The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-23
ISSUE Of SECTIONS
wOLCOTT DISCUSSES THE SILVER
QUESTIONABLE NEW YORK
BANQUET.
III
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HE DEFENDS THE WEST.
BELIEVES THE IDEA ENTITLED TO
A BETTER NAME THAN
CRAZE"
REVOLT IN RANKS THREATENED.
If Mckinley DeesI Not Change His
Attitude the Colorado Senator
Will Bolt.
REVOLT IN RANKS THREATENED

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-The ninety
second annual festival of the New
England society in the city of New
York was held at Delmonico's tonight
Four hundred members of the society
and their friends, including many dis
tinguished men, were present. The
tables were devoid Of decoration, ex-
cept for the miniature pyramids Of
yellow doughnuts and rosy-red Bald
win apples. Throughout the evening
the parlors of Delmonico's were tbrong-
ed with New Englanders representing
every one Of the states SO designated
An hour was spent in social inter-
course, and, although the dinner was
set for $50, 1t was o'clock when the
guests seated themselves at the ia
bles. Among those who sat at the
guests of honor table were: ]. Pier
pont Morgan, Joseph H. Chaote, Gen.
Wesley Merritt, James Whitcomb Ri
ley, Richard Olney, Senator Edward
o. Wolcott, Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott,
Gov. Frank s. Black, Senator George
F. Hoar, President Charles w. Eliot
ex-senator George F. Edmunds, Gen.
Nelson A. Miles and Mayor William L.
Strong. The dinner was made up Of
good, old New England dishes, and
during Its discussion a quartette, as
sisted by the greater portion of those
present, sang popular airs.
The principal address was delivered
by Senator Wolcott, of Colorado.
Mr.. Wolcott began with humorous refer
the exiles from New England bore their
Punishment; then spoke of an alleged desire
OF the Canadian government to acquire the
state of Maine and portions of New Hamp
Shire and Vermont in exchange for territory
in Western Canada Serious thought on the
subject Of a possible cession Of a part Of
New England, Mr.. Wolcott said. brought
realization Of what it would mean to this
people to face the possibility of changing by
the shadow of hair the contour of these
states or the sacrifice of a chip Of It's ma
tive granite, however barren. He continued:
Not only does this sentiment pervade the
land, but we seem at times to be developing
in inclination to invite some other country
to differ with us in order that we may demon
strate our united aggressiyeness.
In certain directions our domestic differences
are -crystallizing and not disintegrating. For
more than a generation we have waited for
the day when parties would divide solely on
national questions, and when the old sectional
issues growing out Of the war and the race
problem would be buried. The time came.
ton and 10! we emerged from the contest
threatened with another bitter sectional dlvis-
ion. The far West largely the child of the
East and pulsing with its blood joins hands
with the South. The new alignment is not
only debtor against creditor, class against
class; but In land pervaded with equal de-
votion to what Its people believe the truest
welfare of the whole country, great MAORI
ties section face equally great majori-
ties In another. ..sst,-.
''The West Is not decadent; It's views are
Of men verile, inductrious and genuine. and
their beliefs are honest. They would scorn
any sort of evasion Of an obligation. They
are patriotic men. There is in the whole
far West hardly Northerner born who was
old enough to go to the war, whom you will
the badge OF his old corps. They Ameri-
cans; to a proportion greater, far greater
than in the East, native-born American citi-
Zens. The views they cherish are held with
practical unanimity.
80 universal feeling as that which per-
vades the great West cannot all be wrong.
You cannot dispose Of conviction held by
millions of intelligent people by calling it
a craze, and some day you may find 1t
worth your time to look for the truth where
1t is usually hidden-somewhere between ex-
tremes.
Somehow 1t Is not. really recognized in
the West that ability to reorganiZe @ West
ern railroad and swell its stock and securi-
ties several millions every time it is fore
closed, necessarily indicates equal ability
to determine the wfsest economic policy for
the farmer who lives along the right of
way. And men who would no more dream
of entrusting their banker with the duty
Of formulating their financial views than they
would of entrustihg the man Of whom they
bought shotgun with the command Of the
armies of their country, are naturally in
clined to fear that in this part of the
moral vineyard there is tendency to as