My fellow-citizens, the issues of this campaign are of vital importance
to the prosperity and happiness of this State and this Nation.
Republicans of Kansas, remember that in less than two years from this
time we will be in the midst of a Presidential campaign. Do your duty
now, and the result then will be assured. Support with voice and pen and
vote, the candidates of your party—the men who represent convictions,
principles, and policies approved by your judgment, and dear to your
hearts. There has never been a time, from 1860 down to the present
moment, when the Republican party more fully deserved the support of all
loyal and just-minded men than it does now. Rally around the old banner
of Republicanism—the flag of Lincoln, and Grant, and Garfield, and
Logan, and Blaine. Vote with and for the party that gave liberty to the
slave, and restored the Union and brought back peace and prosperity to
bless a distracted and impoverished land. Vote with the party that has
made Kansas famous throughout the civilized world as a State where
unexampled material growth has gone hand in hand with unexampled social
and intellectual progress. Vote with the party that is striving to make
every home in Kansas a prosperous and happy home. Vote for the party
that is always and everywhere the party of good government, of social
order, of liberty and law. Do this, do it earnestly and faithfully, and
the benediction of an approving conscience will fall upon and abide with
you forever.