The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-12

gal HghlS OF the order Inc speech
of the last was the piece de resist
ance." 1t is almost fit to get under
the same blanket with E. w. Hoeh's
famous description of Populism deliv-
| several years ago. It follows:
These hospltable hosts who have
prepared this delightful spread for you
are hotel proprietors and they are
not supposed to talk-not even to talk
back. They employ clerks for that
purpose. They are not permitted to
swell up and impress the guests with
their 1mpoStance-they hire walters to
do that.
'.These gentleman early learned that
| the solar plexus lies right over the
stomach and they constantly aim for
that-though not by words, but by
deeds. On their behalf, therefore, /
| would call your attention to a matter
| concerning the good of the order one
| year from now, and that is the meet
| ing place of your next grand lodge.
| You secretaries compose what
might be called the committee on
geography, and you will please re-
| location.
Three times a day during all the
session of 1905 there will be an ex-
| posure of the pneumogastric nerve to
the document known as the bill of
rare, and there is no place between
the four corners of Kansas where that
| exposure can be attended with such
eplcurean satisfaction as here. If you
should choose some tacky town where
the soil is SO poor that you could not
| raise % disturbance or an umbrella
! you you'd think of our II miles of
| paved streets. double-parked and
shaded, and the other miles of un-
! paved streets, without COMPARISON in
/ dry weather. and without redemption
bin wet.
should some outlying burg be Sc
Iected' away from modern means of
communication and transportation,
you will not know until YOU return
( nome whether General To Ia
TOXIC has sunk another Petropavlosk
or whether Colonel Sneezerffski has
brought up his reinforcements from
| Infiuenski. You cannot know each
morning and evening whether our
daily papers are prosecuting, defend
ing or melting actions for slander and
nbei, and hence you will be unable to
determine whether purity in politics is
an iridescent dream or a plain old
fashioned mince pie nightmare. Nay,
come here where the political pump
works throb and churn. here to the
central incubator where schemes laid
elsewhere are Matched out; where the
DeBoissiere case was twice argued
with great assiduity and industry and
twice decided with great cogency and
vehemence, here where Chairman
Stubbs' poll of the precincts cheers the
cohorts of one great party, while
Chairman Sapp's moral suasion leaflets
keep the ranks of the other party
sober.
Here you may have two ideal
places for your meetings: Representa-
tive hall. where the crime of '73
burst into the war of '93, and where in
1904 Citizen Chenau1t exhorted the
Populist and Democratic hosts to
march shoulder to shoulder and face
to face and where a few months pre-
viouS the fevered brows of 125 law
makers were cooled by the able and
famous committee on ventilation.
1--WE have also the Auditorium
where Dodd Castor sat in rapture list
] IL, IL
Heink, and where the harmonious
Nordica charmed the sense with de-
lights not longer, but much sweeter
than the odor of the chicken shows,
| full dress audience the kind of collar
button he wore, and where, running
right along with the interest on the
bonds, the indoor circus and the Mid
winter exposition served the purpose
of tight boots by making many a man
forget all his other troubles.
t'And last of all, and most attractive
of all, we have the hotels. AS to them
and their persuasive potency, these
viands speak more eloquently than
words.
"Out on the Santa Fe is a town
named Ellinwood. AT one time this
place abounded in joints and beer
kegs, and a stranger stopping off re-
marked to a Swede standing by Why,
1 thought this was prohibition Kan
sas?' No. replied the Swede, Dis is
Ellinwood, KAN
Now, when you come to choose the
place for your next grand lodge, re-
member the fate OF the tradluonaI ola
woman who went a thousand miles
from where anyone lived to run a
hotel. She accumulated nothing but
experience and a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy.
mo jobber would ship overcoats to
the equator, gum boots to the desert
of Sahara, or peek-a-boo shirts south
of the Arctic circle. The committee
AI1yT will NIL a
that this is Topeka, Kas.. which for
grand lodge purposes d1ffereth from
other places as one star dlffereth from
another star in glory.
1--WE can supply you with every last
thing any well regulated Odd Fellow
ought to want We like your COM
pany and we insist that your little Visit
is not enough
Next fall the election will be over,
the beefsteaks will be larger and the
mushrooms juicier, the frosts of Oc-
tober will color the foliage along the
Kaw into kaleidoscope of beauty,
Cider Smith will prepare an ideal pro-
gramme of weather, and then, when
the frost is on the pumpkin and your
FappetiteS are sharp, bring your breth-
rem here again and all the good things
from Gage park to Little Russia and
from Soldier creek to the Shunga-
nunga shall be yours
The Rebekah assembly opened Its
sessions with formal call to order at
the senate CndInD0I last Ill5hts anu NAACiA
adjourned until 8 o'clock this morning,
and converted the gathering into re-
ception for the visiting Odd Fellows
The hall was crowded to its capacity
until after II o'clock. Cut flowers were
used for decorations and light refTesn-
ments were served in the cloak rooms.
The grand encampment of the Odd
Fellows concluded their session on
Tuesday afternoon. George w. Titus
was elected junior grand warden on
the first ballot. Several other cand1dates
received light complimentary votes. The
following other officers were chosen:
T. C. Frazier, Coffeyville, grand repre-
sentative; F. J. Cossitt. Wichita, grand