The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-31
TALE OF FROST
And A FIzzLE.
SOrrOwful Story of How the Young
Republicans of Missouri Count
ed the Chickens, Etc.
BANQUET PLANS PETER OUT.
Senator Hanna Wouldn't Accept
the Invitation TO Speak at the
Kansas City Affair on
February l..

Not only is the Republican party demon
allied in the city. but it is discredited in the
state where the bottom seems 70 have been
entirely torn out CT the organization.
In the opinion of Mark Hanna and the
administration. of which he is the mouth
piece. il IS Poor Old Missouri now. and
Will be for the four years intervening until
the next presidential election
That means that the hungry faithful in the
party. who have been feasting in anticipa-
tion on the pie which was promised the
State before the election. will have TO tight
en- their Wristbands to stave off the pangs
gnawing at their vitals. Ii also means
oodles of trouble for Chairman Akins of the
State Committee. who passed out the prom
ises for the pie which will not be served
The Republican party in the State has.
within the last week. had vivid illustration
of the two familiar phases known in patent
medicine lore before and after taking
as applied by the national administration in
practical politics.
Only a Dream.
At the last annual banquet of the Young
Mems Republican Club Of Missouri held IN
Kansas City on LincolR's birthday Febru-
the next banquet in St bouis. The Young
Mems Republican Club of Missouri IL sup
posed TO contain The flower of the young
Republicanism OF the State. and the St.
Louis members thereof were anxious TO
show to their country COUSINS some new
Kinks in the art Of entertaining. One of the
features of the annual banquet is the pres
ence. as the guest Of honor and the speaker
of the evening. some Republican of national
prominence. The st. Louis contingent OF
the club, buoyed up by the hope that they
could carry Missouri. had at that time in
view the securing Of Mark Hanna as the
guest of honor at the banquet in st. Louis
and were preparing TO spread themselves at
feast in the Coliseum here. the like of
which was never known in the history OF
local Republicanism.
Things Arc Different Now.
That was before the November election
When Missouri fell into the nine-hole Of Re
publican defeat with the same dull and
monotonous thud that has characterized its
course for so many years. the young Repub-
licanism of st. Louis realized that il had a
white elephant on its hands In the annual
banquet. and it prepared TO sell IL to some
enterprisins. but less sagacious Snowman.
When the State Committee met after the
election. and the question of the annual ban
quet, which had been referred TO it. came
up 81. Louis member promptly raised the
nothing TO do with the matter. and the BAN
luet was very promptly unloaded on the
Kansas City members. who unsuspiciously
banquet there. The st. Louis members
realized that if the banquet was he'd mere
the tables would be mainly occupied by
ZiegenhefniteS, and the guest of honor
would go back TO Washington with a report
OF the personnel OF the auspicious event
which would give ;he administration poor
er opinion than ever Of the "damnedest out
ht' In the country.
Planned Big Things.
The Kansas City crowd went ahead and
made arrangements for bringing of the
event. 1t was decided to secure the con-
ventiol Auditorium, for the affair. and in
anticipation of the rush that would be
made for invitations to the banquet. IT was
decided to limit the number OF guests to
1.5o and to charge each guest 50 for the
privilege of listening to Mark dauua's ad-
dress. 1t was at first thought advisable to
throw open the seats in the gallery Snd
balconies to the general public free of
charge, but the rush for tickets was SO
to charge an admission fee to all who
wished to attend as spectators in the bal
comics. basing their action on the charges
made for a similar privilege on the occl-
sion of McKfnley's banquet in Chicago.
This was before the Special Committee on
Invitation went TO Washington. ID. C., to
the banquet and deliver an address. From
present Information received from Kansas
City yesterday. the Committee on Arrange
ments has concluded to abandon the ban
Quet In the Auditorium and hold IL in the
Midland Hotel. limiting the number of
guests to 400. There will be no enthusiastic
and admiring spectators, and IL is believed
the committee will have hard work secur-
ing enough invitations to i'll the allotted
400 seats. and may be compelled to invite
the Kansas City prototypes Of the Ziegen-
helm push TO fill out the tables.
Hapna's Icy DemeanOr.
1t is all owing to the frosty face" given
the COMMITTEE 6s senator Hanns, s,.,, ThIs
president; Louis Aloe. secretary: r. c. ker-
ems, State Chairman Thomas ]. Atkins.
Jackson County Chairman w. s. Dickey.
and Postmaster Sam Scott of Kansas City,
went to Washington last Monday to in
vite Senator Hanna to attend the banquet.
turns from Missouri several weeks ago. He
remembered the pledges made by kerens.
Dickey, Scott. Aloe. ct al before the cleo
tion of redeeming Missouri. which he had
received with an olea ginous smile. When
he gave the committee an audience he re-
minded them that they were from Missouri.
and suggested that they show him some
thing. They were unable to show him any
thing to bring back to his features the
heavy heart that the Senator assured them
that his duties at the capital were
onerous and pressing that he would be COM
PEELED to deny himself the pleasure OF at
tending the banquet
banquet About TO Peter Ont.
Then the committee hunted around for
smaller game in their search for speaker
at the banquet. but the small fry were
wary, having seen the boss refuse the bait
after shifting II carefully. and the commit
tee returned home empty-handed. and hu-
inflated. Less than two weeks remain be-
fore the date set for the banquet. and as
yet the committee has not succeeded in
Snaring a speaker of any prominence TO
take the place OF Hanna. Under these con-
ditions the banquet is certain to be a
frost" and the st. Louis members of the
are congra tulating themselves
secretly over their foresight in dumping
the load on Kansas City. The knowledge
that Senator Hanna has refused TO accept
the Invitation has eliminated the feature OF
the banquet and IL is highly improbable
that more than n corporal's guard from the
interior of the State viii attend the ban
eret.
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