown
land in order to enjoy it. Transmitted
from sire to son, and broadening and
^strengthening for a hundred years, the
.ideas and the aspirations of the men who
landed at Plymouth and at Jamestown at
last found expression in the declaration of
independence. "This immortal state
paper," says Bencroft, "was the soul of
the country at that timej the revelation of
jts mind when, in its vouth, its enthusi-
asm, its sublime confronting of danger,]
it rose to the highest creative powers of
which man is capable. 7The heart of Jef-
ferson in writing the declaration, and of
congress in adopting it, beat for all hu-
manity; the assertion of right was made
for the entire world of mankind, without
any exception whatever, for the proposi-
tion which admits of exceptions can never
be selt-evident."
It was inevitable that the successful
maintenance if the rights asserted in the
declaration, and the establishment of a
government based upon the self*
evident truths it affirmed, should
not. only exercise a potent
influence upon the civil institutions of the
world, but attract to this country the most
energetic, daring and aspiring spirits of
all civilizednations. <i wide continent,
almost boundless in its area and infinite
in its resources, afforded human induntry
and activity such opportunities for the ex-
orciso of their powers aB were never before
known, while the theories and principles
of the declaration, embodied in the organ-
ic law of the republic, guaranteed to every
cltirnn tliolnrgpsl Individual liberty consia-
ten'.. wiUi Mjeiul order, and ample protec-
tion in th»> enjoyment of thf product* of
U'K indn.ii.rv nod skill. ':'
If it wim grout to be a Roman citizen
oenturicM ngo, it is glorl6us to-day to be a
citizen of the United States. What na-
tion enjoys.suoh, a Splendid fame as ours?
What other people 1B SO opulent in the
blessings of liberty, intelligence and
peace ? What oountry can boast of a ha
pier und more" prosperous present, or a
more hopeful future.? We have no vener-
able antiquity to look back upon, butf what
nation, old or young, haa enrichedhistory
with so long*list of immortal names—
the names of •jurists sueh as Jay and Mar-"
shall; or statesmen equalling Adams, Jef-
ferson, Hamilton, Seward and Blaine; or
orators rivaling Patrick Henry, Webster, I
Clay, Douglas, Morton und Sumner; or I
is soldiers equalling Washington, Jackson, i
 H tv3
mm:M
jK€-*/j,. •. 'ctcfiH

or
rant, snerman and I'nomas; or philoso-
phers such aa ,, Benjamin Franklin;
poets of nobler fame
Bar* all la all men'e, <
*»T» only wtodom; ' '
King h« that wins her;
Him hall hey helmemttn.
Highest ol heart.
•pa
than Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell,
and Whittier; or financiers greater than
Morris, Gallatin, .Chase and Sherman; or
II gbt make* no matter
Hare auy longer;
Sword It 11.t iw yer;
Hare e'en the god* are
w>
historians such aa Bancroft, Presoott and ttelfl&h DO more.
Motley. And wharage or country, mar-
shalling all its proud names, and blending Walking the sew larlb
the splendid qualities of eaoh in a single Lo, a divine oae
Greet* all men g;d lk«,
person, can nmtck'jhe powering greatness Oalla iiiem the kindred.
of him who was at once, statesman, orator, He, the Divine.
philosopner, hero, patriot and wise ruler Is it Tbor's htnunar '
—Abraham Lincoln. Han in hit light hand!
The citizens of the United Siates are Weapo ; 1«M walk a be; ;
It it the WhiteOnrttt,
heir,, to the rights of the declaration, the Stronger than Thor.
guarantees of the constitution, the protec-
tion of the flag, and the .fame and glory of Here ahaU a Nation rjk*
Mighty in manhood; .
all the splendid name* I have mentioned. Juttioe and Merer '•
It is, therefore, glorious to be a oitisen of Bar* tat a atroogbold >
this republic, und in leaving the bleak Safe without apear.
Scandinavian peninsula and coming to Weak > H lbs Old World.
•aXsMrioa; you have'made a wise exchange. Wearl.y war- enoed)
The true fatherland is the land of equal Out of ita atbee,
Strong aa the umningN
riahts, The best country is that which Sptingeth the new.
affords to all its citizens the best opportu-
nities for acquiring happy home*. The Beauty of nromiae,
Promlte of beauty,
best government is that which makes all Baft la the ellenos
men equal before the throne of its consti- Bleep thou, till oomatti
tution and its laws. This country, this Light to thy hdtl
govortment, as I firmly believe, it the Thee tball awaken I
United States. Tou share in this belief, Fame from the foruaoe,
and so believing you have taken our na-
tional festival to your hearts, and made it
Bath of all brave one*.
Oleaster of oonaelencaf
I
Welder of will.
your festival to celebrate,,to be proud of,
to honor and to revero. I greet you, there- Lowly tball love thee.
fore, not as Swedes but as teliow cititens. Thee, open banded I
Stalwart thall inlaid wee,
I rejoice in yonr prosperity. I acknowl- Thee, worth their bett blood.
edge the brave, energetio part you Waif of the WeeU
have taken in the work of develop- a
Than tball come tlngurt. 1-
ing the resources of Kansas. I Singing no twatr aotig,
Sladly join with you in celebrating Bird oaroU, rather,
lie festival of liberty* Tou and your Meat for the man cot:i
Mighty of boue.
kindred have witnessed the full fruition of
{.the predictions which one of our greatest
L poet* attributes to a prophetess of your
ftace, who lived centuries ago:
is Mtu from th* Northland.
I1u Capital.
I' V1«B fxoui ib« Southland,
J, K. HUDSON!; Editor and Proprietor.
|Y, No more than manhood
Bring tU»y, sod baud*.
\ '• FRIDAY HORNING, JULY 9, IbW.
A Dark hair and fair hair.
< Bed Wood aad blue blood.
,
.;
Thar* ahaU ha mingled:
Puroe or the ferment, NO TIHIRD TERMS.
9» kUkaa the Jlew Man.
Than wal u th* Maw land:
fbey tball subdue It, James W. Hamilton, of Samner County,
L*«»lug their toot' Sofia
Spaoe lor tha body, dominated for Treasurer.
Hpeon for the «ooL
Here ehatl mea grow 04,
Strong from •elf-helping. TIM M'OARTHY FOR AUDITOR.
Bjaaiur tbepreeent
Briog they aa e*gl«.\
Bliuu to the put.
The Remainder of the Stat? Ticket Renom-|
im
They t ball stake over
Oreed, la* and oiuilom; ioated.
Driving-men, doughty
Builder* ol emplro.
Builder* of men.
THEQOVERNOR'3 AIJDRESS.I
Over th* ruin.
See I the promlae;
Orlap wavee the ooraaeld.
Peeoe-waUad, tha bona eat arm The Few State Central Oommittee-A]
Welte, opvu-doored.
Harmonious Convention.
 The convention was called to order at
la. m. A Mr. McBride then took the floor, arid'
/Captain J. B. Johnson, chairman of the
I committee on Isolations, reported that
I the committee had considered the three I
I resolutions referred to them at the even*
it&session, and ti^y' believed, that the!
/original report'of the committee be adopt-
The three addTttonal resolutions in
la of the committee were thow
£~ Colonel"1*Anthony on prohibition,
jftge Thacher on the strike, und W. H:,
IcBride on railroad legislation. '• <',
[ v<*The report Of the committee was theji
badopted. • ,. ., •>,(
fa Hon.. ,W. H. McBnde, of Phillips coun-
ty, again offered their resolution which he-
had offered'on the previous evening, a}*
.follows :'•;'"•:'* • , . r '£*,
.'': Rtiiolvta, That railroads derive all their
powers from the state and ara responsible
to the state for the manner in which they
exe'reise such powers, we demand that the
present lailroad laws be so amended aa',
to Unequivocally re«>t on the board of rail'
road commissioners all necessary' power'to
establish rates for the transportation of
freights upon the various railroads in the
state; aria that such rates should be so ad-
justed that the railroads should receive a
reasonable enumeration for the services
performed by them, .flat should not be per-
mitted to establish rates to raise a revenue
to ^>e applied in payment of dividends on
; illegal and excessive issues of stock or
'\lnterest on fictitious indebtedness, and we
.pledge oursMves to support such measures
and laws is may be necessary to discoun-
tenance such practice. • ,r
Mr. McBride said that this was the
identical resolution that had been incor-
porated in the platform of the republican
party of this state two years ago without
a dissenting vote. HH hoped that this
convention would stand by the rights of
fiie people. ' . " ' . •
Captain J . B . Johnson said he was in
| favor of regulating railroads, but he didn't
> see any use of putting a lot of stuff into
[ the platform in excess of what we now
[had. We( already have a good railroad
»w, and aUoaid of railroad comirJif'sjtori-
BTF, arid no one has ever heard of a rail-
oac) company who dared to violate the
lings and decisions of that board. The
^t''. nave been greatly reduced, and I do
m"believe we should now be carried away
> fla-h of sentiment. He did not think
ibt , the,•'•people of this state, who are
^pecting'.so many railroads to come into
bs f tatej desired to drive them away by
the1 passage of such laws as asked for.
r-iMr ,' Jihnson then moved the previous
•,f;'M>»'. A. W. Smith said he didn't thinkl
it vyuo lair for Mr. Johnson to make al
lens;.hy speech against this resolution, andl
then move the previous question. He re-l
minded Mr. Johdson that two yean ago!
he had pledged himself against the. rail-'
»OB He said that under the rule*. Mr.
McBnde would have the privilege of elos-
in$r M-" discussion.
wanted to know whether certain gentle-'
men on this floor were representatives of |
the r<''pnolioan party or of the railroad cor-
porations; he thought that the present I
railroad law ought to be wiped from the
statutes and an effective law placed in its ,
stead.
Mr. McNall moved that the roil be call-
ed on the motion, to suspend the rules
and adopt McBride's resolution as a part I
of the pfaiform. Mr. McBride's resolu-
tion was defeated by a vote of 147 to 260.
TY.efifteenvotes of Shawnee county were
Wjainst the resolution.
_ A resolution was unanimously adopted
lioii' ing speeches tofive,minutes.
A recess of ten minutes was then taken
for the purpose of giving time to arrange
the K-ato central committee, each judicial]
diMrict being entitled to one member.!
Thi- secretary then called the roll, and as |
end; judicial district was called, they an-
nounced the member of the central com-l
niittee chosen by '.heir respeclivedistricts,]
as fallows:
First district—Dr. S. G. Cooper, Oska-I
SeJ-md district-fc\ D. Mil)*, of Atch-
ison.
Tliird district—A. H. Vance, of Topeka. |
Fourth district—Dr. Thomas Lindsay,
of Girnett.
Fifth district—S. A. Martin, of Green-
wood county.
Sixth district—Elden Lowe, of Fort|
Scott.
Seventh district—R. B. Stevenson, of]
lola.
Klyhth dis rict Dr.. D. V,i Harvey, of I
|)livi., county.
Nmili district—Captain Ilkrvey Brand
> > . i«f Matlleld Greet.
I'lMi'h disUlot-fW, II, Williums, of|
|Osi .vromie.
Eleventh district—Charle- Yoe. of Mont-
lgnm»ry county.
Tvciftb di.vriet-W. W Walton, of I
BJIltV J.Vntor.
Thirteenth district—K. A frMithow, of I
ySJ'i'vltty county.
V wU'i'uth district—M. 1). Sampson,
|of S ilina
rilleenth <lin'rict. — L. D, Best, Ueloit.
riix'eentli district—George \V. Milton,
|jM4»» City.
Seventeenth district—Cyrus Anderson,
| A I-wood.
_ Kivrhtoen district — B. S. Hutchiris,
Ki'"riu in.
Nini'tjumlh district—Russell Wiggins,
A' •• a.
i' v.Ti-i.-th district—W. C. Gould, Cu^-
Twi'iity-lirst district—L. E. Finch, Burl-
infra m<>.
Tw.'ntv second district—Phil. Kellcy,
White Cloud.
Twenty-third district—W. A. Ogden,
Nivs City.
L_Twenty-fourth district — George W.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.

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John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
 sled by their rotes teat misrule, misrep-; I
resentation and nullification of the laws' I
were intolerable to a patriotic, intelligent J
and sober people. Jjj|
The administration of Governor Martin ]
has done great honor and credit
state. Absolutely incorruptible as ajffifth;
unassailable in his purity as a public ser-
vo nt, has looked' tti the constitution and I
the laws as his only guide, and the obU-<
gations of his ouh of offl-.e, taken in to* |
name and preserae of a watchful Gflftt
with scrupulous Idelity, have been sac$H-|
ly observed. A »
In'presenting'nis name to, this conven-l
tion I do so with the greater satisfaction,
knowing that I am not alone voicing the j
sentiments of the, local delegation to
which I belong, but* that the republicans
ot the whole state, profoundly sensible of
the service he has rendered, have directed
thai he alone shall be considered as the |
one man to lead their hosts to victory.
I. therefore, nominate as the candidate
of the republican party for the office of
governor Of this loyal state that defender
of her honor, that stalwart guardian of
her jaws, Colonel John A. Martin, of |
Atchison.
At the close of Mr. Smith's address
there was the loudest applause and the |
convention arose and gave three vocifer-
ous cheers for Governor John A'. Martin.
The nomination was seconded by Colo-
nel J. H. Crich ton, of Labette, and the
chairman then appointed Mr. Tufts, of I
Atchison, Senator Reddon, of Labette, and
Mr. Richey, of Wabaunsee, to bring the]
governor before the convention.
> Hon, A. P Riddle was renominated for |
lieutenant governor by acclamation.
. On motion of a delegate from Sedgwick |
county, Hon. E. B. Allen was by acclama-
•j j,
tion renominated for ceoretary of state.
T'ie committee which had been sent fori
Governor Martin returned at this timej
and.when the governor made his apt
ance, tie was greeted with tumultuous I
cheering, He was introduced by thai
chairman, and spoke as foilows:
Mr. Chairman and oentlemen of the con-
tention;
Two years ago the republican state con-1
ventioa conferred upo me the unprece
dented honor of a nomination by acclam-
ation for the office of governor. To-day, J
by the generous confidence of the people
you represent, and your own kindness and |
partiality, I have been accorded the equal-
ly unprecedented honor of a unanimous!
renomination.
How proud I am of this co fldenee and
regard, and how grateful I a you, and
to the constituencies yon M' ally repre-l
gent, language cannot express! The honor
thus done me is far above and beyond my
deserving. I realise this fact, humbly
and forcibly. But from the bottom of my
heart I thank you, one and all, and I beg
you to bear back to your homes, and to
those yon represent, the assurance of ra
profound appreciation and unspeakable3
I gratitude.
I entered upon the discharge of the du-
ties of the executive office a year and a|
[ half ago, without previous training or ex-
perience. My distrust of my fitness fori
such responsibilities was keen. But myl
I trust in the kindness and generosity of the I
people of Kansas, among whom all the
I years of my manhood had been passed,
and with whose hopes and fears, triumphs
and disappointments, I had sympathized
for nearly thirty years, was confident and
I unbounded. This trust has sustained me
through all the lights and shadows of mv
I official life; it abides with me to-day in I
the presence of this great convention of
earnest and intelligent republicans, whose
generous approbation warms and stirs
every pulsation of my heart | and it will go
with me in the future, whatsoever the em-
harassment*, failures or successes of my
life shall be.
1 have no doubt that in the dischare of
my official duties, I have made mistakes.
No human judgment is infallible, nor can
any man expect that all will recognize the
reasons which, to him, seem to mark out
clearly the line of action and of duty. It
has happened, too, that my official life as
chief executive of this state has been
crowded thick with perplexities and diffi-
culties, and f could not hope, amid such
surroundiugs, to avoid errors or OHcapo
criticisms. If I have on the one band,
madu mistakes, I have not on the other
complained of just and fair disagreement
or disapproval, nor have I, when my own
judgment and conscience approved ray ac-
tions, cowered or quailed before criticism
or clamor. And my experience has, I
trust, broadened the horizon of my views,
as it has certainly strengthened my faith
in the just judgment of a generous and in-
telligent people.
One thing I can confidently assert, here
in your presence. That is, that I have
stemlily endeavored to deserve the respect
and regard of the people of Kansas. I
have never eared, 1 never shall care,
whether any person eulogizes my official
life us brilliant or distinguished, sc that
all good citizens shall say tbat it was clean,
just, safe, honest, and industrious. This
is tin; only praise I hope to deserve or seek
to win; this is tbo aim and end of my am-
bition.
I come before a republican state con-
vention, ;i3 a candidate for office for the
last time. I recognize tbo propriety and
justic of the sentiment which forbids a
governor to aspire to a third term,
and if, by the confidence,
partiality and generosity of the
people ot Kansas, I shall be again elected
to the office I now hold, I shall, at tho
close of my term, gladly return to the
work and duty abandoned at their call,
and, us a private citizen, will ontinue to
labor for the success ot the glorious party
you represent, and to advance the i-iter
ests of this imperial commonwealth.
The controversies, rivalries and jealous
ies, thai ! t r e inevitable in an asscmbla

of this character, are soon forgotten by alii1
who hare any honest faith in or real de-
Totion to the principles and policies of th«
republican party. Far above, and far be-
yond, any mere personal ambition, or the
gratification of any individual interest,
are the ideas and principles which have
bound together, for more than thirty
years, the greatest, purest and most patri-
otic organization of intelligent people ever
• known in this or any other land; an or-
ganization which found this republio a
collection of discordant states, and has
i made it a great nation, which has exalted
the American name in every civilized
country in the world, which baa
s enriched our historv with deeds
I
of and names that wilt inspire youth and ex-
alt manhood during a'l the centuries to
u come; which has never been ashamed or
afraid to espouse the cause of the poor,
the weak, the alien or the ignorant, and
make their wrongs its own, which to-day
stands for all that makes American homes
1 sober, happy and pure, American industry
prosperous, and hopeful, and all who live
beneath our flag secure and free, and
which can be depended upon in the future
to protect the interests of all classes of the
people against the aggressions of corporate
power. '•* ••"'••'
I have read the platform you have
adopted. It is a noble declaration of just
principles, and honest .purposes. My
o judgment approve* it, my neart endorses
\L "And 1 pledge voir, here and now, that
H wh Utsdewr I can do to give vitality to
1 your declarations will be cheerfully, hon-
estly and faithfully dono.' '.'•
1 1 .will not, gentlemen of the convention,
2 trespass further on your time. You have
duties to discharge, and you desire
oo
to givo them your att< ntion. I
trust your deliberations will be pleasant
and harmonious. 1 thank you sincerely
and gratefully far the distinguished honor
00 v things portsiuing to their stato, but above
oo
of your confidence,
.iyour >.- . and wish yoa to express
to thoso jpu represent my ' * Tp apprecia-
tion of, aud thankfulness'-,., ytheir con-1 „_
stant and unfailing support. May peace,
happiness and prosperity tibiae in your
homes and theirs, and'may that order,
security and contentment, which A law
respecting, sober and intelligent people,
can justly * X|*ct to enjoy, ,b4 tfitVcotnmon
hertUtfo of. all the pcK)pW ol v tt{s great
commonwealth. '"^S*.*"' *y
At the close of the gofCrrio^l Address
the convention adjourned unttyl :!x)> p. m.
At the <irami. *-
-The opening excises of the National
Teacher*' association nt the *»*?*"
house last evening were greeted b _ fully
5,000 people. Every seat and all avo>«*•
.pace In the building was ^ J " » J
«ms seated with ohairs ami °y"j£j£mam
'm
were here comfortably cored for. ()a the
front of the stage was one of the most beau-
tiful floral designs over on exhibition iu this
city, Tho figure represented was that of
the globe. White flower* represented the
land and blue ones .represented the water.
So comploto and exact was tho work iu con-
struction Hint thoto fitting in the rear
of the building could distinguish the differ-
ent constituents. The exeroieos wero opened
with prayer by Kev. Finley, of Brookfteld,
Mo,, followed by the Modoo olub in one of
their famous selections, which was greeted
with deafening npplauso. Thto wns contin-
ued until the club reappeared, *]
Governor Martin was introduced as the
first speaker of the evening. With his usual
good graco nud complimentary manner he
spoke as follows: \
Luilict and OrntlcMm; \
The nnoxpected postponement of im offi-
cial engagement tins opabled sit to meet
with you this evening, and, through the
courtesy of your executive committee, I
have been chosen to preside ab this limit-
ing. . /
1 am vory glad to know that tho "school-
master is abroad" to-day; and I rejoice, es-
pecially, to meet and greet the master and
mistress of so many. American sohools.
I rejoice for several reasons. This great
asscmblag(|ot t aohers ihows how deep and mm
uariiOtitii* ma interest yuu liave in your pro-
fession, nud it is, therefore, a happy and
hopeful indication that the educational
work of tho land isJm good hands. I am
? :lod that yon st-lectecj Aansns its your meet-
ng place, because Kansas Is an object lesson
that will Impress itiett upon your minds and
hearts forever, And 1 rejoice over your
coming, becuuse I know that you will re-
turn to your homes and jonr work with
larger, broader views of our country, and of'
the splendid system of sotiools which has
made it what it is.
L'ne people til Kansas are proud of many
everything else they place their sohools.
The louellost region on oar receJiugf ronticr
has never been without its school house—a
dugout or sod house at first, perhaps, and
these vanishing with the buffalo grnss, have
given way to school houses always comforta-
bly, and generally the mo«t stately buildings
in the neighborhood. Indeed, it is the boast
of Kansas that the best building iu every
town and hamlet Is the school house, and wo
have 8,000 of them. They dot evory hillside
and valley, and account for tho fact that, in
Kansas, tho proportion of people unable to
read and write is smaller than in any other
stato of the Union e*copt one.
I will not, howevert occupy your time by
attempting to mi\ko a speech. I take pleas-
ure iu Introducing to yon my friend,
Colonel \V. II. H Msioglon, who. on bohalf
of the people of Kansas and of Topoka, will
formally welcome you to tlio state and to
its capital olty.
[Mr. Hossinglon's address will bo found in
full JU the second page of this paper.]
The governor's address was frequently in-
terrupted by npplauso, and at tho close
great cheers followed.

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•fflltti £
..m^Cavt" Protective AiRftocia]
itilWrtonviuo. lasttfM6e.a&r,tao.joffl»j
_ j | l o f the Asa^Slatio]*. Beiag.OK|
ghS|kof No. lll/'^Thefe > O T 4 ^
d e M p e i present, roprfl^tihg^brml
lOO^oal aasqeiationg,fflpiK>j t J t t o t a
Gamofrpm'M^opxi, and nbvo,r 3fctih-
# ffi history otfNortonvffle £ & | f e e
evor boon as manyra<?nof brj^MMd
prprninoi/ie assembled, horo, aa-mof.^
w'ero, at'-tbia mooting. ",;Mpsrt, ojT,'th1|
deief&tes^arrivod Monday .night, bu j
i m a t ^ depot ]j$ a Ita^Mbsdj
tion of citizens headed by- oiir,brass
MM^Mii^^m tb# iasboiayon
waft called to ptafflfj>by President A;
J $oug$r^;U:; Walter 'fetoiiif delivered*
I j M ' ^ m m ^ address of ifrelopmo. MV
I ^^Hp^^p^b^f^erii*. oi
' iClinion county, <w& caile^dh to 're-
spond and ho di^ so svi^'.romavkabld
s u c e K M o said at thjMteoC*'. t&w
ih"frMift|^6haw'thei\h«<%as a' &ljfi
o t aoP^^isdnrco^i? w'ohid' just' «f?||r
tfcalfoi^o 'time ' i ^ V o t o d ^ . tim&fm
0 ! ne^^;io^ihe tio«p»pt|r|^co^stj,tu-
tibn^V.v'&fttjv somo othor tbtttino mai-
J p ^ T J g O . MoOar^';; p t o $ W t
,-pf iilj'r'eadth'o folloTfcftigletter'from
) . O. M C C A B T H V . KSG,T ")
? ••'.^Nortonvilie..Kaaaa8.
MfI)^Ai Smi—XaoktSarfrtodge the
toceip'i'of your yjiry Inlaid letter of
-Duly 24th, inviting me^fro'.be proaerit
fat the mooting of tho 'JDpritral Pro-
jective Association^ at Ndnormlle, on
Tuesday, August 3rd. :$lt does .hot
Lriow^ebin possibly for Jlft to accent
|youi?;,tond invitation. I; have boon
compelled, by business bngag^ment*,
S he absent fro|tttbo State for elov'ou
ays past, and jpn^pay returning horno
id a largo aceumulalioh of buniaoaa
«^ring,t;i}ia^e|BfitH attontiprj.j'tf.I
IhaVllV UBllUV'J 1TOFTJTrereto c^ear
Imyfdosk for several d*$ys to como,
JnuJut would bo imponsible lor me,
pinwr a'.ich circumBt^'ncos/lfarpraparo
ItiivM an address an w-oold be editable
ifor Inch an occasion. ThfJ^ato Cen-
Itral Committee alao hoklb-its tirat
blag at Topc4<a on tho 4th of Aug-
jusl and of eoanio Xmuat bo present
i-fttffthnt time. Thn.3 oircumstan^oB
cAivine tn vcadbi'it diOiculc if not
impossible for me to bo present, on
Mo date you name. . ...
i t have examined tho constitution of
Jour/vfisociatioiJ, and ifc^seeui:) to mo
[hat •he objects and principles of its,
organisation oi'O inovory respect corn*
fmondr.ble. Law is ao hoconsn.ry for
tho povorhinent of tho hviman rhce as
I the air we breath, and any association
j organized to "protect tho persons and
property of its member^, and m-wist
the civil authorities til tho enforco-
mont of law,"de3orvos'thp coiMmeU'.hi-
tiou of all la-.v-rciipoeling citi?.wiw, I
. should bo glud, thoroforo, if I could §
twparo tho timo, to ao'depl'your invittv- B
jtion, and t.i t'^tify my rtppvovul of 00
tb.i olijects your Assooiution has in 00
N
tvimv in a public avldros-i. In viow.
(uspceially of the prevailing lawkss-
leort in sotuo sections of our country;
)f tho studied attempts made by
MJicrchi&ta and Corhmunist.;- to instil
[into the public.mind a ditu-ogard of
all law; and of ^Organizations that
aro being formecl^ib^uiany liuv,'o' cit-
i(S:.-, for Mvo • pnfpbw ;#f defying the
coiiHUlulod anthoirit}' of a govi'innent
thui )VM boon organized bv thu poo
file, it in certainly right and proptqf
thaii a«l inU'Uigcttt and law vr'*poci -
ing citl/»»»U(<, appreciating the Uto&i'
i
ingsand bvnuuta of aoeval order and 8
thi» nmtiicHun of ju:-f lawn, should or-
U
gauv.v.i for tho onferccment of law
and ordor.
Itytirttyour Aa/oclation will h:ivo
a p';»a»anl and harmoniouH minting,
and thill. lt« uhjoCb', iui oxpti .-.-od in
its conHtituli'ili, wiin>M fnithfn'ly ad-
' '*• <• V-.; Ivrod to, and 'carried into piaotioivl
titlect. .,
Personally and ollicially I send you
my yrctiug, and an a law-oilkcv oi
the State. 1 w<)uld be glad'vt..j have
the. oo-o pi-ration of any organization,
»uch aa yours irf; in e'fTorta io aoouro
obediouco to and respect for tho laws
of *!'.',> Uuul. • 1
With groat respoct, I am,
Yonra, \cry truly.
J-NO. A. T\1'AUTIH
 STATE HOUSE NEWS.
The County Seat Fight In Gove Counly
Settlcd Yesterday—Other Matters.
For several days past a delegation from
Grove county, consisting of a committe of
three from Graiuueld and a like number
from Gove City, have been engaged at the
governor's office examining and correcting
the returns made by the census taker. A
strong fight has boon curried on in
Gove county for several months between
the friends of Grainileld and those of Gove
City—the two contestants for the county
seat—which trouble was settled yesterday by
the following brief submitted by Governor
Martin:
ExKrimvK DKI'A'RTMKNT, \ A supplemental memorial, ftvoring Grain-
TOI'EKA, KAN., September 2, 1KSC. \
I have carefully examined and considered
all the memorials and affidavit tiled in this
office connected with the organization of
Gove county.
The returns made by the duly appoiutod
census taker are not challenged, and all par-
ties agree that it is the desire of the people
that Gove county plmll be fully organized.
The only questions remaining to be deter-
mined by the executive are, what placo shall
be designated as tho temporary county seat,
and who shall be appointed as tho county
commissioners and county clork.
Section 1. chapter !K), session laws of 1WW,
provides, that "the governor shall appoint
three persons, citizens of such unorganized
county, to act as commissioners, and oue to
act as county cleric, and may designate and
declare the placo recommended by a ma-
jority of the logal voters in a memorial to
the governor as a temporary county Heat for
soch county."
This provision, in so far as it relates to the
designation of a temporary county seat, the
attorney general construes us mandatory,
and has so advised mil. That is, tho word
''may," as it is here mod, should bo con-
strued as "shall." It permits the governor
"dt-signato and declaro tho place recom-
monded by a majority of the legal voiers in
a memorial to the governor, us a temporary
county ..eat," and does not permit him to-
deolaro any other place, not so recommend-
ed by "a majority of the logal voters" as
such temporary county seat.
I have, in the organization of all counties
presenting memorials, based my action on
tms interpretation of the law, and shall bo
govornod by the same considerations in or-
ganizing the county of Gove. I have no
personal knowledge, und can have none, of
the preferences and wishes of tho people
touching the place they desire to have made
the temporary county seat. 1 can ouly do
termiue their preferences as they may be
expressed in petitions presented to me, aud
even if the law was not, as I regard it, man-
datory in its requirements, I would still feel
that the preference of a majority of the peo-
ple, as expressed in a petition, should govern
my action.
The following facts aro shown, touching
the organization of Govo county:
First- -The official returns of tho census
taker enroll the uames of 3,032 IHHIII jUUt in-
habitants, Wll house holders, aud Ifil legal
voters.
Second—Memorials are presented, numer-
ously signed, oue asking ttiat Gove City be
declared the temporary county Beat, aud an-
other asking that Grainileld be declared the
temporary county seat
^TflB mumoriai~~xo n r a v* v^v,o ^*kV •-
signed by 036 persons'; * who represent the ni-
sei ves as legal voters of the unorganized
county of Gove. This is supplemented by a
memorial, signed by nineteen persons, who
lay that they had signed the memorial ask-
ing that Grainileld be designated as the tem-
porary county seat, but now withdraw thoir
tnames trim B'ich memorial, aud ask that
u'Gove City bo designated as the temporary
i county seat.
The memorial in favor of Grainileld is
i, signed by two hundred aud eighty-two (282)
persons, who represent themselves as legal
voters of the unorganized county of Gove.
I This is supplemented by memorials, signed
by forty-three (43) persons, who say that
they had signed the memorial usking that
Gove City be designated ns tho temporary
county seat, but now withdraw their names
from such memorial, and ask thai Grainileld
be designated as the temporary county seat.
field, is filed, signed by thirty (30) uames,
purporting to be those Of legal voters.
Making the changes required by these
supplemental memorials, tho memorialists
of the uuorganized county of Govo express
preferences as follows:
For (lovn Oily 612
For U rain field 836
Majority for Govo City 270
Representatives of Grainileld, appearing
before me, allege that the names of oue
hundred and oighteen (11B) signers of tho
Gove City petition do not appear on the
census taker's rolls; that aevonty-four (74)
names on samo petition are not tho names
of legal voters; that three (3) of the uames
are those of persons living in Sheridan
county, aud that ten (10) names aro repeat-
ed—making a total of two hundred aud Ave
(206) names that are challenged.
In so far as the census taker'* returns aro
concerned, it may fairly bo nssumod that he
Has failed to enroll tho names of all legal
Voters. The object Of the census taken by
aim was to ascertain whether the county
has two thousand live hundred (2,500) bona
e inhabitants, and four hundred (100)
£ ischuldurs, as required for organization.
Hence, the enrolment is not, necessarily,
a complete enrollment of either the inhabi-
tants or of the legal voters.
Bat if the two hundred aud flvo (206)
names thus challenged should bo stnoken
from the memorial favorir.g Gove City, the
preferences of the legal voters would tin
For Oovo City
For Uralutlelil
Majority for (love City *,
The representatives of Govo city appear
ing before me, allege that the names of one
hundred and thirty.seven (137) signers O*
the Grainileld petition are nut legal voters
the county of Gove.and that eight (8) names
appear twioe on said Groiuttei memorial
aud these allegations are supported by
davits of citizens of the county of Gove. .,
If the one hundred and forty five names
thm challenged Hhould bo stricken from the
memorial favoring Grainheld, the prefer-
ences of the logal voters would then be:
For CJovn City ,.407
KorOrainflold ....181
Majority for Oovo City tiff
It will thus bo seen that, in any view ot
the case that may be presented, a fair ma-
jority of tho legal voters of Gove county who
have expressed u preference on the question
of locating the temporary county seat, are
for Gove City — r—

jemay also be stated in another
form. The census taker's enrollment in-
eludes the names of 7157 legal voters. A.
majority of this number would be 379.
There are 012 names on the Gove City mem-
orial, (after deducting and adding those
who petition to be changed,} an J of these
200 are challenged. Without passing upon
the question whether these challenges are or
are not valid, but deducting all the names
challenged from the Gove City memorial,
the remainder, 407, constitute a majority of
the total numoer returned as legal voters by
the ceuaus taker.
Again there are three hundred and thirty-
six (.130) names on the Graiufleld memorial
(after deducting and adding those who peti-
tioned to be changed,) and of tlwse, one
hundred and forty-Ave (Hfi) are challenged.
Without considering the question whether
the.se challenges are or are not valid, but
counting them as valid, the total of the sig-
natures to the Groiunolii memorial, throe
hundred and thirtj-six (U80) lack forty-three
(43) of being a majority of tho legal voters
as returned by the census taker.
In view of all these facts, tt seems to me
that that there can be no doubt concerning
the preferences of the It gal voters of Gove
county on the question of looating the tem-
porary county seat Hence, I ' jtninh.'
Gove City ns the temporary county cent of
said county uf Gove.
At a meeting of n committee appointed by
oitizens of Gove county to secure th<> organi-
sation of t<aid county, tferome II. Medium-
ban, William T. Stokes and Lyman Ray-
mond wuro recommended for county com-
missioners, and 1). A. Borah far county
plerk. I see no good reason for disregard-
lag the recommendations thus made, and
the persons named will be appointed.
* JOHN A. MAUTIX,
Governor of Kansas.
WEDNESDAY MOKNINGNOV0MBEK 10, 18Sd
FESTIVAL OF FLOWEltS.
TUB EX1IHJITION IBV BRISTOL SIS-
TEBS OPENED ATLIDBAKY HAIL.
Governor John A. Martin Delivers a Very
Flttlng Address-Some Information Con-
ceruli g This Novel Entertalnu>«ut-
The chrjsautl emumthbw and floral exhi- •
bitipn given by Bristol;SisWas was formally H
oponedat Library hall last evening in the E M
presence of a most brilliant assemblage.
A short time before the doors opened?^,
MawhaU's band rendered a few pieoes a n d n
at 8:15 the doors were ihrown open andj '
during the evening fully five hundred people]
passed in.
£%<•
18:46 Mr. Edward Wilder, president of
the Library association introduced Governor
John A. Martin, whof ormally opened the
festival in the following words.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In responding to the request of the Misses
Bristol to formally open this beautiful fes-
tival, I am fully aware of the fact that I have
assumed a difficult role. My botanical edu-
cation WHS sadly u ejected, and I had bet-
ter confess at once that I know very little
about flowers. I delight in their beauty. I
have always believed that where plants are
blooming in gardens and windows, it is an
indication of a sweet and beautiful home
life—of taste, of refinement, of hopefulness
and inspiration. I have visited several of
the most noted gardens in this oouutry, and
found rare pleasure in their treasures of bud
and blossom, of leaf and foliage. And yet
if I were asked I could tell the names of
very few of the plants in my garden.
I am, however, glad to do whutsover I can
to promote the success of this novel and
beautiful festival of flowers, and especially
to aid and encourage the ladies who have
arranged it. Tbey have not only furnished
the people of the capital city with a lovely
exhibition, but have answered, prac-
tically, a question often asked:
"What is there for a woman's hands to do?"
Here is one occupation at leaxt, in which
two women have aohitved a signal success;
have supplied something a community
wants, and have done it well: have found
something to do which enlists at once their
taste, their intelligence and their energies,
rptt and in doing it have benefitted the city in
which they live as well as themselves.
I very gladly, therefore, comply with their
request, that I should formally open this
festival. It is a beautifnl display of flowers,
creditable alike to the ladies whose skill,
taste and enterprise devised and arranged
it, and to the city in which it is held. And
now, speaking for them, I bid you one and
all welcome, and deolare the flower show
formally opened.
During the remainder of the evening tho
crowd passed around the hall viewing the
many pretty si. hts.
WHAT WAS TO BE B » N .
The first thing attracting the eye upon en-
tering is an avenue of palms which leads one
to the center of the hall. Hero the attrac-
tion is a large and handsome bed of ooleus
and chrysanthemums, of shades of red and
white. To the left of the center is an oblong
bed of colens and chrysanthemums of white
and shadei of yellow. Extending along
both sides of the hall are pointed beds com-
posed exclusively of ohryeauthemums of
white and shades of pink.
At the west end of the hall is a large foun-
tain built up by shells, mosses and foliage,
all of which make a most pleasing sight.
The curtain bears the inscription:
: CHHYANTHKMUM BHOW :
—AHD—
FLOUAL EXHIBITION,
1886.
The walls are very beautifully decorated
with pictures adorned with palm leaves, and
twined around the ohondaliers was some
•mllax. Token as a whole the sights pre*.
tented to tho eye in the hall were most beau-
tifnl indeed. The opening night of the ex-
hibition was (•success in every way and it is
only to be hoped that the remaining days
during which it will be open to the public
Wifl t... .... s#«1
 A PLEASANT OCCASION.
INTERESTING CEREMONIES AT THE
STATE UNIVERSITY.
Dedication of the New Natural History
Building Known as "Snow Hall"—A Neat
Little Address by Governor Martin—Re-
Kent A. G. OtU Deliver* a Few Appro-
priate Remark*.
[Special to the Commonwealth [
LAWUKNOK, KAN., November IB.—To-day
the beautiful natural history building, an
addition to the State nniveraity, was dedi-
cated at Mt. Oread, jnst west of the main
university building near Lawrence. The
structure was most appropriately named in
honor of Professor F. II. Bnow, the veteran
of the nutnral history department of the
institution, who haa spent the last twenty
years most industriously and effeotifely in a
labor of love in upbuilding the department
of natural history. His reputation aa a
I scientist is one of the moat exten-
II slvo In this country, and his
oonneotion with the Btato university
extonding back over many years haa demon-
strated the (not that he i s an invaluable man.
"Bhow hall" was built b y the state at a lijj
oost of *r-0,(XX), T h e stylo of the architec-
ture is that known ns mediieval. T h e build -
i n s is constructed of a beautiful, white I
stone.
Today the attendance wns not so large as
it would have been, except tor the heavy
rains.
At 11 o'clock in the university chapel tho
dodlaatory address WHS delivered by Profes-
sor K. D. Oope. the distinguished scientist,
of Philadelphia. Ho presented a masterly
address which wa« well received, Uis sub-
ject wns, "The Relation of Science to Hu-
man Happiness."
Judge Otis, of Atchison, one of the rodent*
of the university, made an appropriate
speech in which he referred to the pnst and
prosontofthe university and tho evontof
to-day as a most Important stop in its pro-
gress. He pictured a bright future for the
great institution of learning.
After the exercises in the commodious
chapel of the university the audienoo ad-
journed to "Snow Hall" where Oovernor
Martin, in placing the new building in the
otre and custody of the regents, delivered
the following address:
;- In the verses prepared by our Kansas poet
at the quarter-oentennial it is raid:
States sro not great—
Except M men may mnko them.
Hen are not groat except they do and iluro;
But states, Ilk* mto.
Have destinies that take them—
That bear them on, not knowing why or
whore."
The wonderfnl growth and marvolous
[prosperity of Kansas, unprecedented in the
history of American states, is notalonoduo
ko soil, climate, resources and topography.
Other states have soil* aa productive, cli-
mates as healthful, resources more varied,
land land-capes as lovely as ours. The unex-
ampled development and prosperity of Kan-
sas is the logical result ot her splendid citi-
zenship, ana of the intellectual nnd moral
soroes this citizenship has set at work in
every township of the state. Oar plonser
settlers laid the foundations of a sohool
house and a oharcn by the side of their first
ruae ndmesTEmoTTfom ISSI ciay to mis tne
idea thus planted has grown and spread and
flourished with the development of the com-
monwealth. The people of Kansas may have
been parsimonious in some things but they
have never stinted their expenditures to pro-
vide, for all the children of the state, the
moBt ample educational facilities
A few days ago the oldest and most richly
endowed college in this oountry celebrated
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary ot
its foundation. For more than two centur-
ies Harvard has been the pride of tho groat
state within whose borders it is located, and
yet it has never received from Mapsaohu-
sot'S as much money as the young state of
Kansas has appropriated, during tho post
twenty-five years, to establish aud support
this university.
The older generation* of Kansas, howovor,
hold a divided allegiance. They love and aro
proud of the state of their adoption, but
memories of the fields and hills aud streams
of their birth place are still singing in their
heart. The young men and women who
come up to Mount Oread to be equipped for
the battle of life, will be, as a rule, nativts
of the state, and attached to it by the undi-
vided tie* of childhood's memories and the
pride and faith of matuier years. Genera-
tion after generation of these sons and
daughters of Kansas will be inspired, within
these walls, with higher aims, nobler mo-
tives, and larger and broader vio vs of hu-
man life and ondoavor.
QWe meet, to-day, to formally celebrate
another step in the growth and progress of
the state university—to dedicate this beauti-
ful building, the home, for all futuro time,
of the department of natural history. Very
properly the building is to bear the name of
tho learned, devoted and enthusiastic teach-
er to whoae energy, industry and zeal the
state is indebted for the treasures that are
gathered within it* walls. I disohargo a
very pleasant duty, gentlemen of the board
of regents, when, lu the name of the state, I
commit to your koepiog this stately edifice.
See that the purpose of tho legislature in
ordering it, is fully carried ont. Study the
needs ot this great educational Institution,
and mako them known. Strive to keep it,
In all Its departments, fully abreast with the
fci
growth and progress of the state. In this
endeavor you can, I am confident, rely on
the cordial and generous oo-operation of the
intelligent people of Kansas, and the hearty
support of their chosen representatives in
tho legislature
RICHFIELD CHOSEN.
T H E QOVKUNOH IJKMH1N ATMS •:M-
I'OItAKY COUNTY SEAT.
Morton County Orgnnlxt-d by t h o A p - '
polBluteitt or Co u ill T O III err* und tlio
D e s i g n a t i o n of the County Neat - T h e
mm
Governor R e v i e w * the Cum lo Detail,
The following, being soli explanatory, was
yesterday issued from tho oxecutivo doport-j
neat:
 STATE OF KANHA3,
EXKOCTIVK DEPABTMENT,
TOPEKA, Nov. 17, '80
The organization of now counties, involv-
ing the designation of temporary county
seats, is on.- of ihe most difficult and per-
kplexiug duties devolved upon the executive.
iThe law prescribing the moi hods by which
Ian organization may be effected is so indef-
inite ia its directions, the authority vested in
Fthe governor is so inadequate to fairly ascer-
tain the real prtferonce.1 and wishes of the
people interested, aud the representations
always made by thu contending parties are
BO r.onti adie.tory and com using, that it is
invariably difficult, and iu some iustancos
[impossible, to ascertain such tacts as oujht
I to be known in order to arrive at au impar-
tial and just decision.
On the 20th ot April last, in compliance
with a memorial purporting to bo signed by
over four hundred inhabitants at Mortou
i county, I appointed.10. l'\ Henderson asean-
I BUB taker tor said county, This memorial
was pieBi'nted by oltizuns identiliod with the
I town of b'rifoo. On the'JR.Ii of September
last, Mr. Henderson made due return, under
oath, of the census and assessment made by
him. His returns embraced the names of
2,5bO inhabitants, of whom (117 were legal
voters, uud Property valued at $(ltH,83Ji in
oxcess of railroad property. The eorroot-
nossoi the ceubus taker's returns have not
been challenged.
Memorials were thou fllod, praying, re-
i Bpectivtly, that thu town of Frisco aud the
town of Kiohlleld bo deolnred the temporary
count seat, and on the Oth of November the
contending parties each submitted memori-
als, one asking that L-'rirco, the othor pray
lug that Uiclinold, bo declared thu tempor-
ary county seat. It wan. at tor a lengthy
discussion, agreed by both parties that
there moinorials be submitted to mo on the
evidence submitted in writing, and embod-
ied iu thu paper boforo me.
The aot approved February IB, iWfi, pro-
vides that, when the cousus inker's, returns
aro received, "the govoruor shall appoint
three persons, citizens of said unorganized
oouuty, to act as commissioners, and one to
aotaa county clerk, and may designate and
doclaro the plsoe recommended by a majori-
ty af I lui legal iHittfH in a memorial In the
governor o.i a temporary toun'i/ seal for
IUC/I county.
iwu uiuiiiorials were presented, in the
form of petitlous. The memorial In favor
of the town of Frisco is signed by 1.488
name', nud purports to be the memorial of
"citizens and electors of Morton county."
It is not ventled in any manner, and many
of the names attached wore evidently signed
by one person. Notable, ouo sheet continu-
ing HO tinmen, appears to huvo boen signed
in this manner.
The memorial in favor of Richfield, which
is iu the form of a petition, is signed by I,-
424 uames, and purports to bo signed by
"legal voters of the unorganized
county of Morton," and is veriUed
by the affidavit of eight householders- of
Morton county, who swear that "to thu best
of their knowledge and belief, the mimes
attached to this memorial are genuine and
bona tide citizens of that oouuty." There is
also a petition sigued by ex-soldier^, to the
number of "<0, making a total of 1,170 peti-
tioners.
It will be observed that theso memorials
I have attached to them a very nearly equal
number of names. Neither of thorn, how-
over, purports to be signed only by "legal
votois," as the low requiros, and neither of
em is, in fact, signed only by legal voters
of said county. Both have attached to them
the names of a number of women and chil-
dren: and other names are those of persons
who have not resided in the state long
enough to entitle them to vote. It is also
evident, from the face of the memorials,
that many of the different names were at-
tached by one person.. In some instances,
as many as a dozea |or fifteen names ap-
poar in consecutive order written in pre-
cisely the same band and evidently by one
person.
At the general election, held on the second
day of November, Morton oounty polled
less than 720 votes. The census taker, as I
have stated, returns the names of G47 legal
voters. Hence, it may fairly be assumed
that the legal voters of the county do not
exceed 700. The names attached to the two
memorials I have referred to, aggregate
2,001, and hence it is evident that at least
2,231 of these names are not those of legal
voters.
In endeavoring to ascertain which mem-
orial presented bad attached to it the largest
number of legal voters, I had prepared an
alphabetical list of the uames returned by
the census taker, under oath, as the names
of the legHl voters of Morton county. The
two memorials above referred to we-e then
carefully sifted, and it was then ascertained
that the nsmesof 284 legal voters, as re-
turned by the census taker, were attached to
the memorial in favor of Riohneld, and that
the names of 1G2 Is gal voters, similarly re-
turned, were attached to the memorial in
favor of Frisco. The names of thirty-four
ot those legal votors aro attached to both
potitions. Deducting theso, and 2f>0 legal
voters express a preference for Richfield,
while 128 uxpress a preference for Frisco.
Uenco, I think it fair to assume that the
town of Richfield, in so far as the memorials
aro concerned, is, in the language of the aot
of the legislature, "recommended by a ma-
jority of legal votors in a memorial to tuo
govornor."
The }own of Richfield, howevnr, presents
another memorial. This is iu form, of
which thu full owing is a copy:
1'tt.lnh.n. A. ifiirtiii,<ji>vrrnar of lae ntlite of A'an-
IIUI:
No, :to.
I am a resident and legal voter ot the
southwest quarter of section 'J.'i, township
HI, range VJ. Morton county, Kausas, and
am over 21 years of age. 1 settled in this
oounty and made it my home March 28,
1880. My family consists of myself. 1
would renpeolfully request that you desig-
nate Kiohlleld as the temporary county seat
of Morton oounty. A. J. SCOTT.
Dated in Morton county, Kansas, this 22d
day of September, 188(i.
Six hundred and sixty-eight of theso indi-
vidual memorials have been tiled, each
signed by llin name of a person who repre-
sents himself iu the language quoted above,
ss n legal voter, and these memorials are
cortilied to by affidavits, of which the fol-
lowing ie a copy:
BTATE OP KANSAS,
Morton Oouuty,
Jesse Taylor, boing of lawful ago, deposes
and says, the foregoing signatures, num-
bered from 1 to GO, inclusive, were signed in
my presence by the persons whose names
aro attached, respectively, and I personally
know that the statements therein contained
are true. JESSE TAYLOR.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this
 Q. A. BOBKBTBON,
tly commission expires MayNotary
SEAL]. Public.
18, lf*90.
The memorial thus presented is the best I
antheuticat d petition ever tiled in this |
office, in a county font contest, and an ex-
amination of the census taker's returns re-
veals the fact that the names of 170 of those ]
memorialists are re-turned by him as those
of legal voters of Morton county. Of these
name-", however, 108 appear on the memorial
in favor of Riahtield, first above referred to,
and sixty-two do not. Adding those that do I
not so appear to the names of legal voters I
on that pUilion (284) makes a total of 34fi
legal voters memorializing , u fliv,;r of R oh-
fli<ld as the temporn y county scut, wl ioh is
a iDPjonty cf all Iho legal voters ia the
ooanty whoso names ure returned by tho
census iak.r. '
aAfiffhl !^ t i e n t a n d oar eful
pft per re,,eut , investigation
™-i L . f . u P ed «o mo, which re-
veal the facts above set forth, I am oon-
S2Taw*,i!l t Wo hfl8,d,, ,n th
ti . ' °
he pla co
mUtt
Ji«5; '.Vu . . ™«»»'W«Midod by a ma-
thritBZ.°ef t nh oe l Re «8 aal v o t 8 r » i n * memorial to
5„! °i , Mr 0 1 temporary
untj n n d l dl county seat"
S 2 l ^ . l P 5 °? '' >. therefore,
des gnate and deolare raid town of RiohflelrJ
as the temporary county seat of Morton
county. j o n M A^MAUTIN, GovoTno".
. Mlly* Onlor.
Governor Martin to-day issued the fol-
lowing oxeoutlre order, relating to the
death of General Logan;
STATE OF KANSAS,
EXECUTITB DKrAItTMENT
TOI'KKA, December 27, 18-4B 8-16.)
The intelligence of tho death of General
John A. Logan will be received, with pro-
found sorrow, by the people of Kansas.
Thousands of our citizens were his com-
rades during the dark and trying days of
the rebellion, and to them be was endeared
by tne strongest ties of confidence and af-
fection. All of our people honored him as
a soldier of conspicuous courage and Patri-
otism, a statesmau of commanding influ-
ence and abilities, and a citixin whose pure
private life and stainless puollo senrioes
just y entitle him to the highest honors nf
the nation. " J.
As a tojtimowial of respect for bis did-
tingnitbfcd services and his illustrious
{ (tactically abandoned. Courts adjourn and
m.mcrjrj thofltgs of tie state h-rose will be
suspended aTnatf mast until after the fu-
neru!. JOHN A. M4ETIR.
ivernOi".
I a legal holiday, do not utilize It to "loaf and j
JEB 29, 1886.
KANSAS TEACHERS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE
TEACUEKS' ASSOCIATION,
The Flrnt General Sesulon Held La»t Kven-v
lug lu the Hall of the House of Kepre-
Miitatutlye* Governor Martin Delivers?
the Add reus of Welcome—Dr. P. J. Wll-S
Hams Delivers the Annual Address.
The annual meeting of the State Teachers|
association convened in this oity last even-'
ing in the hall of the house of representa-
tives. There were present at the time fully'
600 pedagogues from over the state. Dur-
ing the entire day they had been arriving
from different parts of the state. The hotels
were all filled to their utmost capacity after
the arrival of the afternoon trains. Those
who had oome in by the morning trains
spent the day visiting the points of interest |
over the olty.
General Session.
At 8 o'clock last evening Assistant State
Superintendent of Publio Instruction Uoorte
W. Jones oalled the general meeting of the
auooiation to order.
In the absenoe of lev. H. W. Qoorge, who
bad been invited to offioiate, Rev. Dr. Mc
Oabe, upon the request of the committee of
arrangomonts, offered the invocation.
I T B I ADPUBHH Or WEUXlMK,
Governor John A. Martin next delivered
the address of welcome. He said:
» Ma. CniiUMAN—Readers of Kansas UOWH-
papers and students of Kansas affairs can-
not have failed to notice the fact that, dur-
ing the hot and dusty months of July and
Angnst, many avocations in this stato are
udges and lawyers flit away to the moun-
tains, the woods or tho lakes; churches are
closed, and ministers seek the peace and
quiet of rural sights and scenes; pbysioinus
discover that their patients can get along
without them for awhile, and take a vaca-
tion; and men engaged in every department
of oommeroe or Industry abandon, if it is
possible for them to do so, the oares, per- in
plexities and toils of their employments, for
a brief summer sojourn amid fresh fields
and pastures new.
But during this season of withering heat
and stifling dust, as soms readers or observ-
ers must also have noticed, there is one
class of men and wore on who, having then
" i their souls." La every ooanty in Kan-
 » , J e u m n i a n d wdmei
rest, but to work; not for pleasure, but to
study; not to get away from the worries,
tbe troubles and the tasks of their profes-
sion, bat to fit themselves more thoroughly
for its duties and responsibilities.
I hear it said, now and then, Mr. Presi-
dent, that the profession of the educator is
not progressing as are many other avoca-
tions, or that the schoolmasters and mis-
tresses of twenty-five and fifty years ago
were more proficient or competent than are
tho3e of to-day. Against suoh thoughtless
or wrecklesa assertions I put the oonvinoing
faot of these midsummer sohools, in whioh
the teaohers of Kansas assemble to study, to
oompare notes, and to be instructed in the
best methods of instructing others. Men
and women oapable of such devotion to their
work as these meetings illustrate, need no
excuse or defense.
And these are the raon and women I am
now to welcome to the capital. I discharge
the duty assignod mo, Mr. President, with
sincere pleasure. Very few, if any, of tbe
meetings held in this room are composed of
people who oooupy so important a plaoe in
the every day work and growth of the state
as do those now assembled here, and none,
I am sure, represent a more useful or hon-
orable calling. Teaohers of Kansas, I be-
f lieve you understand these fact). I
I believe you appreciate, in fall J
measure, the dignity and import-
ance of your vocation, and that you are
striving earnestly and laboriously to fit your-
selves for its great duties and vast responsi-
bilities. I trust your sessions will be alike
pleasant and profitable, and that you may
one and all return to your work refreshed
and benefitted by this fraternal interoouse
with one another. In this faith and in this
i hope I greet you, and most cordially wel-
come you to the oapltal of the sUte.
H. D. McCarthy, L. L. D., in behalf of
. the association, responded to the address of
[ welcome of Governor Martins. The Doctor
iix responding, stated that he wished to
make a short comparison between the pres-
I ent condition of affairs in Kansas and those
12 twenty-three years ago. Twenty years ago
last Bepternber, the first meeting of the Kan-
sas State Teaohers Association wu
held at Leavenworth. Hon. Isaao T. Good-
now wan eleoted the first president Then
there were CG4 teaohers in Kansas, and now
there are 9,887. In 1868 there were 20,821
children of a school age within the state.
•Now there are 490,184 school ohildren in Kan-
sas. In 18C8 it cost Kansas $24,845 37. to
conduct her publio schools. In 1888 it cost
Kansas $2,213,521 4fi ," to' 'pay'.'the
salaries of her sohobl teaohers. Dr.
MoCartby thought this was certainly a most
excellent comparison to make. In closing
on behalf of the association he returned
thanks to Governor Martin for the warm
welcome he had extended.
>••:>.
........ .^..i^W^i^
Governor Martin, of Kansas, Goes in'
W&* ' J'Two More leara, MM
A M&T ASSEMBLAGE iliESEHT.
'i *WPPJ 3 '•'• •'•'.•' •'*• ^ " ' ' I ^ W
. '-. •£*?• ' <•! i •'. •^iM.m-'id ^••.nM'm^ \
The Hall of tbe House of Eepresentativas
THE ADDBES8 BY THE GWBRNOB.
not
BIZ EX-G0VEENO
IP , i INAUGURAL DAV. • « >•»:*««
v Tort^u,' KAs-'ifi?. ia-fSpeclal.] tofg Before t
0'tloc.k represeumivs haft Was packed with, .ladles
sad gentlemen troto all pert* of the etate, drawn by
tbe cereuionfQ* 'attendant ,uj>o,n . inauguration, and
the anoaual sight of nearly a dozen governors who
bsve filled the hlghaat bfllce tn the itate. ' , ji&mjft,
A (ew momenta before 3 o'clock ,tuo wprnbt*
-M . . . . . V . . . . . - - ^ ^ . . . ^ ^ ^ ^ I
wore *eat»d in front' of the speaker's afai
Chief Justice Albert II. Norton Immediately
of tbem. '•;•.,> •<;:^''W'.(' • r-*' iv»i .i
Following' the governor* came tbe old and si
stnte ofllcer* ana tbe senate and member* of the
home and the families Of member*.' Tbe proeeiilon
wa* a goodly pne, and never before bave Kama*
peoolo aten *o many distinguished people gathered
together undor one roof. Th,e governor* were all
wearing the (mat* of yean, excepting Governor
dared
• bnt
Martin, • - right
pa»aed(he
'• - • well'• di!<
brunt* of; , tbe
Uiroagb.
d tbeyappoar
; : . many
tbey appoar to have en-
o* that tbey have
' . ; ibsttlei
. . , .'•.-> ••>*''
Maraball's band, a* the stato gneata came Into the
room, played tbe national tune. Rev. Dr. McCabe
offered the Invocation prayer, in which be dwelt
upon the service* of the gentlemen who wero here
*»iombled, tbe leglalatlve body about to be con-
vened, and the people of Kantaa and the United
state*, y'v-rt&em.-r-r. $.- • •''••*imMm
lion. J. B. Johnion, acting a* master of Sere.-
rnonl**, preceded the Inauguration by • a brief
resume of the put of ihl* itate, leading to the
((resent moment. Be said; |$ <V:V; . &'iffll
V "-V? Jobnaon's Address. ;, V'.-^i'
.hxmr.n AXD GXKTLXMEN:-' at fundamental law
<bf this itate provide* for tho Inauguration of the
officer* of itate once every two year*. We bave aa-
sembled aa part of tho more than 1,600,000 people
who bave lelected'thetu officer* to wltneia thalr in-
auguration. *[i&j • -"•iV.
A* a *tat* Kenaas la but 'M year* old. To-day we
Inaugurate her tenth governor.. To participate In
these ceremonies we nave with n* to-day In person
all of the distinguished men who bave graced her
executive office during tbeie eventful year*. Sacb
One of them la a part ofjta history. The adminis-
tration of each constitute* an epoch In It* wonder-
falhiatory und growth, while all of them have
helped to plant It* foundation* and rear it* migbty
structure on the lntmntabl* principle* of truth and
Justice. l ¥ H 8 5 f e / ! £ •;;••"
They havefn ram guided the yonng lUte from «d

fr; iheyVavTe/ovTCfittofbe atara. Repnb-
•n status do not consist of men alone, nor o f corn
and wheat, of stocks and \bonds, nor of wealth and •
ower. Bat of all of tbesf blended and cemented :
R ito proper relatione by the several forcea that pro-
serve, protect and ctmtrol<them all for the general
good. That tba men who nave fashioned and formed
this commonwealth, that bare made Ita lawe and
control.ed it* destiny, oullded well.ls manifested by
toe result*. In I860 Theodore Parker, In » speech
in New York, In referring to Kanea* and bar atrng-
gle for human Utwrty, made -vvbat was iliMJtboiiffttt
an extravagant prophecy. He enld: "In A, D. lOOO
there will be 2,000,0-10 people In Kansas, with cities
like Providence and Worcester, perhaps like Chica-
go and Cincinnati. Sbe will bavo moro mile* of
ra Ironds than Maryland, ".Virginia, and both of the
Carolina* can boait. Her land will br worth $20 per
acre, and bar total wealth will he «o00,000.(>0n of
monoy. Six hundred tboutand children will learn
in bar school*. 'There will bo a long of freedom all
around the slave states, and tu tbeln slavery Itself
will die."
It Is thirteen years yet to 1000, and yet we have
more than 1.MX),000 population, Home of our citlea
already eclipse "Providence and Worcestor, and by
that time w ll rival Chicago and Cincinnati.
•• We now bavo more milos' of railroad than the
four stats* named. Otrr lands are worth more than
•30 per acre, andnur wealth fur exceeds s.">oo,000,000.
While tho song of universal freedom, started many
ear* ago in Kansas, boa been taken up by mare
?ban 40,000,000 of people, and alavory long ago ex-
pired, .
To these grand results the people of Kansas have
more than any others contributed. Tboy bavaatall
times occupied the van in human progress, and
their achievements serve to Illustrate the force and
power of a few resolute, earnest men and women.
I would Iiava the people of Kansas consider these
thing* not 10 a spirit of eolf.adulatlon, but ratbor
that they may In some measure appreciate thoir re-
sponsibility as a part of tola great republic. On the
luih day of May, low, the Immortal Charles Sum-
ner, who waa alwaya the friend of Kauaas, said In
the United Slates senate:
"Take down roar map, sir, and you will And that
tba territory of Kansas, more than auyotber region,
Occupies tba middle spot of North America, equally
distant from the Atlantic on tbe east and the Pa-
<IBo ou the west; from the fror.cn wators of Hud-
0D bay on tbe north to tbe tepid Gulf stream on
?bo south, constituting the precise, territorial comor
l.qf the whole vast continent. To such advantages of
{iiltuation, on tba vary highway between two oceans,
are added a soil of unsurpsssed richness, and a fas-
cinating, ondulatlng beauty of surface; with a
health giving cllmalo calculated to nurture a power-
ful and gonerous people, worthy to be a central
pivot of American Institutions.''
slay I not pause to ask, here In tba presence, of
tbe representatives of tbe people of Kansas, shall
we demonstrate that we are worty of this priceless
heritage of this central position* lint Mr. Sumnor
wanton to say:
•'A few short months only bare elapsed since Hi's
spacious Mediterranean country waa open only to
the savage wbo ran wild la It* woods and prairies",
•1 and now It baa already drawn to Its bosom a popula-
tion of free man larger than Athena crowded with-
in ber blstorie gate*, when her aona under Mil-
tladea woo liberty for mankind nn the Held of
Marathon; mora than Sparta contained when she
rained Greece and sent fortb nor devoted children,
aalckeoed by a mother's benediction, to return with
lair shields or on them; more then Home
gathered on ber seven hills, when, under her kings
aba commenced that sovereign ewav which after-
wards embraced tbe whole earth; more than Lou-
don held when, on the fields of Crecy aud Agincourt
tbe English banner was carried victorious over tbe
chivalrous hosts of France."
Tba sturdy sons of Kansas struck relentless
blows and the shackles fell from 4,UO0,0fO slaves.
I.eil liy these men woo grace this occasion, (hey
founded a stale whose corner stones are freedom,
liberty, Justice and law.
There ars other evils to be driven out. Tboro are
other wrongs to b* righted.
Let us emulate the exnmnlo of these men, al-
though we differ a* to details, and never stop tbe
confl.ct until every grog shop Is closed nod every
man In all tba land receives that Just reward due
mm for bis sweat and toil.
Ladies and geutlemon, 1 now have the pleasure! of
Introducing to yon tbe distinguished gentleman
wbo Is now the governor of Ibis slate, and who has,
by tbe suffrages of tbe people, been celled t o ' "
that position for the period of two years mora,
ginning with to-day,
._ .lovernor John
fartln, wbo delivered tbe inaugural address.
.•<><•'' Inaugural Address,
, LADIES AXDGiNTLEMKx:—! beard a gentleman
say recently: "1 have known all tba governors of
Kansas.'" I asked; "How many governors has
Kansas bad?" lie thought a moment, and replied:
"Nine." ' 1 pre»ume a very large majority, even of
tbose best Informed In the political history o( the
slate, would make tbe same wrong reply, for Kan-
sas has had sixteen real and four acting governors,
and, amco Ita admission Into tbe Union the elate &as
bad ten. I am glad tbe committee having charge of
the ceremon es (o-day did not forgst this fact, and
so did not omit to invite the Hon. N". Green, who
waa governor of Kansas from November 4, 1668, to
January 11, 1S80.
• It Is not Inappropriate, 1 think, on an occasion of
this character, to briefly recall some facts connect-
ed with the incumbents of tba executive office of
Ksnsas. I have known all of our governors, terri-
torial and elate, except two, Reader and Geary;
and allot ibe acting governors except one, Wood-
son. Tbe territorial period extended from Juue, •
1854, to January, 1801, and during these six years
and a half, seven governors and Ave secretaries who I
at times acted as governor, were appointed br tbe
E resident. Kansas bad a email population then;
nt then, ss now, tbe voice of Kanass was heard la
s
tba land, and It was no puling Infant's cry! So (be
president sent out to govern this lusty young glsnt
of tba American desert, strong men, distinguished
•
3
man, men wbo had bad a large and valuable train-
lag In civil affairs, aad they ware, one and all, rlsd
to corns and to link tbelr names and fames with
I
that of Kansas. 9
Tbe territorial governors appointed were In snc<
cessions Andrew II, Iteeder, Jebn L. Dawson,
Wi]»..ii *bannoi, Johu W. Geary, Robert J, Wslker,
James W. Denver and Sar.iuvl Madary, aud tbe sec-
I retarloa woroDsnlol Woodson, Frederick P. Stantdiir
I •fame* W. Denver, Hugh 8. Walsh and 0. M. Bsebe,
All came to Kansas, and served In tba positions to
wblcb ihey were appointed, .except one, Mr. Daw-
eon, who declined. Of thesn seven governors all
were lawyers except two—Geary, wbo waa a mer-
chant, and Madary, wbo waa a printer by trade.
Five ware born In Pennsylvania; ous, Shannon, In
Ohio, and one, Denver, In Virginia.
Aa I have stated, these territorial governors were
generally distinguished man.
Governor Heeilnr, previous to his appointment aa
r ernor, bad never neld an office, bat be bad beeu
many years one of ibe moat eminent lawyers of
Pennsylvania,
Wilson Shannon bad been twice elected governor
of Obto. and had also served aa minister to Mexico,
before coming to Kansas,
Kobert J. walker bad been a Untied State* sena-
tor from Missis* ppl and secretary of tbo treasury
during President Polk's administration.
James W. Dearer had represented California In
congress and served aa commissioner of Indian af-
faire. ( i
Samoel Madary was an editor of national reputa-
tion, and bad been governor of Minnesota.
All except Geary were over 40 yeara of age when
appointed, and be, The youngest of tbein all, bad
been a soldier in tbo Mexican war. After leaving
Kansas bo rose to ibe rank of major general tn the
Union army, and waa later elected governor of
Pennsylvsula. i
Thus three of onr territorial governors have been
the chief executive* of three oilier etatce.
Allot tbe territorial governors appointed, except
one, Denver, are oead, out tbe secretaries of the
terrtory, allot whom acted as governor during
tbelr terms of office, are all living except one, Hugh
8. Walsh-
Kansas baa also elected three governors who nev-
er served, viz., Charles Robinson, elected under
i
the Topeka constitution; George W. smith, cbnscn
underlb*.' Lecompton constitution; and Henry J.
Adams, fleeted under the Leavenworth constitu-
tion. MY honored predecessor, Charles Roblusoo.
thus eaJMri ibe distinction of having been elected
under tv^o constitutions. Ho ll the ffrst governor
of Kansas In a double sonse— be waa cboeen to (bat
office under tbe Brat and last constitution framed
tor tbo stale.
Of the governors of the state, four were under
W when elected; all except two are now past 50;
and the oldest was first cboeen. All have boon rosl-
tKansas for more than twenty years; two.
: V, '*W
n
 »•<"<»*<
_ikj
Srst anda 'UupTeMBTgoverdbr, rorover
>a)years; and
L_. all' except one, Governor
...lzcns
utill citizens of tba
the state. previous
Kight of the'
laerved in the of legislature to' their1
Selection to the executive office, and the
Iother tiro, Governors Robinson and
lAnthonv, have since served as members
lot tbe law making branch of tbo state government.
[One, Governor Robinson U a native of Massachn-
lietts; three, Carney, Green snd Glick. are natives
|of Ohio; two, Osborn snd Martin, of Pennsylvania;
lone. Uarvey, of Virginia; one, Anthony, of New
lYorlc; and one, St. Jobn, of Indiana. Governor
IRobinson waa a physician; threo, Crawford, St.
I John and Glick were lawyors; one, Carnoy, « tner-
1 chant; two, Osborn" and Martin, wera printers;
Green was a clergyman, Harvey a surveyor and An-
thony a tloimlth. All except four. Roblnsotj, Car-
ney. Osboru and GUck, aerved lo the liuioti anny
I during tba war, Only one of our governors,. Green,
I graduated at a college or university. One, Gov
eruor Uarvey, was elected to the United Stttes sen-
ste after the expiration of his term as governor,
and Governor Osborn represented tbo country as
United States minister to Chill and Bra7.ll.
Twenty-six years have come and gono- since
1
first governor of the stale took the oath of office,
I and lie and all ot his successors are with us
yet. , Hero are the executives who organized tbe
splendid regiments young Kansas sent out to battle
for the honor of tbe flag. Hero are those who saw
tba dawn and morning of that mstvelons de-
velopment which began with the close of the civil
war. and baa since spread over 400 miles of fair aod
fertile country. Hero are those, who were called
upon to protect our frontiers agaluet. repeated In-
vasions by merciless savages. Here are those who'
witnessed the still more dreadful deso'atlon
wrought by insects whose baleful flight darkened
tba light of tbe sun at midday. Hero are those who
have occupied tbo executive cbalr during the later
years of ...peaceful prosperity and unexampled
growth. <;. '.*,'&•• -. . Jfr ' •
We greet them, one and all, cordially and grate-
fully. We salute tbsin as citizens wbom tbe people
of Kansas bavo deemed worthy of their highest
trusts. ' We honor them as men who have guided
I the state through difficulties and dangers, onward
land upward to the shlulng stara. We testify,
I. willingly tod thankfully, our appreciation of the
1 conrejro And fidelity with which tboy discharged
their always laborious and often dlfllcult. and per-
.plexliig duties. We receive and welcome welcome memthem at*a* 1
honored guests of this occasion
LthetuunOACine people or KansasAnd, speaking in I
' as I am r-nro J a0, the enrilltneni ,», and express log,'.
1
hifattn, t fervently pray I hat U*V,nt t
which
flays msydlls
long ao;a peaceful, and that prosperity may abide
[.With and olsss them to the end.
•At tbe close ot.bis address, Governor Martin an-
Lnouuced his readiness to take tbe oath, which was
[then administered by Chief Justice llorton. Tbe
] osih was brief, and signing tbe oath of, office, this
1 part of the ceremony waa complete, and Jobn A.
Martin unterod upon bis second term ax governor ot
I Kansas,- M • .,,-;>. •••,•• \ ••.••.
Marshall's band again favored tbVlomense audi-
I ence, and then Lieutenant Governor A. P. Diddle
bad the,dun 'of office administered, followed by
Associate Justice T>, M. Valentine, Secretary of
Stale K. B. A'len, Treasurer of Si ale James llamll
t o n , A• nudltbrqt
d State Timothy McCarthy, Attorney |
General 8. B, llradford,
IforU, and Superintendent
8u(
lie Instruction J " IJ. Lawbead.
* *Th«- Ex-Governors Talk.
This ceremony being completed, Mr. Johnson In-
I troduced, In a happy manner. ex-Governor Charles |
I Hoblnson, who ssemod to teol that an advantage
I bad boon taken of him. He thought when the Invl-,
nation was received '.bat this occasion was, per-
jhaps, an exhibition of live statuary or fossil re- ]
I mains. Having been notified tbst a speech was ox-
] pected. he tromblod and prepared one. Ho referred ]
Ito the old days, wben the first legislators assent-
bled, and the resulta that have been aecn since that'
I time. Governor Robluson was received with rounds '
I of applause.
Ex-Governor Thomas Carney, the second gov-
lenor of tbe slate, agreed to come here as a witness,
I and did not espect to .assist In delivering the in-
augural addresa, but expected that daty to be
formed by a real live governor. He came here
part of this show, such an one as no other stal
rr-1t
yfjg} 1 present, u s comes to i n conclusion•
meant to let the ptople see the former occup
the executive chair, and compare them with
present governor. It should bo considered that "tjj
people bave about fifteen times more people11
select from than wben the first were chosen;' B e l
then related his experience as govarnor of Kansas, '
commencing twenty-four years ago. He then, came
to tbe cap tol by stage, some sixty miles; ami! sSffer
snpper hunted up tbe governor's office in the second
story of a business bouse, furnished in a most'prim-
alive manner, and was sworn In by a notary P'ttbUo, [
and received the great seal of tbe state aa the) only j
property In his predecessor's hands^'.iwhft!
wished him a more happy time than ha1
ever been tbe lot of the first governo
Wben ho turned the office over to Governor Crar
ford, that gentleman was sworn in by the'chief |
Justlco In the hall of repreaentatlvea, qtilte -.-s^WsJi
provement. At some length he coneratt..
tbOHo present upon the great progress raade,;4risde
bv tbe sacrifices and labor of the early pioneers"Of,,
the state, wbo battled with much that this prosper-!
Ity could come. He closed by an appeal a
the hers of the legislature to pay the Price
trcll raid claims. • ; ,» v , *rv2fSMal
Governors Crawford, Harvey and Green 1
present, ao that ex-Governor Thomas
the sixth executive of the state, who can
prepared for the occasion, and from his aunt
addressed the audience, He dealred to sa
office waa not a, bod of roses, and believed P
cessors baa round itthe same, . He then.wc,
troubles that be had met with In his admlnis
prominent among which were tbe-Osage 1
lend troubles, tbe adjournment of. the at
slon of 187a wlthont having made provision J
suffering settler, the Indian Invasion, tbe location
wild tribes of Indians within our borders'! an
otbor questions which demanded thevai
tbe governor. '•:>•: • \ >v*^.
The seventh governor of Kansas. Geor
thony. tbougbt the natural mistake of Mr>'il
son's life was that he had not pursued the voc
of a novel writer. All the other gentlemen'
surprised wore prepared. Had he known. t>
would have bad a speech prepared. Hei In-a n
ous manner, briefly told what tbe audience"
been told, and then gave a short time to (he i f
tbougbt that "government Is not a man ordelhe
stitutlon." In Impassioned language he sho*
the power and stability of tbe government In',s-
of whatever weaknois may be exhibited '
the executive selected by tbe people,-'--!
cause of the superiority of tbst people who select
he all
as 1 tbe executive. Governor Anthony was recelv
a favored man, and had reason to be proud q
warmth sbowu. v .id
Ex-Governor Jobn P. St. John, tbe aigota. ]
ernor of Ksnsas, was then Intioduced. He
glad lo once more meet, face le face, so many pt\
good people of tbe state. Kansas it r.ot ibrrei
of a mere accident. She was the result of .sfiaif
purpose. He quoted largely from James O.'.Blal;
••• 1 at the mention of whose name there wat long'j
coctinued applause. Be then briefly and i»,an L
passioned msnner reviewed the work of thejuatiba
and Its effects upon us as a people. " l^jfw'VJW
of Pub'
Ex-Governor George \V. G.ick, the ninth"-ink
ernor of Kansss, believed lbe committee bsai
Invitation upon the assumption that be wai
crat and couldn't write, as be was not not'
I
•J a speech wss expected. He bad served it: I
(••***3KH»B| letuie "lib Robinson, Harvey, Osborn as
.*; I ferd, and could testify to their booeatseaa
work performed by them. He served with St
In the ssnste, be helped with the first as-prep,?!
tlon for a capital, which was $1.1,00*. A stoeetyi
was built, but It seen disappeared aud when iBffl
was made as to what bad becomo ef It, be wai
that the farmers bad taken It and built cellar
slone fences with the stones. He then folic
example set and briefly reviewed Kansas,^ r
ealr points omitted by tbe-otber gentlemen.' It
I evident that this was a Kaaaas crowd turned laese
upen Kansas advantages, aad would hs,ve deltgMee;
I the souls ot those who revere and worship Kansas.
This closed the Inauguration exercises.., .„ ^.*,../.};
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Kansas Dailj State Journal.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 4,1887
A Thrilling Picture.
The address of Governor Martin last I
evening was one of remarkably beautiful j
diotion and thrilling interest It con-
tained a word painting of a sol-
dier's march, by Martin, the soldier,
1 whioh we do not believe has
ever been excelled. So graphic was it
that the listener forgot his surroundings
in the banquet room, and imagined him-
self viewing' scenes which must be in-
delibly painted upon the memory
of every veteran. The description
is something whioh belongs to military
annals. A hundred soldiers heard it last
00 evening, and they must have marveled at
© the life-like presentation. We offer no |
apology for its encroachment on our
regular space. It is full of interest to all,
and every soldier should read it and have
bis children read it The governor said:
I do not expect Mr. Chairman, that any
words of mine can "bring baok the feel-
00
ings of youth." Time takes something
i j from us. as the years oome and go, that it
never gives back, and the lights and shad-
ows o f twenty-five eventful years have
fallen upon us since we first "walked in
2 war's red ways." But I may, perhaps,
interest YOU for a brief time by a descrip-
2 tion of one of those walks—the march o"
| reach along the road—roll up, and the
the day, which had its counterpart in th
'marches of all armies, on many, many
f-H
Itfays."
I A oolumu is moving along a dusty rond,
With a long, free, swinging stride, that
•eemsT&s easy as it is masterful. It started
out before it waa light in compact order,
R- fech mnn in his place, each oompaoy,
""" ent, brigade and division following
appointed order. It is the middle
'forenoon now. and the solid forma-
\u some what disordered,
have fallen into invgular
jme hunt the smoothest places in
and the paths thus formed,
juble, are not always straight,
following the cow-paths along
fide; others keep the center of
iway. At intervals are little
3ttpsyof norsemen—the commanding
iioer/the adjutant aud an orderly, ut
|he head of the regiment; the next in
I Dmmaud, with the surgeons, in the rear,
lidway between these mounted ofllcere,
lways in line, and always surrounded by
little group of non-commissioned offi-
r^rs, are two soldiers carrying, not guns,
[but what seem to be long poles encased
[in black oil-oloth. They are the Hags of
.jetegi
imental banner.
Sometimes, for hours, only the steady
tramp of feet is heard. The men are as
silent as if they were dumb. Then some-
thing sets all their teeth awag, and
the woods and fields echo with their
shouts and laughter. They oomment on
everything—on the houses, thefields,the
trees, the road; they jibe at and joke with
one another; they are a moving mass of
blue interrogation points, questioning
every one they see about distances, ooun-
try and people^ and their laughter is as
care-free and oontageoua as that of happy
children.
Then a clear bugle note comes floating
down the line, and the column dissolves
on the road sides. In an instant al-
most the men assume all varieties of pos-
tures—some sitting, some lying down—
for the bugle oall meant a rest offiveor
ten moments. The stragglers oome up,
one by one, and drop in with their com-
mands. Then the bugle sounds again,
and all start to their feet They fall into
line with the precision of a machine, and
move on, to again, in a few moments, fall
into their old,.irregular, go-as-you-please
step and route,
The hours oome and go, and the miles
Blip by, five, six, ten, perhaps, and then
the bugle sounds another call—a welcome
one, for it is greeted with a ahout But
this time the moving oolumn does not
dissolve so quickly. It doses up in oom-
paot order, and the guns are stacked in
groups of four: on these are hanged cart-
ridge boxes, blankets and other encum-
brances. A few moments later, lit-
tle volumes of amoke —hundreds and
thousands of them, as far as the eye can
atmosphere is filled with the perfume of
burning pine, the aroma of ooffee, and
perhaps the savory smell of bacon.
With what crude and meager utensils
—at most a tin pot or oup, and a small
skillet—it is all done; and yet how quick-
ly and deftly. But no dinners these men
have ever sinocTeaten were more enjoyed
than those their own hands prepared as
they halted by the roadside a quarter of
a century ago.
The dinner cooked and eaten, the
march begins again, with the same
routine of shouting and laughter.
'r silence and meditation. It
S
ing
it business, all of it—simply mov-
along, hour after hour
and mile after mile, until the sun dropped
low. in the west or perhaps for hours after
the night had gathered and darkness bad
fallen upon the earth. Fifteen, twenty,
twenty-five, and occasionally thirty miles
—these were the distances frequently
oovered by the long blue columns, each
man carrying his house on his back, like
a snail, and, in addition, bis gun, forty
rounds of amuuition, three days' rations,
his cooking utensils and his bed.
Sometimes these m '
 eatner, when the air was fall of
the perfume.of flowers and melodious
with the songs of birds. Sometimes they
were made when the skies were leaden
and the clouds hung low; when rain
poured down, hour after hour, and
the roads became quagmires, and the
men were soaked andohuled to the bone.
Sometimes they were made in mid-winter,
when the ground was frozen, and the
north wind out like a knife, and at every
step the road was stained with the blood
of bruised and broken feet Sometimes
the route lay along pleasant lanes, or dim
old oountry roads, or through quiet and
shadowy woods, rich with odors of fir and
ine; sometimes it followed, for days, the
E ard, white pikes, over which the dust
hanged ^ike a cloud, thick, heavy, stifling.
But no matter what the weather or the
roads might be—whether the rain poured
down in torrents, or the sun beat upon
the column like a fiery furnaoe, or the
oold of winter chilled and froze—the reg-
iments formed and marched whenever
orders came.
The long lines dwindled steadily and
fatefully. Regiments that had onoe mus-
tered a thousand men were reduoed to
two or three hundred; companies that had
Answered to roll call an hundred strong
'were mere squads of ten or fifteen. But
as their long oolumns shrank, and each
soldier's plaoe in the line drew nearer
and nearer to the faded and tattered Hag
In the center, it seemed to grow dearer
and more precious to their hearts. They
followed ft, upheld it, loved it with an
earnestness ana devotion without parallel.
Following it, hardships and privations
were welcomed; upholding, it, dangers
and sufferings were laughed'at; and to
roteot it the humblest and roughest of
f S tern all would have cheerfully and
Eroudly given bis own life. I have
ea rd men, of late years, deny
the existenoe of suoh a thiug as disin-
terested patriotism. But the sol-
diers of the Union exemplified this splen-
¥ did sentiment' during every moment of
their lives. No difficulty oould dampen
s their ardor, no repulse oould shake their
s ooufldenoe id final victory, no toil or Buf-
I
9
fering oould perplex their faithful loyalty.
The flag represented the Republic i to
t To the Senate and Iluune of Itcpresenta-
'• i t w # ft. • oldi * r '« dnty; to die for it
was a soldier's fate.
The months rolled on and lengthened
into years, and still these men marched,
and fought, and suffered, and died. And
at last came Victory, and Peaoe, and
Home. Their tods and privations, their
trial* and danger*, were dver at last.
with the splendor of their achievements.
They had exalted and glorified the Amer-
man name. They had preserved, for all
the generations of men, the prioelees her-
itage of free government They bad lift-
ed the old flag into the very heavens, its
blue field glistening with every star that
had ever sparkled there, its orimson
stripes bathed in the red blood of five
hnndred thousand patriot heroes, and its
m&
pure white folds as stainless as the stun
ing souls of those who had died to save
i t They had broken the shackles of four
million slaves. They had enriched his-
tory with suoh a record of great deeds as
never before illuminated its pages. And
then, quietly and modestly, they went
baok to their homes—
"Satisfied to pass I
Oalotly, serenely from the whole world's gaze.
And cheerfully accept, without regret.
Then- oUHife as It was.
"They wtS-were brave to act,
Anarioh-enoughtheir action to forget—.
Who,, having filled thetr day with chivalry,
Withdrew, and keep their simpleness intact,
And all unconscious add more lustre yet
Unto their victory.
"On I ho broad Kansas plain,
Tbelr patriarchal life they live anew—
Hunters as mighty as the men of old;
Or harvesting the plenteous yellow grains.
Gathering ripe vintage of dusk branches blue.
Or working mines of gold:
''Or tolling In the town,
Armed against hindrance, weariness, defeat,
With dauntlesspurpose uot to swerve or yield,
And calm, defiant strength, they struggle on,
As sturdy and as valient In the street.
As In the campled Bold.
"Thus In the commoafield.H and streets they stand:
The light that on the past and distant gleams,
They cast upon the present and the near,
With antique virtues from some mystic laud
i Of knightly doeds and dreams." .. '
THE LEGISLATURE.
Governor Martin Calls a Halt on Reoklesil
Appropriations. . .-,,-v Hal
Governor Martin yesterday sent to the
ktf'siatuie tbe following very important
meennge protesting against extravagant
appropriation of the people's uionoy, and
warnir.K Mum that the taxpayers should
not bn burdened any heavier than they are
I m at pri'wiH. The mut»a«e will have the
tendency to put (he members on their
guunl. It n ua follows:
February 25, 1837.
tires:
1 feel impelled, by a sense of public
duty, to villi the. uttentiou of the lesisla-
tuie to tltu taut that, unless a number of
bills now l-efore your honorable body, ma-
king appropriations for expenditures to bo
defray ii Iron the general revenue fund,
are Liia'iiiiilly reduce! in amount, the levy
:or reve'U'es for the next two fiscal years"
must In- ...ryely increased.
The supplemental report of the state
treuauri r, ih'.ed January 1, 1887, copies of
which iuve boen furnished for your infor-
mation, presents a careful estimate of the
receipt* "<f the stale government for the
6ccivl vena 1887 and 1888. based on a tax
levy of three and three-tenths (3310) mills

revenue, the tame amount tna
[has been levied each year since 1882. A
I tax of this amount would produce, for the
Tyear 1887, not to exceed $861,300, and for
[the year 1888, not to exceed 3920,700. Oth-
|«r receipts from the penitentiary, the in-
surance department and the state library,
ronld probably aggregate 8550,000, ma-
I king the total receipts for thu biennial pe-
riod, 82,332,000.
The legislature cannot, therefore, make
| appropriations payablo out of the areneral
revenue fund, much in excess of $2,000,-
000 tor the next biennial period, without
increasing the general revenue tax levy.
I need hardly say to you, gentlemen of
the legislature, that (he people of Kansas
have a just right to expect that the pur
oentage of taxation for state purposes
shall not be materially increased. Tho
large annual increase in property valua-
tions adds, each year, a correspondingly
large sum to the aggregate of the public
revenues without increasing the per cent-
age of taxation, and the additional sum
thus produced ought to be, and, with pro-
per economy is, amply sufficient to defray
the increased expenditures naturally inci-
dent to the growth of the business of the
state, and the domand for inoreased ac-
commodations for its dependent or crimi-
nal classes.
The constitution vests in tho legislature
tbe sole power to authorize public expendi-
tares.and to provide revonuo for dtfrayiug
such expenditures, It is not within tbe
•cope of my dutios, and I o. rtiiiuly have
BO desire, to question the full authority of
the legislature in such matters. But I
tear that too many members, inspired by
the conviction that this or that appropria-
tion would tervo a useful or beneficent
public purpose, are sometimes likely to
overlook the fact that the state cannot of-
-ford to do, in two years, all that it would
bo desirable to do, and that the expendi-
tures must be limited by tbe ability of the
people to meet the burdens of public taxa-
tion. Those burdens, in my judgment,
ought not to be increased beyond tbe per-
cental that has been levied for the post
four yean1,
1 would, therefore, respectfully suggest
I that the regular appropriation bills -
those for current expenses of the state, judi-
cial and legislative departments, and thoee
•taking pro virion for tho caro and main-
tenance of all the public institutions—bo
first pawed. The aggregate amount appro
printed for these necessary purposes can
then be d<finitelyascertained, and if the
publicreveuues will justify further appro-
[pria'ionf-. ')"»)'«. bo made for such pui-
poi^a is (be •• .Mature, in its wisdom,
muy (I .-HI u. •• important and bcnelici nt.
Ye»y Respectfullv.
JNO A. MAUTIN
* a
m$$tM?
W®$*&A
an —
.*>•>,- T H E ANTI-SALOON WORK-
The Great Success of t h e N e w Turk Meet-
ing*—Sound Letters F r o m K S U M I Men.
The extraordinary success wbioh attended
the efforts of the anti-saloon leaders to hold
a great meeting in New York shows bow
deeply rooted and wide-spreading the move-
ment has grown. Coopers Union was filled
with the best class of people, including many
ladies, and the gentlemen who sat upon tbe
platform as vioe-presidents of the assembly
numbered many of the strongest business
men and politicians of the east. Jndge
Noah Davis, than whom there is no better
man in the country, was chosen president for
the evening. In introducing him, Mr. Grif-
fin, ohairman of the anti-saloon national
committee, made a short talk on the alms
of the movement. Judge Davis followed
with a ringing speech, and then oame Hon.
William Windom and Bon. Theodore
Roosevelt, in strong endorsements of the
anti-saloon policy in tbe republican ranks.
Letters of unqualified approval from the
prominent republicans of the oonntry
were next produced, among those from
Kansas were the following:
PTATI or KANSAS, )
EXXCUTIVI DlcrABTlfKHT, >
TorzxA, May 10. )
Bon. Albtrt Qrtffln.
DXAB BIB—1 acknowledge the reoeipt of
your letter of the 4th Inst., announcing a
meeting to be held in Coopers Union, New
York, on the 25th inst.,under the auspices
of the Anti-Saloon Republican Committee.
Tbe saloon has been banished from this
state, and eaoh month rednoes the number
of those who would by their vote, invite it
back. The good results following the abol-
ition of the saloon in Kansas are now al-
most universally reoognized, and I do not
believe that out of a voting population of
270,000, there oould be found 76,000 men
who would reinstate it.
The republican party, pledged to the en-
forcement of the constitutional amendment,
lost many votes during tbe first years of ag-
itation. But it has, during the first three
years, regained its old supremacy, and is
now more strongly Intrenched in the confi-
dence and respect of the people than it baa
ever been. Republicans, with the rarest ex-
ceptions, acknowledged the good results
that have attended the abolition of the sa-
loon, and a very large number of tbe most
intelligent democrats will oppose any and
trtry effort to ohaoge the present condition
of affairs. I do not believe that this ques-
tion will ever again be an issue in Kansas.
I hope the meeting you announce will be
as suooesalul as you expect it to be.
Yours very truly, JNO.. A. MABTM
•Vfc
STATE OK KANSAS, KXKCDTIVK D E |
PAETMKNT, ToPKKA, JltlM 1, W .
WILL II. MAVKS, ESQ.
Brownwood, Tex.
My Dear Sir:—I receive so man^
letters of inquiry concerning the ef
fects and results' of the prohibition

law u
ble to answer all of them in detail
As a rule I send a copy of my las
message to the legislature to all per-|
sous writing me on this subject, be-
lieving it furnishes all information of
value or importance touching on this
question. I have, however, conclud-
ed to reply to your questions more in
detail.
1. The law is as well enforced as
any other law upon the statute book?.
I do not believe that there is an open
saloon within the state of Kansas.
I do not mean to assert that liquors
are not sold in violation of the law.
But I do assert that the saloon has
been practically abolished in Kansas,
and that all sales of liquor for prohi-
bited purposes are made secretly,
just as other Crimes are committed.
2. It is my judgment, and I believe
it is the opinion of every intelligent
and fair minded man in the state,
that drunkenness has been diminish-
ed fully nine-tenths sinco the prohibi-
tory law wont into effect.
3. The population of Kansas, in
1880, was 91)6,090. The prohibitory
amendment was adopted in that year.
The census of March, 188(1, showed
a population of 1,400,738. The pop-
ulation of the state to-day is got less
than 1,000,000. Hence instead of
"decreasing our population," tho pop-
ulation of Kansas has very nearly
doubled sinco tho odoption of the
prohibitory amendment.
•1. The commercial and manufac-
turing industries of the state have
fully kept pace with its increase in
population during the past six years.
'). Public interest In Kansa., has
been steadily intensified in favor of
prohibition since the people have had
an opportunity to observe the effects
of the law. At the last election in
this state the total vote ^vas something
in excess of 275,000. h do not be-
lieve that uiijder anj^ossible circujdo^
stances, if the question of repealing
the prohibitory amendment was fairly
submitted to a vote of the people,
that more than 75,000 possibly not
more than 50,000, could be induced
to vote for its repeal.
6. The adyantages of the law are
too numerous to detail. Briefly, it
has brought about greater sobriety
among the people. The always per-
nicious influence of the saloon in
politics has been utterly obliterated.
Thousands of men who formerly
wasted their evenings in the saloons,
now spend their time in feeding and
clothing their wives and children,
and ns a result, plenty and content
ment abide in thousands of homes
where want and worthlessness were
once familiar guests. Thousands of
emigrants have been attracted to
1
Kansas because of our temperance
laws, and those emigrants as a rule
are people of influence and character,
who come here because they want to
bring up their families beyond tho
reach of tho saloon's contaminating •
inlluencc. I believe these replies
flllly answer all your questions.
Yours Respectfully, »
JOHN A. MAIITIN.
Governor of Kansas.
j& '•'''' ''V4v*!w',V:$* • W-' ' ^ T V
1,
 r who wants to jcnoW&pbut a law,"
f^'EEMINlSCM llth finds him'toe book'ajid page. He
gem's even, .to,;know the, pfficers whq
>t» e fr$m other States after requisitions.
-m\ he looks" at-the papers with the big
:0f Webb Wilder, toe N e w l y Ap- Balori them, he says: "Your train don't
rp^M-SlV 12:20M Call ft half an hour
•:;,• rjomted
%'• pointed Insurance „Com. 1/ttn'dyoYif papers will he ready,,,,'No, sir,"
i , . . ...'K.^-•,,:.
^^w'wi.rio-feej,* Aquie], capable man
i •V'v missioner.
missioner &W-
'•'ippearfcd then; oft ed to show.
a rie,true^s steel; so 1 has appeared
rsInce^,Perjons In e same room
The State House Qffloials—His ^.pi$h other.'.Govi nor Martin has
i - ••. Estimate of Governor
vCijAji !wbrd. patriotic or un-
3 Iiy advice/from... JEeritlemah.
othe^wfopml this office
": ' *'- Martin.
safe of 5
LJi/prlnter
With; 6T
fetMM«tl,B
_s Charaoter
as urnallst bV taste
dispatches have
* JT those that
Q ' H W * • ••••
.The following it lawathal
Webb V er'a''^pjer^'of, last!
wee' i 45 and
lis hair
wfe
.used for the past two years and a bait.
As we grow old it hfrta to do things the
last time; to change houses, habits,
'friends. There ate not many more last
e UonAlnd-
lpoked at
ireturned
StEIhgs to do. ''W^w&M^'p' add re-
jty.Qoionel Moonlight, now Coventor of He was
" othlng, had served his last day as Ad- ,ys had a'
to) Itt when
,nt General when I stepped into the
.. ernor*s office that January morning, eekly to a
^•85. Many porsons were excitedly mov-" t him now
1 about the two rooms. Governor Gllck, w nothing taste for
eratuie, but ich.
emocrat, was going out of offloe, unci"! honor always
~ r. .Martin and other officers, Repub- rafelito dh.
Is, usually here
ns, were coming In. There was court- '.•Mr, and then
. and kindness,buta little awkwardness I ig'out'at noon for
'tween the members of the two parties, :%fflce hours" as
key were forming the procession to go ch or d
the west wing where the inauguration 091a" surprise an
States or in
irigto'n.
ry numer-
I lead
State (ifflcera here." Tom and I marched
3 ler, a con-
rlthout cere-
ogether, but In the rear. , to, ,An un-
£
kThe speeches made by the Governors! wbM, ha»
at day and every message 'and procla- ircomei uov. naron. He never
">t!bu Issued since that time have beon' iti^rattlM."rBt la a reasonable, rea-
led by his hand, In one large-paged, ds, safe' man. 'in excellent business
ky volume. ,y, ' ,' < ••• iTnis dothmbh sense takes him through
.,-^omlng back to this room, I remember ! difficulties. He herer loses his tern-
Chat James Smith, who had just served" ; r w d ]iti>\7 !**• worried. Never
three terms as Secretary of State, and this 1
rtplttlns of overwork; dont complain
morning entered on duty as the private M. A Very perfect, even-balanced,
secretary of Governor Martin—seemed to rking * mind and body. A deep
have always been In the place that he was rh^'Mflectlni' ' all the flowers
now holding; and so It has seemed ever fid'gayfoliageoatts banks,but smooth
since; be told us alt what to do; nobody H J 'uira|B«i to ntm1 who passes by.
saw him tell us, and he neVer in his life His courage and energy knows no ob:
did an officious or obtrusive act It comes stacle; If there were a thousand in the
naturally to him—to know the man's and tell
ngnie who comes In at the door, and to ar?y laughter after It was.
Jrfe able Immediately -and quietly to an-
swer his question. If'It Is a county offl- ^:do the best thldr

an6r r
I ioj^tight'a're'ii
lea
two roohis has been verj'pleasant,? All
olght i^mm, halting for bills froftphe
Senate and House; waiting forMlspatches
jat railroad stritfeWnd
'.by tne/LMfcosi
.. .Its r*e^rMfrknrt
tv/to'airs; each doing gladrrittu|
iri^tlh Jaa'; ipent ;rau%^#i I
mlh.ought, put he would
1 -Jew persons knowbow. feeble andhelp-
iM^'ijI^
ayss marshaled
marsnaled tj the fa
K
iqof'figures aflfJ.Btat
WfMoftfew.. aod.uftflxar,
th,ls|sJu^ngQut, *K> I
have.torn*;^alJuO^j4g. .,*-m,,
m are as wedk as children. The governors'
was MMHSairW ™ W M & 1 and all of the 'officers, of the homes are.
amen
railroad strike in wolcoteptfw
were^
, jngagea. This was^rf 1 * W
of this he ffrote the1 history in'ftMttago.'
That messlgV wis written;ftf bylttrte
officers 'Ko^tfeihbers, ;4rtbeK tfgMrtilfe
In m£nfWUX*Xum •W^TSfe1?.
ti6n ftjHWtfj'liv* hlhk sUteVfaWM'
S I lowed, The prlhClple WlHTie &«tfed by
•• r r v ^ upeople• . . . J I " ., f „ , » , ' i j . i , J A i " " g |
all civilized peoples.' T h e rights of labor'
and captyalwlM'be Protected t>y law£ the
few anarchists when hate and'defy law
will be punished. ' T^bo question is one
of the greatest of our time, but our peo-
ple, In wis republic, eapablo af anything,
are capable of solvjng ft. .' ' $ $ & $ 'i
Oceans of jotters have been 'sent here
asking for'the messages relating to pro-
hibition, .'They have come frqm/Mfchl-
'Mu, Kentucky, New York, Oregon/Ten-
i nessee,' North Carolina, Missouri' and
other •taje.subut from Texas," Texas,
Texas'--how tpey have come from Texas,
Ever} letwr i* »nswered by tlje gOYern^.
.or in his absence, by Mr. Smith, and well
answered, The stock of messaged'has
#TJen but; but What a great and glprlou*
work thevhave done. Kansas enlighten
t ihg the fifflHl •< ••^'ri-^WW^-'
a •Rev. JOr,;riMcCebe stopped roe bo, the
street this afternoon. He Is president of
the $tate' Temperance union. Receutly
that society published a pamphlet for use
in the states where this question Is up,
and Pr. Modabe says they have an order \«?.'<
to-day for 20,000 of these pamplets In
Texas. The campaign there .will/-.Shut Y>.-''•' •! •'
only four weeks longer. The general
impression Is that prohibition will suc-
ceed. But if it fails now the toed is still
there, so'wti'lfc. hundreds ofortflthousands of V
hearts and siire to br^ng * )fru|t.- •,/'. \
Awbrd wpr#ri#r$lhave safd iwwing I 5 ••
about the ordinary • routine work of an
office of this kind, in this statfi.'.fina noth-
ing n»ed be said. But, we .hator^njr
visits from old soldlejK^.QOY "
Wf££m'
ong; ibee#c*bo>: Ylce President "6ftt
Boavd.Of QontrOl b£the National Soldldr'stl
Homed.' pSere are six of^them; one'itj
our own Estate at Leavenworth. The corjfL
respondence on this subject and the pef-^fi
ionAl visits of soldiers from all of the^"
)oyal states take up a good deal of time,
slfolftiMartin nils the same plage la find-'
log a Soldier a home that Maj, Morrill'
' dOeS;1o getting him a pension, and both
ard^happi'est when engaged in this work.
I^fjipt nearly all the officeseekers who
C0tDB to this office have "caught on to
the old soldier "racket." That lathe flrt't
appeal to the governor in nearly every,
case. Jf mistakes are made 1MS with si."
kind Heart, and a brave soldier is made
happy by.it.- : • ;-t ^f&vtfM*' C ' \'ffl
less thousands of the defenders of the uBV
ion are now,.', The strongest.then,. th1£
pravest, 'the hardest.jworkers ;are, to*
weakest now.' So weak.that It painful, to*
see them as they come up to this desk:'(
•'Is the governor In?", .Mind 'and body1"
almost gone; a great many. In'the homes,'
3PH also old soldiers, and the best of care that
man can give to man the Inmates have;'
It is hot, howover, the home of the famlf
'y. Those who saved our "homes can
nlyfindtheir own lOjthe world beyond.
;•> '">*f]&ECTmVE Ol.BltK.
| i
l'l.~. f
Kansas Daily State' Jouxj CL
H
OmOIAl PAPER OP TEB ClTY 0I1 TO,
-m -..r-'^vJ;. •-
BY FRANK P. MAO LKHHA**
THURSDAY' ^ ^ ^ S * ^
A RINGING REPLy. '. *$$:'
The saloon element in Kansas, whioh 1
is utterly rooted, baa been belching forth
a few dying gasps, and hoe imagined it
has a glimmering Hope by a story tele-
graphed by special from St Joseph
"abootAtooison.:^f ',,', ' ^ J,-'^HB
Governor Martin in a ringing reply,
backed by the most convincing figure^,
!i • i sends the following to Chicago, to Wil-
m j "
; liam Henry Smith, the general associated
2
press agent: '
"i MY DBAB SIB:—On the 2d of July last
a special dispatoh was sent from St. •
Joseph, Mo., to a Ohioago paper, in which
it was stated that the cJoeing of the sa-
loons in Atohison, Kan., has oat off its
most profitable soaroo of revenue,
amounting to thousands of dollars a year,
and as a result there is not enough to
keep it going; that the police foroe, with
ttjg exception of the marshal and one po
 r m
an, hai
rvioes of the firemen were to be dis-
pensed with; and that the gas and eleo
jrical light lamps were to be shut off.
, This dispatch was utilized by the aseo-
. oiated presa and published in nil parte of
.; the country, Aa a reault I have reoeived
many letters from different sections mak-
ing inquiries aa to the truth of the state-
mente it embodied, and have seen its al-
i leged facta commented on, in dozens of
newspapers, aa evidence that the aboli-
1 . tkm of saloons haa reduoed a prosperous
oity in Kansas to the verge of bankrupt-
cy. Similar letters have been reoeived
i by the mayor of Atohiaon and by rnani
other citizens in Kansas. v
The dispatch referred to was prompted,
by two motives. It was, firut, eeut from
a town in Missouri for the purpose of in-
juring a rival oity in Kansas; and second'
h waa inspired by the whisky interest an '
¥ •intended to create the impression that
'efficient oity government oould not
00 .maintained without the revenue derived
o from saloon licenses.
•/•>
The oity of Atohiaon hoe been for many
years one of the most important railroad
and commercial centres of Kansas. It baa
a population of about 28,000 people. If
the whisky interest could create the im-
IT,
pression that Atohiaon had been materi-
ally injured because the saloons had been
driven out of it, u serious blow would be
dealt the temperance cause. The asso-
ciated press in giving this false special
suoh wide publication was made the nn-
•P
1 oonacioua agent of a malicious slanderer,
whoso purposes wore aa unworthy aa hia
2 statements were unfounded. I deem
It my duty to oorreot' the falsa impres-
sions thus oreated, and respectfully ask
.that this letter be given aa wide a pub-
lication aejthe diapatoh which prompts it.
OS
00
. T a r n thoroughly familiar with the con-
dition of the oity of Atohiaon and per-
sonally know that the statements em-
00
oo bodied in the St. Joseph dispatch art
false and misleading, The gaa and eleo-
I trio lights and water supply of the oity
have never been turned off. Its fire de-
artment haa been and ia continuously on
S uty, Its police force haa been largely
reduoed, but has, in the absence of ea-
lopus, been ample to preserve the peace
SQd protect the property of its citizens.
• A local dispute concerning methods
of taxation and involving the adoption of
a tax which hna been collected in the city
of S t Joseph for many years past, is the
only foundation for the malicious and un-
truthful dispatch from that place.
Atchison abolished the last of its sa-
loons in the fall of 1880. The whisky in-
3 terests prophesied that this action would
I seriously injure the business of the city.
It has had no suoh effect Atchison \a
more prosperous to-day than it has been
for many years past Its wholesale trade
aggregated over $40,000,000 iu 1880, and
during the first six mouths of 1887 this
trade has increased fully thirty-three per
oent over that for the oorreepondis
m •sr~rf<mrr"
mmm <,,i
3* "f;v.'a
M,.. -m
lontns of 1886. All the principal streets
the city are now being paved.
More substantial improvements are being
made and more buildings are being erect-
ed in Atchison this year than during any
previous year in its history. Ten im-
portant lines of railroad center in the
m oity, and the Southern Kansas railway
haa just extended its line to Atchison.
The oentral shops of the Missouri Pacific
road have recently been located there.
The largest lumber yard in the west has
recently been established there, and many
other important commercial and manufac-
turing industries have been located there
daring the past eix months. Bettor than
all, too, hiiudrods of thousands of dollars
that were formerly wasted in the saloons
a n now expended in feeding and clothing
and housing the people, and us a result (•••',
';.:
thousands of wives and children in Atch- 1
<
ison who were living in poverty a few 0 <f
years ago are now prosperous, happy and 8
•••>'
oontented.
This S t Joseph dispatch is only 11 fair •-•!;
specimen of hundreds of fulse aud mali-
cious statements I have seen published
in the newspapers of the country during 1
the past three or four years concerning 06
Kansas and Kansas towns. The whisky o
interesta predicted that the abolition of
saloons in Kansas would injuriously af-
fect the material prosperity of the state,
and falsehoods intended to confirm this
view are constantly iu vented and circu-
lated in every section of the country, aud
especially in the states where movouieuts
are being made to banish the saloona. I
am receiving letters daily from different
states making inquiries concerning the
effect and results of our temperance
lawa on the financial, commercial and
other material interests of our state, and
these letters all indicate that the work of
maligning of Kansas is going on iu every
section of the country. Permit ine, there-
fore, to give you the real fnots.
Toe prohibition amendment to our
constitution was adopted in tho autumn
of 1880, and the first laws to enforce it
went into effect in May, 1881. The war
to banish saloons was for years ouly par-
tially successful. The amendment had
been adopted by a very meagre majority,
and publio sentiment iu all our larger
cities .WJIS oyeiwitfMuglyjuiai«»JUfe
late as January, I8S0, the saloons were
open in fully thirty of the larger cities of
Kansas, iucluding Topeka, the capitr'
the state. But steadily and
publio sentiment against them. »
and intensified. The small majorit
had voted for the nmondment was
forced, Urst, by those law
znus who are always willing to
nate their personal opiuious to
esty of the law, and second, by an
l^w
large number who, observing the
cal results following the abolition
saloons in different cities and townfc'be
came convinced that Kansas would.be
atmoro prosperous, happy, and in ail re-
spects u better community of people, if
it had not on open suloou within its bor-
ders.
1

wjuvi traffio has growrTstid'strengthen
ifttil to-day I -very^nilibh doubt wbe£bj
of its 300,000 male voters, more^BD 'XM
G00 would, if they could, invite back and
reinstate the Baloons. ' ^'Wti&^&SlE
One argument of the whisky interest,
viz: that - saloons promote the prosperity
and growth of communities, has been an-
swered in Kansas by the convincing logic
of foots. In 1880 the population . of this
state, ' as shown ' b y the ' census,
a wae 996,096. ;^ri:: Maroh,V:J.8Q6, ,;ii
shown W o the stat% oensus, ; it; WM
I 1,406,788; and it is now fully 31650,000. Jh
j 1880 Kansas had only 8,104 miles; of rajl-
*way. wikhjhvher borders; on tfiq, first ',ol
March last the state board of railroad
lessors re rted 6.208 miles for taxation
tie real and personal property o
zregated only 8160,891,689: -
f Maroh,.1886, the total was 'It
ad'^or the present fiscal year)
aus far received indicate a toti
vQftOOapfe 1880 there wereWHI
houses, 2,514 ohurohes and 547/
per in Kansas; there are now.' f
school houses, 8,600 churches
Newspapers. In 1880 only fifty*;
and oities had populations' itt *
1,000 eaob; in 1887 more than"
have each over 1,000 inhabitants; fully
. twenty-five have eaoh over 6,000i Ma four,
| have.'eaoh oyer 20,000. In 18K)611*8,868,.
000 acres were planted in crops; this year
the area planted exoeede 16,000,000 sores.
In 1880 the value of the farmbroduota of _
Kansas was' "only $8-4,521,000: -tor' 1886 [
their yalue.was over 8264,000.000, Por the' •
ffaoal year of 1880 the percentage of state
taxation wad f>% mills; for the '"present,
fitoal year .the total percentage levied fori
all state purposes is over 4%milis, • ' i I
i Poring the past two years. and a'half I
have organized seventeen opunties jn the
western seotion of the state and oanaua
takers have been appointed for four bther,
counties, leaving only two '.obuntiee re-
maining to be organized, i$mjfci£W$a
The cities and towns (of Kansas,
witb hardly an exoeptlon,^||Si^';, leapt
pace I n / growth and. ^ i p e p e r i t y
with' this marvelous development'of the
state, Many of them have doubled their,
population during the past yearV'sid it is
a remarkable fact that several o}tles and
towns languished or stood sou tjntil they
abolished their saloons, and from that
date until the' present time their growth
and prosperity has equalled, and in some
instances surpassed, that of other places
with equal natural o4vactagei'''^H ; " i, |-J
Summing, up, the facts of the cen-'
BUS confute and confound those/ who as-
sert that the material prosperity of any
oommunityis^promotea bythe.preeenoe
lar as Kansas and all her
8t saloons. I., are oonoerpedj'the re-'
cities and iraon is true. ;The most
verso of tL Lprosperity, of |Oftteri "
wonderful
moral and develc
growth lrFfbpuntry, cltiejL and towim
ever witnessed on; the American copti.-
nentThas been illustrated in Kaneas'dtu>
ing'vfhe six years since the temperance
amendment to our''*i constitution was
adopted, and especially during the past'
two years, the period of its most energetic
and complete enforcement;. "* 4; ~r!H
:>•••: 8 Youre very respectfully,' >>" 1
. '''J'-v .; .' ;v jNO.'ik. MAT5TIN.
' ' '" " teit--i^>wS:
The I.le Nailed. 'O'lii-'?
. The following letter was sent to Wil-
liam Henry Smith, general agent of the
Associated Press at Chicago, and will ex-
plain itself; ' ^;'J"-'. .'..: ; • > .>.,
ATCHISON Ks., July 15, Iffy.j-WfiNam
Henry 8mith, Agent Associated £f§t&
Chicago, 77J.—DEAR'. SIR :—The under:,,
signed have read Gov. Martin's letter
denying and correcting certain false add'
misleading statements embodied ip a:
special djspatch sehf to'a, Chicago news-,'
paper, on the 2d pf1 July, Inst, and we
fully endorse and ajistaih'the5 Governor*^
statement. A local dispute; concerning
methods of taxation was, as Gov. Martin
says, the only foundation for the malicious
and untruthful dispatch from St. Joseph.
The gas, electric lights and water supply
of Atchison have never been cut off. Its
fire department has been, and is, contin-'
uously on duty. Its police force has
been largely reduced, but has been, and;
is, ample to preserve the peace and pro-"
tact the property of the citizens. In brief,
every statement embodied in Gov. Mar-.
tin's letter to the General Agent of the ]
Associated Press, touching the municipal
condition of the city of Atchison, the
ommercial and manufacturing prosperi-
:y of the city, its business, its public im-
provements, Its government, its gas and
water supply, and its fire department, is
[perfectly truthful and accurate.
That this dispatch from St. Joseph had
to origin in the enmity and rivalry of a
"Usourl town, is fully established by the
lalignant and untruthful dispatch sent
rom that place last night, concerning
"ov. Martin's letter. The 'extracts there
paraded, from Atchison newspapers, are
I
garbled and misleading. The articles
thus quoted from were discussions of the
ery question to which Gov. Martin re-
efers in his letter to' Gen. Smith, viz., a
uestion concerning a method of munlci-
ial tazation for Atchison that bad been,
'or many years, adopted and enforced in T
St Joseph. * V ; ' V j *fT,V""
The city of Atchison was sever more ft>
 osperous than it Is at the present time.
Its^business, and especially its1 wholesale
and manufacturing trade, during the pres-
ent year, is fully thirty-three per cent, in
excess of that for the corresponding
THE LATEST tfSULT; ••-•

months of 1886. Real estate sales in A Ringing Dispatch From Our

Atchison, during the first six months of
1887, have exceeded the aggregate for the
Governor to the President,
o previous three years combined. More
r-
costly and substantial buildings are being Indignant Soldier*.
erected in Atchison this year than during All the old soldiers of the late war, and
any previous year in its history. _ all loyal oitizens as well, are filled with
The undersigned are members of both indignation at the action of President
parties, Republican and Democratic. Oleveland in ordering the return of the
Very few of us are Prohibitionists. This confederate Hags held by the government.
letter is, therefore, written'slmply to vin- So indiguaut were many of the old eci-
dicate the truth, *»d. to toatiiro against the,, diers that they made the air ring with the
o malignant, jfai&e and slana^rcus state- most bitter denunciations of the presi- a

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o
ments sent out'from 8t. "jojcrpb; Mo., fw"
the purpose oJ injuring tlfl&! good name
and affecting the growth of t&is city. \ >!
•„• $ v < , ',"• B . H . K K L S E Y {
dent.
Governor Martin, true to the state of
Kauaaa and the loyal oitizens and sol-
diers he represents, sent to President
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[ Mayor.', Oleveland the following telegram this

. : . , . ; • . . - • • , O . G . R O L F S , j , & > \
morning: S
'•-'•• tPresident Boardof Trade. TOPEXA, KANSAS, June 10, 1887.
E . E. 8. W I L L S / To the President, Washington, D. C:
Superintendent Gas Co. In the name of one hundred thousand
oitizens of Kansas, who served in the
B. S. WILLS', '
ranks of the Union army during the war,
.'-'•s Superintendent Water Co. and in behalf of all the loyal peo-
H ii > •'. J. M.'WELLS," ple of this state, I enter an indig-
•p
Y;< Superintendent Electric Light Co. nant protest against the return
of the confederate Hags captured
a '/f •
' ' •':,
' W. 0 . BARNES,
Chief Fire Department.
in battle by the soldiers of the republic
I protest against such aotion as an insult
F. H. PBICE, to the heroio dead and an outrage on
tv. their surviving comrades. The govern-
.a Chief of Police.
ment accepted the custody of these
oo
'.'"'.<' • T. B. GBBOW, flags, placed in its ciiurge by the putriotio
90 !;"i'.' ' City Clerk. soldiers of the Union, as a sacral trust,
2 J. T. CorLAX,' and I protest that neither the president
of the United States nor any other otllcer
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Cashier First National Bank. of the government has authority, moral or
< i 0. 8. HjtTIIBRJNaTON, legal, to surrender them.
Exchange National Bank. JOHN A. MAHTIN,
Y ,« '.[ F. W. HUNTON, Governor of Kansas.
Cashier United States National Bank. ByXlmMat'WHlUm Of ,tlli
Ji V. J U X I O H ,
k i *-a s tr, -4V?nUon National Bank.. . OCTOBER 19, 18*7.
•*A
Cashier Atchison Savings B a n k * Tn i/ODI) FELLOWS,
'••• _•'•'' . E. G. AlUlBTlY, ,M/j
Cashier Kansas Trust <fc Banking Co. p
J. S. WOOD, ' riendshlp Lodge Celebrates the]
Asst. Cash. Farmers' Exchauge Bank. Thirtieth Anniversary of
1 JOHN M. UAIK,
Its Existence.
I Cashier Atchison Bute Hunk.
J. C. Fox.
8. C. KINO. Friendship lodge No. 5, Independent
H. CLAY PAHK, Order of Odd Fellows, celebrated the
Postmaster (Atchison). thirtieth anniversary of Its existence Inst
J. B. Ml'LKOIlD, evening, at its elegantly equipped Tem-
Pastor First Baptist Church. ple, 8lxth Htreet and Kansas avenue.
S. B. OLAZIEU, There was a large attendance, including
President U. 8. Investment Co.
'$?; ' J f ^ ' *• M'rLMKR, ,
Pastor 6^;Fj|^'PrMDTteri8n Church.
 lifcSi^-L .
a delegation from Schiller lodge. The
lodge was opened in regular form,'and
under the head of "the good of the or-
der," the
BEV. EDWAKI) COOPER
of St. Louis, a Past Grand ot Friendship
lodge, and who still retains his member-
ship here, arose in his place and was
greeted with applause. In acknowledg-
ment he bowed his snowy head, bleached
by the tempestuous storms of seventy-
seven winters. He said he hud been an
Odd Fellow since 1845, and then rehearse'd
concisely the progress of the order and
its influence for good on the community
at large. His speech, though brief, was
one of the best of the evening, and made
a deep impression on all who heard It.
Mayor S. H. Kelsey, representative to
3 the Sovereign Grand lodge, gave a gen-
eral a c c o u n t ^ the recent session of that
1 body at Denver, and spoko of it as
t TtIK SENATE OY THE ORDEH,
upon which a great responsibility rested.
He related somo Interesting facts, show- ,
ing the great labor devolving upon tho
representatives, and congratulated the
I and
members upon the gratifying reports as to
the spread of tho order in all parts of the
world.
Past Grand John A. Martin followed in
an address on "Odd Fellowship of Yore *$M
and of tho Present." Ho spoko substan-
tially ;is follows:
Thirty years ago yesterday Friendship
Lodge No. 5, I. ("). (), F,, was organized,
under u charter granted by the. Sovereign
Grand Lodge of tho United States, its
charter members were Cornelius A. Lo-
gan, Edward K. Blair, A. .1. Pctoflsh,
S. Alex. McKowu and James Dillon. Near-
p ly two years later, in 1850, tho first official
report to the Grand Lodge of the State
•hows a membership of thirty-eight, llf-
teen by initiation and nine by card. So „ , - , „
that its total membership, at the (Into of jv; yy.
> pleasant place, notwithstanding its nu-
I Its organization, must have been fourteen. Efci&i'
The meetings of the lodge, when I wns
admitted to membership, early in 1800,
were held In an odd-looltlng cottonwood
building near the corner of Commercial
and Eighth streets. And Eighth street,
at that time, wus out in tho country.
There were no pavements iu those days,
and the streets were quagmires. Reach-
ing the lot on which the hall was located,
you found the building oddly placed
upon its -roar half, and , approached
r
by au
odd-1-'- "— ' % had an abounding faith in Its destiny;
nights it was a passage attended with
fear and trembling—you reached the
building. Then, oddly still, you had to
lo around it, to _tUe reur, where an odd.
rickety cottonwood stairway, built o
stilrs, led to the second story. The stej
of this stairway had an odd hablt'N
turning up, unexpectedly, and the vh
m tims of this perverse disposition were ii
clined to declare, in their wrath, th< .
never again, until that infernal old mai {.'•)
trap was fixed, would they, attend anothe '
lodge meeting. '•'. • , ' t
Reaching a platform at the head of th
stairway, you passed into the ante-rooi
—a room about as large as a good size'
dry goods box—and thence made you
way to the lodge room.
We confidently believed, in those oh
days, that it was a comfortable and com
modious place. In reality it was no
more than one-third the size of the pres
ent lodge room. It was dimly lighted b\
coal oillamps; its floor was covered wit!
the oddest—not to say the most atrociout
—pattern of a carpet ever woven; and
the tawdry hangings of ten cent red and
blue chintz over the officers' chairs were
'agonizing in their cheap affectation of
adornment. The walls were rough and
black with smoke, until the lodges Anally
in a moment of puffed up wealth covered
them with wall paper whose figures must
have conveyed to the initiate, when his
eyes were first opened to the light, the
t
impression that a house painter's appren-
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tice had essayed high art and ended in a
fit of disgust by hurling his paint pots
brushes at the canvas.
This old lodge room had a roof which, w
like that of the Arkansas gentleman,
didn't leak when it didn't rain and could
not bo mended when it did rain. Some
ono of tho Masonic brethren—who met in
tho same room—had been prowling about
in the loft, and, making a mlested, had left
in the ceiling a ragged, yawnldg hole.
This served, foryears,to impress outsiders,
<<u occasions like tho present, with the
suspicion Unit some mysterious and per-
haps awful event had occasioned that
break. Repairs wore rarely made, for
tho very excellent reason that the treasu-
J?
ry of the lodges, in those days, resembled
the pocket-book of a tramp. There was
no danger of defalcations, and an official
bond was entirely superfluous.
< It is not my purpose, however, to abuse
that venerable lodge room. It was a
o
merous deficiencies, for it was warmed
and lighted by the true spirit of Odd Fel-
lowship. The brothren who camo there
did so because they enjoyed the meet-
ings. They had for each other a genuino
feeling of mutual regard. They did not
quarrol over non-essentials; they valued
each other's good name, and took a sin-
^KO
cere pleasure in the prosperity or success
achieved br any one of their number, in
any avocation or pursuit. The town was
a straggling cottonwood villajfe, but they
their lodge was weak and poor, but they
had unfaltering confidence in its future.
I think some o? the most pleasant meet-
ings I have ever known were those held
iu that old lodge room.
The wor came, and its fierce enthusi-
tistn swept nearly all of the younger
members into the army. The years tn
 followed were indeed qjpr^fand perilous
to Friendsbip~Lodge./ii&ivas told, when4
peace dawned on the' land agaiu; thut
frequently, for months iu succession, a
quorum could not be obtained for a meet-
ing; that when the Grand Lodge dues
were payable, a few of the members had
to advance them; and that when the
semi-annual election nights came around
it was frequently difficult to find enough
members to fill the offices—an odd enough
thing, even in Odd Fellowship.'
With the return of peace .came better
i times for the old lodge. The town began
to grow, and the order kept pace with it.
Its roll of members rapidly lengthened,
and in a few years there was, talk of re-
•<*
i
ON moval to more commodious quarters.
These were obtained after much discus-
sion, In the third ktory of the building on
Second street, now the St. James hotel,
and on the 17th of March, 1808, the new
lodge room waa^ formally dedicated, in
the presence of a large assemblage of
U members, with their wives and daughters.
Less than a month after this removal,
¥ on the 7th of April, the lodge, by resolu-
tion, granted permission to its German
> members to withdraw and organize a
new lodge, and shortly thereafter Schil-
ler lodge was duly organized. . Odd Fellowship, an'oyabove?i*» ti»«
The two lodges met, for five years, in
a the hall on Second street. But in 1875
another change occurred. A largo and
beautiful room in the building on the
corner of Commercial and Sixth streets
was leased for a term of years, elegantly
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fitted up. and dedicated with appropriate1
ceremonies. ' ,••."'- h >' •.•'.*'
Ten years later. In 1883, the building
•p of the present Odd Fellows' temple was
commenced, and on the 20th of Novom-
•ber, 1884, It was, formally dedicated. It
m
Is an enduring monument to the enter-
prise and public spirit of the Odd Fel-
lows of Atchison. If is worth fully
Pll
tweuty-flvo- thousand dollars, and the
oo debt contracted in building it has been,
oo
In less than three years, almost oxtltu
guishod. The lodge has one hundred
and forty-four members jn good standing
and its future prosperity is assured.
One of the charter members of Friend-
ff ship Lodge, and its first Noble Grand,
I Dr. C. A. Logan, attained the highest po-
sition known in Odd Fellowship, that of
Grand Sire of the United States and Can-
ada; and afterwards represented this
country, with distinguished usefulness,
I as Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili.
Oth/rs of its members have filled many
official positions of dignity and import-
ance. Two of its members, John M.
Price and Charles II. Krebs, havo been
Grand Mnsters of tho Order In Kansas;;
two, 8. H Kelgey and your speaker, have
been Grund Patriarchs of the Grand En-
campment; and two, John M. Price and
8. II. Kelsey, have frequently been electj
I ed delegates to the Sovereign Grand]
Lodge of tho World. Eleven of the
eighteen Mayors of this city have beet
members of Friendship Lodge, and itJ
rolls have always included a very large!
number of ogr most prominent and pub-j
lie spirited citizens, engaged In all!
ranches -. _,
tory of Friends
itable to t.h priAlpTei,|
and it is to ... tost prosper-
ous lodges in the ...
I have neither the Yfm'e nor the dlsposi-
| tion to discuss the principles, influence
' and aims of Odd Fellowship. The order
needs neither defense or eulogy. I have
never believed that Initiation in & y se-
cret society, no mattar what its princi-4
ples or purposes might be, would make a
good man out of a person who is inher-
ently mean, vicious or depraved!/ Bu>
the vast majority of men are not natur-
ally bad, ana a very large portion of those
whose lives are hopelessly wrecked, fall
because of their surroundings.' Pliant
and weak, they are insensibly but irresis-
tubly swopt Into w.ong-dol ig and *1 $
by the force of example and associations.
Upon this class of men, I do sincerely
believe, such societies as the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows exert a re-
straining, reforming and always whole-
some influence. The lessons» taught
the ritual, the principles on
la
tAught In
"'
Order Is based, the virtues thijil
Atwe ion-
stantly exalted in every'beremony.of
strengthening and inspiring associations
of the losge room—all these wholesome
influences must exert, upon the minds
and hearts of Odd Fellows, and especial-
ly upon the younger members, a strong
and helpful control. Every lesson, and
precept of Odd Fellowship exalts the
homely virtues of industry, frugality,
truth, benevolence, kindliness to others,
fidelity to duty, respect for law, and con-
sideration for the rights of all men.
True Odd Fellowship exalts manhood,
enjoins sobriety, demands charity, In-
spires patriotism, and teaches the uni-
versal Fatherhood of God and the broth-
erhood of man. No man can be a good
Odd Fellow who h not a good citizen, a
true husband, father and brother, a help-
ful friend, and a truthful, sober, kindly,
honest and industrious man.
I do not assert that all these virtues can
be said to distinguish all Odd Fellows.
Members of the Order are only human.
They have the same passions and self-,
control, the same strength and weak-
nesses, the same virtues and frailties that
are common to the whole human race.
But I do assert that membership in the
Order—its teachings, its principles, the
noble examples it is constantly, exalting,
and the virtues It holds up as the best
and highest qualities of humanity—can
not fall to exert a beneficent influence
upon the lives and conduct of its mem-
bers. I believe Friendship Lodge'has
exerted such an influence upon many
men. It has uided them to see the right,
and influenced them to do right, often,
perhaps, when they did not themselves
realize the subtle but powerful control of
its teachings. It has been a useful or-
;anization In this community, and such/
f fervently hope and trust, It will ever
be. Its old members. I am sure, have
only pleasant memories of it* past; its
younger mombors, ^believe, find equal
enjoyment and profit in its future growth
and usflfulnesB. ^'V5
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TU:
KANSAS DAY. \
A N O T H E H MAMMOTH CROWD AT T H ^ f
EXPOSITION YESTEKDAY.
Tlie. First und P r e s e n t f5ov.«>rnors of t l i o l
UioHt State Spvak —Gllinoro, a i Usual,]
1'leases t h e Crowds—Visliosaj at "Tliol
Tlmtit" Ilriiuuli Office—Nolos—Missouri!
Day.
Ki>nsa» day at the e x p o s i t i o n WAS A grout
6UCQ0SR.
Tho first thought ofj o y e r y b o d y In tho olty
B W M tho day ana tho guos.ts It would bring. All
the railroads In Kansas thatieentered la Kan-
s a s City were running excursion trains, ntut
the sceno about union W p o t all day yestorduy
wn> one ot noise, confusion and crowds of
people. T h ^ t r a v o l was enormous. By noon
thoso poopfo began'pourlng Into the e x p o s i -
tion building, and by the time Ollmoro ap-
peared on tho scene the building was about
as full as it could welt bo.without pressing tho
wails out.
Governor John A. Martin o s m o down front
Atchison on the 0 a. m, train. He wus met by
President T. A. Harris und dsjajen dlrootly to
the Coates hoose. wboro he w a s Diot by tho
reception commltteo of twonty-flvo. A l t e r a
tew moments' conversation he w a s osoortod
to the rooms rosoi vud by the m a n a g e m e n t of
the Coates house for tholr distinguished
g u e s t s , nod later took breakfast In tbo public
dining room.
Governor Martin's staff and otbor promi-
nent Topoka gentlemen arrived on tho 0:30
train and wero mot by tho oommlttou und
taken directly to the Costos house, The party
consisted of W. W. Admire, seorstary to the
governor; Junto* W. Hamilton, state treas-
urer; J. H. Lawhoad, superintendent of public
Instruction; William rilms, soorotsry of the
etato board of agriculture; Dr. E. B. Allen,
sooretsry of state, and wlto; George FinJlny.
Stste mining Inspector; 0. 0. Bakor, stato
prlntor, and John bmltn, warden ot tho stato
penitentiary.
F.x-Govornor Itoblnson of Lawronco oame
o n tho 0:30 traiu § tf wa* uscortud to the
Coates house, whore1 i ' w a s mot by tho roHt I
('of the party.
> About 11 o'.lock B!X carriages wero drawn
jtjp in line In front of tho Coates house swd the
•first and I At) I governors ot 'ho grout stato,
'iieoompunled by the state ofnoors, Prostdent
Harris and members of tbe committee, wore
soon seatod in thorn for a drivo about tho city.
Tho llrst carriage contained ex-Governor
Robinson, President T. A. Harris, J. K. Landls
and Judgo W, HolmoB; In tho s e c o n d were
Governor John A, Martin, L. It. Mooro and W.
D. Qrlmos; third, Kansas Htato T r e a s -
urer J, W. Hamilton, Kansas Bt^to
Printer C. C. Baker. Charles D.
Lucas,- and B. F. Jones, superintendent
of t h o ^ r a t j wo^ks; tho fourth was oooupled
•ilftl'8 secretary, W. W. Ad-
by
mlrof'^ dis./, state mining Inspector;
"J , ,,n l \V « Wilson: In
foe K a n s a s state' venttOritfitrW'B. 0."Moody!
10
J. M. M. Wilson and J. /JStfrygher. The slxt
carriuga was oooupled M S a e w s p s p e r men
Tho route followed w a s .irom.-Br.oaaffiky t
Thirteenth, to SrlppB overtbokingr'^'fifflBL i
Sixteenth, to Broadway, to ^TjtOfagffi:
Delaware, to Main, US Tout^i, TSSMpa!
nut, to Ninth, to ForeWi aventi?, to Inca
pendenco avonae. to BefTefontainp avenue, i
Prospect, to Thirtoontb, to the exposition^
building, where tho party alighted, and were.
Bgogrted into the main hall at 1 o'clock. Theyx
spent an hour in making the tour of the build-!
lug, and e x p r e s s e d themselves us both nston
•ft ished and pleased with the building and it
contents. After walking ubout tho halls fpr i
time the party, this time accompanied by Dr,
E. 1). Allen and wife, embarkod In .the car
r i s g e s for another drivo, not r"**TTflfrt|rfc_'u
exposition till 3:30, whore they r f l j R w t
Ollmoro's matchless music for some" time
^YhenTho musical programme was -jufft hat
plnrod through, Colonel (itlmore called if
halt, and the band stdnd was immediately oc-
cupied by the governor and BX-coveiuor. o
Kansas, the s'ato ouT-ers. ra«snbers of tno re^
0«ptlon oonnnittee and reM>rtors. As Gov
ornor Martin and o x - G o y l r n o r Rabins
orossed the platform they wore greeted wi
prolonged oheeriug.
The view from tho band stand wns a grand
one, ami the oomplituont ta Kansas us pre-
s e n t e d by the .issemblod multitnde was t h o r -
oughly appreciated by the governor of Kan-
sas and Ms friends. The main aisle was
pricked with peoplo from tho edge of tho bund
ti'.nd to the entrance In tho south tower, In
f act the tloor of main hall, sill that
portion that was wltlun hearing distance,
war, Dim solid m a s s of humanity. The bal-
cony doors had no more standing room.
Tho BSUBU was bright and animated.
When tho applause died away President
Harris stopped to tho front and introduced
Governor Martin In tho following graceful
word* of wsl'Omo:
"Lutlos and gonlloinen: The dlroitors of tho
national exposition have Invited to visit us to-
d a y , tho people of the state of Kansas and
tholr gov. nior. I feel satlsllod that 1 voice.
tin) iniaiilmous sentiment of tho pooplo of
hausim (.Miy when I state that we fool houorod
In having them with us. I fori and they
toel that n very largo portion of our pros-
perity Is due to the people of Kansas, and
Mli'10 should s l w a y s bo a bond of sympathy
LufAioin us. Ono nan not well exist Wltttofut
•ij-tli" oihor. Ladles anil gentlemen, this o w m
rJunirKs for all fin urn lime an Important event
In iliu history of this elty. The rapid dovniop-
metit of the great stato of Kansas, whoso
KCAJWealth is over pouring through our gates.
S ^ m . ' . k e s this phanunionalwjjf fi/ ours the great
jOL'JWondor of modern llflHP For 'lil» we are
•Pa grniofui. ana to linvo wltlTUa lo-day tho llittj
ni.d tle> last governors ot tho stato from which
Ujr., I of our trade nonioH u an event of great
nil'! most pleasing significance.
" l t l s o n u of the greatest p easttves of my
ills la bo able to welcome to Kansas City tho
iii-oi).u of Kansas, aud to littroducu to you
Governor John A. Mnrtln. who will now. ad-
dress you In Uuhull of the puuploot Kansas.
Lad in I and gontlemu), Uuvornor John A.
Mar,in of Kansas."
As Governor Martin rose to respond ho was
grooto.i with a perfect storm o( welcome. Ho
I'lmiiii from notes In his eusy, oonYluclog
in timer, Ills deop, clear voice penstratlng to
the rvmolost r e c e s s e s of the hall, command-
ing tho profoundest ruspeot and silence, savo
ni.w an,I then when n ripple of laughter or
rnnn i of spplauso greoteu some mors than
u>u illy pieiialng passage.
When <n* managers of this exronitlao lavltod mo
to vult |i, mi "Kansas day," 1 said 1 would h i very
glad t" do «,•, It i could uo ponullted to cuiuo to
sei'and uoi .<. talk, !,»,• ti.au two days uiler
thi-eoveuunt was made, i read in the vrraciou*
and enterpiluiuR Journal* ol tbo oity, tha an-
Diaincoiuenl t! at I was m make "an addross."
I'm liapo tha'. may bo tho rtausan city way of do-
lu.i llliags, l hope, howBver, u la not. Hooauso.on
our Bt'lo of tho lino, thsre aro very few oratoi'3,
lucll as Warner Is. Ho, If you make a praotico of
lnv :t u;( I', aaiians to visit you to see something you
havH to -how, nod tlion oall ou tbcm to talk, you
may uot be able to oaten t/.cin aualn. Kuii.i.in
aru uoi accustomod to blowing thoir own horusl
You uovor hoard a Kansan ofaltloii toe wealth
and prosnorltv of ills state, did you? Ur toiuoi;
auynno that Kansas was Hie oeutor, tho glory, ibe
In Uhl particular star of tho universe? Ordrclar.
In.' that Its soil wus tho n o n x t and doepoat, its
a'.umsprisre the purest, r,a peoplo me moat lutein•
Etbt, enterprising anil euorgo'ic. and its womnn
(tie mom beautiful In tho known world?
Ur assorting that she
K»r.«HS wss without parallel
1Q
Aiunrloan otates? Or afBrniU
Hi lie rallr.-ads to the square
and wheat to tho acre, ana .mx> ro oom
- -ity aud us and
• I uruwlnrtcities per ci _ n slrtv ot lth Dtrl
• •• ••• K....«nn. t^^n otUe
 eg* nasry •flriitU
BRbnt you nover.hoar a, Kansaq BftaXilM
floordr.
bout them I W« are • uiodost p#opl9 and *r» not
utfvd ui>, «ven if we havo the best andgreateit
tuts in toe union. »v "v-,i,-,---
Wbai, then, shall I talK about? Hire In this
,'roat building, surrounded by this vast dfsplay of the past day or two, liad fully otfieotbd t
ho produoti of aifrtoiilture, Industry, Invention,
vouiuierco aod art, the eye and tbe mind, not the attend Ilia State Sanitary Convention ai
tongue, should be busy. Thin exposition la a mod-
em object lescon—a school for the Instruction of Winbitn, and to fulfill (ho duty assigned
old and young alike. II Illustrate* the social and
Indiietrlul progress of tbe wont-the arty, trades, me in the-programme, bat sicknesn lit
SOleiioaB, Mtenuure unrt philosophy of our people, home, and an unununl precaare of official
/»s well us their groat numimrolal and agricultural
curiin;». Tlui unuf.il aud the beuutllul, toe pro- basiness at the Capital, have so absorbed
ducts of -kill and Industry o( tbo studio, tbe fac-
tory, tbe duld aud tho uori mo here blended hap- my time during the past tun day* that it
pily together for tbe Inspection of tho ourious and
the study of tbe thoughtful. Huoh exhibitions are has been impossiblo for mo to fulfill my
of t.'ie iTciUoat value to all oinssos of the people,
'Ihsv Instruct and inspire; they suggest new ideas; purpose, and I am relnotantly compelled
tbov dllfusoii belter knowledge of the natural re-
sources »f the eountry and of the methods, Indus- to aend my regrets.
trie)- and progress of Its people. The exposition,
thereforo. noeds no orator, It spouks for ltmlf, II I do not believe, however, tbaM?jjr ab-
Is Us own advooate and eulogist. Look around
and admire. sence will detract from tho business of the
1 heartily consjrntulate tbe originators and mao- ^neetlng, and I am suro that I could say
' U « M of the exposition upon the brilliant success
tboy fcave aohiovsd. 'Chuy havo Inaugurated a nothing on sno.li an ooanslon that #.ould
great ens»rprl<i«; an emarpsAio of vast aud perma-
nent importance and value Tan enterprlso worthy be of Interest or value
of this great and prosperous olty, come I desired only to lit consetitlSg to
I rejoloe, also, to seo that here, as at all previous oere interost in tho purpose* cxproaa
of my <;iin-.
tho^on
aXblblt/ons ofsimilar oharaolor, commencing with
fbe oentenntaret Philadelphia, the displays made ventlon, und this I can do quite a»|irsll
by Kansas altraot general attnollon and ooiument by letter as by my porannal prosonc
Kansas QM never been ashamed or a/raid toap-
Lpear la ajrrrrreeenoe, or on any proper occasion, The state, in my judgment has a r
"and exhlftfi samples of her products: and every
—I is sura that wherever Kansas tilt duty to perform in dovi.iing and per
there hoad of the table. I'erhaps this may stag moaauros for preserving iho ptrtlio
"l pride al.-d enthusiasm; bnt 1 be-
rably shared by the people of a ealth and the discussions and sugSos
sflsanurl^Mi not ibis sof Kor If tlona of such a body an will bo assembled
bore asHOfhal It Is, what would
"I haver"beeu Informed that at WJohitu to-morrow ought to, aad Ihvvt
of the trade of this olty oornes
om 'KftMsT 1 bare also been told that, ex- n o d j u b t will, afford muoh practioul inSr-
uding tJWfcli-QfAaWon within tho corporate Urn. nation touching tho best methods of ac-
f of thoflty, fully K
a m i Olty papers aft, ,.,,„,,« .*. ,.»„.—. complishing this result. It is an old adage
ois arefacti mrsjjjp people out/lUe of J^JJII
that "doctors disagree"but tho y do opt
disagree concerning Himilary contlitiogs.
All sohools of modicino are, I believpsa
["•* '»[«or Interest M la^^r unit In declaring that (ho source an§]
urltyaud victories of
,1 0 ,wl£ oanio of many of tho most virulent dS-
is8.«iJ? ? ?L "»
itiotaen of the u '
' rou sinoerolj (a* iu, ,w-a . . .
mmi
t7afntm
oases Is impure air and water, and imper-
fect sowerago and drainage. It is also^t
well established fact that many of tfi-o

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lSa7i^sSfSK,^,.SBi!yn
And now• r2¥S?iA l a t , , t f i fK r •"><!u d
n 8 »°'
all the people of
" wloomuyou.
« , n 8 '"*»ru maybrlaii
most dostruotivo diseaseM are eap.ible <S
control, limitation and extinction lj>
propor sanitary regulations. And tJivsl
1 ^nmAlmVSaOtV'^Si things being true, every individual tfltfi
een has a right to domanil, nnd ought I
00 demand, that tho stato ahull givo to hill
00 and to his family that, sanitary pfrtleoj
tfon which he, as an individual, rnuuot!
00
oo IN SESSION. prorido or enforce.

Health is tho greatost of earthly biers

I :AN EX
— s - j f t . .

IVEJfPDBT OF THif;
Jngs. Without it, wealth, honors, and ai^L
tho prizes that men and women stroggis^i
for, aro valueless, All citizens, therefore,
PEO N03 PWtU
E E SAN-
are personally and largely interested in
ITU CONVENTION- tho deliberations of a body convened to
discuss sanitary regulations, nnd suggest I
§ U p m o s t practical method* of drainage

j 2
low in Sejiion under thjk Auspioes of]
tbe 8tate Board oWeolth.—
And vontilation. und I'I» bent mean* to
provs/Ijt disease, control epidemics, and
impttWo tho general health of the com-
i
Dr. J. O. T. J o h n s o n , of Atohlson, monwealth.
With regrets that I am unable to be
thou rtid\aii nblo paper on "Heredity,"
present nt tho couvoxytiou, and assurances
and ari interesting gunornl disoussiou of my hearty sympathy witljjils objecls,
5
was taken pnrt In by Hi* members. 11 il [•^Hrr-jpojgjp. very (rnJy,
Excolrfftoj, Hon. J o ' 1 ] ^ - Martin, Gov- fhu coriVention4V y JOHN A^jiaBn.N Jonrneil
ernor, was ou»the proflffh , l t ">'» point 'and! !i n'clockUhis
for an address. Oor. Martin could not
bo present, nnd tho secretary read a let-
ter of regret fo»ui him. whioh wo givo
below:
STATE or KANSAS. Kxect.nva /
DKPAKTMENT, TOPKUA, Due. 7. 'ST. )
Jadgo Jsmea Hamphrcy, I'reaidcnt Htnte
Sanitary Convention:
Vv rirvn SJrn• —T tULfJ llfl
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 18S5 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
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John Alexander Martin, newspaper chppings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., 1508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California. -USA 94591-3706.
 clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.

John Alexander Martin, n e w ^ e r clipping,, ,885 to 1887, held by Rictard Tonsing, .45 Pi™ Dr., # 508, VaUejo, Catifbrnia, -USA 94591-3706.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.
John Alexander Martin, newspaper clippings, 1885 to 1887, held by Richard Tonsing, 145 Plaza Dr., # 508, Vallejo, California, -USA 94591-3706.