The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-19
Charities Delegates Made to
Feel at Home.
James A. TrOutman Delivers an
Address of Welcome.
THE GOVERNOR SPEAKS
Calls Attention to Beauty OF
Topeka.
President Faulkner and Others
Talk ElOQuently.

The citizens of Topeka realize the I'M
portance and scope of the work OF the
national conference of correction anu
charities and filled Representative nan
20 overfiowing last night for the open
ing meeting This consisted in Words
of welcome from representatives OF the
city and state followed by a programme
of handshaking and the exchange OF
greetings in all of which Kansas people
excel. The strangers were made to feel
as much at home as cordial greetings
and words of welcome could do.
The Topeka people who had charge
of the reception which was held in the
senate chamber. club women being in
the majority. planned to make the re-
ception the principal feature of the ev-
enirg: in fact other parts of the pro
Eramme were to be subOrdinated to this
function but the men who talked. as
men always do. talked too long, leaving
but little time for the reception.
Harry Steinbergs orchestra and the
Modocs and Mrs. Violet Mccoy gurnlSh-
ed the musical features of the opening
programme James A IrOutman, eX-
lieutenant governor, chairman of the To-
cal committees presided. The speakers
who followed Mr TrOutman amused the
audience by references to TrOutman'
claim that he would make no speech
carefully prepared OratiOn. 1t was a
good one but Mr.. TrOutman told the au-
dicnce at the outset that he would make
no speech. then he launched into a pro-
duction finished in graceful periods and
rounded climaxes. Mr.. Troutman said,
among other things.
Il am glad that this conference has
come to Kansas at a time when our
management of state institutions is in
good hands. our governor is now in
teresting himself, personally, in these
matters and we are experiencing much
needed reforms Cheers. There was a
time in Kansas when the idiots in the
asylums and the prisoners in the peni-
tentiary could not for the soul of them
understand why they were not outside
the walls and the state officers inside. ."
Mr.. JFautfuan referred eloquently to
the broad prairies and the hospitality
of the state; said the visitors had been
accustomed to the narrow confines and
restrictions of the east while Kansas is
six times as big as ancient Greece 'and
the Missouri pike is larger than the or
iginal kingdom of Israel" This started
the applause afresh and the women re-
sDOnded vigorously when the speaker
said: I am glad to see the women here.
] think I like to see them better than
the men and if there is anything you
want that the men have not already
got, let US know and we viii get it for
you"
GOV. STANLEY SPEAKS.
1ONtIuOI STANLEY tdlEQ attention
the fact that Mr.. Troutman had been
designated to deliver an address Of vel
come on behalf of the city. He didn't
do it though" said Stanley He has
talked only about the state; he has been
poaching and having neglected to men
tion the city, ] presume I must do so.
Topeka is a beautiful city" The gov
ernor said this and forgot that he lived
in Wichita, evidently, because he then
said
Topeka is one of the finest, if not
the finest and most pleasant places on
earth to live" The governor then paid
the city many handsome compliments
on account of the schools, churches and
general tone of morality referring es-
pecially to the hOspitable homes. The
governors speech was brief but in clos
ing he said:
Il hope this conference will lay the
foundations for the future which will
take out of the chance or hazard OF
political success the mana cement of oul
charitable institutions. l hope the tins
VIII come when only the fitness of in
dividuals viii entitle them TO positions
in these institutions. I have found il
my conditional pardon plan men in tht
penitentiary who respond to the call o.
Kindness and believe that is the basi,
principle in dealing with these unfor
tunate people in prisons and asylums
Rev. Samuel G. Smith, of St Paul
was the first to respond to the wei
comes. He noted that the convention