The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-30

J Anderson to Eugene Ware, chair
man Of the plans and organizations
committee, Ito have this organiz saltl.'l
work until you can go before the legls-
lature and pass special measure TO
charter this exposition.
"That j. it exactly" replied Mr. Ware.
The resolutions ought to be engraved
and distributed all over Kansas. Though
the name of Judge Samuel Kimble is
signed to them, Eugene Ware was their
author
Ware writes some great blank verse
and I think that he wrote these resOlu-
tons in that style. said Judge kimble
as he arose to report for the resolutions
committee.
They follow:
Mr.. Chairman: We, your committee
on resolutions, beg to report the fol-
| loving:
States. like men. have fortunes good
and bad.
states. like men, have regulations to
make and preserve
States, like men. may grasp oppor-
tunities, or lose them forever
Therefore, be it resolved by US, here
in convention assembled, that it is our
! duty TO make evident
First, What Kansas has done. How
she has pushed back the frontier and
changed a barren waste into pros
porous state. How she has transformed
a desert into a garden.
sSECOiAQ--ffl nat AdllSdS - INV q
state without millionaires and without
paupers has been built up in fifty
years against great difficulties.
Third-What Kansas is to be The
home of morality, of correct thinking
and correct living: the first state in
the equality of social benefits and en-
joyments; the least subject to political
misrule; the least subject to illiteracy
and crime; the most equal in the dis
tribution of Intelligence and wealth.
Resolved further, In order to show
what we have done, what we now are,
and what we aspire to be, that we
have an exposition, upon the fiftieth
anniversary 1911. of the admission
of the state into the union, for the
purpose of demonstrating to the
world the facts above set forth, and in
addition to many material interests
commercial, agricultural, mineral and
educational. we emphasize and urge
the Importance of organizing d special
/ department illustrative of Kansas
history from its commencement as a
territory. as we'll as from the date OF
! its admission as a state into the
American union; and that this illus
| tratiOn be done in high class art, and
that the skill of the painter, the pho
/ tographer and the sculptor be requi-
sitioned to portray the scenes and rep
resent the heroic characters in the mo-
mentous conflict that made Kansas
/ free.
ana IuFther resolved. That this con-
vention should at this meeting take
( steps to effect a permanent organiza-
/ ton to carry on this work.
And resolved further, That this e,z-
position be located at the state capital
/ or Kansas. SAM KIMBLE
Chairman
It viii be noticed that the last reso-
/ luton in the list reads this way: And
+ Resolved, Further, that this exposition
be located at the State Capital OF kan
sas."
Mr.. Chairman" said one of the dele.
/ gates, Il think that ought to read, be
! located at Topeka. "
No, it ought not" said Tom Potter
of Peabody, who was a member of the
/ resolution committee. we wrote thai
in that way with q, deliberate intent
This is the states affair. The capita
/ of Kansas is ours. Ut is our fair. It is
/ not Topeka s"
The convention applauded the senti-
meEt
The. hoodgates Of oratory were opened
for a while during the afternoon SEES
sion, while the committee reports were
being awaited little later half pas
three adjournment was called for, bu
was not voted upon until Topeka haG
been thanked by a shouting vote 10
| its royal hospitality
Then the delegates were taken owe