Evening star., 1897-03-31

| Mr.. Wilson. he doubts ed whether Harrf-
| son would have defeated him, and IL Har-
rison had served ten years in the House
| he felt sure that Cleveland would never
| nave won his victory over him. He spoke
| of his admiration for the city of Wash
| ington, which was rapidly becoming the
| great social city Of the world. 1t was al
| ready the handsomest in this country and
| would soon be the most beautiful in the
| world.
| Senator ThurstOn.
Mr.. Fort in introducing Senator Thurs
| ton, told of his work in presiding over
the great convention at St. Louis. Sena-
| tor Thurston referred to the pride which
| the sons of Wisconsin felt in the fact
that their state was represented i'm the
| Senate by Spooner and in the House by
| the guest of the evening. He had gone
| into the recent campaign, he said, with
| entire confidence in the earnestness, honor,
| craftsmanship and horse-sense of the re-
publican party: He spoke of the contrast
| between the notification of Mr.. Bryan at
that place in New York given up to cir
cuses. hippodromes. dog shows and chrys-
| ai;themum shows, where the candidate was
| welo omed by music and the sound of de-
| parting hosts, and the notification of Mr..
| Mckinley at his home in Canton, where
| he waited on the porch. with his wife by
| his side, for the American people TO come
| to him. He said that it was the contrast
| between the American home and the Amer
| lean hoodlum. He had been asked, he said.
| during the campaign what he thought OF
| the prospect and he had said that no man
| who had grown up In that magnificent. en-
terprising. hustling city of Cleveland, Ohio.
| could be beaten by a man who lived in
| Little Rock, Ark. He said that one of the
beauties of the campaign had been the
| fact that American people had gotten ac-
| quainted with Mark Hanna
| In the early days there had been di-
versity of opinion regarding that gentle
man. Some people had thought he was a
coy maiden. others held that he was an old
| woman. Since the victory every one was
convinced that Mark Hanna was grass
| widow, with all the wiles and fascinations
| belonging to that peculiar creature. Sena-
| tor Thurston went on to say, amid shouts
| of BE careful" Don't commit yourself" !"
that Mr.. Babcock had promised the pas
| sage of a tariff bill by the House. and
that he could promise. because he knew
| whereof he spoke, that the Senate before
the third decade of the twentieth century
would surely make that bill law.
Representative Grosvenor.
| Judge Fort introduced Representative
| Grosvenor as the champion mathematician
| of the century. Mr.. Grosvenor remarked
that he was delighted to do honor to some
body who had done something in politics.
| He was fond of politics himself he said.
especially of politics that eliminated in
| civil service reform. He said that only the
Almighty could judge of the future that
lay before Senator Hanna one of his
| greatest moves during the campaign, he
| said, had been to place more power in the
! hands of the congressional committee
There had never been a better managed
| congressional campaign. He remarked
that if the Senate postponed the passage
| of the tariff bill to the period Senator
| Thurston suggested, he hoped that the
| Divine Providence would find some way to
| do away with that body. He thought that
| Washington today was the most beautiful
cit v N ha
| when anybody spoke of the cost of this
city in Congress. that man ought to be
relegated to his home. People should cease
| to figure on the cost OF washington ana
| think of its grandeur.
Mr.. Fort introduced Mr.. James T. Du-
| Bois the great story teller of the cam
paign, and Mr.. Dubois proved his title
| by telling a few anecdotes and closed his
| remarks with few eloquent sentences in
| tribute to Mr.. Babcock and the republican
| party.
| Gen. Henderson.
| Judge Fort read q letter from Speaker
Reed regretting his inability to be pres
| ent, and then called on Gen. Henderson Of
| Iowa. Gen. Henderson paid tribute to the
citizens of Washington who had arranged
this banquet Mr.. Babcock had elected
| more republican members of Congress than
had any other man since the nation be-
| gan. He passed more measures of good to
| the city of Washington since he had been
| chairman of the committee on the District
| of Columbia than any other chairman.
This was non-partisan meeting, said Gen.
| Henderson, amid laughter and applause,
| ard he would die before he would say any
thing of partisan nature. He then pro-
| ceeded to tell of Mr.. Babcock's boyhood IN
| said, had been offered a lumber deal; he
had closed with the overtures of provi-
dence and become a millionaire. Gen.
| Henderson remarked that he had been a
campaign of 1882 and had got licked like
| h.
Representative Cannon.
Representative Cannon confined his re-
| marks to a discussion of what the republi-
| can party would do with their victory. The
House. he said. would pass the tariff bill
| Immediately, and the people demanded that
| the Senate should also take action. Every
day of delay cost the people of this nation
| 81, ,OOOOOO He believed that the Senate
| should make prompt response to the de-
| mands of the American people. If they
| did not, leaders might die, but the Ameri-
can people would keep on demanding action
until they got 1t.
| And Others.
Mr.. ]. Frank Supplee of Baltimore spoke
| of his city as an outlying province of
Washington, and offered to have It annexed
| to Washington along with Bladensburg.
He spoke II the great fight in Maryland
during the past few years. and of the ad-
vantages this state would gain by allying
itself with the party of progress. He said
that they were looking to the future in
| Maryland. and were preparing themselves
| for the fight OF their lives with Senator
| German next year. The border states, he
| said, had saved the Union in all of the
great crises with which it had been con-
| fronted.
| Judge Jere M. Wilson paid tribute to
| the great army to whose intelligence he
| said, we owe the presence of Mckinley in
| the White House. The leaders only had
| to appeal to the American people. He told
OF the magnificent work performed by the
gold democrats in the campaign, who had
looked to the honor of the country rather
| than to any party advantage. He referred
| to two admirable things performed by the
| last administration In its action In sending