The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Banquet.
Henry Allen, one of the great orators
of the country, never made greater
speech than he did before these Buli
Moose diners. Happy, forceful' Willy,
a1oc,Ient. he was the star of a great
occasion Then there was DR.. Anna
shaw. probably one of the most
fbourhtfuI and Intellectual women OF
today Her word to the newly enIran-
cbised women of this state was 1ull oI
strength and common sense anu oe Plfs Ms
ticaI help. And Judge Nortonl, OF MIS-
so11ri. with his eulogy of Lincoln j. Juuse
Madden. of Parsons, made .masterIul
address. thoughtful, logical ana lnsplr-
ing to his hearers
And two Kansas women, MIS-; III NIa,
bo1i of Manhattan and Mrs. A j. Way
of Holton, both made speeches I1a. @
were a credit to the new voters VI Ii1o
state. Mrs. Way in particular niaGe liso,e
y happy talk about the houseWIIe
I@iexV of politics. Sheffield IngallS OF
Atchison presided at the board ana ne
nroved worthy of this high honor;
Messages were read from Colonel
PooseYelt. Victor Murdock, Fred ).
Iocl<son. Richard J. Hopkins, Senator
I L. Bristow, William Allen Whlte.
The Progressives were proud ana
happy over the showing MADE at tne
birth of the party in Kansas and ap-
Daared to be full of fight and conn-
dence for the future. They will ac-
cent no compromise from the regulars
hut propose to stand or fall with the
new party to the end. Inc speeches
in part were as follows:
Judge Nortoni of St. Louis.
Judge Albert D. Nortoni, of st. Louis,
resnonded to the toast, abraham Lin
coln-the Peerless Progressive" The
St Louis jurist pictured the passing
of the Republican party into political
obscurity, just as the Tory1sts, the
FederaIists, the Wings and the parties
of other days have passed into history.
Moreover, Nortoni saw a triumphant
Progressive party in 1914-16. He said in
part:
the Whig party passed out of existence
because they proved to be unresponsive
to the advanced thought of their time.
A noted writer, in speaking of the dis
solution of the old F'ederalist party,
says in concluding his article on the
subject: In short, the country was
already thoroughly democratic in spirit
whlle FEDERALISM stood for obsolescent
social ideas and was infected with
political Toryism' fatally against the
times How apropos are these words
to the condition of the Republican
party at present, for it, too, is infected
with the same political Toryism fatally
against the times. This alone should
afford convincing evidence to the effect
that it will not continue further as an
instrument of government in this coun-
try.
Besides this, political history re-
veals that men are prone to disassoci-
ate themselves from any political party
which has fallen to an insignificant
position in the national arena. In 1916,
Rufus King, of New York as the can
didate for president of the old Federal
ist party, received out "a electoral votes
to 1873 for Monroe, and his party pass
ed Immediately out of existence. 1t
was obvious to one and all that it no
longer appealed to the advanced
thought of the times and therefore the
voters sought other political affilia-
tions because of its impotency.
''In 1852. General Winfield Scott as
the presidential candidate of the old
Whig party. received the electoral votes
of only four states, Kentucky. Virginia,
Massachusetts, and Vermont, and inn
mediately thereafter that great politi-
cal organization passes from view
When these facts are considered, what
must be the result entailed upon the
Republican party which carried the
electoral votes of but two states in
the late election constituting the sum
total of eight votes in all? 1t would
seem no difficult task to discern it's