The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-18
TALKING ON KANSAS.
Eastern Papers Have Their
Fling Day In and Day Out.
New York Tribune's Remarks
About Yrooman'sCrude Talent
Some of the Comments on Governor
Leedy's What the New
York World Says.
rFrom the New york Tribune.1

TF'rom the New York Tribune.1
Whether or not the enterprise an
nounced by Mr.. Carl Vrooman of Par
sons, Kan, is part of the programme or
the National Bureau of Volunteer
Speakers, created by William Jennings
Bryan, Senator Jones of Arkansas, and
Governor Stone of Missouri, on their
great hunting trip in the Ozark Hills,
and subsequently eStaDHSneo WIFI
Headquarters at Washington, we are
unable to say. It is, at any rate, quite
in line with it, and. accordingly, not
without interest for the general puoi nc!
Mr. VrOOman proposes to make ms
home in Kansas, where he viii devote
himself to training campaign orators
for the cause of bimetalism- rms, IT
may be remembered, was the work laid
out by the bureau, of which we have
heard nothing definite since the publ
cation of its plans someWeeks ago he
says: The idea is to take crude laleHI
and drill it in public speaking, crystal
lie ideas on finance and turn out et-
fective stump speakers" By April l
he expects to have 100 men equipped.
He could not have chosen a better day
for starting them out Besides being
fn the opening springtime, when every
thing is fresh and green to give them
welcome, there are associations con-
nected with the day which lend it pecu-
liar fitness for such demonstration.
My mission he says, ''also involves
keeping "a record of these men and the
work they may do. Four years hence.
if bimetallism triumphs, they will be
rewarded This is precisely in line
with the programme of the bureau,
which included keeping a roll of hon
or" to be made up of workers ach1eV-
ing the best results" a place upon
which would be the strongest essential
for perferment to a successful Demo-
cratic candidate for president in 1900. "
The more We think of it the more we
are inclined to think that VrOOman is
the first product of the bureau. In his
~ of n ial nj 2
shown unc0mmOnly good Judgment For
it is not likely that so much 'tcrude tall
ent' can be found lying round loose in
any state in the Union as in Kansas. 1t
may also be said that if VrOOman can
drill it in public speaking, crystalline
its ideas on finance and put it on the
stump, he will make it, if not useful, at
least, vocal and voIuble, and so en-
nance in some measure the gayety of
nations. Meanwhile such talent as
there is in Kansas that is not crude
can be following the plough while the
crude occupies the stump. Four years
seem long time to wait for the re-
ward, but, from what is known of the
crude talent of Kansas, it may be safe
~ assumed that so long as it's wind
holds out it will not perish for want of
suStenance. The crude talent of Kansas
not only produces a most succulent and
nourishing quality of east wind, but
actually feeds and grows fat on it.
Doubtless other cultivators of crude
talent will presently spring up all over
Kansas, with the result that by the LIST
of ApriI-day of all the year the best
instead of 100 there will be several
thousand will drilled and thoroughly
equipped Stump-SpeakerS, with crystal
1ized ideas on finance, sweeping over the
state like prairie fires or cyclones or
any other local figure of speech. Then
the keen-witted editor of ''the Emporia
Gazette" whose contributions to the
literature of the late campaign diffused
such general delight will have no need
to ask What's the matter with Kan
or hnT Ia hi TO = !,
crude talent in eruption with crystal
hzed ideas on finance from thousand
stumps, and say, That's what's the
matter with Kansas" The LIST of ADril
promises to be a great day for Kansas.
The country waits for it with curiosity
not unmingled with awe.