The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-01
A FINE SUCCESS.
Kansas Day Club Banquet a
Brilliant Affair.
1000 Guests Hear Great
Speeches on G. O. p.
WAS THE STAR
Man Brought the
Crowd to Its Feet.
Watson, Of Indiana, One of Great
Orators Of Country.

- AAuAoAds OuO VI UFeaG
Orators of Country.
Inc regulars had complete control of
the Kansas Day banquet program Tues
oay night and of the eight or nine
hundred guests present at the spread
scarcely dozen were of the insurgent
Ialtn. Yet the speakers in their re-
marks did not distil the bitter drop.
Tne speeches praised the G. o. P. and
urged harmony and paid tribute to Pres
loent Taft and Senator Curtis, but made
no direct reference to the Kansas in
sursents- Governor Stubs was not
tnere, nor State Chairman Dolley nor
any or the insurgent congressman, nor
speaker Buckman, nor Lieutenant Gov
ernor Hopkins, and but few of the lead
ers- 1t might be said that the insur-
sem wing OF the party had withdrawn
from any participation in the Kansas
Day club affairs. Practically all the
men who attended the Wagstaff CON
ference nearly year ago were there
ana they seemed to be as full of con-
noence and fight as though thew had
never been beaten to a fraZzIe last Ame-
ust. a.
one OF them, when asked by the re-
porter If he did not fear party defeat
At the next November election as the
harmony, replied: well, and what of
tnat! There was no compromise be-
tween the north and south until one
OF tnese contending forces had been
wiped OUT
MaIley the Star.
Next TO James Watson of Indiana.
tne principal speaker of the evening,
A c. Malloy, of Hutchinson, was the
star OF the banquet. The guests rose
70 tne Keno county lawyer after he had
hnished his brilliant and eloquent an
peal. Malloy has fine delivery and
used mastery English in EXPRESSING his
thoughts ---s
NOT Tor many seasons has a Kansas
Day club audience listened to such =
speech from a Kansas product. MaIloy
praised Taft and Roosevelt equally and
preached the doctrine of harmony even
While he said caustic things about the
Kansas reformers.
That Man Watson.
The club drew a prize package when
It secured Congressman James Watson
ing. Not since the late Senator DolIi-
yer or Iowa visited these parts has so
great Republican speech been heard
in Topeka The Hoosier word painter
ran ms fingers through his long hair
and generated enough electricity to
bring the crowd to its feet time and
again with cheers. He turned the ban
.quet hall into forum and moved men
out of themselves by his appeal The
American eagle came and perched on
his shoulder.
In addition to being a great speaker,
4nr watson is man of fine appear
ance and magnetic presence, he made
many friends and admirers after the
program had been finished
Carnival of Soup and Rags.
Among the most brilliant of his epi-
grams was his reference to the period
from 1893 to 1895 when the Democratic
party was in full power in Washing
ton, which he said, was "a mighty
carnival of soup and rags Referring
control of railroads he said: "To
my mind the Republican party has
gone to the very limit in its control of
railroads. When the party passed the
law creating the interstate commerce
commission, thus taking the control of
fifteen billion dollars worth of prop
erty out of the hands of the men who
constructed 1t and placing 1t under the
control of six men, it approached the
dangerous edge. There is only one
more step, and that is government con-
troll Of railroads. And that means the
end Of a republican form of govern
ment."
Again, he said: 1.-THE Democrats
cannot conceive how great this coun-
tT.- has grown, and how rich and how
many and various are her parts and
resources. Why. talk about the Dem
hardly do it ourselves
Mr.. Watson said he had made more
speeches in support of President Taft
than any man living, and he paid high
tribute to the president, but he said he
did not agree with him in the matter
Of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
(Neither did many of the old time
regulars In the audience, and they said
so. too, at this time).
The speaker talked about '.the
philosophy of the tariff" Speaking IF
the present high prices, he said: "If
you want cheap foodstuffs and manu-
factured .roducts, go to China, they
are cheaper there than elsewhere on
the globe. These things were cheap
during the Cleveland administration.
too, but no one had any money with
which to buy Them
Mr.. Watson came out squarely for
Taft for second term and his audi
ence cheered. Again he took occasion
to pay tribute to the ability and worth
OF Senator Charles Curtis and his
praise was greeted with applause
MaIIoy's Fine Effort.
A c. Malloy of Hutchinson, speak
ing from the subject, "The Ffftieth
Anniversary of Kansas" said in part;
''If may be permitted the oft quot
ed phrase.ft's a far cry from cyclones
and sunbaked prairies to tempered
winds and plenteous rainfall; from
grasshoppers to four cuttings Of al
falfa; from mortgages TO motor We
hicles and bank stock: from buffalo
chips to oil and natural gas; from
trading posts and freighters to thriv-
| ing cities, trauscontinental and In
| terurban railways; from the wiids of
savagery to the ranking state in liter
acy: yet all this and more has been
wrought within these fifty years. I
remember to have read some time ago
| a story in which some settler was
| credited with having remarked, during
| some heartrending period of our
states history: There is no God west
! of Newton / am sure that can get
/ ---.n.ai..nnr.a consent tonight for the