Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-05-31
SPLENDID TURNOUT
AT ONEIIL HALL
NI1nv Women Grace Table
With Presence at Event
in Honor of Visit Of the
Famous Kansas News
paper Man


with H'Neii hall filled with ABOUT
rHr arl half MON ana women 81 th'
tra-reSSiNe party or II PI"=i '99'
-t1uI ftGiza~. NiIham Alien Nhl'e. one
If The organizers and most prominent
jaelS,r- of the young progressive party
delivered short informal ana puhtH-
frl -6rcss IN the aims RI ms P"LlI-ca.
friends. and those who were gathered
around the banquet table with h.m al
tho progressive ieii'"StlP "'I'l''i
night some Of the 5000 thlhSS ne
expressed are quoted above, all ms
speech is printed below All that re
mains to tou is the way the tho"shlS
wore delivered and the way they were
received.
Hearty Good fellowship. respect Tor
tn, lav. appreciation of Mr. Whte
.re~enee-aU these We're expressed III
tile large crowd that filled the nan JuS1
to It's limit. Tt bgan to be good When
the entire assemhlage rose ana sang
America to music by the excellent or
chestra. and the later events ot the eN-
,nin@ proved that the hanqueteFIS We're
g splendid set. as Well as numerous.
Cheering was almost constant through
out the addresses. At each new thought
as it fen from the lips # the speakers
tine hanquctere applauded heartily As
Mr. White said we progresSlNeS are
tho out-eatinGcst. most banquetingest
public mootingest sort Of people YOU
ever saw" He was glad to he there
in more than the ordinary sense =
the after dinner speaker fie cameo y
l.ine lively corpses' changing the
hearse to band wagon. celebrating
MI that the sur
hut effective clear into the roots OF
government
out Of town guests We're numerous
honored by the committee with hlgh
places. Ladies formed an especially
welcome part Of the audience GOV
ernor Hun sat at the speakers tlhle
and although he dIdn say 50, ne was
glad to be there Mt Heard dS toast
master expressed the grautude OF lne
progressiVeS that the governor had
ronored the occasion with his presence
and had come = near the doctrine 81
the new party from its able exponent
The address Of Mr. White began with
great stressing Of the part woman
takes i'm the councils Of the progress
~ive party HOW she has IN some parts
succeeded to the ballot and now she
has always welded the vote with non
or to herself and credit to the COM
munty formed the strong part OF ms
first remarks He also spoke about
the Salt River valley rms spot
would have been considered Utopia
hundred years ago" And later he
called the valley the place Of homes
for average men.
Mr. White was s humorous as he
was logical, but he always brought in
his fun at the right moment and never
by the heels. Speaking Of things in
general he said that If our great
leader" had been elected and had with
held his patronage as long as has Will
son. a tremendous howl would have
risen all over the country, and the peo-
uIe would some of them have declared
ho .lyas dead drunk, when he did it."
Wasting serious, the speaker referred to
the merger proposed between the re-
rubIicans and the prOgrssives. But he
didn't leave serious thought Of merg-
ing III the minds Of his hearers. The
rrogressives are willing to back Presi-
dent Wilson, Governor Hunt-anybOdy
at All in a progressive measure but to
combine. never,
one Of the features Of the evening
,yas The reading Of cordial messag ges
from outside friends in the state.
Theodore Roosevelt. himself taking
tf,,e n wire his hest wishes
Six other sneakers we're introduced.
r ,,, gr ,t,o,,, ,.-e,, e, woman All a,,