The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-17

Of the menu. Royal and vesper cake
and q special brand Of coffee finished
up the procession of good things
Then the cigars were called into play,
and when the room became dense with
tobacco smoke, so thick that it was a
feat to distinguish a person at a dis
lance Of five feet, the undertaking
began.
After some preliminary sparring on
devious paths and various subjects,
Senator Fl. B, Keny "lit" into Bill
White for declaring that Topeka win
have the semicentennial taken away
from it unless a cleaning goes on here
with regard to saloons and their kin
dred institutions. Kelly said: Il came
here to talk I came to scold some Of
your smart-alec newspaper men over
the state. I notice Bill White said If
Topeka didn't stop the sale of liquor
it wouldn't get the senicentsnEial.
think it is a mistaken idea that 8 held
out that because we live in Topeka our
morals ought to be better The same
amount Of liquor is sold proportiona-ely
in Lawrence or Emporia as in Topeka.
Tt has always been my =cententfon that
Bill White is a vOluminous writer on
lot Of things that he knows nothing
about. It isn't necessary for Us to show
ourselves any better than any other
community in the state. It is an eb-
surdity to hear others declare that To
peka ought to cut out the sale Of liquor
or lose the senniceutennia1. II [ r.
paper for a week. I'd go after ehese fell
| lows I'd drop in on Ed Howe and I
would give Finch down here 4 cuFrying.
One is an agnOstic, che has = sour
stomach and the other is Duffed UP.
There is no sense in charging 1t all up
to Topeka. Common sense don't charge
it I'D to US This body is looked 10 for
the direction Of the semicentennial.
The state feels that way. The senti-
ment is a state affair. And It IS wanted
at Topeka
DOran's Amusing Speech.
Major Anderson spied T. F. Doran IN
the rear of the room and called upon
him for a speech. Mr.. Doran worked
slowly for a little while, but after get
ting up steam he fired some remarks
straight from his shoulder concerning
the agitation Of the LIQUOR traffic in To-
peka, in which brought forth cheers.
Mr.. Doran said:
IT didn't come to make a speech. but
as body-guard for my Democratic
friend, John Sw1tzer, who I understand
has q big boom for attorney general
switzer drank nine cups Of coffee and
is prined for a big speech. There is
lots of selashness in all communities.
But I'm not much of a kicker, even
though we get loaded up with extra
taxes by the creation of new benefit
districts. Some things ought to be
kicked against. I have seen lots in the
newspapers about paving Kansas ave-
nue. with asphalt. I don't believe in as
phalt. I'm not working for a brick
company, but I want to see brick put
down. Then we have a habit of parad-
ing our virtue and vice to the world
We rejoice one minute and complain
the next. We are in constant turmoil
over the liquor question. It has been
that way forever The governor lives
closer to Wichita than to Topeka. Down
there at Wichita just across from the
DEPOT Is bar as long as this room,
culiar notions about this temperance
question. It is moral question that
ought to be relegated to the ministers to
be handled in q moral way 7 GU cannot
IeRislate virtue into a man. We have
to get down to business and cut this
out and have harmony. I think that the
statements about this question ought
to be ignored by the newspapers. This
protesting ought to be stopped The
town that is doing things; the man thar
is doing things; is the one who is not
complaining. Kansas is all right: Toe
peka is all right Instead of telling
about a glass Of beer being sold here
a glass Of whisky there; we ought 70
talk about the buildings we are going
to put up and the money we are going
to spend. II we stop this protesting we
viii get along all right"
Mr.. DOran probably went farther Inan
he intended. for he would not have the
public or newspapers wink at conditions
foisted on any city by corrupt or neg
ngent officers which lead to the cor
ruption Of little girls and boys such as
has prevailed in Topeka.
T. J. Anderson: "BiIl White is in the
wrong pew. He hasn't any heart in the
matter, because he hasn't any heart at
all We win have the Semicentennial
all right, ana she wiz be a cracker too.
Called the Holy City.
j. W Doran Of Hamilton, Ohio:
owe hear lots Of Topeka and Kansas
in Ohio. and we hear Topeka called
The Holy city,
do you refer to the pavement p
INTERCEPTED n. c. Holman.
Il don't know" he answered
wichita covers its sins: in Topeka
they are exposed. and Wichita helps a
whole lot IN exposing them I believe
this question is a moral, and not a pO-
/ litical one"
r D. Blaine: There Is one thing