In educational privileges, what State can equal Kansas? Our State University, Agricultural College and Normal School are institutions of which every intelligent Kansan is justly proud, and our common-school system, supplemented by dozens of denominational or private academies and colleges, is wonderful in the scope and extent of the educational facilities provided. We had only 154 school houses and employed only 189 teachers in 1860; we now have more than 7,000 school houses, in which fully 9,000 teachers are employed to instruct 350,000 scholars. In 1861 the amount expended for the support of common schools was only $1,700; the expenditures in 1885, for the same purpose, aggregated $2,977,763. During the past quarter of a century Kansas has expended, for school buildings and the support of public schools, including our institutions for higher education, fully $35,000,000. Churches have multiplied with proportionate rapidity. In 1860 we had only ninety-seven church buildings, costing an aggregate of only $143,950; in 1885 we have over 3,000, valued at more than $3,000,000. In 1860 only twenty-seven newspapers were published in Kansas; we now have over 650, of which fully forty are dailies, and their aggregate circulation exceeds 400,000 copies. Every county in the State, organized or unorganized, now has one or more newspapers, and no other State in the Union can boast of a more enterprising and intelligently-conducted press than that of Kansas. The provisions made for the unfortunate have been most generous. Two asylums for the insane have been erected; and the institutions for the blind and for the deaf and dumb are among the largest and best in the United States. An asylum for feeble-minded children has been provided. The Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, a noble charity, illustrating the grateful loyalty of our people, will soon be completed. A Reform School for wayward boys is in successful operation; and the State, following the example of the most advanced commonwealths, is now erecting an industrial reformatory for the confinement of law-breakers who are not hardened criminals, thus removing this class, who may possibly be reclaimed by wholesome discipline, from the degradation of the penitentiary. KANSAS, THE CHILD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.