The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
JUST THE SAME.
Loss of the G. A. r. Reunion
Makes No Difference.
The Fall Festival Will Go on
just the Same.
WILL BE A REUNION.
There Are $4,000 Old Soldiers
in Kansas
Who Do Not Belong to the
Grand Army.
POLITICS CAUSED IT.
P. I. Bonebrake Thinks POpu-
list G. A. r.. Men Are Mad
About the Speeches of the Gen
erals Last Fall.
POLITICS CAUSED 1T
P. I. Bonebrake Thinks POpu-
list G. A. R. Men Are Mad
About the Speeches of the Gen :
erals Last Fall.

Topeka viii have a reunion in con-
nection with the Fail Festival. At the
C. A. r. encampments at Chanute yes
terday afternoon it was decided to not
hold the regular G. A. r. state reunion
at Topeka. but that will not put a
check to the preparations for the big
Fall Festival and Reunion in Topeka.
The work viii go right on as if Moth
ms had happened and the Committee
of Fifteen viii leave nothing undone to
make the Topeka FAN Festival the
biggest thing of the kind ever seen in
the state.
Topeka some time ago abandoned the
fight for the state reunion. The Com
mittee of Fifteen spent over $4,000 in
entertaining the old soldiers last year
and decided to simply extend an invi-
tation to the G. A. r. encampment to
hold the reunion at Topeka this year.
Chairman D. J. Greenwald of the fin
ance committee of the Committee of
Fifteen said today to a Journal re-
porter: DO I feel discouraged? Well
should think not I am more than ever
of the opinion that Topeka will have
the biggest time in the history of the
state. It may take hard work, but we
have worked before and nothing can
prevent the annual Fail Festival in
r
ready to work just the same as before
and there viii be no giving down.
Il have been of the opinion for some
time that we would fail to secure the
state G, A r; reunion Major Ander-
son told me before he left that he
thought we would be beaten, but he also
informed me that there are but IA 900
members of the G.. A. R. in Kansas,
and there are $4,000 old soldiers in Kan
sas, so that We can have a reunion
any way.
The work will go right on, and as
soon as the delegation returns we will
make things move. 1t viii take harder
work to get the crowd, perhaps, but we
will get the people here"
City Clerk s. S. McFadden, who is a.
member OF the Committee of Fifteen,
thinks that more determined effort
should have been made to secure the
reunion. The committee practically
gave up the fight" said he. I was
very sorry to see the turn things were
nothing by making hard fight, but
since it is done I suppose we will have
to get along somehow. It will not
stop the Fall Festival"
c. p. Adams. who managed the ad-
vertising department of the festival last
fall, but who is not taking an active
part in the work now, said: I am
Very sorry the reunion was lost. 1t
will undoubtedly be more difficult to
raise money and do the work than if
the reunion had been secured, but
things will move along all right and
there viii be a big time in Topeka next
fall just the same"
Nearly all the members of the Com
mittee of Fifteen are in Chanute They
will probably return this afternoon,
but there will be no meeting of the
committee until next week. There will
be no discouraged workers in the com
mittee and no fears are entertained
about the result of the plans even
though the state G. A. r. reunion has
been lost.
P. l. BOnebrake. who was treasurer
of the Republican state central COM
mittee, attributes the loss Of the state
reunion to the fact that last year sew
eral of the camphres were turned into
political meetings He said:
I attended the meetings on the
grounds and I know there was much
dissatisfaction among the Populist old
soldiers. especially on the day the four
generals were here. There are many
Populists among the old soldiers, and I
saw them standing around on the out
skirts of the crowd cursing, and they
We're very angry.
"Of course, it was not the fault of
Topeka that politics were talked. The
Committee of Fifteen had nothing to do
with that part of the business. The
G. A r. had charge of those meetings
and. Topeka should not have been
blamed for what occurred