you can, with the history of any party in any other State. This is not the time for a discussion of the broader issues of national politics. Blaine and Logan need no eulogy. For a quarter of a century, in war and in peace, their career has been inseparably associated with the grandest and most beneficent achievements of the Nation. The people know them, and love them, and propose to elect them. And now, gentlemen, before you, the delegated representatives of the Republican party of Kansas, I renew my allegiance to Republicanism, to Kansas; to her constitution, her laws, and to the platform here adopted, which speaks for each and all of them. SPEECH Made before the Republican Convention of Atchison County, October 8, 1884. GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: Twenty-five years ago, on the 7th of the month of May, I called to order the first Republican convention ever held in this county. It was a mass convention, yet those in attendance hardly exceeded in number the delegates assembled here to-day, representing the Republican voters of Atchison county. It was called to organize the Republican party of the county, and to elect delegates to the first Republican Territorial convention, held at Osawatomie eleven days later. The Republican party of Atchison county and of Kansas has, therefore, just passed its twenty-fifth birthday. And to those who have been identified with its history during that long, eventful period, this rounding of a full quarter of a century of party life is an occasion of more than ordinary interest. Our political opponents now and then sneer at the fact that Republicans “point with pride to the past.” But surely if the Republican party is to survive for another quarter of a century, its most ardent friends could wish for it no nobler record, no prouder history, no more beneficent and useful career, than that of the past twenty-five years. Kansas was, in 1859, a poor, weak, distracted, oppressed Territory. What a great, prosperous, imperial commonwealth it now is! A million and a quarter of people, living in the richest and most prosperous State of the Union—a State gridironed by railways, dotted with school-houses and churches, and growing steadily, not only in wealth and power and influence, but in all the elements of the most advanced civilization—the Kansas of to-day is alike the pride of her own citizens, and the wonder and admiration of the whole civilized world.