As for myself, I am the candidate of this great party for reelection to the office of Governor. Two years ago, after a campaign of remarkable interest and excitement, I was elected by a majority of nearly 40,000 votes. I have been unspeakably proud of the confidence thus reposed in me by the patriotic and intelligent people of Kansas, and profoundly grateful to them as well. I have endeavored to deserve their confidence and regard by a faithful, impartial, honest discharge of my official duties. In addressing the convention which renominated me, I said: “I have never cared, I never shall care, whether any person says that my official life was brilliant or distinguished, so that all good citizens are compelled to say that it was clean, just, safe, honest, and industrious.” I repeat this statement, with earnestness and emphasis. I came to Kansas nearly thirty years ago, and have lived in the full blaze of public life ever since. I have served the people of this State in many capacities—as an editor, a soldier, a legislator, and a public officer. And although painfully conscious that I have made mistakes, I can stand up here in your presence, or in the presence of any audience of Kansas people, and challenge any man to say wherein I was ever unfaithful to a public trust, or guilty of a corrupt or dishonest action. OPINIONS CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF STATE POLICY. As to my opinions concerning questions of State policy, no intelligent citizen can be deceived or misled, for they are fully and fairly set forth in the two messages I have had the honor to transmit to the Legislature. The questions of prohibition and labor I have already discussed at some length. Other questions discussed in my messages may be briefly summarized. In my first message to the Legislature I called the attention of that body to the enormous aggregate of our municipal indebtedness, then aggregating nearly $16,000,000, and now perhaps nearly $20,000,000. I cited the fact that while our State debt was very small, the debts of its local subdivisions were enormous, and I earnestly urged the passage of a law limiting and restricting the debt-creating and tax-levying authority of counties, cities, townships and school districts, to the end that the tax burdens of the people might be reduced. Second—I urged a thorough revision of our laws touching the assessment and equalization of taxes, so as to secure, if possible, uniform values, and a material reduction of the percentage of taxation. Third—I recommended reforms in our laws for the disposition of school lands, calling attention to the defects and shameful abuses of our present system, and urging that stringent legislation should be adopted to protect the school domain of the State from despoliation by speculators.