The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-01
Ar THE cLovER CLUE

Eras.us Braineri. OF this city. WAS ono
OK the principal speakers at the monthly
dinner az the Clover Cub. n Pa1adeipata.
On the night or May %. and his topic
was Seattle" The Clover Club is one
OK the best known social organizations IA
the werld and IT'S monthly dinners are al
ways notable occasions This especial
banquet was made unusually important by
the distinguished character OF the guests
present. The Philsfeiphia Times said n
its report: There were men distinguished
in this city, men who stand high n the
councils OF the nation, and on account or
the htssory-making character or the times,
when patriotism is the moyingsy trans
cendent impulse than eninates the Amer
lean heart. IL was rarely impressive oc-
casion's The dinner was In hoEor Of Post
master General Charles Emory Smith. and
there were present, among others, Secre-
fary OF the Treasury Gage, Secretary OF
the Interior Bliss. Secretary OF Agriculture
Wilson. Senator Hanna. Congressman
Adams and Commissioner of Pensions
Evans. Col. A. K. Mcclure presided and
introduced the guest OF honor in a witty
address. Mr.. Smith fittingiy responded and
then Secretary Gage spoke on Patriot
ISM" Secretary Wilson, Secretary Bliss
and Senator Hanna were called upon for
speeches and then United States District
Attorney James NJ. Beck. delivered an
ciU4acl2S dluTSss III OF
Other speakers were Second Assistant
Postmaster General W. S. Sha,lenberger.
DR.. Taleott Williams. Col. Patrick Dohan.
OF New York. Surgeon General OF the
Navy Van Ripen. Congressman Adams,
Mayor Warwick David W. Sellers, Con-
gresham Thaddeus Meyer. Erastus Brain
eri and Postmaster Thomas l. Hicks.
Mr. Brainerd said in the course Of his
remarks:
n nj h,t xnrfx IL
that you do not live in Seattle, There, as
Joshua babe the sun stay in m.dheaven,
the star of empire in its Western course
has been ordered 10 stand. To mark where
1t shines effuigene over that most progress
siye, most energetic, most industrious OF
cities God has placed one OF his I'M
mutab.e monuments silent sentinel peak
rising sheer into the dome of heaven,
nearly three miles high from the seashore
level, there 20 point to the lodestar OF the
manifest destiny of this imperial domain
OF ours.
Where rolls no longer the Oregon, but
tho Columbia, and where the Pacihc's
pulse throbS against our hearts, there we
hold the key which unlocks the chill and
ley doors to wealth beyond the imagina-
ton OF an Arabian Nights dream: there
the broadfields OF waving grain pour forth
a wealth or food exceeding In value the
product OF African diamond mines: there
the teemlng treasures Of the sea are gath
cred and shipped TO every quarter OF the
earth; there the forests which cover the
slopes of the green Cascades and the
glittering Oiympics are made to yield a
product to shingie and shelter the nation:
there we unite the two grandest names IN
the nations Observation-Disclosures and Co
iumb-a: there the American with grim
determination and irresistible energy turns
to face and fight upon thereai scene Of the
worlds activity today. For little as some
OF you may feel 1t. We know that Sew
ards prophecy Is q fact. Not on the
Atlantic, but on the Pacific, IS the seat OF
greatest activity, OF widest dominion. So
We look for the immediate future not 10
Liverpool or Lyons, but to Munook and
Manila and today the Tenth Pennsylvania
and the First Washington viii march
shoulder to shoulder 30 follow the guns
or him whose name shines In letters of
light on your walls, the American hero.
Dewey"