The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-30
FROM THE EAST
Franklin Matthews, of the New
York Sun,
Delivers a Message to the
West.
ARE ALL BROTHERS,
Is the Burden of the Talk,
Which Is Well Received.
How Kansas and New England
Are Necessary to Each Other.

''Bards have sung the glories Of their
Poets tell of deeds that make men great;
But when it comes to politics, begorry;,
Adapted.
Kansas was thirty-eight years old
Sunday. She is now grown up" She
has become old enough to forget the
heroes of her early years, and now she
talks and thinks more of her sultors'
the political parties.
Her birthday was celebrated by the
Kansas Day club Saturday night with
e banquet at Hamilton hall. There
were oysters and oratOry, and other
good things, both for the intellectual
and the physical man. The orators,
however, talked of Kansas as she is to-
day. her politics and her crops, passing
over the men who made her great in the
days gone by. John Brown was men
toned only once, and then by a guest
from the east, while the deeds of the
other heroes who fought her battles
when she was young were unsunS-
Ranqueting in Hamilton hall has It's
draw backs. There is an abundance of
room but this was offset Saturday night
by an absence of heat. Eating ice
cream in a North Pole sort of atmos-
phere would be a pleasing innovation
in July, but it is not appreciated IN
A great many people thought the
committee arrangements did not
mean it when they said the banquet
would begin at O'Clock and as a re-
suit they kept Stringing IN up TO
o'clock, only to find that many of the
good things had disappeared The or
chestra, too, made the same mistake,
and several courses had been served
when the music began. Promptly at
o'clock hungry patriots began to take
their places at the banquet1ng table
and the feast opened. The majority
Is x1vEa
went in but they were soon glad to put
them on again. The committee was
unable to cope with the heating appar-
atus and zero weather. But 1t was
novel. 1t was a new experience to sit
around a banqueting board with ones
overcOat on and sip ices while the cold
chills chased one another up and down
ones spine, and while the orchestra in
spiringIy played A Hot Time" The
selection was greatly appreciated be-
cause it gave the banqueters an oppor-
tunity to mark time with their feet and
so get them warm.
The edibles were all right-when one
got them, and if one had anything TO
eat them with. The walters were not
used to serving in Hamilton hall and
the crowd was SO large that it could
not be handled except by perfect or
FanizatiOn among the servants. There
were go plates, and as each waiter
served where he pleased it was no Won
der that occasionally some one got
missed. Those who mad oysters some
times mad no FORKS, While those VINO haQ
an abundance of forks had no oysters.
Will White ate his briValves with table
spoon. Every one took the unfortunate
conditions good naturally and laughed
and cracked jokes with as much zest as
a Kansas Day banquet ever knew
During the waits between courses many
of the banqueters would adjourn to the
steam pipes to get warm.
After the eatables had all been taken
care of the guests grouped themselves
in the center of the hall, while the
POSTMASTER, ex-Lieutenant Governor
James A Troutman, gathered the
coasters near the steam pipes on one
side of the hall
The honor of responding to the toast
kansas" the first on the programme,
is always given to a native of the state.
This year the honor fell upon John B.
Adams, who represents Butler county
in the legislature. Mr.. Adams said:
AS a matter of fact there is nothing
the matter with Kansas. And on this
her 3Sth birthday, 1 feel prouder than
ever before of my native state. She
has run the whole gamut of public
opinion from calumny to encomium
with greater facility and impunity than
any other state in the Union. She has
received more abuse with less injury
and more lavish praise with less bene-