The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-26
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.


There are a great many stories hap
pening every campaign which viii not do
Copeland the other night land almost
any man who has had any experience in
would go to sleep OF course lot Of
them will be from hearsay and lot of
them viii be the genuine article, with the
name blown in the bottle and the sigma
ture on the strip holding down the cork,
go; / will tell YOU one that you may pub
hsh without violating any confidence and
City several Years ss' ago when the state
campaign was on. Every politician in the
state and a lot of other people know that
Strong City is the home of the Irish; it is
Ireland in America. When a. man has
TIN ne does not need to be told that piece
of the Emerald Isle has broken away and
mas qrlf<ed over Iand and sea until It
Struck SnaSe county, Kansas The IN
cident that I have in mind is when a
ana the 4rlsh We're out IN force The
opera house was crowded the night of
is now a United States official. was to
address the meeting. The stage was
clmSTded with the local leaders and men
circle. In the front ofthe stage was a
table with lamp and a pitcher of water
ana a glass sitting upon 1t-you know we
did not have gas in Strong City in those
days, and praise goodness, We have no
gas there now, for Il Tear that a number
of the residents would blow out the gas.
The night | speak of the house was
crowded and the speaker was very much
interested in his talk. Things were going
along all right and the audience was
oil in the lamp gave. out. Mat Mcdonald
was sitting on the stage with the other
the glass which was sitting by the pitcher
and went to the grocery store close by.
he filled the glass and carried 1t back to
the opera house, where he filed the lamp
and then carefully set the glass by the
side OF the pitcher. A few minutes after
this had been done the orator wanted a
drink of water. SO he filled the glass from
the pitcher and took a liberal swallow.
He paused for a. moment after gulping the
water and then spat. Who in the blank
glass p he roared, as he looked at the
members of the cause sitting in the semi
but he was unable to continue his address.
Tt required three pintS of the best whisky
in Strong City to take the taste of the
I do not believe there is another place in
the United states where they attempted to
stop the mouth of a Republican orator by
throwing trust product directly IN his
They, were, talking Of the effect made
Of the books taking the lecture field. when
one of the members of the group said: I
have heard several authors lecture or talk
or make political speeches and my opinion
is that, as a rule, they do not help the
sale of their books make one exception
to this. and that is Opie Read. After his
talks through Kansas this last campaign
his books sold like hot cakes; in fact, a
number of dealers were unable to keep up
with the demand Every book that he
had written was demanded at the news
entire tables containing nothing but
works by Opie Read. It was just the re-
Kansas At Emporia, where he iectured
before the State Normal, half the audi
ence went to sleep and there was no rush
for his books the next day. Those who
wanted a. narcotic still pinned their faith
not cut in on the sales at the drug store
neither did he increase the sales of his
greatest frost in the world when it care
20 advancing the sales of his books He
never failed to injure his own business
by his lectures James Whitcomb Riley
is another exception His Rotations of
the sales, and when he is billed for a
town the book sellers always lay in a good
not help increase the amount of his check
from his publishers and neither did r. J.
the booksellers standpoint. The Rev. c.
M. Sheldon is supposed to be creating a
demand for his books by his sermons in
the east but doubt very much If that is
tne case 1t IS far more likely that the
people who go to hear him have read his
books and will be disappointed when they
hear him. That is the rule, and the ex-
that a man who had published a book
which no one had ever heard of would
could not decrease them. This same rule
holds good in regard to books which have
played here the other night and the book
sellers will tell you that there was not a
presented: If a person sees the play before
reading the book, the book will seem in
fore the play is attended the person who
sees the play will not recommend the
book
There are no people on the face of the
earth who are as progressive as the Amer
lean people said man in the lobby of
the National last night. This has been
demonstrated SO many times that it is
useless to cite examples, but I saw an ex-
ample which brought the fact forcibly to
my mind few nights ago was on the
train coming from st. Joseph when I over