Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-07
Leaders of the Republican Party
Banquet and Talk at the
Federal Club.
SPEAKER REEDS GAGE.
He Challenges the World to Equal
The Fifty-First Congress.
SET 4 PRECEDENT FOR ALL TIME.
Chauncey N. Depew Happy Because He
Is Not a Mugwump.
LODGE PROUD OF HIS REPUBLICANISM

NEW YORK, March 6.-Hon. Chauncey
NJ. Depew presided tonight at a dinner
given by the Federal Club. Mr.. Depew's
remarks opened the talk, and after him
came Hon. Thomas b. Reed, Hon. Henry
Lodge, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, General
S. L. Woodford and Judge Arnoux. Major
William Mckinley sent a telegram saying
it was quite uncertain about his coming, and
he was kept away by the illness of his WIFE
Letters of regret were also received from
Secretary James G. Blaine, Vice President
Morton, Postmaster General Wanamaker
and Secretaries Proctor, Noble and Tracy.
When cigar smoke began floating on the
air, Mr.. Depew said: 81 am here tonight
much 10 my surprise. The Coroner's jury
holds me responsible for all accidents tha
happen on the railroad. Dismissing the act
of corporate office, however. we will come
down TO the business of the evening. We
are here tonight as Republicans. There
are no mugwumps TO divide our faith in
this world or the next. We are present to
give greeting to the Republican leaders in
the National Congress. We welcome Reed.
We welcome Lodge. We regret Mckinley
is not here
Republicans Always Aggressive.
"a Republican properly constituted has
nothing to defend. The Republican party
has always won its victories by being
aggressive. The bill carrying out the
principles of our party, which will put the
American flag on seas. becomes in the
language a subsidiary job"
Mr. Depew here referred in a humorous
way to the caricatures of President Harrison
and Speaker Reed in the weekly papers.
He then spoke of the recent election and
the victories of the Republican party in the
passing of the subsidy bill and the defeat
ing Of the silver bill, and concluding, said:
I'VE are happy in the fact that the party of
Garfield and Blaine, of Lincoln and Grant
ia the party of Mckinley aud Reed"
Mr.. Depew then proposed the health of
the President of the United States, the toast
being drunk standing and in silence.
Mr. Depew then introduced Speaker
Reed, who WAS received with great applause.
HE said: Il trust that l appreciate as much
as any other man the advantage of having
good friends HALF of the struggle in Ii is
10 get a hearing When Christopher Colum-
bus discovered America it took him three
months, out it took him half his lie to get
a chance TO discover il"
Enemies as Free Advertisements
Advertisement is the fine prerequisite TO
tie sale of goods and your best advertisers
are your enemies. Your friends sometimes
go to Sleep your enemies never do The
general public do not pay much attention to
tine advertisement but proceed to examine
the goods. This Congress has been an e1ten-
sively advertised one, hut the public Will soon
proceed to examine what has been done.
Whenever this country awakenS to the fact
that the doctrine OF human liberty must
prevail from one end TO the other then
justice will be done TO the man that en-
forced an honest count and an honest law,
Il will challenge the world to point to
she equal Of the Fifty-frst Congress ior the
great good il has done. We have done more
than pass great measures. We have shown
to the people OF this country that it is possi-
ble TO have responsible government. This
country to-day, with its 60, 000, 900 OF people,
cannot be governed as when il had D. 900. OOO
Our Government has got to be the growth of
the necessities of our people, and cannot be
adopted from any other land
Set a Precedent for All time.
Mr.. Reed spoke of the increased work,
comparing the work of the Fifty-irst Con-
gress with the work done by Congress dur
ing its first 80 years of existence.
WHAT l claim, " he continued, "for the
House of Representatives is not what it has
done, but it has rendered possible for all
time 10 be done"
Tremendous applause followed the close
of Mr.. Reeds speech. Then Mr.. Depew in
troduced Mr.. Lodge.
Not long ago" said Mr.. Lodge, in OPEN
ing, "a distinguished Democratic statesman
went over to a neighboring city and defined
his political position by saving, 4 am a
Democrat 1t was a statemen: at once simple
and beautiful. II had, too, the great advan-
tage of requiring no intellectual effort,
or of those who received it with applause.
1t presented a party creed at once so broad
and SO expansive that within its bounds
opinions Of almost any kind can find shelter.
Within that elastic doctrine 1T is possible TO
be for a duty on or for free woolens in the
West, for the free wool and duty on
wooIens in the East, for ballot reform In
every Republican State and for local gov
eminent in every Democratic district, for
honest money in New York and for free sill
yer west of the Mississippi.
The Principles of Republicanism,
The ultimate result of such a creed is
that those who profess it are united only in a
that the Offices shall belong
10 themselves, and beyond that believe in |
anything or nothing. The Republican |
party must be party of principle
The speaker was not content with the |
vague declaration, Il am Republicans
vague party cry. The Republica platform,
" hich stated the party to be the party o f |
honest money, was TOO vague to suit the |
speaker, but the killing of the proposition |
Tor free silver showed the party was in favor
OF honest finance. 1t was also the party for |
civil service reform, and these facts ex-
planned what he meant when he said, II |
am 4 Republican.
.. the last Congress, Mr.. Lodge said: |
" We have given minority rule a deadly |
blow. We have crippled obstruction. We |
have proven to the American people that |
the House can legiSlaIe, and we have made |
II impossible for any ma jOrity in the future |
10 escape responsibility bv the miserable ex- /
cuse that the majority would not let it legiS- !
late. On Wednesday the minority grathed !
their spite by the petty dIScourtes- OF refus- !
ing 10 make the ordinary resolution of |
thanks unanimous OF the 80 Speakers who |
preceded Mr.. Reed, Is met with the same |
among the number James X. Polk
and Henry Clay. The minorltics were for
gotten, but not these great men.
For National Ballot Reform.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, United States
Civil Service Commissioner, in brief ad-
dress, expressed the hope that some day
they would see national ballot reform law
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