The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09

age. It will not come to stay, if it
comes at all, because its wrecks which
strew the pathway Of human history
for 8. 600 years attest the fact that it is
not a slayer. To avert such a calam-
ity conservative corporation people as
well as the wisest ana most disinter-
ested statesmen should bend and are
bending every energy.
At the head of this great move
ment stands our sagacious and in
trepid leader, Theodore Roosevelt. and
by his side, I am glad to know from
a recent interview, viii stand the dis
tinguished guest of this occasion, Sen
ator Warner.
Senator Longs Speech.
Senator Chester I. Long followed the
governor of Kansas. The senator close
" held the ground the Kansas COVER
nor had taken in the hearts of the Mis-
souri, Republicans. His speech follows
There is a tradition that, in the old
days before Kansas was a state, Mis-
sourians came over the border and par
ticipated in the elections of the terri
tory. This probably is susceptible OF
proof. At least, some years ago when
I was on my may out from NASHVILLE
to the Hermitage to look upon The
home and surroundings of Andrew
Jackson, that great president and lead
er of Democracy, a man who kept a
tOllgate, learning that was from
sas for one day himself I asked him
/ the circumstances of his brief visit to
! our state, and he told me he had gone
out to Missouri before the war to visit
some relatives; and as all the men folks
were going over to Kansas to vote, he
went with them and voted also. There
fore. not only MissOurians but Ten
nesseeans also took a hand in our af-
fairs in the early days And strange to
say, that habit of interference has con-
tinued until this day Missouri news
papers continue to give US advice; tell
US whom we should nominate for gov
ernor; who should be elected senator:
and take the most lively interest in
our internal affairs. And the stranger
thing about il is that we do not resent
this interference. It has continued Sc
many years that we rather expect it as
a matter of course.
SO last year, when Theodore Roose-
welt, Republican candidate for presl-
dent, carried Missouri, and it was also
ascertained you had Republican ma
jority in your legislature, is it strange
that Kansas, following your example,
should return the compliment and tell
you what you should do? For after
you found, much to your surprise, that
you had the necessary votes to elect a
senator, you proceeded to take the US
ual steps to bring about such a result.
You held a caucus: why, do not know,
+ for the choice of your caucus did not
become senator. But after you had
/ gotten into an inextTicable tangle, and
it appeared that you would not be able
to reach a conclusion, the Kansas house
/ of representatives proceeded to point
the way. and told you what to do
That legislature, having attended to
! all the things that We're necessary to
do in Kansas, having destroyed the
Standard Oil company and the rail-
roads, and enacted legislation on all
other things that were necessary, in
structed you by resolution how to get
out. And as you were utterly unable
/ to choose q senator from Missouri, you
: did better, and selected a senator from
that part of Kansas known as Kansas
City. For while geographically, Kan
/ sas City is in Missouri yet tempera-
mentally. and by environments 1t Is a
+ Kansas city, as its name implies. We
support If, largely, and have made It
what it IS.
And So witnessing your embarrassment,
we finally told you to select your senator
from this city so he could represent both
/ states and you wisely followed our ad-
] wise, and selected the guest OF TINS even
ing. which action met vita our hearty
concurrence For while yGn nave always
taken a great interest in Kansas, Kan
+ sans have had an equal llsSereSt in Mis-
: souri,. I once lived IN this state myself.
4 / was brought here without my consent
when ] was years of age. and was kept
1 here until I was 10 and was able to get
! away And the II years of my life that I
I spent on a Missouri farm, going to school
4 in the country. participating in the debat-
1 ing societies and teaching school in the
/ country school houses will always be re-
I membered b. me with pleasure, ana gives
me the right, believe, to take a deep and
/ lively interest in Missouri affairs, and es-
peeially in what you may do politically.
Major Warner His Choice.
j And so It was that if I had had the
/ choosing of a senator from Missouri to
/ succeed Francis NJ. Cockrell, that grand
/ old representative of Missouri Democra-
( ey I myself would have selected Major
| Warner of the city of Kansas, and in Sc
I lectine him. you Republicans Of Missouri
i not only pleased Missouri. but Kansas as
/ well. and we appreciate the opportunity
| of being here tonight and participating in
] this farewell banquet in his honor.
t He will shortly go to Washington and
/ be sworn IN as a member Of the senate Of