The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
ON THE WARPATH UNIQUE ROLL CALL
Mrs. McCray Tells of Report
Fighting Twenty-Five Years. in Douglass House.
Visited JaiIs They World Account of
Sections of Country. Famous Legislature
ARRESTED FORTY -FOUR TIMES MANY PROMINENT MhSAkS
Are Praise Efficient Work
About Alike" She Says. by Newspaper Men,
Not Difference Many Topekans Were There
icaI Parties, She Declares Each Day of Session.
They Gave World Account of
Famous Legislature.
PROMINENT KAhSAAS
Much Praise to Efficient Work
by Newspaper Men.
Many Topekans Were There
Each Day of Session.

d. o. McCray, widely known Kan
sas newspaper man, gave very inter
esting roll call at the reunion of the
members of the Douglass house, held
here TUESDAY. The roll included the
names of those living and dead. who
from the press table of representative
hall, gave to the world the news OF the
legislative wars Of 1898.
Mr.. McCray's address was as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman:
When a newspaper man is called
before a legislative oody II usually Is
to explain why he wrote 1t. In this
case, however. I am expected TO call
another roll It includes the names
of those living and dead wno' from
the press table of representative hall.
gave to the world the story Of the
legislative war of 1893, Active in re-
nSrtYne the proceedings were:
Governor Henry j. Allen. Selina.
Arthur Capper, Topeka Daily Capt.
tai. - -s... -
t. j. Norton, Kansas City journal.
r. H Lindsay. Kansas City Times.
M. Bunnell, Kansas City Times~
Harvey II. Fowler, Topeka State
Journal. ::
D. O. McCray, Kansas City Journal
and eastern newspapers.
Fred C. Trigg, Kansas City, Kan.
w II. Hornaday and r. NJ. Rug
giles, eastern and out-state papers.
Many Topeka Writers There.
Topeka editorial writers and bust
ness managers who daily visited the
house for renewed inspiration for law
and order were Major ]. K. Hudson,
Mr.. Frank p. MacLennan. Mr.. w. p;
Tomlinsop, Mr.. Harold i. Cnase anu
Mr. Dell Keller.
In this roll call the absentses Who
have been called to their reward are:
Dick Lindsay, Major Hudson, Mr..
Tomlinson ana Bob Ruggies. My
memory does not serve me as to Cap
tain Hornaday, who few years since
was department commander or the
Grand Army of the Republic. Okla
homa. My most recent information is
that he stfl res;des in that state.
Topekan Is Honored.
Since that stormy session of the
Kansas legislature, Arthur Capper has
been honored with the two highest
offices in the gift of the people of his
native state. F. L. Vandegfift con-
tinues to hold the honorable title of
dean of. Kansas writers and cor
respondents. II. J. Norton is a general
attorney of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway company. Nj. Bun
nell is owner and editor of the Duluth
Tribune-News, a leading daily news
paper of Minnesota. Harvey Fowler
is pastor of the First Methodist church
of Bonner Springs. Mr.. MacLennan
is owner and editor of The Topeka
State Journal, which is one of the
strong, substantial newspapers of Kan
sas and the middle west. Official BUSH
ness only prevents the presence here
tonight of Senator Capper OF the To-
peka Daily Capital. Fred Trigg. as
you all know, fixes up our politics for
us in the Kansas City Star. Mr..
Murphy has achieved international
distinction as a correspondent.
Mr.. r. ]. Norton, correspondent in
Topeka for the Kansas City Journal,
now general attorney for the Santa
Fe Railway company, employed me
| to report the senate. I had just sur
rendered the position of executive
clerk which I held under Governor
Lyman U. Humphrey. Illness called
Mr.. Norton to his home at Newton.
and I reported both house and senate
until near the close of the session.
| Previously Arthur Capper willed me
six big eastern dailies resigning as
correspondent in my favor. He told
me / would need all the money coming
from this correspondence work for the
support of my family. In all these
years my gratitude has flowed out to
Arthur Capper, because he did for me
a service that put me on my feet as a
newspaper correspondent. This gave
me a new stalt in life, for my checks
were generous.
have always been glad that I was
thrown in contact with my old friend
Fred Vandegrift, for during that tragic
time I borrowed freely from him and
from Harvey Fowler. My "leads'' for
fcolumn stories sent east by wire wer.
the happenings after 8 o'clock each
day. With copies of the Kansas City
Star and The State Journal, which
covered the news up to that hour, ]
cut and pasted columns of stuff that
made up my daily service. This was
all aside from my daily news storieN
printed in the Kansas City Journal.