The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-12
YATES EXTOLS
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pride of every man, aspiring to, or en-
gagged in the public service, to retain
for the word One of his biographers
says that nature had burnt him in her
holy fire, and stamped him with the
seal of her greatness AS for me, 1
think it was impossible for him to
stoop to any dishonorable act.
He was a type of the politician of
the Revolution, a type which is today
becoming more and more prevalent
a public man, endowed not only with
ambition, but with reason, conscience,
sense of right and love of truth. All
his, ambition, towering as it was, con-
Staht as it was and intense as it was,
was absolutely controlled by the man,
and never dominated him or became
emulate him in this regard, discredit
would not accrue to the seeker after
the honors and awards of the Ameri-
can public service.
For ages to come. his life and
achievements as a politician will re-
fleet luster upon that profession and
career-which formerly was, and
should forever be, the dearest and the
grandest, in the estimation of Ameri-
can youth. Only recently, while at the
White House in Washington, I en-
deayored to conceive and to picture to
myself, what must be the feeling and
sentiment of man who is, actually,
the successor, in official position, of
"A bra ham Lincoln. But thanks be to
Pr9yidence. every American boy, with
out holding any office. can, in every
decade ofSLincoln's life, and in the
official record of every office he held,
find incentiveAand inducement to lofty
aspiration and most noble aim
During the luncheon hour this noon
in the period before Governor Yates
was introduced three musicians enter
tanned the diners.t The Modoc octette
which turned out to be double oc-
tette, sang three or four numbers,
much to the delight of the eaters.
Mass Meeting Tonight.
At the auditorium tonight Yates will
be introduced by Justice Silas Porter
an old college friend of the honor
guest of the day. The Ninth battalion
of the Kansas state guard, together
with Company A of the First bat
talon, will act as guard of honor to-
night. Music for the evening will be
band. Special seats have been re-
served for all old soldiers and the
members of the Woman's Relief Corps
on the stage of the auditorium. AS a
special feature of the evening celebra-
ton it was announced today that for
the first time in many months the
pipe organ will be in use and the at
mosphere of the auditorium is to vi
brate to the hum of the great reeds.
Looking back over the record of the
Yates family today. w. A. Billy made
the discovery that father and son
both bearing the same name, have
served the state of Illinois for total
of sixty-eight years. The father was
the war governor of the state and
made sensational record by offering
in an official announcement to pardon
any person who killed decorators OF
the flag of the union.
Yates Was n Reporter.
1rry,0
speak in Topeka today, has himself
been governor of Illinois for two
terms, served as judge of one of the
larger courts of the state for a num-
Der of years. was congressman at large
eighteen years ago, and will enter the
next session of congress in the same
capacity Yates started in life as a
reporter on the Jacksonville, Illinois
daily back in the days when reporters
wrote their stories in pencil and the
ment of transcribing thought.
A tea in honor of Yates has been
arranged for this Afternoon by Mrs. H
p. Dillon, an old college friends of the
now prominent statesman. An enter
tainment for Yates has been arranged
at the home of Mrs. +. c. Thompson
us Fillmore street. Mrs. Thompson
is a close personal friend of Mrs. Yates
Met by Committee.
Yates arrived in Topeka about II
O'Clock this morning. He was met
at the train by the entertainment COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
augmented for the occasion by Carroll
B. Merriam, president; Charles L
Mitchell, vice president; S. E. Cobb
vice president; A. L. Oliger, secretary
and Charles Sessions, manag ing editor
of the Daily Capital.
Lieutenant Governor Charles Huff
man and Speaker Lambertson of the
house were special guests at the
Chamber of Commerce Yates celebra-
ton today.
q. A.R. LEADER man