The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-30
THEY DIDN'T LIKE 1T.
Chicago Republican Leaders Resent
Statement of Kansas State Officers

Chicago Republican Leaders Resent
Statement of Kansas State Officers.
The refusal of the Kansas state Off
GERS to attend the banquet of the Ham
ilton club in Chicago because the invi-
tations were accompanied by request
for a fee Of SO per plate. made quite a
stir in Chicago.
The Chronicle of wednesday pub
lished the following:
A complimentary banquet, to be
given by the Hamilton club or Chicago
tonight to the veterans OF the g.. A X.
now in this city for the annual encamp-
ment, appears to be attracting curious
attention in certain districts or the
western country. The charge IS made
that the banquet is a queer affair Tor
a complimentary blowout; that in
fact it is not complimentary at all, but
has to be paid for at a somewhat ex-
orbitant rate by the fa1thIul 1nYlteo
to attend from the rank and hle OF the
Republican party in outside states and
territories.
Against this treatment of invited"
guests considerable Indignation exists
among the party workers of states un-
familiar with the methods put in vogue
by the political clubs of twentieth CEN
tury proclivities.
Several of the invited Kansas state
officers declared last night that nothing
would induce them to put UP $40 a plate
at the banquet
st utterly disapprove,'' said one OF
them, of the issuance OF an invitation
which authorizes the recipient to spend
$40 for plate at the banquet and in
addition as a sort of premium author
ICES the buyer, or, rather, the invited
guest. to give seats in the gallery to
two friends, where they can sit and
watch their benefactor eat"
The evidences of this trend Of feeling
are by no means pleasing to the man
agement of the banquet, which appears
70 frIx n
The antagonism of the men from the
sunfiower state is taken by many as
a sign of their lack of knowledge OF
modern Republican campaign methods
1--WE esteem the Kansas Republicans
very highly, and it is too bad If they are
not to be with us in the numbers expect
ed" said President Fred A Bangs OF the
Hamilton club. They do not seem to
understand that modern political meth
DDS require that the promoters of party
banquets subdivide the old class of in
vited' guests into banqueters who are
willing to pay their share OF the expen-
SEES of a political party's blowout and the
distinguished guests who are to be
feasted gratis-or only at the expense of
the clubs excheQuer.
Invitations to the rank and file Of the
party are not calculated to deceive or
defraud and are well understood by the
Republicans of our large cities. We are
sorry that the Kansas Republicans do
not yet comprehend our effete Chicago
ways. Aside from other considerations,
however, one would think that the Kan
sas followers ought not to have any
kicks coming on questions of expense
this year, as they have good crops and
can hope to perpetuate an Astounding
prosperity only through the reelection
of President Mckinley"
Arthur A. Taylor and Henry SWisler of
the banquet committee of the club took
occasion to announce that they would
be only too glad to allow the Republi-
can lickers from Kansas to assume the
entire management of the banquet if the
said kickers would agree to nquidate the
deficit of $1,000 anticipated as one of the
unavoidable results Of the affair.