The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-28


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Boston, April 27.--The Middlesex
club tonight celebrated the seventy
fourth anniversary of the birth of Cen
eral Grant. The guests were Senator
John M. Thurston of Nebraska, Lieu
tenant General James Longstreet of
Georgia, Senator j. B. Foraker of Ohio,
Hon. j. H. Hoyt of Ohio, Governor
Roger Wolcott and Ex-Governor George
S. Boutwell,. Ex-Governor j. @. A.
Bracket, the president of the club, oc-
cupied the chair. Prominent among
members present were Ex-Governor j.
d. Long, Samuel ]. Elder, ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor Halle, Speaker George
Won l.. Meyer of the Massachusetts
house, President Lawrence of the sem
ate, Colonel w. e. Barrett, Insurance
Commissioner Merrill, Sergeant-at-
Arms j. G. B. Adams, State Senator
Dana Malone of Greenfield, and r. II.
Stearns. A large national flag above
the presiding officer was flanked on
either side by a portrait of General
Grant. One of these portraits, which
was loaned to the club for the 'occa-
sion by B. S. Knowlton & Co. of Bos-
ton, was painted by e. T. Billings and
was finished the day before General
Grants death, while the other was a
photograph presented to the club by
General Grant
Dinner was served at $50 after a
brief reception to the guests in the par
lors
The menu was long and elaborate
and it was nearly 9 o'clock when ex-
Governor Bracket rose, amid ringing
cheers, and raped for order. In open
ing the speaker said: 1--WE are glad
to add the names of our guests of this
evening to the roll of honor of our
guests of the past, chief among them
being the name of General Grant, who
not only was at one time a guest of
the club, but because member of it."
He then introduced Governor Wolcott,
who was enthusiastically received and
said: Our guests come from Ohio, fer
tile in men as well as in ideas. The
sunny south, with all the old differ
ences of opinion obliterated, never
since the early day of the republic,
more warmly beloved than it is to-day,
send us as her representative one WHO
was thirty years ago our gallant foes
and is tonight our gallant friend. 1t
is most happy custom to commemor-
ate by special services the days that
mark the births Of men who, by high
service have deserved well of the re-
public. AS in the future the people will
study the career of Ulysses S. Grant,
they will read in it that two of the ele-
ments in his character which helped to
make him great We're his iron tenacity
of purpose and his magnaninaity of
spirit. These elements stamped him as
one of the great men of the worlds
history. But I am here simply to as
sure our guests that the grasp Of
friendship which our commonwealth
extends to them tonight is nerved with
the vigor of friendship and that the
blood that tingles in the outsretched
hand comes warm from the throbbing
heart of the commonwealth Of Massa-
chusetts.'
The remaining speakers had been
asked to discuss different phases of Cen
eral Grants career and the president
called up General Longstreet to speak
of Grant, the soldier.
The old Confederate was received
with repeated cheers and frequently
and loudly applauded throughout his
address, which was heard with pro-
found attention.
The president next introduced ex-
Governor Foraker Of Ohio, who spoka
upon Grant, the republican. The SEN
ator was greeted with cheers and un-
limited enthusiasm, and his address
was warmly received. A reference to
Reed as possible presidential candi-
date was the signal for a wild demon
stration of enthusiasm and when
moment later he mentioned the name of
Mckinley the audience expressed it's re-
spect Cor the speakers preference by
second demonstration almost as en-
thusiastic. He said in part: General
Grant was a many sided man and
man because he was loyal to all, his
relations in both private and public
life He will naturally be first thought
of as a great soldier. His achievements
of a military character were of such
Importance that they naturally obscur-
ed almost everything else that he did.
That greatness was enhanced by the
way in which he appeared before us
and attracted our attention. History
testif1es how grandly he vindicated
every expectation, but fortunately his
career did not end with his battles. He
revealed his character as a man when
in the moment of his supreme triumph
he said: Have your men keep their
horses and take them home with them,
for they will need them to do the spring
Simple words were these
but grand and beautiful measured by
the circumstances under which they
were uttered. They show he under
stood we had been fighting, not to de-
stroy, but to preserve within one COM
mon destiny and glory. That marked
him for a republican and it is only to
repeat history to recount how he was
faithful to the emancipated, enfran-
chised, reconstructed.
He believed that it was impossible to
have sound business conditions without
having an absolutely sound currency,
and that made him stand as a rock
against all the financial heresies of his
time for the maintenance of public
credit and preservation of national
honor. There was not in his political
makeup the slightest trace of mug
He was pre-e -eminently the
stalwart OF the stalwarts. Another
which comes to US from him
tonight is that when the republican
party comes into power it will be its