Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-02-13
EDITORS LEAVE YESTERDAY ON
TOUR OF THE PACIFIC
COAST.
INTERESTING AND PROFITABLE
TRIP FOR THE EDITORS IN
PROSPECT.
Banquet at The Northwest a Success
full Affair and Well Attended-Dioest
Of the Addresses Made to the Asso-
citation Members.

W s'C V00I CSoCS WdOC 10 INC A&80s
citation Members.
The members Of the State Press Associa-
ton, who have the leisure, and the price.
ifornia and the great southwest. After
completing their business session in Bis
marck. the editors and their wives left on
a special Pullman car yesterday noon.
Many friends were at the train to wish
them a pleasant trip. Col. Grant Hager
takes charge of the excursion In place OF
Wellington Irysh, who was called from
the city by the serious illness of his wife.
A telegram was received yesterday from
the chamber of at Los Angeles,
urging the members of the excursion part?
to stop in that city. Other cities will do
their share toward making the excursion
a success.
The banquet Of Wednesday night was a
particularly happy affair. About a hun
dred guests were seated at the banquet
tables. Preceding the banquet there was
an Informal reception in the parlors nj
which the guests We're received by Cover
nor and Mrs. White, Lieutenant Governor
Bartlett, State Supt. w. l.. Stockwell, Mr..
and Mrs. A L.. Woods Commissioner Ferd
Leutz, Mrs. p. H. Rourke and President
NJ. B. De la Bere. The occasion was infor-
mai. but thoroughly enjoyed by all present.
After the reception the guests INDUCED IN
a social love feast, until the time arrived
for the banquet. In the dining room the
tables were spread in two parallel lines,
ranged from east to west. Cards orches-
ira furnished music during the repast, and
every detail of the affair was perfect. The
menu was dainty and delicious. including
oyster cocktail. chicken consomme. fish.
roast turkey with the accessories. cold
ham, pickles. olives, ice cream, cake and
coffee.
Following the banquet Mr.. Foley of the
Bismarck Tribune welcomed the guests t.
the city, assuring them that the key to the
city which he presented would unlock any
thing except the second story of the court
house, and there were ut least 1873 good
reasons why that should not be opened TO
the visiting press. Ever since the Missouri
slope Indians had made their famous raj,
8 VII thC ~ VI tHS duhlOus tWtHtN HFtI-
ago, and brought back the administrator
wigwam. Bismarck had a reputation for
receiving everything that came its way.
Bismarck for n number of years was fear,
full of the presence Of large delegations like
this. lest they also should have grand lar
ceny designs. but now that the capitol was
nailed down. the capital city could tender
a cordial welcome and feel that no capitol
removal bills were In sight. Abiding to
the number of distinguished citizens of The
world who had ut one time been residents
of Bismarck. the speaker quoted from q
sketch. telling of the vicissitudes of mer
who had lived in Bismarck in 1854. In
closing. he alluded to Col. LounSberry.
Stanley Huntley and j. NJ. Quinn as illus
trious predecessors of his in newspaper
work. and declared that had he all -!
Lounsbcrry's perseverance. and all of Hunt.
ley's genius and all of Quinn's ability al
prevarication, he could not tell visiting
members how glad Bismarck was to sec
them.
President De In Bere responded fttingly
He said the welcoming address had stoler
so much of his thunder that he had little
left. He returned the thanks of the asso
citation TO Bismarck and said the mem.
bers had for two years carried pleasant
memories of two years ago. He congratu.
lated Bismarck upon the completion of rs
beautiful depot. the coming Of the 500
road and the general prosperity that ha,
come to the city, and assured the citizen,
of the capital city that members of ll'
association would always have Il kind,
memory of their hospitality.
In response to the "Press and Education
State Superintendent Stockwcll pleaded elo
qucntiy for the dropping of all sectiona
feeling with regard to state educationa
institutions. The time was come whel
the Grand Forks" university and Fargo
agricultural college and the VALLEY CITY
normal school should no longer he alluded
to. 1t was the university of the whole
state, and the agricultural college of the
whole state. He thought the press of the
state could in no better way promote tho
cause of education than by working to the
end that all local feeling in these matters
be laid aside. The speaker said the press
of the state was always a potent factor IN
education. He himself had endeavored 10
keep in touch with the press boys ana
had always found their assistance VAIN
able and their counsel wise.
Representative McGaha spoke Of 'thc
Press and the Legislator" He said their
relations seemed to him to be those ~
courtship, marriage and divorce. The can.
didatc for the legislature usually caurtn1
the editor and got n hundred dollars worth
Of leg pulling for a dollars paid MP 50
scription. Then after the editor had
doomed the candidate for months. he got
the nomination, and the marriage ensued.
But after the election Of the candidate. u.
forgot that such a thing aS a newspaper
existed, and divorced himself from the
editor. and when n measure arose that was
Justly due the newspaper boys. he froWue1
upon it and forgot his debt to the press.
Mr.. MrGahan said he hoped the Eiglith
legislative assembly would prove an ex.
ception and that the printer boys would
get the consideration they deserved.
Lieutenant Governor Bartlett smoke on
the Press and the State and was in II
particularly happy vein of humor. Tho
statement made in the opening address.
that all people either had lived or expecte.i
to live In Bismarck, he said. was n mild
way Of breaking the news that the bill re-
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