The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-30
Replies TO President Francis at
st. Louis.
This is Kansas Day at Worlds
Fair.
SUNFLOWER is THERE.
The Emblem of Distinction on
Exposition Grounds.
Reception for Governor and Mrs.
Bailey Tonight.


sas Day" at the Worlds fair, and the
Kansas sunlower is seen everywhere,
There are thousands of Kansans on
the grounds. and the Kansas building
is thrOnged most of the time.
Governor Bailey and his staff ar
rived Tuesday and have been here the
entire week The exercises today be-
gan with a military parade which
started from the Kansas building and
was participated in by numerous mill
tary organizations which are in at
tendance at the fair at present, includ-
ing the Philippine scouts and con-
stabularies and their bands. General
5 H Kelsey, adjutant general of Kan
sas, was marshal of the parade. 1t
was reviewed by Governor Bailey at
the Louisiana monument, where the
Kansas day exercises followed
After the invocation by Bishop
Millspaugh of Kansas. President
Francis on behalf of the exposition
spoke briefly, welcoming the Kansans
TO the fair and referring to the great
ness of the sunf1ower state Governor
Bailey replied to him, and Henry J.
Allen of Ottawa, Kan, and David
Overmyer of Topeka, made the princi-
pal speeches number of pieces Of
music were given by Kansas people.
Tonight in the Kansas building the
members of the Kansas commission
OF the Kansas building. will receive for
Governor and Mrs. Bailey. Elaborate
preparations have been made for the
reception and it is expected that sew
eral thousand persons will attend
In replying TO the address of Presi-
dent Francis today, Governor Bailey
said.
Governor Francis. 1 wish to thank
YOU for the complimentary way in
which you have spoken of Kansas. of
her resources, of her history and of
her people And on behalf OF the
Kansas commission and myself, wish
TO publicly acknowledge the universal
courtesy that has been extended to US
during our association with the expo
sition and it's manag gement- And 1 also
wish to congratulate you, the central
figure of this great exposition, and
through you the city of St Louis and
the state of Missouri upon the energy
and executive ability displayed in the
inception. the Inauguration and con-
summation of this, the greatest exh1-
bitiOn of human achievement the
world has ever seem The event this
acquisition by our government of the
vast territory known as the Louisiana
Purchase without the shedding of a |
drop Of blood. makes it one of the
epochs in the worlds history A cen !
turv from then till now. a century |
great in enterprises undertaken, !
century rich in things accomplished
But of all the splendid developments l
Of one hundred years there is none more /
marked tnan the transformation of the |
Louisiana Purchase from a wilderness |
into the splendid civilization that is 1
hers today
The Biographies of our fathers
marked all the vast area west OF the /
Missouri river as the Great American
Desert. And IL was believed that 1t /
was not Mt for the habitatiOn of civilized
man. From that desert there has been
formed a number of sovereign states,
occupied by as prosperous, as happy
a a claim nrOt eCtIOn
beneath the stars and stripes
And no one of the states carved from
this territory exceeds our own beloved
Kansas in achievements already attain
ed or in the splendid possibilities for
the future. 1t is a coincidence that
Kansas celebrated this year her semi
Fifty years ago the terri
torfal lines of Kansas were established
and territorial government undertaken
Admitted into the union as a state in
1851 she has had 43 years Of statehood.
Forty-thrce years in state building Is
but prelude to the great conSumnla-
ton vet a mighty commonwealth Is
there and standing today upon the crest
that tells of our growth and develop
rnent I wish to pay this tribute to the
memory of the men and women VINO
gave Kansas her character. for states
have characters as well as men,
When the time came to place KAN
sas star upOn our country's flag. the
public conscience had been quickened
10 tnat extent that it declared that the
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ana il was not her sun-lOissed prair1es
ror her fertile valleys that invited the
Kansas pioneer. He came as the
hampton of that great cardinal prin-
rinle of liberty that all men were cre-
lted equal before the law; and upon
mis- rock they built the character of a
great state
ssTy-hen the struggle was over that
settled forever the question OF national
when the young men VINO
had given the best years of their lives
TO preserve the Union returned to the n
peaceful walks of life, the great un-
develoDed west invited them to become
home builders and by thousands they
crossed the fertile prairies of Iowa
and Missouri and came to the state
that was the child of the great strug-
gle in which they had played so prom
nent a part and they brought with l
hem the same love for the Union, the
same love of country that had hred ,
heir hearts at the sound of SumpterS
guns They were supplemented by I
he flower of the young manhood and I
roung vvouanhood of the older states. 1
II was not the doubling, hesitatng O
roung man who was lured to Kansas; t
Z was the sturdy, self-reliant men and
women who had faith in their coun- h
ry and its institutions, faith in their e
lbiiity to win for themselves home, c
'aith in their power to win for them s
selves a place in the great battle of F
ife who were Kansas pioneers These
we're the men and women who WoOed 2
he wild prairie and won from her the 4
ounded our schools and laid deep and 7
trong the environments of our splen- o
lid civilization n
That characteristic that is COM a
non to the citizen of nearly every fl
tate is unusually strong in Kansas il
.