The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
Doesn't Want to Enter Compe-
tition With Creased Pig.
FINDS A SUBSTITUTE
Frank p. Lindsay Will Fill the
Date.
Dolley's Wichita Speech Creltes
Favorable Comment.

little town in Bourbon county. The
!. governor drafted Judge Frank P. Lind
say of Topeka in his place and deliver
sd his opinion of Fourth of July speech
les in general as. follows in a letter to
the Bronson committee on arrange
ments:
IT have had some difficulty in secur-
ling you a speaker for your Fourth of
July celebration. 1 was anxious to
send you one of the very best and it
lis only with reluctance that first
Iclass speaker will consent to make
Fourth of July speech nowadays. The
reason for this is that the committee
en- arrangements usually get their af-
fairs balled up so that the creased pig
trace, the sack race, the tub race, and
all the other whimSicalitieS are pulled
off at a time which conflicts with the
hour set for the speaking and it is
very unsatisfactory. However, Judge
F. P. Lindsay, of Topeka. an eminent
lawyer and man whose oratorical tall
tents have been in constant demand by
the national Republican committee for
many years, has consented to oblige me
by going to your city and making the
address on Independence day.
A southern Kansas man spent rs
cents yesterday for telephone toll in
order to tell state house official that
la Chanute banker, a friend of this
lsouthern Kansas man. had declared in
his presence that Joe Dolley made "a
roaring fine speech" at the bankers
Estate convention at Wichita last week.
The words that comes to Topeka from
those who were in attendance at the
Wichita meeting is a pretty generally
Iagreed statement of facts that Bank
Commissioner Dolley led forlorn hope
for the administration into a breach
manned by a large majority of the
bankers of the state and that he car
ried the rampartS in brilliant style. 1t
seems that the bankers were laying
for the bank commissioner on the
lguaranty question and had all arrange
ments made to run him into his hole
when he got up to deliver his New
Banking Laws" speech. The scheme
looked good and might have worked
with most people. Dolley is not a fin
ished orator, but he is worth dozen
Ispellbinders in a scrap. He was full
of his subject at Wichita; he repre-
scented the administration and the last
legislature which had passed the guar
Ianty law. He accepted the gage of
battle and carried the war into the
enemys country. His speech lasted
from o'clock in the afternoon until
supper time and at the close he in
his turn issued a free for all challenge
to 1000 bankers to open on him with
all their artillery. The firing was weak,
however, and after it was all over
Dolley had won his most important bat
tie in Kansas against odds. 1t is said
that the DoIley speech brought a hun
bred wavering banks into the guaranty
line.
John Dawson, secretary to the gov
ernor, reads many books besides law
books and writes other things than
state documents. John often dips into
history and literature for material with
which to fresco his campaign speeches.
but few people know that the genial
and versatile secretary is a poet of no
mean ability. John had an argument
the other day with ]. L. Eldridge,
bailiff for the supreme court, over the
| book of poems written by Judge Ed
ridge which John, while admiring as
a whole, criticised as being too long in
spots. Judge Dennis Madden and
Judge Nicholson were witnesses to the
argument over the proper length of a
regulation muse, and they decided that
Judge Eldridge's poetry was just right
and that John should write some
| proper poetry himself before he pre-
| sumed to criticise the worthy verses of
: the old Judge. John stood pat and sent
; the following clever verse to Judge
Eldridge: -
tell you true, Judge Eldridge,
, Your poetry's all right;
1 read it by the fireside
i, On many wintry night.
Your easy going stanZas
8 Are balanced like a song,
But still I do insist. judge,
They are
little
long.
like the vein you bare, judge,
OF virtue, valor, truth;
They show your heart is still, judge.
AS warm as in your youth.
And all that's good and noble
By your muse is swept along;
The metre is complete, judge,
The verse
= is rather
i long
: But bless your old gray head, judge
g 1 love you just the same;
:, But when you write too long, judge,
e It's apt to be too tame
Q I'm blunt. but do not criticise,
n Your muse is sweet and strong;
4 I'm Jour most obedient servant,
: But-your
poems are
: too long.
;. Uncle Bent Murdoch. Kansas fish
and game warden, on the catfish:
You may find that we have over
! thirty species of catfish in this
: country. channel cat prefers the
:, flowing water of the clear. purer
streams and is usually spotted. A
channel cat is a trim, active fish,
cleanly in its habits, takes live bait,
u and better in flavor than is that of
any other catfish. Should 1 become
fish and game warden and should
: there be any money to pay the bill
there is not a dollar appropriated for
the fish and game Department. will
build channel catfish hatchery.
n They are easy to hatch, grow rapidly
IS and are favorite fish with the peo-
If pie. But there is no money. The
= sporting public pays license to hunt,
e but the last legislature failed to ap-
IS propriate this license money so there
is none for salaries, or for any
l. thing else in connection with this
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