Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-07
BREAKFAST,

county, but tie II. L. sJ020T73GE has I
very few as 1t has the reputation
of having lot of pin headed edl
tors whose editorial articles cannot
be believed, written often false to
please the whims of IFS writer and
help fill up its columns
Latelyit contained the following
article under the above heading
that IL fair sample of the utter
unreliabillty OF its editorial page.
-s.At Hays city there is news
paper called the Free Press pub
lished by one H. G. Freese. Re,
Gently at Hays the cornerstone of
the branch Normal college was
laid, and the Free Press has this
to say about it;
Thursday came, the
day, the hour, the minute to close
the sacred box that should be hid
den in that stone cave for genera
tons to come, but none but the
''Free Press had realized the I'M
portance of the event and furnish
ed copy of a Hays paper. and
as Prof. PIcken announced the list
of what was in that precious box,
and the only paper there the Free
Press, the people all over that
great audience, looked up and
wondered-another "Ingalls break
fast.
And this remark, another in
gals breakfast" recalls one OF the
funniest transactions ever recorded
in The annals of the town
In 1890 Senator ingalls, announ-
ced that he would pay Hays city
visit. Immediately the society
leaders of the place hogan to make
preparations for his entertainment.
1t was arranged that the leader OF
one of the Republican factions
should entertain him for breakfast,
and that the leader of the other
faction should entertain him at din
ner-the idea was to avoid the ap-
pearance of giving pre-eminence
to either faction, and to keep local
divisions from spelling the Sena
tors day. But in the anxiety to fix
up a compromise everybody forgot
to notify the senator of what the
arrangements were Therefore,
when a day or two before the date
| of his visit, the Senator got pc
| lite note from one H. G. Freese,
Inviting HIM to be his guest, he
promptly accepted 1t. He did not
know Freese, and, of course did
| not know that Freese was the pull
Usher of the craziest Pop paper tC
be found in Western Kansas.
I When he arrived at the depot IL
| Hays he found the hosts OF politics
and society assembled. After SHAH
ling hands with those about HIM,
he asked ''and where is Mr.
Freese?" At once Mr.. Freese pre-
| sented, and thereupon the tall Ser
Iator linked his arm with that OF
1.-THE diminative Pop editor and the
pair walked up to a buggy which
Freese had provided, leaving the
icrowd too amazed and astOnished
| to utter a word.
| And the story would not be con-
lplete without the statement that
Mrs. Freese, a rare good house
keeper, gave the Senator the breay
| fast of his life"
That 1t is false is shown by the
| Hays CITY papers IN the State Hi;
| torical Society in Topeka, as i
occurred Sept. 18th 1889, and it;
RIGHTEOUSNESS. as such thing q:
la Pop party or paper was unknown
the Free Press then warmly sup
porting ingalls, IN ITS articles, but
the Sentinel, run by the MOntgon
ery's, was on the opposition, SC
ignored that day. 1t was no
political, as he met all parties al
the breakfast, and being a director
of the 1st National bank he toOb
Edlnner at I. M. Yost's, and supper
at A. S. Halls, both. officers o
that bank. Freese had known hin
IOI years. anu dIl0I OISdhIdSt IN
brought him down town to the @
A E committee who took him Il
the Reservation and Fair. Aftel
his speech at the FAIR Freese tool
HIM to the parlors over Little;
bank where was prepared the ia
nous speech delivered next daI
at LeaVenwOrth.
G w Miller was secretary Of th'
} Fair Association and proposed t.
bring Ingalls,. then Vice Preslden
of the O. S. here, and politician
laughed, and when he succeeded
. they tried to take the honor bat 90
left; he arranged the whole day
program and successfully carries
it thro. He met him at the depo
and went in Freese's surrey t
the breakfast where the guests has
assembled, they alone knowing 0
the proposed scoup by Freese an
the Free Press.
S IRWIN Mn CTTD n TON