The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-01

can party must get out. Understand me
gentlemen. There is too much of the
down and out with the other fellow
policy, introduced to satisfy the aver
age citizen. Conditions cannot please
all of US; they never have and they
never will. 1t is human nature to knife
the other fellow because he has knlIed
you. 1t is natural to assert power be-
cause someone else did the same thing
But gentlemen, what is the reward of
an unfaithful life? The question need
not be answered further than to suggest
to you the wrecks and ruins along the
shores of time Today we should all
be men worthy of the name and get
down to the same brass tacks that
brought Governor Lewelling and George
r. Peck together during the legislative
war"
The One Niinte Talks.
After the regular program the follow
ing charter members of the Kansas
Day club responded with short talks to
the call of the POSTMASTER, Thomas e.
Wagstaff, retiring president Of the
club:
Harry W. Frost, the first president of
the club; Cliff Baker. Sim Bear, F.. r
Caldwell, J. K. Cubbison, c. s. Finch
w. Y. Morgan. E. P Greer, Frank p
MacLennan. Silas Porter, Francis Price
]. G. Slonecker, Robert Stone and A. l..
Sponsler.
ing and the Santa Fe banquet to the
editors of the state played pot and
skittles with the legislative program
Tuesday. The house and senate adj
journed at noon until o'clock to take
in the festivities, the French food and
the eatables.
There was not an article of diet on
the Santa Fe bill of fare that any legiS-
lator could distinguish from a periwin-
kle. There was nothing to the ses-
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gathering of machine men come to rati-
fly the turning of the club over to the
machine forces.
The house passed the senate bill pro-
vidirg for the payment of a respecta-
BILE fee to the state by corporations
and the measure is now ready for the
governors signature. This bill was
drawn by Charlie Sessions, the new sec
rotary of state, and has caused a lot
of grief in the hearts of those persons
interested in corporation stock. 1t is
fashioned along the lines of the Ohio
law and revises and strengthens the
old Kansas law governing corporations.
Ohio receives a million and half a
year in corporation fees while Kansas
has always listed the corporations in
the big book and charged them 20 cents
per inch advertising rates.
That Kansas Day club meeting was
a fine affair. The session was over be-
fore most of the Republicans in town
arrived at the hall. OF those present
at the session II out of every 20 were
regulars. They had their slate made
out and it did not take ten minutes
to elect the president and secretary and
eight vice presidents.
Ralph Faxon, the new president of
the club is we'll known Kansas news
paper man. He edits the Garden City
Telegram and works 20 out of the "a
hours for the improvement of that val
ley known as the Valley of Content. He
was formerly Senator Longs private
secretary, and is a dyed-ln-the-Wool
regular. But Ralph, in his old age, is
paying less attention to politics and
more to his newspaper. He is a fine
newspaper man and his energy and tai
ents fit him for the place. His speech
of acceptance was the real thing and the
regulars cheered him till the windows
ratified. Ralph nominated Wagstaff for
president of the Kansas Day club
year ago and he pointed today with
pride to that fact.
Walter Payne, assistant state treas
urer, was renominated to the office OF
secretary Mr.. Payne has made a capa-
BILE and obliging official and the club
endorsed his record with emphasis.
The club resolutions made no mem
ton of the state administrations They
merely pointed with pride to the rec
ord of the party. They also took "a
left-handed lick at Norman Hapgood
by instructing the Kansas senators to
vote for the SulloWay bill that is OPP
posed by Golfers Weekly.
The old timers were there in force
and they had good time. The insur-
gents did not attend the meeting. Less
than ten men of the Stubs faith were
present in the hall when the nomina-
lions were made. The meeting today
only served to widen the breach in the
party ranks. No effort was made TO
promote harmony or to nominate Oh
ficers by committee. None OF the new
ly elected state officers were presen-'
and most of them are young men, re"
of the governors appolntees We're tliele
and not the slightest effort was ma..e
TO check the career of the regulars IN
their direction of club affairs. As 1t
stands today, the Kansas Day clup
renresents only one faction of the
nartv. The insurgents appear to have
withdrawn altogether from its mem
bership.
~ First district-H. T. Phinney, Jeffer-
second district = Frank Sponabls,
Johnson county.
Third district-Thomas Thompson
Elk county.
Morris county
Fifth district. b. Lower w deiiins
ton county.
sixth district-C.. L. Kagey, Mitcheh
Seventh district-W. H. Vernon
Pawnee county. .,o
Eighth district-Karl Geddes, Butler
county.
CIGARETTES LEAD TO PRISON.