The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-22
All the Kansas Democratic
Leaders Are Here.
Annual Banquet Tonight Prom
ises to Be Big.
: REED PRIZE ORATOR.
Newly Elected Missouri Senator
Guest of Honor.
An Excellent Programme Of
Speeches Is Promised.

Over five hundred tickets have been
sold for the Democratic annual ban
quet tonight and the attendance and
interest promise to exceed anything
in recent years at an occasion of this
kind. The faithful see visions ahead
of Democratic victory in 1912 and
they are rallying to the call. They
have passed through seven lean years,
and the darkness, and are now looking
to the light. They have one of the
best orators in the west in the person
of Senator James Reed of Kansas
City, Mo, on the program for an Of
fering. They have a ten-course ban
quet ordered from A. c. Colson, ca
terer of renown. All the state notables
of the party will be there and many
young men will be pushed to the front
with speeches.
The guests will be seated at the ta-
bles at $50 sharp. The banquet will
be held on the third floor of the Ma
sonic hall on Jackson street, and, con-
trary to custom, the ladies are invited
to be present
Not since Bryan talked to them at
the Throop hotel, six years ago, have
the Democrats been so interested in
their annual winter meeting at To-
peka. Booms will be launched for
state Offices today and medicine made
for the 1912 campaign The legisla-
ture will furnish nearly sixty file cap
tains for the occasion and every con-
gressional district sent in large dele
cations.
After the invocation by Rev. w H.
Scrivner, the program of the evening
will be started by Mayor Billiard, who
will deliver the address of welcome.
Then will come the banquet. Directly
following the repast w. Howe of
Abilene, the retiring president, will de-
liver his address and Miss Ceora Ian
ham of Topeka will read selection
In the interval before the speeches
the business meeting of the banquet
club viii be held to elect officers for
the next year. Burt Jones of Law
renee is spoken of for president and
S. M. Strother of Topeka for secre-
tary. That is the lineup today, but the
members may choose some one else to-
night. Mr.. Strother has been acting
as secretary since the death of George
Barnaby.
The following is the list of speakers
and their subjects in the order in
which they will appear on the pro-
'"The Outlook and the Opportunity"
L. G. Folsom, Manhattan.
kansas ]. E. Ahrens, Belle
vile.
kansas Democracy F. Morri-
Tariff mission"-Thomas Hal
ley, Emporia.
Democratic Victories -Emmet
Kyle, Lawrence.
Address-Senator James A Reed of
Missouri
Miss Hazel Loveland of Topeka will
sing solo just before the address by
the senator from Missouri.
The menu for the washington BIRTH
day gathering is given out as follows:
Oyster Cocktail
Celery waters Sweet Pickles
~ New 1iI Sliced tomatoes n1eR 9n'eS'
salted Almonds salted Peanuts
Cranberry Sherbet
Roast Duck, Apple Filling
Roast Guinea Breast Democratic StyIe
Cold Banquet Ham Sliced Cold Tongne
Hot Rolls 'N -O--7 O'
Peaches in Syrup 1.u,, Apricots in Syrup
Vanilla Ice Cream. Assorted Cake.
Cheese and Crackers Almora Cigars
Lawrence Journal-World: Law
renee will be we'll represented at the
annual banquet of Kansas Democrats
to be held in Topeka tonight. Among
those who are expected to attend are
Burt Brown, T. ]. Sweeney, Henry
Albach, w. G. Hutson. Clarence
Sheets, w. G. Everett, August Piersor
and Clark Bouldin.
, A Lawrence man, Burt E. Brown. 2
prominent Democrat and chairman OF
the congressional committee in this
district, is a candidate for president
this year and his friends believe he
mas a good chance of being elected
So far no opposition has developed
but it is expected that another candf
date or two may make their appear.
ance when the time for election O.
officers arrives.
Col Bill Sapp came to Topeka with thc
advance guard of rock ribbed apostles
The colonel is not the least bit hilari-
Gus because of the adoption of the