Meade County news., 1909-02-04
WAS KANSAS DAY.
LOYAL kANSANS IN VARIOUS
CITIES CELEBRATED THE
STATES ANNIVERSARY.
SENATOR [ LONG IN new YORK
Addresses Kansas Society at Fourth
Annual Banquet-Kansas Day
Club Dimes at Topeka
AS Usual.

New York, Jan. Ex-senator Ches
ter l. Long, the retiring United States
senator, in a speech at the fourth an
nual banquet of the Kansas society
of New York at the Waldorf Friday
night referred critically to his retire
ment and to the quick changing OF
political opinion in Kansas, but stated
that eventually Kansas always rights
herself.
"This is the forty-eighth anniversary
of the day when Kansas was admitted
to the Union," he said. kansas hat
a reputation for quickly changing her
political opinion. l am a good witness
on that point. Kansas now seems to
! be in favor of government ownership
of some of the instruments of pro-
duction and strict regulation for all
other Instruments
The senator then referred briefly to
some of the crusades and reforms in
which Kansas has taken a conspicuous
part and spoke of the crusade against
corporations as being waged with bit
terness and hate.
81 am not opposed to reasonable
regulation he said. IF Kansas
hasn't led this policy of extreme regu
lation of corporations it is only be-
cause Oklahoma has been recently ad
mitted to the Union.
"The issue last fall was one of rea
tsonable legislation as against extreme
regulation and the people elected VIII
! liam Howard Taft, the exponent OF
! reasonable regulation
Applause greeted the speakers men
ton of the president-elect and then
! Senator Long continued his speech in
a more personal vein.
! Other speakers were Representative
/ P. H Campbell of Kansas, Charles F
Moore and Thomas E. Dinsmore
! kilograms of greetings were sent tc
and received in the Kansas societies
+ of Chicago, Denver and other cities.
The Topeka Dinner.
Topeka, Jan. 30.-The sixteenth an
.nual dinner of the Kansas Day club
was held at the Masonic hall here
Friday night. An exceptionally large
crowd of Republicans attended the
annual party feast The club officers
nave returned to the old original plar
of selecting speakers.
Ali those on the program Friday
night were Kansans. Some years age
the officers went outside the state tx
get a chief speaker and that became
custom. But when the present of
ficers failed to get Gov. Hadley they
decided to return to the system in use
during the early days of the club
The speakers Friday night were o. w
Brown, LeneXa; Q. C. Hull, EIdorado
3. II. Grigsby, Chanute; ]. U. Brown
Hutchinson; w. d. Vance, Belleville
Dr. J. D. Dykes, Lebanon. S. B. Has
kins of Olathe delivered the presi
dents address.
The election of new officers for tht
club was held at three o'clock Frida!
afternoon in the supreme court cham
berS. There was only one candidate
for each two principal offices. These
were: For president, George Allen
representative from Wyandotte coun
ty; for secretary, w. P. Montgomery
Topeka, private secretary TO Speake
J. n. Dolley OF the house Of represen
tatives.
Harsans in chicago Dine.
Chicago, Jan. 30.-Al,hough th'
wind was blowing a gale on the out
side OF the Auditorium Friday nigh
and snow was Icing heapcd up ii
little drifts in Michigan avenue, in on,
of the banquet rooms OF the hote
thele were big and little sunfiower
in full bloom" hundreds Of kansan
were there to celebrate the forty
eighth anniversary OF that states en-
trance into the Union.