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. SPEECH. Before the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Topeka, May 28th, 1885. MR. MODERATOR, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSEMBLY: When the Rev. Mr. McKirahan kindly invited me to meet the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, I accepted his invitation with mingled reluctance and pleasure. On the one hand, I shrank from appearing before so august an assemblage; on the other, I was glad to greet and to welcome to the capital city a congregation of men representing a religious body so numerous and so influential. I should, however, have stipulated, in accepting the invitation, that I might be permitted to remain a silent spectator of your proceedings. In the presence of so many trained and gifted speakers, one who makes no claim to the graces of oratory ought to be permitted to remain silent. I could neither instruct nor entertain you, and certainly I have no desire to interrupt, even for a moment, the important business you are here to transact. The Christian minister occupies a most important position, and the duties devolving on him are at once delicate and responsible. In one sense, this is an age of unbelief; and yet never in any other age was the appeal for light, for faith, for instruction, so widespread and so strong. Weak men cannot make answer to this demand, and the churches of all denominations ought to fill their pulpits with the most vigorous and aggressive intellects in their ranks.