The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-31
THE KANsAN DAY CLUB.
The Young Republicans and Their Jubi-
lee-A Great Success.

long time the question has been chal-
longing the ingenuity of the combined
wit of the state of what the young
crowd is and what is essential eligibility,
Was gray hair an ostracism, spectacles a
bar and boldness calamity? Or was
the qualification limited to fuzzy upper
| lips, cigarettes and forescent Audience?
| This point has been settled. And several
points more.
1t relieves the reader of an arduous
duty, that it is not incumbent on the
modern press that bill of fare should
be published, for the savorv fragrance of
culinary achievements and the taste of
perfected viands cannot be transmitted
through a newspaper column to him
who has neither smelt nor tasted. Suf-
flee to say that the tables were galore,
linen like the driven snow, China SER
vice Of opalescent delilacy, salads in
parti-colored decorations, jellies quiv-
ering in mellow and ruby splendor, huge
! Jolly in apoplective opulence and ices of
deliquescent fragility. Three hours of
this. Then the chairs all go back from
the table, the cigars are lit, the board, so
lately ladened, swept clean, now,
but a wonderful mountain range of
crumpled napkins, and waste of
crumbs.
Before this momentous hour, however,
it had been decided by committee what
were the purposes of the club, its officers
and its name, These were the commit
sees words:
1--WE recommend the organization of a
club to be known as The Kansas Day
Club The purpose OF this club shall be
to promote the interests of the Republic
can party, and to call together in a social
way upon Kansas Day. All young Re
publicans are eligible to membership in
this club. The executive committee
shall have charge of the meetings and
arrange for the same. The next meeting
of the club shall be on Kansas Day, at
Topeka, Kan.
1.-The officers of this club for the ensu-
ing year shall be: President, Harry
Frost, Topeka; vice presidents, C. S.
Reed, Fredonia; j. Q. Royce, Smith
Center, R. II. Brewster, White Cloud;
secretary, George Smith, Marysville;
treasurer, Harry Wood, Wellington"
Harry Frost of Topeka presided at the
banquet and introduced each speaker
with bon mot sprightly and ingenious.
Frank G. Crowell, young, well built,
massive forehead, with raven mus
tache like Spanish matador, opened the
banquet. He has superior voice and
spoke OF Kansas and its men in high en-
cOnium. John Martin, Preston B. Plumb
and the memories of the states foremost
men lightened up in the glow of his elo-
quence. When he finishes everybody
turns to his neighbor and expresses his
opinion that that was ''bully speech"
One or two, present, murmured in an I'M
dertone the fear that the standard was
too high and the speakers following
could not keep up the pace.
Next E. c. Little, Ed. Little of Abb |
lene, inclined to have his full share of
flesh, good firm mouth, a Websterian
chin and an honest, frank eve. A speech |
with good deal of philosophy in it and
perforce plea for honesty and cleanli- |
ness in politics. A fierce, not vindictive |
but minatory, declaration of the rights |
of the young man-and quick following
that tuneful modification in a warm
apostrophe to age.
Then came Cubbison, of Kansas City, |
Kansas. Tall, we'll built, manly and
assertive. The crowd was with him be-
fore his first word was uttered. A broad |
marble forehead over a pair of blue, |
earnest, sympathetic eyes. Hear this:
kansas is perhaps the most fascinat-
ing of all the dear girls in the great
sisterhood of states. Clad in the royal |
purple of her princely husband, the Re-
publican party, her beautiful form be-
comes matchless as the Venus de Milo.
On her cheeks blossom the roses of
health, on her brow rests the purity of |
Diana, while her eyes smile with the
audacity of genius. Twice only has she
tiirted; once with the Democrcy in 1882
simply for amusement, and again in 1890
with the Alliance, to test the love of her
husband. The first she apologized for
with smile; the lest she repented with
a tear"
There is no describing how the crowd
yelled and slipped down in their chairs
and threw their heads back and their
mouths open, and then recovered, and
then thought of 1t again and then re-
lapsed again into excruciating parox-
ysms.
There is nothing more wonderful in
this world, no inner magic so great as
that which lightens the warm Jewels of
a speakers eye. Cubbison, with a round
ed period, his eve sparkling, his body
bent forward slightly from intensity,
ended his toast and no man. who was
there, ever remembered of ever having
cheered louder,
Charles Scott of lola on ''Newspa-
pers." Mr.. Scott stands six feet, is slen-
der, with literary countenance, which
is furthered by eyeglasses astride clean
cut nose. He spoke first of the news
papers in general and then referred TO
Kansas newspapers in particular, telling
how they had kept Kansas before the
world, and of the many social changes
in the political complexion of the state
due in a greater measure 10 the press
than any other factor.
Most of the papers of Kansas that
amount TO anything, he said. are in the
hands of the young crowd and the fact
that this is so IS important, for it means
that they hold the balance of power