The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-15
FIERY JOE WATERS.
Makes = Fiery Grafton at the FIambeaI
Clubs Concert.


There were two very conspicuous alb
sentees at the Flambeau clubs enter.
tainment at Hamilton hall last evening.
They were Senator Baker, who was to
have kept the audience attentive, but
whose wife was sick in Denver, and the
heat which was to have kept the au-
sdiencs good natured, but which had an
engagement, evidently under Represent
alive Cannon's collar.
It was only 80 degrees above zero in
the hall, but the merit of the programme
kept the large audience from leaving.
The concert began with selection by
MarshalPs band and an encore
President Phillips was much disap-
| pointed at the absence OF Senator Baker,
but said he would introduce a man who
would make a good SENATOR. G. Wa
tiers.
MIR. Waters stepped forward in his
| modest, quiet, hesitating way. and said:
II assure you, ladies and gentlemen, it
is through no fault of mine that a United
| States senator is not addressing you now.
l regret more perhaps than you do that
| Senator Baker is unable to be present,
and the fact that 1 have been delegated
| to fill his place, makes me think of the
| old country circus with the flaming
| promise that you would see the gladiator
| defy the dragon and after you got in it
was nothing but tent hand in overaIls
defying barrel with pitchfOrk."
At this time the steam pipes applaud
ed and cracked loudly.
| Mr.. Waters then took up the history of
! the Topeka Flambeau club and said its
glory should "last as long as the loco lyco-
we'll, the stuff they put in lanterns shall
| be sold in drug stores of the state"
Mr.. Waters then made a few remarks
of eulogy regarding Major Anderson,
Col. Hughes and Major Fuller, aud hop
ed that ''when they met death the leveller
| of all, they might not find at their future
residence anything that would or could
Guido or exceed the fireworks the club
made use Of
"This club" said Mr. Waters, "has
painted the sky with it's lurid hue for
many noble man, and has welcomed
many a grand and glorious man to Kan
sas. 1t has decorated the heavens with
its fiery joy for presidents, and it has not
refused to come out at duty's call to ex-
ult over the election of even a coroner
like Doc. Bailey. "(This is pyrotechni-
cal speech, ladies and gentlemen" It's
glory has not been confined to Kansas
alone. 1t has travelled. We have knocked
the dew off the new moon and brushed
the cobwebs of the milky way from
| Washington to San Francisco and from
Minneapolis to the south.
"For fifty years to come we expect tc
celebrate Republican victory year after
year with the same regularity that meas
les follows mumps and mumps follows
measles on the lower Wabash. Loud
applause from the Republicans
"And," added Mr. Waters, "may my
tongue forget its cunning aud your
right hand cleave to the roof of my
mouth, if l don't mention another insti-
tuition that Kansas is proud Of"
Then followed a fowery eulogy OF
MarshalPs Military band and after that
was over, Mr.. Waters took his seat with
applause from people whose hands were
not too cold to clap.
The programme was then continued,
and there were many sncores
The Lotus quartette responded three
times and Prof Palmer, who is a really
superior elocutionist, recited. Mrs. Park
hurst sang twice in her charming way,
and Miss Bernice Fuller recited @Whis-
pering Bill" with touching pathoa The
little Hughes brothers were there also,
and got their usual number of encores
for banjo playing.
The reading of Eugene Wares poem
was one of the prominent events of the
evening, and a good many people were
foolishly disappointed because he did
not have special one for the occasion.
People with ideas like that have certainly
never tried to write poetry to order
Mr.. Ware gave his ''Organ Grinder"