Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

there occurred q great parade. That army had
it in its power to unfrock Presidents. but the
Republic never was as safe as on that day.
THE BRoADEsT LOYALTY.
say to you that loyalty to the Republican
administration is loyalty to the Republican
party, and loyalty to that party is loyalty to a
Republican Government. There are doubling
Thomases in the Republican ranks; in fact, the
party is very much like the giddy girl re-
preached by her pastor, who replied: "Just
wait until get to camp meeting. will make
it snow" For some time the party had been
badly ratified, but they pulled together finally,
and turned the Democrats out
We carried the election, and they despair.
Next year Republican States cut loose, or
worse than that, mugwump.
Then the South wakes up and says we will
hold on longer. If for four years we could
have Republican administration throughout
there would be no more solid South.
This is an anniversary close to another one
1t is good time, therefore. for counsel. There
is Alexandria. When Braddock started
GP 0P Fort 6nGuesns 9s s fsOa4g @ wa ae1s no g
Alexandria was then the leading city of the
South; but what is she today and how won
derfully has Pittsburg grown, These two cities
represent the poles of two influences that have
their effect on communities. The one under
Republicanism has developed, the other under
Democracy has degenerated and lost its pres
the party that has made you, and ask you to
drink with me to the greatness and reputation
of Pittsburg.
MAJOR M'KINLEY's SPEECH.
When the Napoleonic countenance
of Major Mckinley, of Ohio, ap-
peared above the tables the ap-
planse was long and loud, and there were
frequent cries for Mckinley, the next Presi-
dent In responding to the toast, ''The
Republican Party" Mr.. Mckinley said:
The Republican party is 3S years old to-day.
1t has accomplished more for humanity than
any other party before. 1 ask you to read the
platform the party first made. and feel sure
you will be better Republican. There is not
principle in that platform, except one, that
has not been carried out in principle. The
platform said that slavery must go. and
from that day slaverywas doomed. 1t promised
the people homestead lew, and the great
said that Union was indissoluble and must
be maintained, and it was preserved through
the blood of many patriots. 1t also declared
that Kansas should come into the Union free,
and it did. That platform said also that the
Union Pacific railroad should be built, and
New Horf now lies within six days OF San
Francisco.
This administration ought to write on the
statutes of the United States the verdict of
last November. Then there is another thing
that it ought to do. that is that the admlnistra-
tion ought to make it possible for a man to
care what it costs. We are only asking for
what we ought to have. We are only asking
what Grant and Lee agreed to at Appomatox.
More we will not ask, and more we will not
add This agitation will not stop until politi-
cal and civil equality will not be mere cold con-
stitutional formalIties, but living birthright.
FORGIVENESS is ONE THING.
Our foes are all forgiven, but the work your
brave bands have finished shall never be un-
done. Sleep sweetly through the ages, dust of
the gallant boys. / would rather see the Re-
publicans overwhelmed than we shouldturn
our backs to our black allies. Tell me they
have not earned their citizenship. 1 tell you
they have poured ont their life-blood to attain
it. The administration is not going back on the
negro. am sure Senator Plumb and Mr.. .Dal-
zell will support me in my statements. General
Grant brought them to the Republican party.
If it hadn't been for the party there never
would have been Grant He turned out to
be good fellow even ii he did come from
Ohio. IApplause.l If it hadn't been for the Re-
publican party we wouldn't have had Sher-
man, and he was born in Ohio. Why Quay was
born so near the line that he doesn't know on
which side, and don't believe he cares. We
Wouldn't have had a Sheridan or Govern
ment worth having, If 1t wasn't tor the Repub-
lican party. 1t was the Republican party that
made the Government
To the letters of regret, also, there should
be an allusion, though the lack of both time
report necessitaJes brevity at this point.
Colonel Fred Grant's letter plainly told how
well he would like to have been present to
take part in the celebration of his fathers
birthday, but added that he couldn't. How
ever, there was the promise that the Aus
trian Mission should, during the present
administration, be kept open to the "boys"
of the Americus Club. Then there was
this one from the White House:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON.
Mr.. H. ID. W. English, Pittsburg, Pa.
MY DEAR SIR-The President directs me to
acknowledge the receipt of the card of invita-
tion to be present at the third annual dinner
of the Americas Republican Club on the even
ing of the 9th instant in honor of the sixty
seventh anniversary of the birth of General
y. S. Grant. Approaching the courtesy he
sincerely regrets that the pressure of public
duties will not permit him to be present on that
occasion. Very truly yours.
E. W. HALFoRD, Private Secretary.
April Is 1889.
Vice President Morton, John Sherman,
Redfeld Proctor, Secretary Tracy, Governor
Hovey, Robert 7. Lincoln, Senators Alli-
son, Sawyer, Hale, Hawley and Spooner
likewise sent formal regrets, as did also
Governor Foraker.