The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-23
KANSAS COAAENT
AN ECCLESIASTICAL REPUTATION

AN ENTHUSIASTICALLY REPUTATION
1880 Harrison Street.
Kansas City, Mo.
May 20, 1908.
me topeka State Journal. Topeka.
Gentlemen: In your columns of the
May LIZ edition, Kansas Comment"
section, you published an article from
Emporia Gazette. stating my refusal to
go 70 MADISON, Kan. unless $500 was
want you to publish over my
signature that the man who wrote the
Emporia Gazette article is liar and q
rascal RASCAL.
I have never asked guarantee of
one cent for conducting revival meet
ing in Kansas or any state.
You will please give the truth the
same publicity you accorded mali
cious lie. Yours truly.
FRENCH E. OLIVER.
Please send me copy Of paper in
which refutation appears.
THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
The hit of the governorship conven-,
ton at Washington was made by
Governor Glenn of North Carolina,
and, strange as it may seem, 1t was
by an allusion to the late southern
confederacy. Governor Glenn had
heard the speech of Speaker Cannon
at the banquet to the governors the
night before, when the speaker adj
vised the southern states interested in
the Appalachian forest reserve to see
what they could accomplish by con-
federation, without appealing to the
national government In reply to this
suggestion, Governor Glenn remarked,
1--WE tried confederation once and it
did not pay" At that, delegates from
all parts of the country threw their
hats in the air, cheered and laughed
in token of their appreciation of the
allusion made by the speaker.
What demonstration that was :?
How 1t speaks of the recuperative
powers of Americans as a people, of
their good nature, of the solidity of
| the union again, after that giant
struggle to wrest it in vain. 1t was
a southern governor who was speak
ing. Less than a half century has
elapsed since the state he spoke for
was drenched with the blood of it's
sons and waste made barren by the
ravages of war. Yet SO far removed
was that day that this southern COVER
nor could speak with seeming levity
as a most effective method Of driving
home the point he desired to impress
that his state and Its neighbors
were no less a part of the union than
| If they had never made the desperate
effort to get out. The response his
speech provoked showed an apprecia-
ton both Of the grim humor and the
patriotism of the remark and the
satisfaction and gratitude Of all that
these states are still a part of the
union.
Where but in America could
| wounds heal SO quickly could a peo-
pie recuperate so speedily and COM
pletely, could an era Of good feeling
between sections so soon follow such
a sanguinary conflict? Is it not a
splendid omen of the future p
Hutchinson News.
ABOUT THE HORN.
When a town toots it's own horn
loud enough to attract outside atten-
ton there is always a lot of comment
| upon the amount of wind required to
produce the volume of sound. Some
uncomplimentary remarks are being
made about Salina, for just now Sa-
| lima is making considerable noise, it
is admitted. But there is a bit of old
philosophy. however homely, is truth
full and to the point, which is ''Wher-
ever there is so much smoke there
must be some fire." And Salina has
the goods to back it up and is justi-
fed in doing a considerable amount of
footing. 1t is attracting attention and
comment. too. and that is good adver-
Using. If this necessary duty were
neglected by the citizens of Salina 1t
is a certainty that it would not be vol
unfairly performed by someone else.
So let 'em toot and keep at 1t. In time
1t means the realization of a greater
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