The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14


And got used to Taughannock Falls.
But pa drove the pair to Cheyenne;
And he wouldn't forgive even then.
He got hold of the bucket
And counted each ducat.
/ And found he wasn't Cheyenne.
-Ananias Fisher.
If the editors who were in Topeka this
week attending the meeting Of the State
/ Editorial association would draw on
/ their stored away "reminiscences for the
/ benefit of this column how many thous-
I and ems Of mighty interesting reading
would be the result But these newspa-
per men don't always draw from the
fund what relates to themselves, but
/ they draw the drafts for stories that
must be cashed at the expense of
/ others.
The old war horse of the meeting was
/ Colonel Dan Anthony Of the Leaven-
worth Times, who by the way is a
/ brother of Susan 3. Anthony who has
/ led lis strenuous life, in different pur-
suits, as her brother, the fighting editor.
! Colonel Anthony was also a cousin of
the late George T. Anthony, but he was,
1 besides his cousin, his bitter enemy,
In 1876 when George T. Anthony was
4 a candidate for governor of Kansas, he
was bitterly opposed by his cousin, Dan
Anthony. Dan rented a hall in LeaVen-
I worth in which to address the people IN
a speech denOuncing his cousin. After
I the fighting editors had got fairly
! started in his speech against George T.
Anthony, Colonel Coffin, with a party of
/ George II men entered the hall and sat
I down. They began to make a dis
| turbance. Dan stood It for a while and
I then rising to his full height and point
4 ing toward Colonel Coffin, he shouted:
! There is William &. Conn VINO stole
! 3 600 cattle from the Indians and drove
them 300 miles after they had been
skinned
Colonel Coffin had been an Indian
I agent and like all other agents II that
day had been accused of fraud. He had
I been accused OF stealing 5000 cattle and
| his partisans had replied that he was
/ 800 miles away at the time the cattle
were skinned.
After Colonel Anthony had shouted
this sentence Colonel Coffin and his
crowd remained quiet for while, but
soon the disturbance began anew. An
thony again Strengthened up and point
ing towards Colonel Coffin shouted:
'sThere is William 6. Coffin. who told
me if [ valued my life not 10 come to
this meeting tonight I do value my
life and Colonel Coffin with his threats
cannot keep me away from this meet
Thus quiet was again restored. When
the meeting was nearly over, Colonel
i Coffin arose and sauntered toward the
platform on which there was pitcher
of water. Colonel Anthony saw that he
was after a drink and he said;
IF thine enemy ever hunger, give him
meat; if he thirst, give him drink; for
in SO doing, thou shalt heap Goals Of fire
upon his head"
With these words Anthony stopped
down. filed a glass of water and hand
ed il to Coffin.
That action brought forth vociferoUs
applause from the audience
A short time before the death Of the
late John J. ingalls, western Kansas
DaDer took occasion to administer i
roast" to the ex-senator. not fearing
that in private life Mr. ingalls, would
turn any Of his eaustIe e9lcs upon the
humble editor so filed with wrath MI
ingalls, was in the office of the Atchison
Champion when he read the roast.
Without moving a muscle he read the
article asked the sten0gra Dher in the
Office if she was ready for a dietation
and said:
ssIsv- some subtle association of ideas
this reminds me of the senatorial cleo
ton Of 1879. perhaps the most sensa-
I tional episode in Kansas history. It
was the morning of the last day. 1 was
} alone in my headquarters at the ola
Temt house. foul, squalid. hlths
? kennel. which was the boast and pride
of To1eka twenty years ago The soft
) coal fires smoked and suouldered an'
, stunk in the rusty stoves. The carpets
were covered with dry mud from this
streets. had been up all night The
! weather was bitterly black, bleak and
calG-
! My friends and supporters had al
gone to the state house for the hnal
% ",
: was sitting ike Marius amid the ruins
! of Carthage 1t was within ten minutes
of the hour of the meeting for the joint
convention, when one Of the members Of
the legislature came into my room.
He had been my friend during tbs
canvass. had attended my caucuses ans
voted for me at the previous sessions
He was one of my original supporter
without money and without price Hs
seemed uneasy and illustrated. I asked
him why he was not at the capitol
where one vote might decide my rate
He closed the door and said, with mucf
stumbling and laundering speech, tina
he had recently bought some type an6
a press, and was short $500. The draft
he said, was in the bank ana he mad q
have the money. before he went to tbs
state house
!. u suggested that the bank did no
close until O'Clock, but ne repned ina