The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-28
Party Leaders in Topeka for
Kansas Day Club Banquet.
To Be Biggest Political Show in
History of State.
CALL IT "OMINOUS SITUATION
Republicans Believe Great OPP
pOrtunity Faces Them.
Good Program and Ticket Sale
Means Success.


Party leaders. candidates and man
ayers are in Topeka today to prepare
the stage settings for the annual Re
publican medicine mixing in the hotel
lobbies-the real official celebration OF
the states birthday anniversary The
big political show will be staged Tues
day. But today there is an activity
which comes always day in advance
of the annual Kansas Day clut ban
quet-especially in campaign years.
Late this afternoon and early to-
night the workers from the outlying
counties will begin to line up front of
the hotel registers and look for sleep
ing rooms and inquire for Bill and
Henry and Mort and Dave and Charley
and Joe. That is the first act follow
ing the prelude of today when the Can
didates are finishing final plans for
the reception of the boys from home.
When the political writer's get the
JOB Tuesday morning, the Kansas day
banquet crowd will be furnishing their
own heat in the National hotel lobby.
The crowd will be so large and so act
i've, that few customers might be
Spared to relieve the Dannerizing in
tn barber shops and grocery stores.
who eat and sleep in the po-
litlcai atmosphere and know the cards
OF the game and the spots the
moon, are certain the attendance for
the Kansas day banquet this year will
break all records. They are not bas-
ing their predictions on the fact that
the Republican dinner this year offers
an all Kansas talent. Neither are they
discounting the attendance because
the eating falls on a HooveriZed day
when meat shall pass from the menu.
That .'Ominous Situation''-
1t is all because of the ''ominious
situation" OF course, this isn't the
first ominous situation Kansas ever
knew. But it is the last. And in Kan
sas politics the last ''ominous situa-
ton" is more important than the first.
Consequently the crowd is coming to
Topeka to get first hand information
as to whether it is good omen, an
evil omen or just a mere vapory, imag-
mary omen that exists only in the
brain cells of the politician.
Kansas Republicans, tho, are sure
there is something in the situation
this year which demands prompt, i'm
mediate and personal attention So,
in keeping with the record of former
years it will all come to pass at the
arpral dinner
There is the senatorship-the finish
fight between Capper and Stubbs and
knows just what the boys will do out
in Trego county. But he wants to
swap views with the fellows from
Morton and Cherokee and Wyandotte
ard Shawnee and Sedgwick and Pratt.
That is the basis of the organization
that has built up the famous dinner
club and held the lines of the Repub
lfcan party in Kansas during fat years
and lean years and years of pros
perity and tyears of adversely, hard
shin and trial.
Since the passage of the statewide
primary law, the Republican leaders
and workers of the state have been
robbed of their old established organ
ization tools. With the coming of the
primary. the politicians said goodbye
to the railroad pass. But the spirit
of get-together couldn't be removed
by legislative enact-lent. So each
year the crowd which has fought the
political battles of the state for
quarter of a century get together in
Topeka and swap stories and plan for
the next campaign. Each year there
are a few of the faithful who are alb
sent. And each year few men come
to town for their introduction to the
powers and official recognition in the
ranks of the workers at home.
In the hotel lobbies tonight will he
the boosters for the score or more of
candidates for state and federal Of
fices. Many of the candidates came
start in real earnest early this evening.
Good Ticket Sales.
Ticket sales today indicated advance
estimates would hold true and that
the club would really break all former
attendance records Ralph Squires.
secretary of the club, has put tickets
on sale at the National and Throop
hotels and at the cigar stand in the
state house. 1t is probable the at
tendance will reach 500 and an at
tendance of 700 is practically assured.
Both men and women will sit at
the banquet and two of the speaking
places on the program are held by
Kansas women.
DIR. Edmund ]. Kulp. pastor of the
First Methodist church of Topeka, will
be the big attraction o, tine speaking
program He will deliver a patriotic
address and Kansans who have heard
his speeches in the liberty loan. Red
Cross and Y. NJ. C. A. campaigns know
the star speaking place will be we'll
cared for.
The annual meeting of the club will
be held Tuesday afternoon at . O'Clock
prt badly in Security hall Officers of
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