The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-13
Sn0wstOrm Could Not Cool
Their ArdOr.
ALLEN, BEvERID6E, MURDOCH
They Were Attractions ut tho
Second Annual Banquet.
Liveliest Funeral Dying Party
Ever Knew.


sas Progressives-a record banquet
crowd-forgot the binding snowstorm
Thursday night that they might attend
the second annual love feast Of Kansas
Bull Moosers at the Auditorium. Rated
as Democratic society. dying dec
laration and q forlorn hope. Kansas
Progressives set a new record for ban
quet crowds in this state and provided
Beveridge, Murdock. Allen and Mrs.
Murphy with a crowd larger than the
one which heard the speech Of William
J. Bryan at the Democratic dinner six
weeks ago.
Bull Moose leaders were stin rejoic-
ing over the announcement Of Henry
J. Aliens gubernatorial candidacy when
they went to the Auditorium. A now
hope had been born in their hearts and
they were preparing for a real battle
in Kansas. And the fiaying which the
old parties received at the hands Of the
banquet speakers aroused the Arma-
geddonites to a desire for the taste OF
blood of the enemies of the last cam
paign.
There were noisy cheers for tho
spec kers when they entered the hall at
$50.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge Of In
diana was the first speaker. 1t was
train explained Henry j. Allen. toast
master. For an hour and a half, Bev-
eridge preached the gospel Of the new
party in the state and nation. He de-
clared that the work OF the Republic
can national committee was subter-
fuge and joke and pointed to the pres
ent basis Of representation for SOUTH
ern states in national conventions. The
Democrats were insincere and reaction
ary. the Hoosier said. and urged that
the Progressive party alone stood for
true progressive measures and tho in
terests of the individual voter.
| Time after time Senator Beveridge
brought forth cheers for the Third
ers were happy. They cheered fran
| ticalIv at the one mention Of Roosevelt
as presidential candidate In 1916. They
| yelled, arose to their feet and waved
handkerchiefs when Murdock and Allen
were mentioned and paid noisy tribute
to the mention Of the names Of Stubbs
| and White and other leaders Of the new
party in Kansas.
I Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy spoke for
| 20 minutes and Congressman Victor
! Murdock made a record after dinner
| talk by stopping at the end of Is min
utes Mrs. Murphy. Progressive con-
| gressional candidate in the Sixth dis
| trict, told of the advent OF women in
| politics and their demands for progress
| sive legislation and their hopes of re-
| lief at the hands IT the new party.
Victor Murdock devoted much of his
Is minutes to a discussion Of the Re
publican harmony movement under
the treatment of DR.. Jimmie Trout
man. Murdock characterized the
| Kansas Day club banquet as a meeting
| of the pussy footed politician with
| their pockets filled with salve and oint-
ment and declared that the operation
on the cause Of harmony in Kansas
| had been SO successful that the patient
- A. n
publican harmony crowd occasioned
! frequent applause and Murdock him.
self laughed as he talked about his
OLD friends in the old party.
| Following the regular speeches on the
program. five minute speeches were
made by j. L. Brady. Lawrence; Sen
ator Loring Trott, Junction City; N.
d. Welty, Wamego and o. w. Dawson,
| Great Bend. The men are congress
sional candidates in the Second. Fourth.
Fifth and Seventh districts.
Henry J. Allen. Kansas prize after
dinner speaker, presided as toastmas-
ter and his ready wit In the introduce
tion of the speakers, was one of the
notable features of the 1914 Bull Moose
banquet.
The dinner. served by the ladies of the
First Presbyterian church. was the first
real meal furnished at a political ban
quet in Topeka in several years. The
service was far above the average
and enabled the speakers to begin their
discussion of political Issues within an
hour after the hall was opened to the
public. The program was all over be-
fore 10 o'clock. Any man can make a
speech. but it takes a smart man to
make a short speech. Any set of men
can get up an after dinner program.
but it tales smart bunch to get up a
short program.
Murdock Makes . Corlking Speech.
Victor Murdock's speech was a
happy effort. He spoke first of the
recent Republican Harmony BAN
quet, fostered and presided over by
DR.. Troutman. It was. he said. an
operation that the doctors call a most
successful operation-an operation
from which the patient died.
Continuing in a more serious and in
; lofty vein he said:
!, Into the confusion of a day of
party disorder, of clashing and COM
, promising factions. of pretense and
false professions and broken prom
ises, the Progressive party throws the
concrete political creed" he declared.
"a new patriotic doctrine. enunciated
at Osawatomie in August, 1910, given
not only to Kansas. but to the nation
and the world, given not only to our
hour but to the generations, the doc
, trine of the new nationalism-the ma
! ton above the state, social Justice for
social ills. national remedies for ma
ltional evils, the public veal above
private interest. the truth above legal
technicality, principle above party,
human flesh and blood above the
pocketbook. the man above the dollar
a doctrine born of the inspirations
and aspirations Of a new national con-
science and christened at the polls in
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