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


adopted. and which has been acted up
on by Governor Hochs for the calling
of a conference of governors of states
or their representatives to talk about
uniform oil legislation. He also has a
bunch of bills for the benefit of the oil
and gas business. and will put in most
of his time during the session pushing
those bills. =
Elocution Teacher Not Like Burton.
Orville B. ToVne is professor of
oratory at Washburn college, and is
tall, good looking. and very popular at
his college. He is a graduate of Will
Hams, and also has attended the school
of oratory at Harvard. Towne not
only won a lot of honors in college for
his oratorical ability, but was also a
crack man on the track teams, and
can still take hold of a 16-pound
hammer, and throw it over good
sized house. During the recent cam
paign, Prof. Towne was used in the
campaign by the Republican state
committee. and so far as known, he
did no more damage than any of the
other spellbinders. 1t isn't often that
college professor takes enough in
terest in this vain world to jump into
a political campaign the way TowI1e
did, but when the people of Kansas
learn to know him better, they will
find that he is one of the aggressive
sort, and will put his whole heart and
soul into what he undertakes. Prof.
Towne has been at Washburn four
years.
ClIaIIis Has = Secret Mine to Explode.
The thing which makes James NJ.
Challis of Atchison of special interest
at the present crisis is the fact that he
refuses to give his picture or his
speech to the newspapers for publica-
ton.
The reason he does not give out his
speech is said to be because he has
mixed uD a frightful dose for the pro-
hibitBonists, and wants 1t to come as a
ST1 lie has a
genuine Atchison idea about prohi-
bitfon, which is no prohibition at all.
He is said to be planning to skin every
vestige of hide off from the prohibit
And that's why he is a little bashful
about giving out his speech.
The reason Challis won't. allow his
picture to be printed is a secret about
which there are no advance notices.
He was born at Atchison, and is only
about "a years old. He graduated at
Kansas university in both the literary
and law course and has been county
attorney of Atchison county for four
years. Recently he retired from that
office, and went into the law firm of
W V,ee orr e, I Ghalis, Ghaliis
sisters, and you can figure out the re-
lationship between the Challis family
and the Ingalls, family to suit yourself.
Challis is one of the most ready talk
ers and strongest lawyers in Atchison
county. and his friends expect him to
be one of the future leaders of the
state.
Murphy's Ideas on Astronomy.
The last man on the list is George
A. Murphy, the Oklahoma attorney,
who will speak on the difficult and
complicated subject of Republican
ism and the New STAR The result of
the recent election indicated that Re-
publicanism is rather a scarce article
In the new star, and Mr.. Murphy Will
take his hearers into his mental OBJ
servatory, and do a few astronomical
stunts for the purpose of pointing out
the places which didn't go Demo-
cratic. Mr.. Murphy is a member of
the law firm of Hutchings, Murphy &
German. and is located at Muskogee.
He is said to be a great success as a
campaign speaker, and was recon-
mended by Senator Fitzpatrick, who
has gone up against him. in legal
scraps. and who testifies to Murphy's
ability. .sg,-z-
He's Missed But One.
Ex-senator George P. Moorehouse
has attended all but one of the Is Kan
sas Day club banquets, and is here to-
day for his sixteenth. He relates many
interesting "reminiscences of the old time
"blowouts" of the club. He said to-
da-:
was held at the Throop hotel There
were about so or IS present. After that
the banquets were held at the Cope
land. until that crowd outgrew the
Copeland Qlnlng room.
Back in the Pop days. the Kansas
Day club flourished, because 1t was real
~ about the only thing the Republicans
had left. The Pops had all the offices
and controlled the legislature and the
Republicans would come to the Kansas
Day club to SPOUT,
lone year. about the time that Char
ley Curtis was elected to congress the
first time, he was on the programme for
the toast on Kansas 1t was at a time
when Curtis and Leland were at
swords points. Curtis had been told
that Leland. just before the banquet.
had spoken of him in the lobby as that
D. Kaw injun,' and when Curtis
arose to speak, he spotted Leland
1t wasn't customary. in those days, for
the old time politicians to come into the
banquet; they stood out in the lobby.
and then came crowding in afterwards
for the speeches. Well, Curtis aimed his
speech at Leland, and he certainly
burned him up. 1t was one of those
firery. explosive speeches, which Curtis
used to make, but which he don't make
now days. He called Leland a boss. he
roasted the Leland machine, and called
upon the young Republicans of the state
to rise up on behalf of the people and
grind the machine into the dirt. Curtis
speech was received with great applause
by friends of Curtis, and by Kisses by
the friends of Leland.
The club banquets got so big that il
was regular fight to get Into the Cope
land DINING room, and a number of
people were quite badly hurt. One time
William Allen White almost had his
arm jerked off going through the mar
row door of the dining room. Finally
they took the banquet over to Hamilton
hall. 1t happened that the night was
bitter cold, and the heating apparatus
failed to work The banQuetters nearly
froze. the food was, not half cooked and
the service was wretched. Half of the
guests didn't get served at all.
The next year, the banquet was
taken back to the Copeland. and there
was repetition of the crush and