The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
KANSAS DAY BANQUET.
Kansas Day Club Will Celebrate
Tonight at Hamilton Hall.

Tomorrow will be the thirty-eighth an
! niversary of the admission of Kansas into
/ the Union The event will be celebrated
| by the Kansas Day club with a banquet
| tonight.
/ The banquet this year will be held in
Hamilton hall. Heretofore it has always
| been held at the Copeland, but this year
| 1t is expected that there will be too large
an attendance to be accommodated at the
| hotel Republicans from all over the
state are coming to attend the banquet,
and many of the members of the legisla-
| ture will remain over. Covers will be
laid for $50 guests.
Another innovation this year is that the
banquet will begin at O'Clock promptly.
In former years it has been o'clock be-
fore the banquet hall was filled. and last
year it was even later. The result was
that by the time all the speeches had been
made it was well on towards morning:
first toast, Kansas and this year the
duty devolves upon John B. Adams, who
Governor Stanley will respond to the last
toast of the banquet
The programme is follows:
kansas. B. Adams, Ell Dorado.
The Right Use of Political Power-John
The Great Common People-Tom Cordry,
Minneapolis
Our National Joke-Wiey Ames Keve.
Baker university.
A Message From, the East-Franklin
Loyalty in Time of Peace-J. E. PEARS.
The Young Man in Politics-John D. My
The Good of Evil-E. A Mcfarland,
Lincoln.
4, Roll call7J9hn Randolph, P1ttsburg
port Smith, Kansas university.
A Prediction-F. L. Williams, Clay Cen
What Should Be the Mission of a Polit-
ical Party?-Wm. H. CARPENTER, Marion.
Hayden. Wetmore.
An Extraordinary Occasion-SiIas Por-
The Individual and the State-Governor
w. E. Stanley. Wichita
Troutman will be the postmaster.
FRANKLIN MATTHEW'S INTER-
VIEWED.
The man whose speech will attract
more attention than any other at the
banquet tonight is Franklin Matthews,
who toured Kansas a year ago last fall
and wrote up the state in HarperS
Weekly. His articles at that time at
tracted universal attention, and it was
because of them that the Kansas Day
club invited him to come out from New
York and respond to a toast tonight.
Mr.. Matthews arrived in Topeka this
morning and is now at the Copeland.
II fell in love with Kansas the other
time / was out here" he told a Journal
reporter this afternoon, land am glad
to come back again. like Kansas
people. They are of a temperament
that strikes me exactly. I went from
here to Nebraska when 1 was out be-
fore, and 1 was surprised at the differ
states. Nebraska people are not near
so congenial as Kansas people are
Mr.. Matthews is an admirer of Roose-
welt, but he has a poor opinion of New
York's newly elected senator, Chauncey
Depew.
''Depew has the faculty of getting his
name in the papers and of 'jollying' 9TH
er people," he said, land that is all
that elected him to the senate. He is
shallow, himself He gets some one else
to write his speeches for him and then
he just works them over. 1 suppose he
will cut quite figure in the senate,
however, although 1 was told in Wash
ington Monday that they were getting
ready to Snub him.
Roosevelt is the coming man. He is
the only man that the east has who is
available as a presidential candidate.
Tom Reed has killed himself, politically.
but Roosevelt has a future before him. -
Mr. Matthews will start east again
tomorrow and will go in a few days to
Cuba in the interest of Harper's Weekly
Il am on my way to Cuba by way of
Kansas" he said. II will go back to
Chicago in the morning and then down
to "a vana. My trip will take me
| through all the cities of Cuba that can
| reach by rail, but hardly expect to
Santiago"