The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22
THEY'RE ALL HERE
Kansas Democrats Own the
City Today.
Third Annual Banquet Takes
Place Tonight.
MR.. HARRIS Is SERENE.
Refuses to Comment on the
Present Legislature.
Says That the People Are Doing
That.
LOOK TO THE FUTURE
w. F. Sapp Says 1t Means Demo-
cratic Success.
Col. Harris Will Preside at the
Banquet Tonight.
LOOK TO THE FUTURE
w. F. Sapp Says 1t Means Demo-
cratic Success.
Col, Harris Will Preside at the
Banquet Tonight.

The Democracy of Kansas banquers
tonight.
At the Throop hotel the faces that
were familiar to the corridors and the
lobby of last fall at the time of the
election are again to be met with.
They came to attend the third an
nual banquet of the Democratic party
which is held each year on the 22nd
of February, Washington-s birthday.
few drifted in last evening from
the western part of the state and the
southern portion, trains this morning
brought in further recruits while an
additional contingent will arrive this
afternoon. The banquet has been linn
tied to 500 guests and it is evident
from the requests that are coming in
to the executive committee in charge
of the affair that every chair will be
taken when the POSTMASTER accepts
his place at the head of the banquet
ing board. Every Democratic mem
Der of the legislature will be present,
thirty-three in number.
The state a whole is we'll repre-
sented- Practically every congress
sionaI district has a representative or
several of them. They are all nightly
interested in the record that the Re-
publican party is making in legfslatio
The session of the legislature was a
lodestone which attracted many to
watch its actual operation for a day
or two.
No attempt was made today to keep
a register of those who came in. The
headquarters of the Democrats at the
Throop was open and members of a
reception committee delegated to at
tend TO the initial details OF welcome
were present.
Whatever breaches may exist are
forgotten on an occasion of this kind
and the attendance amply indicates
that harmony will serve to sauce the
feast when the names are mentioned
of Colonel Bill Sapp, w H RYAN
chairman of the state Democratic
committee, as among some of the
earliest to arrive at the Throop. Mack
Love w. A Harris and many others
OF equal prominence will be met with
in the list of the guests. Senator W.
A Harris will act as toastmaster,
though Judge d. NJ Dale of Wichita
president of the Democratic organiza-
ton, had been selected to serve at
first. Judge Dale has been called to
Racine, Wis, on an important lawsuit
and could not serve.
Republicans like to poke fun at
these Democratic banQuets by telling
of the drinkab bles that are consumed,
But the Democratic party is talking
prohibition with as much ardor as
their Republican brethren and this
Jest hardly carries any SAVIOR with it
The menu for this evening will not
feature any liquid refreshments of the
above character to which the Repub-
ncans claim to take exception. The
feature will be the excellence of the
roast beef in which particular care
was exercised in the selection. A spe-
cial order was made and from the
cattle markets at Kansas City to the
kitchen at the hotel the way was
marked.
Though the banquets are for men
and strictly stag, the interest that the
feminine friends have will be catered
TO by the erection of a balcony in the
dining room where they may gather
for the after dinner speeches.
Special decorations in the way of
flags and flowers will further enhance
the attractiveness of the occasion.
Father of Two Cent Fare.
Ex-Congressman Shallenberger, the
guest of honor. and who was selected
to respond to the toast of the evening
is the father of the two cent fare bill
in Nebraska which passed both houses
of the legislature there yesterday after
noon.
Yes, I suggested the two cent rail-
road fare in the Democratic state con-
vention and had it introduced into the
set of resolutions adopted by that con-
vention. Our party convention contra
ry to the usual custom met previous to
that Of the Republicans. I was ap-
pointed on the committee of resolutions