The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-27
Tird ID i strict Association Held
Meeting in Gaiena.
Then Over to Joplin at Night
for the Banquet.
CHARLIE SCOTS SPEECH
1t Was Feature of the Night
Session at Conner Hotel.
Two Duck Hunters Added to
Program Without Ceremony.

The Third district Kansas editors
| had a great meeting down at Galena
| Saturday and they polished it off in a
! piano finish with a banquet over at
the Conner hotel at Joplin that night.
1t has been said by many people who
ought to know that the Third district
has the best press organization in the
state, and the writer, attending his
first meeting down there as a guest,
takes this occasion to publicly endorse
those sentiments as the truth, I'M
adorned and free from gliding
The Third district of Kansas is the
richest and most populous in the state.
There are a dozen or more dailieS in
the Third that rank with any country
of the Third-well, they rank with
any of Kansas, and this averment
leaves but little unsaid.
The choice of Galena was a happy
one. The southeast city of Kansas
gave the editors twenty automobiles
and a French dinner at the EIks club.
The day ways fine and part of it was
spent in a sightseeing trip over the
Galena-Joplin mining fields. This
Galena town may look bit bad at
first glance with its power houses and
chat piles and ore dumps up close to
the borders and in some places creep
town. Live, clever, hospitable bust
ness men, pretentious business houses
and handsome homes. And three or
four miles from town the sweetest
river that flows through Kansas soil.
Make no mistake about the Spring
river. 1t is the pride and joy of Ga
lena and it fills all specifications.
Hills and trees and blue-green water
fed from the springs in the hills 1t
ought to be the best part of Kansas in
the hot summer time.
The editors finished their business
meeting looked over their card index
he
ed the brass railing on the secretary's
desk, balanced their books, frightened
their organization, raised the rates, in
creased the membership and did a lot
of other things to merit that title of
best organization in the state.
And then they went over to Joplin in
a body and StOrmed the marble CORR
doris of the Conner hotel and sat down
to a fine banquet while the orchestra
played it's little tune written by the
old masters.
A Typical Kansas Gathering.
It was quite a Kansas gathering that
sat at that Missouri board that night
Charlie Scott, one of Kansas first citi-
zens, was there, and Justice Snas Por-
ter and Major A. NJ. Harvey of Topeka.
Tom Cordry, the pride of Parsons. and
known TO most Kansas men of this and
other times. sat in the center seat.
Clyde Knox, the chautauqua sunf1ower
lately transplanted to Independence,
acted as toastma ster- Kansas hasn't
any better editors than Knox. And the
lean man from Chanute, Herb Caven-
ness, came to sit at meat with his
brethren. Herb was fresh from his
honors of bestinS Bill White in the de-
bate over the merits of the fats and
leans on history's pages. w. G. Weav-
erling, the man who made the Coffey-
Vile Journal from a one-page weekly,
was one of the first to come and the
last to leave. He is one of the best
business men among the publishers of
the state.
1t is a long muster roll to name the
editors who ate old man Conner out |
of house and home Saturday night. |
Tom Powell, of Cherryvale must be
though. and Milton Bangs
Of Winfield and Seth Wells of Erie, and |
Merle Thorp of the K. U. school of
journalism.
Every one had good time, with |
fresh air and business and food and So
liability and politics mixed in equal
doses and given for the souls sake and |
the body.
Joplin Mayor a Kansas Man.
J. F. Osborne, the mayor of Joplin, |
the editors. He is court |
ly, polished man with a thin, high nose, |
gray mustache and deep set kindly eyes.
He cut his address of welcome short |
but he made it strong and mixed the |
fun with his oratorical periods. The |
Third district bunch gave Osborne a |
brindle fringe certificate as the best |
welcome address they had ever heard. |
And by the way Mayor Osborne is an |
He wandered all over west |
ern Kansas before he settled in Joplin.
Charlie SCOTS speech was a feature
Of the night, and the day, too. The |
lola editor and statesman came bear |
of al
peace for the factions Almost thou per-
suadest me to become a regular whis-
Oered a Bull Moose editor to the lola |
apostle when the latter sat down after
his address.
Scott Preached Politics.
Mr. Scott first paid tribute to the
Did time Kansas weekly editors who
had lighted lamps in dark places that |
ire burning still. Then he shifted to
politics and preached like another
apostle to the gentiles. Republican
harmony and success in 1914 as pre-
;ented by Mr.. Scott to the Third dis
riot editors were things concrete in
he flesh and sure to come, along
With the tax collector and the tides
md time.
1t is always a delight and a privi-
eye to hear a big fair man talk on
any subject. He does more good than
lie knows and his words live longer
han the flash-life of a voice. Mr..
scout looks TO see good come out of
he evil of party faction. He was sure
hat a party divided on leaders would |
Unite again. Now if it had been a
iivision on principles-that would be
mother matter.
From Writer to Speaker
Tom Cordry of Parsons, president of
he Third district Kansas Editors as
ociation, made the response to Mayor
)sborne's address of welcome. Happy,
wise, philosophical old Tom Cordry.
And in his old age he is poisoning
rom writer into a public speaker.
c. A. Cain of the Topeka State Jour
lal made little speech on THE