The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-21
HIS DINNER LIST.
Governor Bailey Gives Out
Names of the Favored.
Those Who Will Sit Down With
President Roosevelt.
TWO SENATOR'S THERE.
But No Congressman Are to Be
Present.
Whffo ornI Horwo Fr.rs+o1 - D.
TWO SENATOR'S THERE.
White and Howe Invited at Re.
quest Of President.

Governor Bailey today made public
the list of guests who have been invited
to the dinner which he will tender Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the executive resi-
dence on the evening of May l. Now
those people who have been anxiously
watching their mail for an invitation
from the governor need suffer no fur
ther anxiety. If they are not on the
list and think they should have been in
vited, they may lay it to the fact that
the dining room in the executive resi-
dence was not built for state dinners,
and the number who can be accommo-
dated is exceedingly limited.
Not a single congressman is included
in the list The governor would not in
vite one unless he could invite all and
for that reason the congressman were
passed up. The same is true of the
state officers. The congressman and
state officers alone would have filled the
governors dining room, had he invited
them, without leaving room for the
president and his party
This is the first function of the kind
which Governor Bailey has given and
he has been exceedingly careful to
recognize all factions in making up his
list of guests. The first five are mem
| bers of the presidents immediate party
The list is as follows
President Roosevelt.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler president
of Columbia university.
president
Assistant Secretary Barnes.
Surgeon General Rixey
Judge w. c. Hook, representing the
federal bench.
Chief Justice ". A. Johnston. repre-
senting the state supreme bench.
Senator J. r. Burton
Senator Chester J. Long
D. W. Mulvane, member of the Re
publican national committee for Kansas.
Morton Albaugh. chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee.
NJ. A Low of the Rock Island
n p LOOMS Of the Union Pacific.
T. W. Howe of Atchison.
william Allen White of Emporia
II }. Bone, secretary to the governor.
Mr. Howe and Mr. White are invited
especially at the request of the presi-
dent. Mr.. White. as is well known is
A personal friend of President Roose-
velt. and there is a strong friendship
between the two. The president has
never met Mr.. Howe. but he has heard
a great deal about him, and when he
accepted Governor Bailey's invitation
to the dinner when the governor was in
Washington several years ago he ex-
pressed the wish that Mr.. Howe be one
of the guests at the dinner in order that
he might have an opportunity of meet
ing the Atchison editor
Mr.. Loomis was invited because of
his prominence in Kansas politics. but
more especially because the president
viii be the guest of his road on passing
through Kansas. Mr.. Low was invited
also because of his political prominence
and also because of his personal ae-
quaintance with the president.
Mr.. Mulvane was invited as repre-
I sentative of the national committee and
Mr.. Albaugh as a representative of the
state committee.
7 Likewise Judge Hook was invited as
the representative of the federal bencn
and Chief Justice Johnston IS the repre-
sentative of the supreme bench.
The fact that Cyrus Leland is not a
member of the party will doubtless
cause considerable comment. When
questioned as to why Mr.. Leland was
omitted Governor Bailey said:
Mr.. Leland asked me not to consider
him at all in making up the list He
was with me in Washington when I in
vited the president to the dinner, ne re-
allied that the capacity of my dining
room is limited and that I would have
trouble in drawing the lines in making
up the list, and coming home from
Washington he asked me not to include
him in my list I appreciated the gen
erous spirit in which the offer was
made and accepted it,"