The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-25
Boston Republican Banqueters
Applaud Growers Name.
Bryan Followers Called IgnOr
ant and LaWless.
MIR. HOAR'S ANALYSIS.
Western View Of East Not
Strange, He Says,
When Stock Gambling and Rail-
road Wrecking Is Known.

Boston. Nov. 25.-For the first time
in the history of the Republican party
in Massachusetts a thoroughly Repub-
ncan organization. the Home Market
club bound to the cause of protection.
cheered Grover Cleveland. The ban
quet of the club at Mechanics hall last
night was one of the largest in its his
tory. Nearly a thousand members,
representing the industries of nearly
every city and town of the state. gath
cred at the meeting, and when the
feast was over, more than a thousand
more in the galleries listened to
speeches by some of the generals who
toured the country for the gold stand
ard.
President Westcott of Lowell opened
the proceedings by reading a letter
from Mr.. Mckinley. and then intro
duced Lieutenant Governor Wolcott
Senator HOar, who followed, said the
Democratic party had been saved from
itself by Republican efforts.
THE business men of New England,
he said, must study the cause of what
has been going on and how to cure the
disease. 1t is sad to contemplate it,
and cannot the business men aid US?
Cannot they, by the weight of their in
tegrity, regain the confidence of the
west? 1t is not strange that when the
people of the west see the accumula-
ton of wealth by gambling in the stock
market that they should try to initiate
it. 1t IS not strange when they read
the history of the railroad construction
in the west that they should endeaVOr
to repudiate their debts. ] call upon
the business men of New England to
hold strictly to honest business princi-
pies and regain the confidence of the
people of the south and west"
Senator Hoar said that Mr. Bryan
and Senator Morgan, in their review of
ia "a showed
of the American people. They should
take the counsel of their lamented La
mar, who said; oh, my countrymen,
know one another and you Will love
one another
In the absence of General Daniel E.
Sickles three cheers We're given for him
after which General Russell A Alger
Of Michigan was introduced.
Responding to the toast, Wrecks of
the Rebellion General Alger said the
most important events in the nation 5
history We're the signing of the Dec
laratiOn of Independence, the election
of Abraham Lincoln in 1850 and no less
in Importance the election of Major
Mckinley in 1896 All, he said. were
patriotic and in no sense partisan vic
9 Wrecks of the Rebeiuon'-yes.
physical wrecks, it may be-" he said.
'.prematurely aged, but manly patri-
otto, liberty loving, God fearing men.
and he who would cast a slur upon
their fair names should die in infamy
And, now we ask. What of the
night2' The patriotic people of the ma
ton have won a victory over lawless-
ness, reputation, dishO1Or. No party
/ can justly claim the victory. but the
/ law abiding people. peace loving mem
/ bers of all, can rejoice in our escape
4 from a great peril, and know that
/ they acted an important part in the
/ rescue of our country from threatened
! disaster"
Mr. AIger closed his remarks by pay
/ ing an eloquent tribute to President
| Cleveland, and for the first time in
| Boston by a Republican body three
| cheers We're given for that official
! General Howard cautioned his hear
/ ers against putting too much confidence
/ in Democratic allies Already there
are mutterings in New York, he said,
! against Mckinley
Corporal Tanner followed. He desig-
/ as one assuring present security for
/ four years to work in, but declared he
was frank to say the victory was not
! decisive enough to suit him.
Corporal Tanner urged that there
| must be no vacation in the campaign
! of education" and asserted that an
! examination of the election returns
shows that hand in hand with the
greatest ratio of niteracy went the
greatest ratio of Bryan supporters.
He maintained that this was an ar
/ gument that should bring US many
/ degrees nearer the point where the
| fundamental law of the land shall de-
| clare that the individual who cannot
| read a ballot shall not have the power
| to cast one.
when that time comes he said,
| the point viii be forever past when
| rhetoric and rabbits feet will be potent
| factors in the campaign"