The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
CANNED SPEECHES
Saturday NighterS Have Novel;
ty at Annual Dinner.
Have Photographic Records
by Famous Men.
GOOD SPEECHES ARE MADE
Woman Suffragists Label the
Speakers.
Santa Fe Apprentice Band En-
IivenS Occasion.
GOOD SPEECHES ARE MADE

The Saturday Night club undertakes
10 keep up with all the frills of these
modern times. At its twenty-ninth an
nuaI banquet at the E1ks cafe the
members and guests listened to canned
speeches by the countrys greatest
statesmen and a suffragette agitatcI
hung .'votesforwomen'' signs On the
speakers of the evening. The Program
covered every field of thought from
protoplas to wind. The menu ranged
from chicken to Roquefort cheese. A
brass band furnished music. There was
not a dull moment in the Elk
hall from s o'clock to midnight. The
menu cards were unique, being sur
mounted by a sorry representation of a
hound with the warning-'Bee careful
whose houn' you kick-he may have
teeth"
AS has been the custom for many
years the retiring president bore the
burden when he undertook to dehFer
his farewell address. The rest of the
speakers got off more lightly than us
uaI. and Justice ]. S. West actually
was allowed to read an address, ana
it was a serious address, too. Ex-Sen
ator Chester I. Long. a charter mem
Der. remarked at the close that tn
club had deterdrated since his day as
no one a ever before been permitted
to read a speech.
The feature of the disturbance waS
the appearance of a swell looking
blonde named Lady Cornwellis Bait OF
london, England. who delivered a SUI
frage speech and distributed suffrage
literature and placards. Frank Jarrel.
5mpersonated the blonde and his acting
showed that he had not been a star
member of the old Atchison Dramatic
club for nothing
Some Canned Speeches.
D-oSi1an+ Taft cOl1ld NOT ha D~reSant,
but he sent a canned speech and it
was delivered through an immense pho
nograph with horn attachment. The
voice sounded like that of Tom McNedi,
but the words were the words of the
president. The speech was one of the
Kansas humorist's best efforts. 1t was
an elaborate piece of sarcasm. McNeai
is a progressive and he took occasion
to coin a new word for the president,
changing the expression, "neurotics' tc
''oldrotics.''
Then came Roosevelt's canned
speech. Some people had a suspicion
that the voice behind the big horn was
that of Harry Bone. a Taft man. If
so, Bone took advantage of the nance
to emphasize the big IT. in the coll
oners we'll known style.
There was also a canned speech by
Governor Stub and they do say tina
it was Ed McKeever who undertook to
tell all that the governor had accom-
uIished in so brief a time.
Senate Curtis also sent a speech by
mail and it might have been Robert
Stone who used the ChoctaW dialect
that came out of the machine. Who
ever it was he mangled the Indian
tongue and Stubbs record at the same
time.
While Arthur Capper was present in
his capacity as a member of the club
his speech was served in the AIMED
fashion and o. p. NJ. McClintock was
accused of conjuring up the past on
the newspaper man who is running
for governor.
In his address Frank P. MacLen-
nan. the retiring president, sought to
tell about the serious subjects the
club discussed all through the year.
but the members took occasion by
their words and acts to disprove such
assertions. When the president told
about the great world problems of
peace and physics and philosophy
that the club had settled recently to
the satisfaction of every one, the
members urged him to quote from his
"reminiscences and suggested that he
embalm the proceedings of the even
ing in the tomb they designated as the
editorial page of his The
president struggled through a running
fire of iests and sarcasm and with
stood the attacks of a half dozen