The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05

favor Of holding the banquet Of the
Kansas Populists in Missouri instead of
In Kansas He said: st personally am
in favor Of holding the banquet in kan
sas City and on the Missouri side Of the
line. I am working to that end. am
not sure that we shall hold 1t here, but
I hope that it viii be so. Otherwise it
viii be given in the National hotel, To-
peka.
Tt does not always require a great
scholar to make a hit as a public speak
education and a volume of elocution are
sometimes bound in the same cover.
At the recent Kansas Day club ban
uuet one of the speakers whose speech
produced many large and enthusiastic
waves Of applause and laughter, had
over % nlisspelled words in the manu-
script Of his speech. The follos5ing are
a few samples of how this brilliant ora
tor spells:
Retoric, dissolved, inappropriate, visa
BILE, crumbeling, dynesty. blazing,
valves, equilibrium, embarrassed,
epetaphs, beginning, narating, immerged,
Iimpied, inestemable, fitting (6ttirSg),
derissfon, con1pIaisence. audab1e, facten-
al faetionaD, aggrandisiment, balance.
The Newton Kansan-Republ ican
says that there is no danger of a fight
in Harvey county against the can
didacy of Geo. w kanaVel for the Re
publican nomination for railroad com
missioner. Harry c. Bowman viii Of
fer no opposition to kanavel. The Re
publican says:
I'VE have no men in the party in
this county who claim to control it or
who carry its organization in their
vest pockets Harry Bowman nor any
other good Republican in this county
has any enemies in the party which
they desire to punish. They always
line W for home man and present
none except such as are competent and
secure the delegation from this county
for the Office Of railroad commission
er. Past grievances if any are lost to
sight and do not enter into the present
or the future. This is the way we keep
Harvey county always in the front
rank among the solid Republican
counties of the state
Congressman Charles Curtis has
written to Can't. P. H. Coney Of the
Kansas G. a. r. stating that he viii
be in favor of the bill providing that
all members of the Kansas militia who
served during the civil war shall be
eligible for pensions. Mr.. Curtis says:
Il have your letter of Jan. oath. and
note what you say about the state
militia bin. have already talked
with the members of the Missouri
delegation and we expect to join in
our efforts to secure legislation which
will extend the pension laws to all
state militiamen."
Carr Taylor and Ex-Governor Stan
ley have accepted invitations to be the
speakers at the Lincoln Day BANQUET
to be held at Pratt, Kan, on Feb. Il.
There will be 200 plates at the ban
quet, and all the Pratt county Repub-
lican leaders are expected to be pres
emit
Henry Allen has come back at ". R.
Stubhs' blast of charges discharged
some days ago. Mr.. Allen charges Mr..
Stubs with insincerity. He says:
"Mr. Stubs spirit of vindictiVeness
toward myself. which is becoming well
known to the public, has led him to
draw considerably upon his magma
ton for material with which to carry
on his fight against me in the congress
siOnal contest. He makes the state
ment that I went upon the floor of the
house and lobbied against a senate bill
providing that the executive council
should let the stitching. binding, etc,
Of the state printers Office to the lowest
bidder. The statement is astonishing
in view of the fact as shown by the
records that if I did approach Mr..
Stubs with the perniciOus purpose of
lobbying him against this bill I must
have succeeded much better than the
gentleman would now care 10 dQDllI.
He says that this provision would have
saved many thousand dollars to the
taxpayers of the state, and yet I find
that when the bill was submitted to the
members of the lower house. Mr..
Stubs did not take sufficient interest
I in the matter to make a fight for the
proposition when the bill was up for
( final passage and was even absent
when the bill was passed without the
senate amendment It would seem rea-
H17 =,
which he now appears to have in the
ability of that bill to save the public
money he would have taken the pains
to be present and make some effort to
save the provision.
II was under the impression at the
time that the bill was of NJ importance
| and would not save the state any
money. The fact as shown BY the rec