The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-30

rooms were beautifully decorated with
good looking young men. 1t was the
fifth annual oratorical contest and square
meal of the Kansas Day club. 1t was a
Mckinley caucus.
One hundred and sevenly-six people
sat down to the four long tables in the
south diniug room, and Harry Bone
of Clark, Charley Sheldon, Bur
lingame, and Howell Jones of
Topeka, occupied the table in the
north dining room. There were others
also eating in the north dining room.
"Who is the gentleman with the foot.
ball head of hair?" asked Mr.. Sheldon
in a loud voice looking straight with one
eye AT D. c. Tillotson.
That's Howell Jones of Topeka" said
Mr.. Bone, looking straight with both
eyes at Mr.. Jones, who sat at the other
end of the table.
Somebody was unkind enough to laugh
at this, and Mr.. Jones replied % heated
language:
You know there are two kinds of
bald heads. Those that are bald on the
outside and those that are bald on the
inside
MI Cubbison and others laughed
while Mr.. Bone and Mr.. Sheldon struQ-
gled.
'Yes, and there is another kind" said
Mr.. Sheldon, with bitter sarcasm and
Those that are bald both outside and
inside" which shows that Mr. Sehldon
has been reading Bill Nye.
f.Do you see that little streak of dark
on Cubbison's head?" asked Sheldon.
Bone saw it and said so.
THAT is the disputed Venezuelan ter
ritory," explained Mr.. Sheldon.
you are mistaken" said Mr.. Bone,
that is alfalfa"
nd with marry
punch the evening passed most pleas
antly.
Mr. Bone and Mr. Sheldon divided one
plate between them. Mr.. Sheldon, who
has been in Topeka several times before,
took the fork. Mr.. Bone ate with the
knife.
Mr.. Tillotson, who is known to be per-
fectly bald, and Howell Jones, who should
have been pianist instead of member
of the young crowd, sat opposite each
other at the other end of the table with
Mr.. Cubbison.
.'Say, Cubbison," called Sheldon, sim
troduce Paderewski to Garibaldi down
there"
"Tiger Bill" Campbell of Wichita was
in the big room and created vast deal
of hilarious merriment with his witty
saIIies about the Roman punch, which
they don't have in Wichita.
"That's what I would call a hard
drink" he said.
1t was II o'clock when President
Charles Harger arose to read a telegram
from Phil Campbell, saying he could not
be present, but that he was for Mckinley
and ublicanism, and to introduce
the programme. There were thirteen
responses and the Coyote club
sang such popular ditties as "The Su-
aimee River" and 1.-THE Old Oaken Buck
et," which received great deal OF ap-
plause from those present who had not
heard them before, and others.
In his address President Harger said:
''It is one of the missions of the Kansas
Day club to build up political principles
that do not depend on rain clouds or
hot winds"
"The Republican party will hold that
the reciprocity which won US the trade
of many nations must be restored
SIT will do away with the foreign pol
icy of this nation which by its weakness
and vaccillation has disgraced the United
States for three years and made our di-
plomatic corps the sport of other lands.
The hearty support given the one merit
orious act of the present administration
in its foreign policy shows how eager
and willing is the Republican party to
applaud Americauism whenever and
wherever il finds it"
In his response to KANSAS" Will s