Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ADDRESSES: By JOHN A. MARTIN. DELIVERED IN KANSAS. PRIVATE CIRCULATION. TOPEKA. KANSAS PUBLISHING HOUSE: CLIFFORD C. BAKER. 1888. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION. 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.