The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-27
AT The BANQUET
Acquisition New Washburn
Law School Celebrated.
Legal Lights of Kansas Gath
cred to Eat and Orate.

The acquisition of the new Wash
burn Law school quarters on West
Sixth street was celebrated Monday
night by mem bers of the Topeka bar,
the student body and faculty, at a ban
quet held in the Throop hotel Flo
quence and humor were unconfined at
the board. The eloQuence was de-
voted to compIim entary remarks
about the Washburn law school and it's
work. The POSTMASTER was Chief
Justice William A. Johnston. Among
the prominent speakers were Major A.
NJ. Harvey, who in a style all his own
furnished fun and wisdom for the oc-
casion, Justice H. F. Mason, Robert
Stone, representing the trustees,
Homer Hoch of Marion, and James
Twyford of Oklahoma City. a member
of the pioneer class. w. Roy George,
William Smith and Andrew Hunt rep
resented the senior, junior and fresh
men classes respectively. James w
Clark was also a speaker. His talk
was of a humorous nature.
Chief Justice Johnston paid a high
tribute to Wash hburn college. He
stated that the institution is adding to
it's character each day and is an in
stitution that will endure for all time.
He pointed out the fact that none of
the law graduates have failed in the
state law examination. He spoke in
high terms of praise of the work of
President Frank K. Sanders and Dean
w. r. Arthur.
Major Harvey's Speech.
1t was almost II o'clock when the
POSTMASTER introduced Mr.. Harvey.
He said as to the other speakers. he
couldn't guess what they were going
to say but he knew what Harvey's
speech was going to be, that Harvey
had prepared a Populist speech back
in the sos, and that he had used it on
all occa sions ever since. This, and the
fact that Homer Hoch had accused
Harvey of belonging to a party that
was now dead, brought an explanation
from the speaker as soon as he arose,
in which he suggested that the Bull
Moose movement proved that, so far as
the Pop party was concerned, there
was life beyond the grave. Harvey
then explained that Justice Porter, John
Waters, and a number of others sitting
around him, had furnished him so many
suggestions for his talk that he would
hardly be able to reach his main speech.
Porter had said that if they could not
tell the speech by it's title, they would
be no worse off than the Irishman who
described his pig having an earmark
made by cutting off its tail. Harvey
said that Mason S complimentary re-
marks had frightened him concerning
some cases he has pending in the su-
preme court. He was sure that Mason
was getting ready to decide against
him, else he would not have been so
He told the young law
was the presumption of innocence. and
that sometimes they would find that
this would be the only defense they
would have. For illustration. he told
of G.. c. Clemens defending Sylviai
Cline Hungate had proved ever so
many liquor sales against Cline, and all
of the cross-examinaticn Clemens gave
his witnesses was to show that the
sales occurred before the North Topeka
flood. Clemons introduced no evidence,
but made a speech to the jury, de- |
scribing the flood in detail, and how
Cline had used a boat, reScuing persons |
who were in trouble. The jury found
Cline not guilty. and Clemens explain |
alton of his defense was that he only |
strengthened the defendants presump- |
ton of innocence.
Captain Waters had defended a |
woman charged with making false |
pension affidavits in the federal court. |
The facts were strongly against her. |
He put her upon the stand and she |
said that she was without fuel, had |
children were hungry, and it was the |
night before Christmas. She put the |
children to bed to keep them warm, |
when the baby nestled close to her, i
and said. Mamma, bread" and then |
she testified, Il thought of pensions
Captain said: Defendant rests and |
he jury found her not guilty. Harvey
claimed that Captain Waters had
finally come to the conclusion that the |
presumption of innocence was no long |
er of any account in a criminal de-
fense. He had stolen a volume of
Golfers Weekly from the supreme |
court, and found the proposition laid |
down there that every defendant is
presumed to be guilty, and that the |
more juror knew of the case, and /
the more prejudiced he was against |
the defendant, the better he was as /
a juror Harvey continued with a