The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-28
IN GRANTS HONOR
The Generals Birthday
Celebrated.
EX-SPEAKER REEDS TALK.
Why the Business of the Country
Is Depressed.
EX-SPEAKER REEDS TALK.
SOUTHERN ELECTION MATTERS
The Maine Statesman Arralgns the
Administration and the Party
in Congress.

PITTsBURG, Pa, April 27.-Ths eighth
annual banquet of the American Re-
publican Club, in commemOra-
ton of General Grants birthday,
was held at the Monongahela
House tonight and was attended by prom
inent Republicans from all parts of the
country. Among the number were ex-
Speaker Reed. Congressman Warner and
Robson. General Frank Rseder, Hon.
Walter Lyon and General Hastings.
Covers were laid for 375. and every chair
was cupied. Previous to the banquet
reception was rendered ex-Speaker Reed.
After full justice had been done to the
menu President Terrence introduced Gen.
eral Frank Reeder with the toast General
Grant," in which he paid a high tribute to
the dead soldier and statesman.
| Hon. Thomas B. Reed was the next
speaker. and when he arose he was ten
dered an ovation. His address was i'm
promptu and in part as follows:
"The last time had the good fortune to
address this club this country was in
| state Of peace and prosperity. Work was
plenty, capital was rejoicing in its
productive strength and labor was
then enjoying the right to sell
its services at prices which brought happ-
ness and conf fort to all our homes. The
thirty years which had preceded had wit
messed the gradual rise of compensation
for services of both brain and muscle.
until every days work was worth in results
twice what it had been worth since
the last domination of this union
by Southern statesmen and their prin-
ciples.
$50 firmly rooted seemed our prosperity
that all our citizens thought it beyond the
reach of heat, cold and all changes of sun
| and weather, and most men felt it was
beHond the touch of even human folly. 1t
seemed to be beyond laws and beyond
something inherent in the constitution
of things. something to be calculated
upon with unerring certainty like the
rising and setting of the sun and the regu-
lar motion of the planets and the stars.
sit 10 not the dIsorganized crowds which
seem to be aiming but in an aimIess way
toward. the capital of the nation. 1t
| Is not that mills running on half
and quarter and no time at all. nor capital
piled up unused'at the centers of trade,
nor even labor unemp ployed for nearly
year past, which completes the sad pro-
cession.
"To me the sight most odious of all is
the utter inability of the people to
reach their own instruments and
to compel the fulfllment of their
own will. Here in a Land where law by
the people was fondly hoped to have found
its truest and latest expression the people
seem p0werless to control their own Legis-
lature and to correct by sober reflection
the mistake of the most thoughtless in
American history-the day when the pres
ent Congress and the day when the pres
ent executive were chosen to preside over
the unhappy citizens of the United States.
Whatever the majority may do. what
ever the exercise of the right of voting
could do had been done IN a large and
overfowing measure Why is this and
what is the cause? Were we left
to the tender merces of the Northern
Democrats, venture to say such condi-
tiOn could not exist for single hour. 1t
is because we are under the domination-I
will not say of the South-but of Southern
men elected to Office without those safe
guards which surround the election of the
Northern Democrats. For the sake of the
South itself hope to see the next election
alton.
"All election laws have been repealed
and the South having been set free from
fear which never had sound founda ton will
be left at liberty to decide her destiny
according to her industrial needs, which
are the same as those of the North. In
stead of set Of men who represent the
obsolete politics and principles of q
dead generation. their successors,
let us hope, will represent what the North
longs to see-an Industrial, promising
South, full of the life of new country"
Addresses were also made by General
Hastings and Congressman John B.
Robinson. and letters of regret were
read from: Colonel Fred Grant,
Governor Mckinley. General j. H. Scho-
field, Senators Sherman, Hale, Hawley.
Cameron. Hon. Robert T. Lincoln and
others.