The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
FORREST WOODsIDE
Is the Somewhat Arborea1 Name
of the Prize Winner
OF THE STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST.
EmDoria Carries or Both First and
second HonOrs-The College Boys
Have Their Customary Tussle.

EmpOria Carries or Both First and
second HonOrs-The College Boys
Have TheIr Customary Tussle.
If there ever was happy noisy crowd
on earth there was one at the Grand OPP
era house last night at the state orator
ical contest. The big opera house was
packed from the woodland scene at the
stage door to the last seat in the high
gallery.
College yeIls and college colors filed
the room. Enthusiasm-hsd no strings to
it and there was no tenderness of heart
when discussion of the ''other fellows"
was before the house, and it generally
was.
This was the twelfth, but no<oratorical
contest of the magnitude has Topeka
seen, and no better behaved.
There was only one little scrimmage in
the house last night, and good many OF
the boys were not a little disappointed at
this nonobservance of the time honOred
custom.
In the upper box on the north side at
the close of the contest, Washburn I'M
dertook to hang down placards painted
on both sides with mean things about the
opposition colleges. The Kansas uni
versity boys concluded it was too much,
and few of them gained admission to
the box. There was rough and tumble
tussIe Immediately in which chairs were
used, but very little damage done. 1t
looked though as if somebody would be
/ thrown down on the parquette.
! Emporia was just too mean for any
thing She took everything in sight and
yearned for more.
The state normal orator, Woodside,
! took first place in the contest and San
key of the college of Emporia. scored
the second The Kansas university,
Hackney, was third; Baker university,
Taylor, was fourth, Osborn of the Wes-
leyan, was fifth, Boughton of Washburn,
was Sixth, Flanagan of Ottawa, was sew
enth and Hoagland of Winfield, was
eighth and last.
Harry c. Case of Baker, president of
the association presided and the judges
were as follows:
Thought and mposition-Judge j.
D. McCleverty of Fl. Scott; T. E. Dewey
of Abilene; Judge L. Stillwell OF Erie.
Delivery Judge A M. Jackson of
Howard; Senator J. W.Parker OF Olathe;
Major VIM. Warner of Kansas City, DO.
After the State Normal band had play
ed piece, and the Invocation had been
! pronounced by Rev. Mr.. Anderson. E. T.
| Hackney, of the Kansas State Univer-
sity, stepped to the fore, with look of
determination and a carefully prepared
talk on EAmericas Sodoms and Gomor-
rahs.'
"The city is the breeding place of
drunkenness and debauchery," said Mr..
Hackney. Here every year are millions
of happy homes transformed into beast
like dens; here women and children cry
from hunger and cold, while the husband
and father revels in drunken orgies"
ia inc ynI1 n q
man, with good strong voice, and prob
ably knew what he was talking about
The K. .. yell was given when Mr.
Hackney had finished, and he retired
gracefully, and c. E. Flanagan of Ottawa
advanced on the stage.
Mr.. Flanagan told about the "Relation
of Invention to Progress" Dir. Flana-
gan is tall y Dung man, and wore d
Prince Albert
edward some unseen goal humanity
is ever pressing" said Mr. Flanagan
''To create is the prerogative of divin-
ity." There were a lot of nice things
like that in Dir. FIanagan's address, and
the judges were visibly moved.
The Wash burn Glee club, which sings
very we'll, then rendered 1.-The Jolly Old
Friar," who drank too much hop tea and
got on his horse backwards, and the
Washburn yell was timely
]. Alvan Sankey of the College OF
Emporia had for subject THE Death
of Holiness" 1t was not a particularly
live topic. Mr.. Sankey looked moody
when he came forward. His was the
address that won second place. MIR
Sankey had grace enough not to at
tempt too many gestures His presence
was reassuring and his thought good
Nowadays" said he, "there is the
sheerest nonsense taught-that to be
good for anything one may as we'll a:
not spring from the fortuitOus conjunc-
ton of weak and degenerate stock, and
that to pass a period of years as gutter
snipe is virtue"
1t was just here that pretty Miss Abbit
Freeman of Winfield made the hit OF the
evening tits too bad that she SPELL
her middle name Mae. She san.
"LArditT' in a way that reached thu
heart of even the college man. Tn,
house was one box of bedlam when sh
had finished and the cries of What
the matter with Freeman" She's al
right" were deafening. Her voice il
wonderfully strong and clear. Their
was no use trying to go on. Nothin!
but Miss Freeman's presence woul
quell the tumult and she sang again.
D. d. Hoagland of Winfield had a goo
many things to say about the Catholi
church. His subject was "Protestantisn
the Defender of Liberty
Catholicism today is Despotic," sal
: he. sin this fact alone Professionalism,
she will arouse, has a strong weapon @
offense against one, who, pretende
: friend and marching under the sam
banner of the cross, yet only waits tn
opportunity to hurl the destructive jave
: lin"
: Mr.. Hoagland evidently meant al
right, but there must have been a CathC
/ lie or two on the deciding committee, fc
= he was last in the list.
~From cradles, empires have sprung
, said Mr.. Hoagland, which is probabl
true.
, J. Luther TAYLOR. of Raker nnivarsit,