Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
TAKEN WITH TOAST.
A Report of the Manner in Which the
Patriotic Sentiments of the Evening
Were Treated-Orators OfNa-
LiOnal Renowu Join in

the Responses.
The first toast was "Our Guests Present, I"
by Congressman Dalzell, delivered in his
usual happy manner. He paid more than
one glowing tribute to the memory of Grant,
and the work of the Republican party was
not forgotten at his hands.
When General Hastings arose to respond
to the toast, "Grant, Citizen, Soldier and
President" there was a perfect storm of
applause. Majestic in bearing and in a
deep rotund voice be said:
am grateful to meet the members of the
Americus Club face to face for the first time
tonight. The student of American history
will learn in his humble life, in the eloquence
of his life and in the true nobility of his nature
an organization worthy of his love
and commemoration Every soldier that
carried a gun, every crutch and
empty sleeve. every soldiers widow is en-
twined with the memory of U. S. Grant. His
memory does not suffer by comparison. Wash
ington was the man who breathed into the in.
fant Republic, and it began to live; Lincoln
God bless the memory of Lincoln-shed luster
on his name as the President during the war.
Sherman, Logan, Sheridan and Reynolds only
added to the luster of U. s. Grant. To turn
from war to the science of Statecraft, Grant
was equal to them all. He plucked victory
from defeat, and wept for those who laid down
their lives for their country. While we speak
tonight for Grant may we not turn to the SOL
diers that went to the war and came not back.
They sleep tonight under Southern skies, or
beneath the waters of swift-howing Western
rivers. Let US not forget the soldier who has
gone before.
THE MOTTO OF THE TIMES.
Grant said. "Let us have peace" and tonight
we swell the chorus "Peace on earth, and good
will to men" Let me say that the current of
relations between George Washington and q.
S. Grant are very light When Washington
was called from the army to the Presidency he
said: II had hoped to live in peace; but will
accept this call as the call of my country"
When Grant. tired out with the battles of the
war, ]onged for peace, the Republican party
called him to civil life and he accepted.
The Republican party found on the towpath
of an Ohio canal a barefoot boy, and needing a
President they brought out James A Garfield
and placed him alongside of Washington and
Lincoln.
Let us hope that the party of Harrison and
Morton and Matthew Stanley Quay loud ap-
plausel has come home TO stay. In conclusion
let US hope that the Republican party will al
ways be composed of the common people, living
in a common tie of brotherhood.
At the ending of Hastings speech there
were loud calls for Quay. In a shriIl,
squeaky voice, the Little Napoleon arose,
and said:
My friends, 1 came here to-rightn not to speak
OF instruct you, but as member of the Ameri-
Gus Club If you seek an orator you mustlook
elsewhere for him.
Congressman Dalzell, in an eloquent
speech. introduced "Governor" Nathan B.
Goff, of West Virginia, who has been kept
out of the Governorship of his native State
after he had been honestly elected.
In clear, distinct tones General Golf be-
gan his reply to the toast, "The New South, I"
as follows:
ON THE NEW SOUTH.
The new South, which love, is progressing
nd consequently the new South is Republi-
6n. The old South believed in slavery, was
nert, disliked the hum of the factory. There
fsre the old South was listless Democratic.
The new South votes the Republican ticket:
the old South does the counting The North,
South, East and West are all deeply interested
In this fate, because your fresides are regu.
70 lated by it.
Why not have a national election law? Why
not have Federal supervision at the polls?
Why not strike down this proud aristocracy
that has baf1ed you for years? 1t despises
everything you love. And if the great North
stand by and permit its organization to be
strengthened, I tell you verify that finally it
will be harder on you. Voters who were not
permitted to vote should be counted when we
come TO consider the ratio of representation
When the North determines this fraud must
stop. it will stop.
cberishes the fame of the silent soldier. The
people of the United States never honored
Grant as be did them. We crowned him with
the victorious wreath, but still we have not re-
paid him. We never can repay that great
soldier who fought for the Government he
loved So dearly. He seized the tiger of rebel
he fha and 1ad har -, 41,a
Southern jungles The new South has her
men that wore the blue. A voice: "That is
one of them:"1 AN humble one," was the
quick reJoinder of Mr.. Goff.
Let me tell you the men who served with
Grant honored him. Revolutions never go
backward, and the men who have come up out
of the darkness of slavery into the light and
freedom of liberty know full well that Democ-
racy cursed the one period and the Republican
party blessed the other. The Republican party
has purified the Constitution Of our fathers.
In the new South they love it also. because it
has given Us the grandest system of human
education. They love it also because that
party has given us law. Our rock-ribbed hill
sides have been pierced and the waters of
commercial life have flowed freely.
NEW PITTsBURGs ALSO.
The Republican party has also founded in
West Virginia a number of diminutiye Pitts
burgs We all know that this city and the
valley of the Ohio is the glory and pride of
civilized skilled labor.
our national escutcheon and made us
nation of freemen. Whatever there is that is
good is found within the ranks of the Repub-
hcan party.
Senator Plumb. of Kansas, was next in
troduced. He said:
I am both fortunate and unfortunate. lam
what my old friend, DR.. Leak. would call
supply An Ohio man, you see, was set down
TO reply 70 this toast of the Republican admin
istraton. l don't know of a man, however
who would rather serve than Mr. Butter
worth. This occasion seems to have been got
ten up to do honor to Ohio men. Grant was
born in Ohio, and on my right is another Ohio
man who could have been President If he had
not forgotten himself
The new administration is only so days old. 1
know all about it. know what it is going to
DO. because know what the party wants il to
DO. And it is going to administer the govern
ment through Republican lieutenants for the
penent OF the American people, not foreigners
IL was a law of the Romans that no soldier
could pass the Rubcon until he had laid aside
the insignia Of his rank
But Abraham Lincoln knewt that the South
ern Democrats coul6n't tell the truth. and
was De-