The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-29

gramme this evening has prepared
such a vitriolic speech that he is afraid
to deliver it. He fears that it mar
cause the governor a good deal of en-
barrassment. Nevertheless. the speech
is mighty good one. and is just bout
the kind of a cauterizing that certain
elements in the Republican party
need.
1t is an unwritten rule of the Kansas
Day club that no man, unless he be-
comes a United States senator or gov
ernor, shall twice be given place on
the club program. The only time that
this rule was violated was in the case
of w. L. Cunningham of Cowley
county, the present speaker pro tenn
of the house of representatives. Cum
bingham was on the program once
while he was a student at Washburn
college. Some years later, when the
officers of the club were hunting for
a man from southern Kansas to put on
the program, some of Cunningham
friends recommended him. and the
club officers, not knowing that he had
spoken before, gave him a place. Cum
ningham didn't know of the rule
against second appearances, and made
his speech.
Ex-senator G. H Lamb of Yates
Center. came to town today to attend
the banquet. Lamb and Hessin We're
the two leading Republicans in the
senate at the time of the Populist
regime. They were both terrific fight
ers, and they kept the Populists, who
were not we'll up in legislative tricks,
jumping sideways. Lamb said today
in speaking of the present legislature
and it's work:
There is no sentiment down in my
county for an anti-pass law. The pub
lie, however, wants a cent fare law,
or a 1 cent fare law The lower it is
the better the public will be suited.
Passenger fares, however, are mere
bagatelle compared with freight rates,
and the people ought to have freight
reductions. The people down my way
are also strongly in favor of primary
election law"
Earl Evans of Wichita, who has
been here during the session looking
after the interests of the Standard OH
company and the harvester trust. said
today:
you can say for me that I am just
here attending the Kansas Day BAN
quet and working in favor of a law
making it a penitentiary offense for
any attorney to represent corpora
ton. 1 also want some more laws reg
ulating the Standard Oil company.
Aside from these matters 1 have no
business in Topeka"
DR.. s. s. Estey, pastor of the First
church, Will pronounce
the invocation this evening at the |
opening of the banquet.
John B.. Wood of Concordia, who |
was one of the speakers at the 1906 |
banquet Of the club, is here today, and |
was talking things over this morning !
with George Tucker, who was presi- |
dent last year. Senator Tucker said:
wood played mean trick on me |
last year. went to him and asked |
him if there was anything he would |
like to have me say in introducing him |
which would break the ice for him in |
any way, and he said that his subject |
was The Republican Overflow and he |
thought it might help for me to say |
that this no doubt referred to an over |
flow of the Republican river, up at |
So 1 made my introduce |
tory remarks as he suggested, and |
then he got up. and politely called me !
4 liar, and said that he wasn't going |
to talk about anything of the sort.
That's how the poor chairman gets !
his