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Show TAFT OIVE8 WARM WOELCOME. Mluourlans Pay $2.S0 Each for Attending At-tending Danquet With Secretary of War. Knnsns City William II. Tnft. secretary sec-retary of war, waa given a memor-nblo memor-nblo ovation by IS 000 people- In Con vcntlon hall Monday night, when ho 'was tho guest of honor nnd principal speaker nt tho most elaborate banquet ban-quet evar attempted In this city, given by Iho Association of Young Republicans of .Missouri, nnd nttendwl by 1100 persons, many of whom came rrom Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and distant Missouri clllc The demonstration dem-onstration nccorded Hecrelnr) Tnft when he entorcd tho grent banquet hall nnd again whetf he rime to speak has never been surpassed by the wl come given mo man In the history of this city llRt-li ol tho 120U banqueters ban-queters iHtld 12 50 ror Iho pttv liege or ntlendlng, but the balconies of the ball wore free to the public |