The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-29
ALL TURN TO TOPEKA.
Visitors in a JOvial HumOr
From the Start.

Kansas semicentennial Exposition,
Topeka, 1911.
To all the world was this slogan
flung out today by Kansas sitting III
convention.
Plans and organization were in the
making this afternoon. The map OF
the great movement was outlined
Almost one thousand members Of
the great Sunfiower commonwealth
took part in the great meeting at Rep
resentative hall in tine statehouse-
Many of them were famous-men in
etrumental in the states making.
Before the gavel fell 756 had reg
isfered attendance. Some came too
late to give their names, and the
complete delegation cannot be num-
bered before tonight
Every word, every act. was one OF
enthusiasm. Not a breath of opposi-
fion to the movement-not even
suggestion of a different place than
Topeka to hold the great exposition.
Wichita alone could have asked for
It, Other than Topeka it is the only
city in the state with anything like
ample capacity. But Ex-Governor
William +. Stanley. on behalf of the
they had no intention of even offering
themselves for the exposition.
we are for topeka he declared,
'and we shall DO our part And ne
was cheered to the echo.
The whole convention was Of one
miud-the slogan for five years to
come, Kansas Semicentennial Ex-
position, Topeka, 1911"
There was nothing to do but to
cheer and organize. The morning
was lent to decking Dame Enthu-
siasm with more glorious colors, with
bigger frills and deeper tucks.
The convention was given over to
business. Plans and organization were
made up by the following committee
during the early afternoon. and at
o clock presented TO the conventions.
f. F. Ware chairman; John Seaton
AtchisOn; j. A. Troutman. Shawnee:
f. r. Dix, Bourbon; A. Henley,
Douglas; A. c.. Stitch. Montgomery;
John Madden, Labette; Charles
Plumb. Lyons, Charles Barnes. Usage:
c. n. Peck, Cloud w. H. Smith, Mar
shall; r. w. Wilmington, Ellsworth;
Otis i. Benton, Decatur; E. r. Noses
Barton: c.. NJ. Beeson, Ford: T. A.
Hubbard. Sumner; F.. B. Jewell.
Sedgwick.
The following committee reported
on the resolutions. Sam KimbIe.
Riley chairman; Ewing Herbert
Brown, DR.. Norman Plass. Shawnee.
w r. Stubbs. Douglas; H. J. Allen.
Franklin; j. S. Barker. Crawford, Fl.
= stone. Cherokee; r. NJ Patten,
Marion, r. c. Sucher. Wabaunsee:
w L. Davis, Republic, J. B. Towns
Washington, ID. A. Valentine CLAW. T
a. Case. Dickinson. g. w. Watson
Edwards n. II. Stidger, Ness: T. r
Murdock, Butler; e. G. Hudson.
The convention realized that the
only great matter still to be gained is
an appropriation from the legislature
Upon this depends absolutely the sue
cess of the great undertaking. Almost
every speaker mentioned it, Almost
every delegate applauded when it was
urged that the state should do lis
snare handsomely. The men who come
TO the next legislature will come with
the demand of the whole state upon
them, that they do what is right
Governor HOch led off i'm the talk for
q big appropriation. He urged it as the
right thing to do. He has repeatedly
asserted his position i'm this matter
and his belief in the value of great
exposition Other speakers were Of the
same mind.
tt was Just ten minutes past ten
O'Clock this morning when r. J. An
dersou, secretary of the Topeka Com
mercial club, mounted the platform
and called the great gathering to or
der. While the delegates had haan
national airs. The crack musical or
ganIzatiOn was applauded to the echo
and made to respond again and again.
Dr. S. $. Estey of the First Presbv-
terian church delivered the invocation
He prayed for courage truth, clean
hearts and clean hands i'm the conducr
OF civic affairs"
Then the Dfodocs sang two numbers.
and We're handed great share OF an
plause.
John E. Frost was introduced nv
Major T. j. Anderson as temporary
chairman of the meeting.
=. w. Porter, delegate from Jackson
county. presented to the convention a
gavel and penholder made from wood
taken from Abraham Lincoln's home
stead at Springfield Ill.
Porter read a communication tell
ing OF the two instruments and their
sym b0lic significance. But his voice
could not be heard beyond the report
ers' table. The audience began to yeU
Louder. louder Finally r. NJ Pot
ter Of Peabody interrupted MIN and
asked that some one with voice" be
called upon.
Suddenly a. j Haughey of Sumner
county great big man with a great
big voice seconded the motion. His
intonations made the rafters ring. He
was called forward to do the reading
The communication was written in
pencil and hard to decipher. He
STUN b1ed through SLOWLY.