The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-01-28
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN BANQUET.

A National Republican banquet was
held on Wednesday night in Baltimore,
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Republican Club of that city. 1t was a
decided success. Among those com
ing from Washington in a special train
were Senators Egarts, Hawley and Chan
dler; Congressman Louis E. McComas, of
Maryland; William Walter Phelps, of
New Jersey; D. B. Henderson, of Iowa;
@. A. Boutelle, of Maine; Joseph S. Can
non, of Illinois, and many others. The
visitors from other states included Gov.
Beaver, of Pennsylvania, Hon. Stephen
B. Elkins, of West Virginia; S. P. Foster,
of New York, president of the National
League of Republican Clubs; Elk Sheriff
William II. Leads, of Philadelphia; Chas.
Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. George F. Boggs delivered the
address of welcome. He said we are on
the eve of a great national contest in
which the slogan OF our party will be
protection to American labor aud Ameri-
can industries. A majority of the voters
of Maryland are with US on that issue.
1t is only necessary to hold the Demo-
cratic party to the Issue their chosen
leader has thus made, and to convince
our people that it is the issue to sway
our Maryland into the protective column.
In the approaching fight, we Republicans
of Maryland and particularly of the
Young Mems Republican Club, do not
concede Maryland to the Democracy.
Senator William NJ. Evarts of New
York responded to tue toast of the even
ing The National Republican Party"
We have right to feel that in the po-
litical movement now organizing there is
a central spot where all may put finger
on the pulse of the nation. In the great
campaign if we can find here that the
spirit, the power aud the zeal Of Balt
more has risen, il is great tidings We
stand in position which has assumed
by far the greater thought aud manhood
of this country. [Great applause. This
party is now, as il was in 1860, out of
power. Then our triumph brought us
into power; aud now, if we are true to
ourselves, if it be given to men to triumph
in the right, it shall be given to the Re-
publican party. The country has read
the lesson of both. All that notion that
if the Democratic party be placed in
power, it would carry out the policy be-
gun, has beer shown to be wrong. 1t has
gone back to the ante bellum feelings,
and We are au excuse and justification of
Jul OiNOcs iiS "OdhCblbS budJ LIDS
gone into Republican hosts has come
from the flippant generation that thought
that all that was to be done had been
done.'
Governor Beaver in an address said
success was in the air. and if all would
pull together the next occupant of the
White House would be a Republican.
Senator Joseph Hawley said "A man
ig eGtnamal for no hn hos thnnobt nd
done, ana judged by that who shall say
that the Republican party is not the
grandest in existence; the party that
really had faith in the people, that be-
lieved in universal suffrage"
Senator Chandler said ''If the same
rights were accorded the colored people
| as are given the whites. we should not
need gathering of Republican Clubs,
and we should elect James G. Blaine next
November without serious struggle"
Charles Emory Smith said the Repub.
lican party needs today the high spirit
and lofty courage of it's former days. It's
| mission has not yet ended. It began as
the party of free soil, of free press, of
free men. 1t is its duty today to draw
the sword and battle against free wrong;
| it should battle against free trade, free
wrong and free fraud, above everything
else 1t should stand a. the party OF pro-
tectiun it should stand for Americanism
| in its broad sense. Americanism means
the American market for the American
farm, American extension by American
| means OF American trade, American
commerce for American ships, and Amer
| lean protection for American labor. Hon.
G. A. Boutelle, Hon. Joseph Cannon,
Hon. David B. Henderson, and Hon. J.
G. Burrows made addresses.