The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-22
Hitch in Kansas Day Club Ban
quet Arrangements.
Management of Midwinter Ex-
position Erects Obstacles.
yAN'T GET OUT OF WAY.
Say It Is Impossible to Clear
the Hall.
Result May BE That Banquet
Will Go Elsewhere.

After all the fuss, and contention and
bitterness, it appears that the Kansas
Day club banquet is in danger of not
being held in the Topeka Auditorium
The trouble is now that the Midwinter
exposition people claim they can't
move their stuff out of the hall before
Tuesday noon. January 20, the very
day of the banquet. and the Kansas
Day club officers say that this does
not leave sufficient time to prepare the
hall for the banquet
The Midwinter exposition ends on
| Saturday night, January &c. 1t looks
as though the exposition people ought
to be able to get out of the way, but
they do not seem disposed to make the
! necessary effort By putting a big
! force of men in the hall on Sunday, and
working day and night shifts, it is pos
sible to clear the hall of Midwinter ex-
position booths and exhibits within "a
hours. Exhibits which were not re-
moved from the hall by Monday noon
| could be stacked up at the sides of the
room.
1t seems queer that in town as big
as Topeka, with as much enterprise"
as Topeka boasts, it is declared to be
Impossible to clear a hall of exhibits
IN less than two days and a half.
w. T. Vernon, secretary of the Kan.
sas Day club said today:
President W. S. Fitzpatrick was in
Topeka Friday. and we looked the
ground over. The city has given us
the use of the Auditorium for our ban
quet, but it looks as though the expo
slt1on management was going to make
the concession useless to US 1t IS
claimed that the exposition people can't
get their things out of the hall before
tuesday noon, the day Of the banquet
ana we can find no caterer in Topeka
VINO IS willing to undertake to put in
the tables and equip the hall for the
serving of banquet of this size in half
day. We ought to have day and
half.
IF we can't be given time to get off
stuff into the Auditorium, we will sim
ply hold the banquet in the rotunda of
the state capitol, where it was held last
year. The result will be that the Kan
sas Day club banquet next wear will
be held a Wichita. Wichita is very
anxious to have the banquet, and we
VIII, VIII go there If the business men of
Iopeka and the city council can't give
US a fair show with the Midwinter ex-
position
Attendance May Not Be Large.
In spite of the fact that this is the
legislative year. the attendance at the
Kansas Day banquet may show a de-
cided falling off if 1t should happen
that the legislature should put through
an antipass bill during the early days
Of the session.
Usually about three-fourths of the
people who come to Topeka to attend
the Kansas Day club banquet ride on
passes secured by the politicians and
distributed to their friends. Some
state officers make it a regular thing
10 SEND out several hundred passes for
every Kansas Day club banquet and
some GO even further and buy tickets |
for number of their henchmen
OF course it is possible that the anti |
pass law will be made to take effect |
after the date of the Kansas Day club
banquet, in which case, the attendance
at this years feast will likely be larger
than ever in the history of the club.
If the attendance is as large or larger |
than last year. it will be very unsatis-
factory business trying to hold a ban
quet in the state house rotunda There !
Is not enough room, and the speakers |
can hardly be heard. If the banquet |
IS held at the Auditorium, the speak |
ers would all be seated on the PLATFORM |
along with other distinguished guests |
Preston Coleman the Speaker
1t has been decided that Preston |
Coleman, the son Of Attorney General |
c. c. Coleman, and a student at the |
Wash burn law school, will respond to |
the toast of honor, kansas" at the |
coming banquet. The toast of honor
must always be responded to by a
native born Kansan, and Preston Cole
man fills the bill. Mr.. Coleman is also
chief clerk in the office Of his father
at the state house, and will occupy the
same position under the new admins
tration-
The speech from some distinguished
visitor from outside the state viii be 1
made by some Oklahoma statesman,
but President Fitzpatrick has not yet