The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
FIFTY YEARS OLD.
Kansas Day Club Observes
States Semi Centennial.
Republicans Gather From ALI
Parts of State.
MORE HARMONY TALK.
Effort Being Made to Heal Fac.
tfOna1 Wounds.
Banquet This Evening at 6:3O
at Masonic Hall.
MORE HARMONY TALK.

Inc Hrtleth anniversary O. the birth
OF kansas came on Sunday, January
|S' OUT the Kansas Day club could not
meet on that date. The Editorial as
sociatlon had a banquet scheduled for
ndonoay' SO the club set today, the last
oay OF the month. for the celebration
oI the states natal day. While the
state celebrates it's fiftieth birthday.
the Kansas Day club is celebrating its
IWentleth annual meeting. The c1,,h
panQuet VIII be held tonight at 6:3O
stradt a. masonic hall. on Jackson
street between Seventh and Eiphth
twenty years ago a party of yo,,,.
~ ~hansds poit1c1ans and newspaper re-
porters gathered at the Hotel Throon
70 LAX over their Sights and wrongs
at the hands of their elders in a ,,oIifi9 !
cal way. Young man to sow old naen
10 reap had been the program ever
SINCE the state was born Young mon
10 march in the procession and sniII
oli from ON the torches down their backs,
a4u ora men TO draw the pay from the
omces. So at this meeting the LIDS
Idlkeo over plans to aiG them to gar
ner the grain. They talked late and
stayed TO supper. Out of the discus
SION was born the light of an idea
They would organize In IInion +bere
is strength. They decided to meat
once a year and have a banouet ara
speecnes and agree on candidates,
80 s.l ICONS and hang together,
not separately. The states birthdav
was agreed on as an appropriate time
LOT the p-rth of the young man into
the light of political preference
Inese young men who sat at the
Throop's board twenty years ago are
Wen on towards middle life now and
nave sounded all the depths and shoals
OL poutlcai success and failure b1t
ty .hey can look back on the work of
that evening and call it good.
Each
more influence and been larger than
ITS predecessor. Each banonet has
gwen the state new leader. new con-
gressman, new state officer or new
of political affairs. The old finers v-ere
taken into the fold and allowed to be
present at the meetings ard watch the
wneels fastened to the band wagon
But Tor the organization of the Kansas
Day club hundred of the men Who
are famous in Kansas TODAY wonId
now have just been able to pip the
smells OF their obscuritv and catch a
nrst glimpse at the light of public af-
fairs. The club gave them the chance
and their talents and energy did the
rest. o
The state is fifty years old and the
club but twenty and both have accom-
pished great things. Kansas is only
Wealths count time. but she is in the
van Of the states today in ideas and
progress and prosperity. States thai
formerly jeered at the younger sister
who came into the Union in the red
mist of border warfare now send their
| biggest, brightest men out here to see
and wonder at the spirit and greatness
or the young Jayhawker state. OF
some twenty of the Atlantic seaboar rd
states, all of them more than a hun
dred years old, only New York and
Massachusetts are so rich and strong
and progressive as Kansas, Kansas
where the sunf1owerS grow
And there is hardly a man under
middle age in Kansas today who is
prominent in public life who did NOT
at one time take a part in the pro-
gram of the Kansas Day club. 1t has
always been the wise unwritten law of
the club that no member should speak
the second time at club banquet and
many young men a chance to make
good and the state has been the bene-
ficiary thereby.
War of Factions.
Faction never fiourished at club
meetings until last year when the
business meeting was turned into a.
the party and the regulars gained con-
troll of the machinery of the club after
one of the widest scenes at Kansas
public meeting for many years. At
the banquet that night the visiting
speaker from a neighboring state was
all but hooted down. This year the
| program is regular In its tint and there
| is a possibility of fight between the
factions for control of the offices. in
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