The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-31
KANSAS MESSAGE TO
CALIFORNIA.

Los Angeles Union League cIuD, sat
urday evening, said:
II am sincerely glad to be here on
this birthday of Kansas. at this Kan
sas Day club dinner, and with so many
friends; Kansas Californians, use of
the hyphen which carries no thought
of disloyalty to state or country; but
love for your former state, coupled
with admiration for. and devotion to
your present ono. am glad to be here
tonight, too, because as one of the
founders of the first Kansas Day club
until tonight, have never missed a
meeting in the twenty-four that have
preceded the one now holding in To-
peka. By being present here 1 can
be present in Kansas in spirit, and I
have wired them to count me, al
though not voting, present with them,
with kindred spirits like you, far away.
1T am particularly proud, too, as
conservative Republican, to have fol-
low me great Progressive, your dis
tinguished govern or, Hiram Johnson;
for it is a rare occasion when he fol-
lows any Republican; rather does he
follow that great leader, who is also
my friend, Col. Theodore Roosevelt;
our most eminent American. our best
informed politician, our most beloved
citizen, and one who may yet again
be the most important factor within
and without the party in the affairs
of the Republicans.
But 1 am warned that I must not
talk politics here tonight. The original
Kansas Day Club. to quote from its
charter, was an organization of young
Republicans to enhance the welfare of
their party. and give social pleasure at
an annual gathering to be held on the
day on which the state was admitted
to the Union.
your club is formed on broader
lines; and here tonight, on the 55th
anniversary of the admission of Kan
sas to the sisterhood of states. and the
25th anniversary of the birth of the
Kansas Day club. I like you and am
glad to be with you, not as Repub-
licans or Progressives or Democrats,
but as former Kansans; thinking of
patriotism rather tnan party, for
patriotism should come before party,
although it may well and practically
come with it.
'It was said, long before Balboa dis
covered the Pacific that wise men
from the east came; and to this day
they are still coming. That is one of
the factors which makes California
great. Another one is that many of
the wise men stay in the west, wherein
you are doubly blessed. You will
probably declare that ALL the wise
men remain here. You recall that the
original men of wisdom We're caution
ed not to return to Herod's country,
and those who did re+,,r, s,,ffo,,ed j.,
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s4nhs INTO utter darkness
am slad also TO De mere because
l READ OF zero weather and snow and
DIlzzaros at your former homes- 10
De sure you are having some disagree
able days even here-too many OF
them' But am told that the weather
is unusual; out you all heard that ex-
PRECISION peIore you came mere, ana
brought that with you, remembering
what you told lar fasteners when
they met untoward temperatures and
hlsh Wlhos IN Kansas instead OF the
sunshine ana brightness they had read
ABOUT IN the promoters literature
am lheh tolu' IN apology that IL is the
rainy season mere; but would like to
say TO you'll you will permit me to
pick the season in Kansas, I can as
sure you the most delightful weather
out of doors, for our Mays and Junes,
Septembers and Octobers, and some
other months are beyond compare.
am reminded by the continued alb
sence of the sun in California during
my stay that you have preserved the
sunshine for us in the golden halo OF