The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-20
SEATON PAYSIT.
Hires Theatrical Company to
Get Crowd for Burton.
Kansas Senator Will Speak
From the Stage.
PLAY WILL FOLLOW.
First Planned to Have Him
Speak Between Acts.
Items of Interest About Kansas
Politicians,


shall give him frost by his not having
a crowd out to hear him speak there to-
morrow evening. In order to insure a
full house at the Burton meeting, a free
show will be given in the opera house
and Senator Burton will speak preced-
ing the show. CAPTAIN John Seaton.
who owns the opera house. will pay the
company out of his own pocket.
This will serve double purpose. 1t
Will not only get out a crowd for Sena-
tor Burton, but it may help Captain
SeatOn in the legislative race. Bailie
Waggerer. Seaton's opponent, has been
giving free excursions and Dicnics and
such things, and SeatOn had to do some
thing to offset it. So he will give a free
show and Senator Burton will make
speech at it.
The play will be "a DEVILS Lane"
which will be in Topeka Thursday
night AT first it was proposed to have
Senator Burton speak between acts, but
this looked too much like vaudeville
speciality. 1t would not do to have the
show first and the speech afterwards.
because the crowd would leave as soon
as the play is over. so it has been de-
cided that Senator Burton shall make
his speech first and the show will be
given after the speech
Speaking of Senator Burton, the New
York Sun publishes the following editor
tor:
senator Joseph Ralph Burton is back
from Hawaii with a tall story about
missionary rapacity in the islands. THE
Hawaiians," says the senator, have
been robbed by missionaries from Bos-
ton and elsewhere, who, in exchange
for their lands, gave them certificates
that they would go to heaven when they
died. This throws into the shade Peter
Minuits purchase CT Manhattan island
from the Indians for trinkets worth $24.
Peter drove a hard bargain, which, as
present values per front foot On Wall
street and Fifth avenue go. has the
look of a confidence game; but he was
a liberal soul compared with the mis-
sionaries who, for q tract of land, have
given the Hawaiians deed to lot in
heaven-that is, If Senator Burton's
story is true. AS the senator has a "a tn
er fantastic imagination and hair
trigger vocabulary, we must take leave
to be sceptical until he produces the
evidence. The Boston missionaries have
had their black sheep and their per-
formance may not always fit their pro
fessions, but in purity OF purpose and
actual accomplishment they have moth
ing to fear from any comparison made
with the disinterested public services of
Senator Burton In bringing this re-
marka BILE charge against the mission
aries he will stir up hornets nest in
Boston and will find that a defense of
his attitude toward Cuban reciprocity,
which got him into so much trouble
with his constituents, is a pleasant re-
creation compared with making his
peace with the missionaries and their
friends in Kansas
The senator is carried away with
enthusiasm for his Hawaiian friends,
which may account for his fervid belief
in the story of the celestial certificates.
One noble Hawaiian says Mr.. Burton,
even in his unimproved condition, is
worth forty spider-legged Cubans' We
doubt the impartiality of the senator s
! v7c-f
the Cubans, which grew out of his in
genious opposition to reciprocity. The
| internperateness of this dictum makes
the missionary story look more dubious
than ever"
Some time ago the fusion state com
rnittees challenged the Republican COM
mittee fer a Joint debate on the proposed
tax bill between A. NJ. Harvey and Sen
ator F. Dumont Smith The Repub-
licans turned the challengs down on the
ground t..at they did not want to fur
nish a crowd for the fusionists and that
the tax bill is not an issue anyway 1t
seems that it has become a party issue
| in some of the short grass counties,
! however, for the Republican county
committee of Edwards county has chal-
lenged the fusionists of that county to
! bring forward any orator they have to
debate the bill with Senator Smith. AS
Smith drew up the bill he knows more
about it than anybody else, and the local
Z
one who can cope with him, so they
have passed the matter up to the state
committee, and are trying to get Har-
Vey out there to meet Smith. So Smith
and Harvey may debate the tax bill
after ALL
Notwithstanding the fight that is be-
/ ing made on c. H. LuIing because of his
habit of inebriation which breaks out
at times, Mr.. Luilng seems to have
good support in his home town, Wich-
ita. An old soldiers club down there
has passed the following resolution to
aid Luling:
Resolved, That in Charles H. Luling,
now the nominee on the Republican
ticket for superintendent of insurance,
they have now and always have had
a trusted and true friend. AS a council
man, as representative in the legisia ture,
and as 2 private citizen, he has always
Few Of the delegates take any stock in
the story