The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-29

and given nothing repented too late
and offered portion of the states
inheritance to the younger son, but
the spirit of the club banquets had
hastened the dawn and day came
close on her heels and only a full
share could satisfy the boys who
spoke 10 the state on Kansas day
through this trumpet.
The young men came into their
own and the state has never re-
gretted it The French inn keepers
son would never have been Marshal
Ney. Marshal of France Duke of
bravest of the brave but for the
eighteenth Brumaira and hundred
of the greatest orators. brightest law
yers bravest reformers. most learned
judges and noted statesmen of Kan
sas would probably never have been
heard of outside their own countries
but for that electric storage battery
which is always part of the menu at
the Kansas Day club banquets-
Graduated to Congress.
Every member of the Kansas dele
CATION at Washington won his spurs
as an orator at the Kansas Day ban
quets- There is hardly a man in pub
lie life in the state today, under
middle age who has not taken an ac-
tive part in one of these seventeen
past celebrations of Kansas birthday.
The List OF Presidents.
Harry Frost, now a Detroit
capitalist, was the first presid ent of
Ewing Herbert. Philip P Campbell,
Charles NJ Harger. J. z. Junkin. W.
Y Morgan. Arthur Capper. Charles
l. Scott. H F. Mason, Charles s.
Finch. William Allen White. Victor
Dawson. s. H. Brandon.
The names of the speakers and
guests now known. TO Kansas farl~
would fill city directory 1t has
been and is still an unwritten law of
the club that no person should speak
twice at a banquet, and it was this
wise provision that gave the state so
many talented young men TO take a
leading part in its affairs.
For Republicans Only.
The only requisite for membership
in the club was that the applicant
should be d Republican and buy a
plate at the banquet WhoSoever
will. let him come, and many there
were who came to that foun-
tain of fame.
The clubs popularity and useful
ness has not waned. The last four
or five banquets have been only too
wei attended-there was not room or
aceommo modation for the guests.
With the passing of the railroad pass
it has been feared that the interest
would abate and the attendance fall
Oh. out the party convention and state
ana county committees went out with
the pass, so that the Kansas Day club
Is now the only party organization to
speak of in the state. It might be
SAID that the day of its greatest use
fulness has just arrived.
The Banquet Tonight
The banquet tonight to be given at
the Masonic temple on jackson street
at $50 sharp. VIII be as well attended
as any The programme is as good
The interest is still there. And more
important still, this affords the only
chance in the year for the gathering
of the party leaders together in council
before the love feast.
Some of the boys who speak tonight
Will take the places of older members
or the club, now in Washington or on
the supreme court bench, OF in the
state house, or in some place of trust
and honor
This banquet tonight is one of the
fixed Kansas institutions and there is
none greater than this one.
5. B. HasIxins, President
s. 3. Haskins, president of the club |
and toastmaster. will speak from the |
subject. Political Independence
Mr.. Haskins is from OIathe and was
born in Johnson county. He is a grad !
uate Of Baker university and IS serving /
his third term in the Kansas house of !
representatives He is a farmer and a ,
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