The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
DEMOCRACY DAY.
A Meeting of National ImpOr-
lance in Topeka.
The "Big Guns" of the Party
to Be Here.
PLATFORM OUTLINED.
It is Believed the Speakers
Will Mark Out Policies
To Be Pursued in the Campaign
of 1900.
The Banquet to Be In the New
Great Library Room.
AGALAXYOF ORATORS
Bryan, Congressman TOwne, Sen.
Jones, Gov. Stone and Others
OF National Reputation Will Be
Here March 80.
To Celebrate the Birthday Of
Thomas Jefferson.
AGALAXYOF ORATORS
Bryan, Congressman TOwne, Sen.
Jones, Gov. Stone and Others
OF National Reputation Will Be
Here March 80.
To Celebrate the Birthday OF
Thomas Jefferson.


cratic state central committee of the
state of Kansas will hold a conference
and banquet in the honor Of the birth
day of Thomas jefferson, which occurs
on the following Sunday. 1t will be one
of the most prominent political gather
ings ever held in the west. The speakers
of this occasion will be men of national
reputation and men who will WELD great
influence in the next Democratic ma
tionaI convention. Their addresses will
be upon live national issues and will be
most interesting. Mr.. Bryan has sig
nified his desire to speak upon the sub
ject of expansion and it is said that ex-
Governor Stone of Missouri possible
candidate for presidenD will deliver
brilliant address on the subject of the
Future of the Democratic Party" ex-
Congressman Towne of Minnesota, one
of the abIest men in the United States
on the currency question, and regarded
as a coming man, and Senator J. K.
Jones of Arkansas, will deliver ad-
dresses.
Mr.. Frank S. Thomas of this city,
treasurer of the Democratic state cen
trail committee, has been busily engaged
with a half dozen assistants sending out
invitations to prominent Democrats
There will be delegations from st. Louis,
Hannibal, st. Joseph, Kansas City and
Sedalia, Missouri, and other points in
adjacent states, as well as Oklahoma.
He has arranged with the railroads for
a one fare rate for the round trip. In
all probability Topeka will see the
largest political gathering that has oc-
Cured here in years.
A number of the leading eastern pa
perS are to have their representatives
here as it is regarded as a meeting of
great national Importance. The presi-
Dental campaign of 1900 is beginning
to shape up and the great political par
ties are laying their plans for probably
one of the greatest struggles in the his
all the politicians that on this occasion
the utterances of the speakers, who are
numbered among the leaders of one of
the great parties, Will, in a measure
define or outline what their position will
likely be in the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
The banquet will be held in Library
hall in the state house, which is 1876 feet
long and 20 feet wide, and will seat l 800
or 1000 people. The floral decorations
will be something magnificent as in ad-
dition to the contribution of the Com
mercial club of this city, who kindly
contributed a fund for that purpose,
the state central committee has author
lied Frank S. Thomas to spare no
money in making the banquet one of the
most elaborate affairs of the kind ever
held in the west.
Library hall in the state house, which
is to be occupied by the state law Ii
brary probably towards the end of the
year, is in itself a magniflcentIy dec
GRATED room, and the electric lighting
that is being put in especially for the
occasion, together with the floral dec
orations aforesaid, will present a most
interesting spectacle on the evening of
March 80
The invitations to the banquet were
to come through the members of the
Democratic state central committee
men in the state of Kansas in their re-
spective districts, but Mr. Thomas, who
f- o1@1-- 20 T.
central committee from this, the Third
judicial district consisting of Shawnee
county alone, has sent out no invita-
lions yet for the reason that a year
ago some little complaint was made
that the Topeka Democrats were given
the preference and succeeded in taking
up a little more room than the outsld-
erS thought they should
THE invitations" said Mr.. Thomas,
began to issue over the state of Kan
sas the 18th of February and the
list in this district will be withheld I'M
til the goth of March, thereby having
given the Democrats over the state 35
days in which to apply for their tickets
after having received their invitation.
Those, therefore, who have carried their
invitations about and not applied for
tickets, can have no complaint to make
If the Democracy of Topeka and Shaw
nee county avail themselves of their
invitations when they get them, be-
tween the goth and the 30th of March,
There is sure to be great struggle
for tickets toward the last, but the
state central committee have made a
ruling that when the capacity of the
hall is sold, that not another ticket is
to be sold to any one as it would be a
great injustice to oversell the capacity
of the hall to people who might arrive
on the very last day and who might
crowd out holders Of tickets who had
purchased weeks before hand.
Applications for invitations and mon
ey for tickets by parties who have al
ready received Invitations. are pouring
in now. The attendance will be very