The Portland daily press., 1894-11-23

Gathered at Boston Last Nighttime
Speeches of the Evening.
Boston, Mass, November %. The
eighth annual dinner of the Home Mar
ket Club at the Mechanics Building
this evening was a grand success. About
$50, Hon. Thomas B. Reed, escorted By
President william NJ. Bent of the club,
led procession Of guests from the man
agement rooms to the centre of the hall,
which had been prepared for the recep.
tion. They were greeted with cheers.
On Mr.. Reeds right stood Governor
Frederick T. Greenhalge, Lieutenant
Governor Roger Wolcott, William S.
Parkerso of New Orleans, La, Senator
George F. Hoar OF Worcester, General
Russell A. Alger of Michigan, General
William F. Draper of Hopedale, Com
gressman-elect L.. d. Apsley, OF Hudson.
Governor-elect Charles A. Busiel of New
Hampshire, Congressman Joseph H.
Wal ker of Worcester, Ex-Governor j. Q.
A. Brackett For nearly an hour the
m EN- bers of the club filed steadily past
them, and befor dinner they had shaken
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At $50 bugie CAL gave the sign tor
the procession to form for dinner, which
was served in the grand hall. The walls
of the great auditorium were hung from
floor to ceiling with patriotic decora-
tions. Over the platform were banners
displaying the club notices. and huge
crayon portrait of ex-Speaker Reed.
Plates were, laid for about 1900.
The guests tables were placed upon a
raised platform, on the east side of the
room. Amongxthose present were Rev.
Edward e. Hale Governor Frederic L.
Greenhalge, Ex-Governor Morgan G.
Bulkeley of Hartford, Conn.,, Hon.
william M. Halle Of Springfield, Hon.
| William E. Barrett of Melrose. Hon.
| Thomas N. Hart, Hon. A. W. Beard, Hon.
| J. Fl ,Manley, Chairman Samuel E. Win
slow Of the Repu blican State Commit
tee, and President C. Stanley Hall of
Clark University.
Rev. DR. Edward E. Hale asked, grace.
At7,5O,when President Bent raped to
order, he was greeted by nearly 5000 peo-
ple. After brief reference to the recent
| yictorysas establishing the principles of
| the club. ne introduced Governor Green
halge to welcome the guests. The Gov
ernor was greeted handsomely, and made
| a telling l5-minute speech, in which he
detailed theysalient features of the po-
litlcal contest jnst ended. In.the course
of his spechshe said: If, in the gloom
essary to repeat the old watchword of
Washington's days" Put none but Amer
| leans on guard, you could raise the
grandest army in the world" of free
men, divided by no question of race,
creed or color; by section or By party,
who would rally under the flag and be
| ready to 1--we ana ole Ior bhe principles
| bv it,
| The next speaker was Senator Hoar, who
was greeted with three cheers, and was
| freouently applauded during his speech,
which follows:
SENATOR HOAR'S SPEECH.
| We have had a storm-a storm of,which
| you yourselves have been no small part,
a storm whose raindrops were ballots,
whose thunders were the angry voices OF
| millions of freemen, and dsawhose rainbow
of promise is the trlumphal arch through
which the party. of the Republic shall
march to victory in 1896. 1t did not
come without warning. We heard it's
rumbline and growing in Vermont,
| Maine and Rhode Island, and in far off
Dragon. fill over the whole continent,
wherever elections are free, there was re-
| heated on a gigantic scale the Alpine
| tamuaSt which Byron mas QeSCr1 b ell IN
| words familiar to you all:
Far along
From peak to peak the rattling crags
Leans The live thunder; not from one
lone cloud,
But every mountain now hath found a
And :Iura answers from her misty shroud
Back to.the joyous Alps, who call to her
aloud"
our democratic brethren are asking
in n feeble aud dead way, what it all
,neans Mr.. Wilson, the Democratic lead
er, who paid us a visit the other day,
was nolite enough to say he thought the
nerican people "wanted to kick some
thinan and the Democratic leaders hap
nnad inst then to be nearest to their
pee heels Well, it MIR. Wilson has been
Kicked, I hope he will be in something
of the condition of the small boy who
! was kicked by his fathers mule. His
! fstber roId him that he would never
Look SO we'll again, but he would know
/ ,noat deal more. Our amiable monitor
and adviser, the Boston Herald, rub it,
acre head and wants to know what ii
masos I think the best explanation
FOR rhe Herald is that which Don Quix-
ota sives Sancho Panza. The reason.
Saaeehon S.o said his master, "why thon
| OdHOhos, .o;r oil dox.,,, sAON