The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-01
DEPEW,s SPEECH.

Chicago, In Honor OF WaSh1ngGOn'G
Birthday.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-Central Music
hall contained 2 500 people this after
noon to listen to Chauncey NJ. Depew,
of New York, who was invited to adj
dress the Union League Club, of this
city at their celebration of Washing
toms birthday. The platform of the
hall was handsomely decorated with
American flags, in the CEN
ter being hung an origi-
nal painting of Washington, owned
by prominent citizen of this city. A
noticeable feature of the audience was
the large attendance of ladies. Fully
one-third of the listeners were of the
gentler sex. References made to the
solidity of the Union, Abraham Lin
coin, and the animosities between the
north and south were heartily ap-
plauded.
Mr.. Depew began his grafton by
statement of the important part
played in the shaping of the
destiny of the country by Hamilton,
Jefferson, Webster and Lin coin. Pro-
ceeding on the subject of the dangers
of a too thoroughly centralized govern
ment with the powers of the chief mag
lOOI oIO SO AAOLOoOCAs 1AO cSuNO-
Gated a one term presidency in the fol-
lowing words:
1.-The best of presidents have low
cred the standard of admins
tration when seeking a second term.
The present executive is an officer
highly esteemed for his singular hon
esty and directness of purpose, and re-
markable for ineXperience in the duties
of the government, and for ignorance
&c he hafnro N
With perfect franknesS and honest in
tention to carry out the pledges he de-
fed the traditions Of his party in his
bold utterances for civil service reform.
He both understood what he was
promising and believed he
had the courage and the power to
make good his word. The best Senti-
ment of the. country is Overwhelmingly
behind him on this question, and yet
as the canvass of 1888 opens, the ire
mendous advantages of an auxiliary
force of one hundred thousand faithful
workers has relegated Roman virtue to
the rear and brought the spoils system
to the front. Methods have changed
and the borrowed nomenclature of
reform means the old practices with
the familiar result of the constant sub
stitution of the partisan recruit for the
veteran official.
w I'LL RlO" III VI OAO 4OPuD11Cs Ol1C
known and implied powers of the Pres
ident become of increasing value. He
should by constitutional prohibition be
made ineligible for a second term. As
the peculiarities of his posi-
tion on retirement from Of
flee prevent his participation
in the ordinary business avOcatiOns of
the citizens, he should receive an ade-
quate pension for life, and be put on
| = let fh0nnh GILL in no
vice; be subject to call for any public
duty where his experience, character
and ability would be of value. Thus
his administration, free from tempta-
| ton, and the baSer ambitions would be
impelled with reSolute and unftinching
endeavor to win the plaudits of the
present and the admiration and graft
tude of pOsterity.
On the subject of immigration and
anarchists Mr.. Depew advocated edu-
cation as a corrective means, saying,
let no youth leave the school without
being thoroughly grounded in the
history, the principles and the incalcu-
liable blessings of American liberty, and
the sons of the anarchists viii become
the bullwarks of the law.
The speaker advised more rigid in
spection of immigrants. and a further
test before naturalization of his
| knOW1oORo OL ClIlZ0uSulp. anu HIS COT-
dial acceptance of its limitations and
privileges.
Mr.. Depew then turned his attention
| to the tariff question; and made a
strong argument in behalf of the pro-
| tectiVe system inaugurated by
Washington and supported by Hamil-
ton. The conclusion of the Grafton be-
gan by the lines: Westward the
course of empire takes it way' and con-
1 fol Tho rrf hn
| fifth act of the grand drama are chang
ing with the world as its stage and all
races and tongues the audience, and
| yet as it eliminates in power, in gran
deur and absorbing interest,
| the attention remains rive
ted upon one majestic character.
He stands the noblest leader who was
ever entrusted with his country's life.
His calmness in danger and lofty cour-
age when all others despaired, his pru-
dent delays when the continental con-
gress was imperative and the staff
almost insubordinate and his quick
and resistless blows when action was
possible, his magnanimity to his de-
tanners and generosity to his foes
his ambition for his country
and unselfishness for himself, his sole
desire the freedom and independence
of America, and his only wish to re.
turn, after victory, to private life and
the peaceful pursuits and the pleasures
of home, have all combined to make
him the foremost figure in history
Not so abnormally developed in any
direction as to be called q genius
yet he was the strongest, because
the best balanced, the fullest rounded
the most even, and self-maSterfu
of men, the incarnation of common
sense and moral purity of action anC
repose.
The republic will live so long as i
reveres the memory and emulates TIN
virtues of George Washington.
Il A Mysterious killing.