Addresses: by John A. Martin. Delivered in Kansas.
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JOHN A. MARTIN.
DELIVERED IN KANSAS.
PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
TOPEKA.
KANSAS PUBLISHING HOUSE: CLIFFORD C. BAKER.
1888.
BY DANIEL W. WILDER.
Those most familiar with the Governor’s office during recent years know what a busy place it is. During the session of the Legislature it is not often that the Governor has a rest of ten minutes, by day, and at night he is followed to his hotel and the solicitations often continue until midnight. Governor Martin usually reaches the office at eight in the morning and remains until five or six, never going out for a lunch. During these hours he sits and listens to the crowds of callers, dictates letters, and, rarely, reads or writes. With all of these personal demands, entreaties, and importunities, the Governor not only never neglects any caller, never loses his placid self-control, but even finds time to attend to many outside affairs in his own busy life and in the ceaseless activity of the restless Kansas life that surrounds us all. The busy man is the one who finds the most time; he loses none.
Before coming to Topeka our Governor had passed all of his active life in a printing office or in the editorial room. He began at the case, setting type, and has remained in the same office, the Atchison Champion ,—soon buying the paper, and changing its form from a weekly to a daily when the growth of town and State demanded it. During the war he was the Colonel of the Eighth Kansas, one of the youngest in the service, and one of the most successful. That is the only “rest” he has had since boyhood. But change is rest, and his election to the office of Chief Magistrate he appears to have enjoyed as a vacation; no cessation of labor, but great intellectual activity and real enjoyment.
The speeches and addresses in this volume are not the efforts of a man of leisure who is trying to see what he can say and how handsomely he will say it. They are all hastily prepared; no corrections, no re-writing, no polishing. But they need no apology.
John Alexander Martin
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ADDRESSES:
INTRODUCTION.
PENNSYLVANIA AND KANSAS.
THE FIRST KANSAS.
THE WYANDOTTE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
KANSAS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
THE WYANDOTTE CONVENTION.
THE MEMBERSHIP.
A WORKING BODY.
THE COMMITTEES.
PROGRESS OF WORK.
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE.
FEATURES OF THE CONSTITUTION.
THE FIRST “PROHIBITION AMENDMENT.”
THE LAST OF SLAVERY IN KANSAS.
THE LAST DAYS.
A SPIRITED DEBATE.
SIGNING THE CONSTITUTION.
TWO MISTAKES.
“ADDED TO THE STARS.”
AN ENDURING CONSTITUTION.
PARTING AT WYANDOTTE.
SUBSEQUENT HISTORY.
SURVIVING MEMBERS.
“LOST TO SIGHT.”
THE OFFICERS.
CONCLUSION.
EIGHTH KANSAS VETERAN VOLUNTEERS.
SPEECH
SPEECH
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1884.
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
A WAR-TIME PICTURE.
RESPONSE.
BIRTHDAY OF GENERAL GRANT.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
GENERAL GRANT—MEMORIAL ADDRESS.
KANSAS FARMS AND FARM INTERESTS.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
THE KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD.
WELCOMING ADDRESS.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
THE SCHOOL TEACHER.
ADDRESS.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF KANSAS.
THE ATHENA OF AMERICAN STATES.
THE CHILD OF A GREAT ERA.
NOT THE HISTORIAN.
THREE PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT.
THE PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY.
THE PERIOD OF TRIUMPH.
THE FACTS OF THE CENSUS.
THE GROWTH OF KANSAS WITHOUT PARALLEL.
TOWNS AND CITIES.
ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF THE POPULATION.
THE MATERIAL RESOURCES OF KANSAS.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
THE AREA OF KANSAS.
VALUE OF FARM CROPS.
FARMS AND FARM PRODUCTS.
TAXABLE ACRES.
LIVE STOCK.
THE WEALTH OF AN AGRICULTURAL STATE.
COMPARATIVE VALUES.
PROPERTY VALUATIONS.
KANSAS MANUFACTURES.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
THE SCHOOLS OF KANSAS.
CHURCHES AND NEWSPAPERS.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
A PROPHECY FULFILLED.
OUR DUTY TO THE UNION SOLDIER.
IN MEMORIAM.
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN.
THE SWEDES IN KANSAS.
ADDRESS.
REPUBLICANISM IN KANSAS.
DEMOCRACY IN KANSAS.
REPUBLICAN CONTROL IN KANSAS.
THE GROWTH OF KANSAS UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE.
KANSAS, THE CHILD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THE TWO PLATFORMS.
HISTORIC PARALLELS.
THE GROWTH OF KANSAS SINCE THE PROHIBITION LAW TOOK EFFECT.
DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?
SALES OF LIQUOR BY DRUGGISTS.
THE SALOON TRAFFIC IN LIQUORS.
DEMOCRATIC SLANDERS OF HONORABLE MEN.
THE SOBER, LAW-RESPECTING STATE.
FATHERS, MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CHILDREN REJOICE.
THE SALOON, THE SCHOOL HOUSE AND RECRUITING STATION OF THE ANARCHISTS.
THE CONFESSION OF AN ANARCHIST.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE ENEMY OF HONEST LABOR.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALWAYS THE HELPFUL FRIEND OF THE WORKINGMEN.
THE LAWS OF KANSAS TOUCHING THE LABOR QUESTION.
REVIEW OF THE ISSUES.
PERSONAL.
OPINIONS CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF STATE POLICY.
LAWS ENACTED IN 1885 AND 1886.
THE AUTHORITY OF A GOVERNOR.
REPUBLICAN ACHIEVEMENTS.
THE “RASCALS” WHO WERE TURNED OUT.
DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTS AND MARTYRS WHO CAME IN.
CONCLUSION.
SPEECH.
ADDRESS.
SPEECH.
AN ANNIVERSARY.
THE KANSAS PIONEER.
ADDRESS.
DEDICATION OF SNOW HALL.
ADDRESS.
THE GOVERNORS OF KANSAS.
MEMORIES OF THE MARCH.
KANSAS DURING THE WAR.
ODD-FELLOWSHIP IN ATCHISON.
MODEST KANSAS.
THE FARMERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.
ADDRESS.
ADDRESS.
RESPONSE.
A PRESENT TO THE SOLDIERS’ HOME.
CONTENTS.
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