Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-03-07
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FEDERAL cLus pINNnA
Rx spsahss Rssd Ii apissd and lGakes
an E,caasos speech.
Nxw YoRx. March 6.-The Federal
Club gave Z dinner At Delmonico's tonight.
Covers were laid for Isl. ard that number |
or distinguished persons were present.
Before the quss ex Speaker Rsed held
aui,e 4 reception in the pAflofs. Hon. |
C.hspeeey n. Depew presided at dinner, !
and speeches we're made BY Hon. Thomas |
B Reed. Han. Henry CABOT Lodge, Hon
Theodore Roosevelt sind Gen. Sevast L |
Woodiord. Letters Of regret were re-
oeiyed from Vice President Morton. Sec
retAries Blaine. Proctor. Noble and Tracy.
and Pssfmasssr-Gensn Wanamakef. |
Among those present we're Stephen b Ell +,
kins. Col. VIM. L. Strong, John MeCisve
and Cornelius N. Biss.
After dieper Mr.. Depew fspped the
meeting to order and said; I'VE are
present to give greeting to the Republican
leaders Of our national Congress. We
welcome Reed, [chetr.] We welcome
Lodge, and we regret that Mckinley 10 not
here. A republic properly constituted
has nothing to defend. The Republican
party has xlxays won its victories BY
being aggressive. The bill carrying out
the principles Of onr party. which will put
the American nag on the seas. becomes in
the laneusge Of the hour \ subsidy job.
MI. Oepew re ferred in q humorous way to
The cariessures Of President Harrison and
Speaker Reed in the weekly papers. I'VE
are happy 10 the fact th,t the party OF
Garfield and Blaine. of Lincoln and Grant.
is the party of Mckinley and Reed"
Dspew then proposed the health OF the
President Of the United Slater, and the
toast was drunk standing in silence.
Reed was introduced and received with
great applause. He said: trust / sp-
preciste a. much a. any other man the
advantage Of having good friends Halt OF
the struggle in life is to get hearing.
When Christopher Columbus discovered
Americas j. took him three months, but took
him half his life to get . chance to discover
it. Advertisement. 10 absolutely pre-
r. quisite TO the sale Of goods; your best
advertisers are your enemies. Your
friends sometimes 60 to sleep; your
enc mics never do. The general pub
lie do not pay much atteution to ad-
ver.i.ement. but procs ed to examine goods.
The 5lst Congress has been extensively
advertised, but the public will soon proceed
t, exaWipe what has been done. Whenever
thi, country awakes to the fact that Abe
do, time of human liberty must prevail
from one end TO the other, then justice
will be TO the mao that enforced an honest
count and an honest law. will cbsllengs
the world to point to the equal Of the 5ls'
Congress for the great good it has done.
We have
Done More Ttaa Pass Great Measures
We have shown the people of this coun-
try that it is possible 10 have responsible
government. This country today with
GO, 900 600 people cannot be governed as
| when 1t had 5000. 900. Our government
has got TO be growth Of necessities OF our
own peope and csnnot be adopted from any
other land.
| Reed here spoke Of the increased work
| of Congress, comparing the work of the
5lss Congress with the work done by Con-
gress during the first so yeats of its exist-
ance "Whst claim" he continued, "for
the House Of Representatives, is not what
il has done but what it has rendered pos.i
bic for all time to be done" Tremendous
applause followed at the close of Reeds
speech. Depe~ then introduced Lodge.
Lodge aired the Inconsistencies Of the
Democratic party, claiming one principle
in one section Of the country, smother in
another secsion, according to their popu-
lari,y, and summing by declaring the pro-
fessors of such creed we're united only in
The determination that the Offices shall be-
long to themselves He declared his faith ia
the principles and hope and confidence in
the future Of the Republican party. OF the
last Congress, Ledge said: I'VE have
given the minority rule deadly blow; we
have crippled obstruction; we have proved
to Americans that the House can legislats !;
and We have made it Impossible for any
maj ,fiiy in the future to escape responsi-
bil,ty by the miserable excuse that
the minority would not let it legis.ata.
10 this great battle we we're led by SPEAKER
Reed. lie hsd been attacked and abused
a. men who do things in this world always
sic. Wednesday the minority grstii. d
their fri e BY petty discourtesy Of refusing
to make the ordinary resolution Of thanks
unanimous. OF thirty speakers who pre-
cedsd Reed, thirteen Met with same refusal.
Among the number were james X. Polk
and Henry CIsv. The minorities were for
gotten but no. these great men. In conclu-
aion they pointed proudly to the record Of
the 5lst Congress.
After The applause had subsided which
followed Lodges speech the chairman in-
PRODUCED Roosevelt, who spoke Of Lodge as
the champion Of nations! ballot reform.
Roosevelt said he hoped some day to see Q
national bsllot reform law for congressional
sind prejtieI tisl elections which would not
interfere with state or local elections.
"Only The other day the most prominent
member of the Democratic part. ex-fresi-
dent Cleveland, came out in letter against
free coinage. He received aud deserved
warm commentator for having written
that letter, and it must be re-
membered that he simply followed
along q path cleared by Republicans.
He merely spoke in favor of what they had
already done. He deserves credit for hsy-
Jog written letter against the bill for the
coinage of free silver, but infinitely more
credit belongs to those who actually killed
that bill, tha. is. Speaker Reed and the
Republican majority 10 The 5lss Congress. -
Roosevelt siso said thst Speaker Reed
and the Republican maj ,rity in Congress
in dealing with the parliamentary. govern
men, and stopping the threatened paraly-
ais. had achieved one of the creates. VIC
tories for the cause ever won.
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford and En-
Judge Armour followed in speeches ex-
pressive OF the Republican doc srine.