The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
SAT Mite FR0LIC
Thirty-Third Annual Banquet
Was a Howling Success.
Two Hundred Guests Enter
tanned by the Club.
JUSTICE WEST MADE A HIT
Presidents Speech Was Best
Given in Many Years.
Stunts New and Original and
C1everly Produced.

New records in gridiron perfor-
mances in Kansas were established
Saturday night when the Saturday
Night club held its thirty-third an
nua1 frolic and toasted and roasted
the humble efforts of prominent Kan
sans in a manner that kept 200 guests
in an uproar and gave the speakers
nerve shocks and stage fright The
show was one of the best ever staged
by the bath night crowd and the half
dozen speakers on the program for
got the serious affairs of life as they
lodged and ducked and sidestepped
the prongs of keen witted members.
Stunts staged before the banqueters
this year were brand new The mem
bers kept right up with the events
of the day in selecting lines that went
home to the men and women whose
actions were burlesqued by the run
promoters. During the dinner hour
fake kilograms were read. One threat
ened Congressman D. R. Anthony with
the loss of all patronage in his dis
trict If he didn't hasten to Washing
ton. Another told Fred Dumont
Smith of encroachments on Arkansas
river soil in his absence. There were
appointment of Henry ]. Waters of
the State Agricultural college, to a
place on the presidents cabinet
Justice Vests Clever Drive.
Justice J. S. West, president of the
club, hit a home run drive in the
early innings. In his address before
the club, Justice West gave a bio
two members of the organization. The
sketch was brought right up to the
very minute of the banquet. 1t told Of
the whims and foibles and hopes and
dreams of each member in a manner
that kept the crowd in an uproar.
The speech will doubtless rank as one
of the best before the club in years.
As he concluded his speech, West
became the official whip cracker OF
the evening. His introduction OF
speakers and his handling of the pro-
gram were in the same class with his
biographical sketch. The crowd
smiled, then clapped hands and yelled
while the speakers braced their feet
| shut their eyes and prepared for the
| worst.
Jitncys Into 1t.
Charles Sessions and o. p McC1in-
| took had preceded West on the clubs
| batting list McClintock, as an indig-
nant jitney owner. was hauled among
| the banqueters on hand truck, while
he made an imprisoned plea for the
repeal of the jitney ordinance and the
recall of the supreme court and the
president of the club. The jitney de-
cision was written by Justice West
but even the severe -'pa1ning" did not
stop the club president in his speech
AS greeting to Col E. c. Little Of
Kansas City, Sessions and assistants
staged a show labeled Forty Cen
turtles of Dogs" 1t was a burlesque
of LiItle's once famous speech con
| corning the dogs of Egypt which
barked forty centuries at the pyra-
nids- Then while the club member.
and guests laughed, Colonel Little wa:
asked on Foreign Diplomacy and
| What's the Matter With 1t. Little
talked thirty minutes and held the
record before the Saturday Nighters
who are unbound by convention ano
run the evenings program according
to their notion and impulse.
Henry J. Waters, president of the
State Agricultural college, Manhat
TAM also escaped safely. Presiden
Waters was several times in danger
as he told the crowd about agricul
| tural progress and the advancement
of the world. He was listed to re
spond to the toast, why Has Mis-
sourian To Be Shown?- He observed
a general rule of the club by not talk
ing about it.
John Witty as Ever.
John Macdonald of Topeka was on,
| VI LIZ Sol eIeeA elNSAOIS VI IiIo SNcIllile
and when he talked for three minute
| in Gaelic, the crowd gasped for air
Then Macdonald stated that he hat
relieved himself of such profanity a
remained in his system and wouls
make his speech-listed as respons
to the toast. Scotland Uber Allies"
Dawson's Dance.
MacDonald's speech bore the hi.
league trade mark. But in the sam.
class was the stunt which precede,
the remarks of the well known To
peka Scot. In the garb of his nativ
land and more nearly resembling
Harry Lauder than an associate jus
go