St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-09
DIR. CHAUNCEY EXPRESSES HIS
ADMIRATION FOR PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND.
AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT.
A NATION WHOSE FOUNDATION
DEFIES DESTRUCTION FROM
WITHIN.
BUFFALO,s HoNORED GUEsD.
He Speaks Pleasant Words Aboua
the Enterprise of New YorI1,s
Gateway.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 8.-Never
| has this city seen more representa-
tive body of citizens than assembled
tonight in the Buffalo club to do hon
or to Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew. The
dinner was rendered to Mr.. Depew
not alone because of his prominence
IN affairs Of commerce, but quite as
much for the special interest he has
| always manifested in the welfare Of
this city. Hon. Edgar B. Jewett.
mayor of Buffalo, presided, and well
coined the guest Of honor in a speech
| Whlch elaborated the sentiments that
had inspired to the banquet. John N.
Scatchert, president of the Bank of
Buffalo, was toastmaster. Among the
guests were Col. William F. Cody
and George H. Daniels, general pas
senger agent Of the New York Cen
tral q Hudson River railroad. The
! chief speech of the evening was that
or Mr.. Depew. He spoke as follows.
'"Thirty-three years ago. as a young
| law student, L came up to deliver nv
| Hrst political speech at Buffalo. The
question Of the hour was slavery and
secesslon-the one the highest moral
the other the life or death of the re-,
public l have lively recollection of
that speech, my first in a city and to
great audience L am afraid that IL
an old lawyer-that 1t had more frilis
than shirt. 1t was certainly more
lurid than logical, although the inten-
slty OF the feelings and passions of the
nour maze possible an enthusiastic re-
| cept1on for it's declarations and dec
lamations. l remember lying awake all
mght wondering whether the United
| states district attorney would summon
me before the grand jury to justify the
charges L had made against President
Buchanan and his cabinet of conspir-
| ing Tor the overthrow of the govern
ment IN the interest of slavery
| GATEWAY TO NEW YORK.
| Bufalo is a growth and not a
| boom. went through a city recently
III lhe South which was an example Of
Doom as against natural growth. There
| were streets and broad avenues, blocks
| OF constructed business houses large
plants built for the manufacturer to
take possession of, comfortable and
coZy dwelling houses, public squares
ana parks, belt railway and a trolley
line already constructed and vet. be-
yond the capitalists who invested their
money and the workmen who helped
|
had an inhabitant and never will. It
was built upon air and scenery. The
! commercial centers of the world in
their origin have cared little for health
or views. Many of them have been
rounded in the swamps, where it has
| taken century of effort to alleviate
their malarial and miaSmatic condi-
| tions. Their founding and their future
| have been the solution in their location
! of the problems of transportation. For
! after all, the civilizer of the world and
| the concentrating power of its wealth
and activities is transportation. 1t is
along the highways of commerce that
| prosperous empires have been found
! ed and populoUs cities constructed
All roads lead to Rome was the
| commercial maxim of antiquity. All
roads lead to New York, is the COM
! mercfal maxim of the new world and
| Buffalo is the gateway of New York.
! The development of the internal COM
/ merce of the United States has
been SO great that an ocean gateway
which brings to the metropolitan city
OF our imperial state three-fourths of
! the foreign commerce of the republic
is a wicket in farm fence compared
. nues through which this tremendous
agricultural and manufacturing prod
| uct of our country finds its way to the
seaboard. In the eight hundred mill
ions on tons carried on the railways of
the United States last year we have
sixty millions more than on all the
ocean steamers of the world put to-
gether. To this must be added the
tonnage of your lakes, rivers and can
| ais"
ON SOUND FOUNDATION.
Speaking of the wealth and power of
! this country and of the beneficence of
| its government, DR.. Depew said:
Our processes of development have
| but automatic. Our form of govern
ment is the only form yet devised ca
! pable of indefinite expansion without
| weakening its cohesive power. 1t is
! not possible to conceive of a revolution,
| dangerous to our existence or to the
integrity of our institutions, or to the
| conservative safeguards of life and
property, of which We are so proud,
| which will involve the whole republic
| The DebS revolution. with governors
| of states and mayors OF cities IN SYM
! pathy, was remarkable test. Though
1T involved one-third of the states and
one-half of the territories of the union.
! yet with the confederate veterans of
the South eagerly proffering their SER
| vices to the government. and the sober
sense of the New England and middle
! states sustaining the president the
revolution was dissipated almost as
! quickly as it has originated with the
| minimum of loss of either life or prop
erty. So the Populist frenzy may in
| Volve half dozen commonwealthS or
wild, passionate, unreasoning de-
| mand for debaSed currency NAV find
| almost unanimous expression in a
large section of the republic and yet
the sober sense and calm Judgment of
the rest, by mere inertia, wears out or
| brushes out the dangerous excitement
| Every year it becomes more difficult
to involve the whole people in actions
! or opinions which may threaten the
! settled principles of the government
or of commerce or of trade
DIR. Depew paid warm tribute to
two citizens of Buffalo who he said.
each in his time. did right-the one,
Elbridge c. Spaulding, in opposing linn
itless imitation of the currency, and the
other, Grover cleveland, in protecting
the honest dollar. He said, in conclu.
sion:
Il want to express to you my pro.
found appreciation of this unique and
distinguished honor. You might have
waited until l was dead and passed a
resolution to be engraved upon my
tombstone. but it is sweeter far to en-.
joy taffy while living than to be deco.
rated with epitaphs when dead
DRIRED AN ATDICRNJs