The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-10
DIDN'T GET A THING.
The Flambeau Club Worked Hard
to Redeem Kansas.
AND NOT A MEMBER GOT OFFICE.

An Indignation Meeting Held Last
Night in Which the Members Very
POintedly Express Their Opinion Of
the Choice of Sears for Assistant
Chief Clerk of the House.
The Topeka Flambea1 club held a
meeting last night for the ostensible
purpose of electing officers, but several
of the members were there for the scalp
of Lou Sears, assistant chief clerk of the
house and he was handled very roughly,
even if they did not succeed in carrying
off his forolock.
The feeling first cropped out when
Capt. A. NJ Fuller was called upon for a
speech. He responded in his usual
pleasant style and after saying lots of
nice things about the fambeau club and
Republican party, he said: "lhere is a
matter on my mind tonight which l do
not like to talk about, but | cannot re-
fraln from saying a few words in pro-
test, when we have a man elected 10 d
high office who will get up in a
caucus and nominate a man who is not u
resident of Topeka and who could not
vote here last fall. Such things make
he feel almost as if all our glorious work
has been in vain. Not single member
OF the club has been given a thing, but
there are plenty of Republicans here
competent to hold any position.
Il am not in favor of doing anything
now, but we will crack their heads the
next time" "a voice: You bet)
w. +. Brubaker then presented the
club with beautiful piece of pen work,
emblematic of the work of the club since
its organization in 1876. He talked about
| the Republican party and then he, too,
| devoted himself to Mr.. Sears He said:
sit makes my blood boil to see a man
| placed in one of the highest positions
/ in the house of representatives who
is too lazy to earn a living; a
man who could not hold a position under
! his own brother; and when there are
plenty of faithful. competent Republi-
cans to take the position, he is lifted up
to this place of honor. | allude to Mr..
L. S. Sears. He is the man who stood
on the sidewalk in front of the Copeland
when we marched up the avenue next
to the last time before the election and
said they are a set of fools. He is the
| man who, when we were asked two years
ago, in our positions as deputy sheriffs,
to do our duty and go to the state house,
said that he had lost no state house, and
that he did not want his body perforated
| with Populistic bullets.
$50 he retired to the cellar of Mr..
Phillips, where he stayed until the war
| was over, when he was made reading
clerk in the house. That is the kind of
Republican Sears is.
His father in law went to the Shaw
| nee county delegation before the caucus
and asked them to give Sears something
as he hasn't dollar to his name and he
had been eating off his table for two
years He begged them to give him
something and he got what he wanted
Sears has been living in Colorado and
came home to visit his old father in -laW
and quietly slips into good position"
Mr.. Brubakers speech was loudly APP
plauded. He was employed in the sec
rotary of states office under Bill Kig-
gins when Sears was chief clerk in the
office. The club decided to participate
in the inaugural ceremonies.
The following officers were elected
H. NJ Philips, president; John II. Nor
ton. vice president; .. K. Swayze, secre
tary: c. T. McCabe, assistant secretary;
c. N. Beal, treasurer; W. E, Brubaker
quartermaster; A. NJ. Fuller, captain
Will Eberle, first lieutenant; l. A. Strauss
second lieutenant; Frank Ellison, frs
sergeant.