The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-16
REPUBLICAN, BANQUET.
Dinner BY the Massachusetts Republican
Club-PromInent Persons Present-Sec-
rotary Tracy Speaks About the Navy
Other Addresses.

the republican club of Massachusetts,
was held in Music hall last evening.
Covers were laid for $40 besides the
guests and speakers, and with the
spectators in the gallery more than
1000 people were present. President
| Roger Wolcott sat at the middle of the
head table. On his right were Secretary
b. f. Tracy and other prominent Re.
publicans.
Precisely at Z o'clock President VOL
colt rose to open the speaking. Among
other utterances were these: "The re-
publican party must rally to its stand
ard and recruit and drum out the mer-
cenary. The loss of thousands of voters
in this state was due to the Pennsyl-
vanian who is still chairman of the ma
tional committee. The kind of personal
politics that seeks and requires what is
called 'vindication' is always at the ex-
pense of party and is a blunder when it
is not a crime The standard of poGt-
ical rectitude must be made more ex-
acting and it must be remembered that
the nation and not the self imposed can-
didate has the only claim upon every
office in its gift"
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ing AMI cheering. After expressing his
thanks for the welcome extended to
him, he paid high tribute to the re-
publican party and the present ad-
ministration. He recognized as the
underlying power of the latter the clear
intelligence, the firm will and the high
conscientiousness of purpose of Presi-
dent Harrison. He spoke of the diplo-
matte triumph of the secretary of state,
saying that in the latest question aris-
ing in the foreign relations, which
single error might have produced grave
results, the course promptly adopted by
the state department had been followed
by a wave of public sentiment in Europe
in commendation of the tone and temper
with which this government had met
the occasion. He spoke of the great
work of Secretary Window in the
treasury department and made feel
ing allusion to the last scene in his
life. He described the good work
done in all the other depart
ments of the government and de-
Tended the Fifty-tirat congress against
the charge of extravaganza. he re-
ferred to considerable length to the ap-
preparations for pensions ahd said that
while he believed that the nation should
not be carried away by a generous sem
timent to liberality beyond its means,
he for one could not refuse his assent to
the principle which the pension legisla-
ton had enacted into law, that no man
who risked his life in defense of the
union should ever want for bread.
| Io fhan n detailed
account of the work in which the navy
department was at present engaged
and concluded as follows: Zone last
point in naval affairs remains to be con-
sidered-the question of the employ
rnent of labor at the navy yards. For
fifty wears this has been the one
weak spot in naval administrac
ton. Whatever the party in control
of the government, it seems hitherto
have been powerless to exclude political
influence in the employment of navy
ward labor. 1t is not enough, appar-
emily, that the mechanics and worl1men
in the government shops should be re-
publicans or democrats, they must wear
the collar of the ward bosses who run
the local political machine. The prae-
tice is a source of Generalization to
any party that attempts to use 1T, de-
structive to the government service and
debauching local and national politics
1t is an ulcer on the naval administra-
tive system, and l propose to cut
it out. Applause. My attention has
been directed for some time past to the
system adopted here in the city of Bos-
ton for the selection of laborers en-
ployed upon the city works. l have
caused an exhaustive study to be made
of that system by which you have
largely succeeded in eliminating poll
tics from municipal labor and believe
that by an extension and modification OF
| IL. the same result can be made reason
ably certain in the government navy
yards.
whether the present civil service
law is the best that could be devised to
improve the civil service of the country,
l do not know. But this do know from
personal observation in my own depart
ment that the persons appointed under
the system are unquestionably more efl-
cient as a whole than those selected un-
der any system OF pure patronage; and
further find that no republican charged
with the responsibility of admin
istering one of the great executive de-
partments of the government can be
true to himself. to the faith of the re-
publican party or to the people OF this
great nation, whose servant he is, If he
fails to employ any and all means within
his power to elevate, purify and render
more efficient the civil service of the
country"
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, OF Rhode
Island, was the second speaker. Il
see throughout the country" said he
evidences of reaction in public senti-
ment in favor of the republican party.
Democrats have claimed their economic
policy superior to that of the repub-
lican party. principally on the ground
of the latter's tariff policy as against the
interests of New England. The attl-
tude of the democratic party on the sill
YER question was slightly referred to by
them. One democrat who has been
president, has written letter on that
4 subject but it remains to be seen
whether the man is more powerful than
the whole organization. If reelected
he could not fail to carry out It's re-
quests"
Killed on His Way to Work.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, April SD God
sci, of No. 73o Ann street. was run
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