The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
DEPEW AND ROOSEVELT SPEAK
BANQUETS AND ADDRESSES AT BOs-
TON AND ELSEWHERE.
speeches by Gen. BENJAMIN II. Tracy,
Congressman Charles II. Lands,
of Indiana, and Others.


for twelve years at banquet tonight at
DeImonico's. Nearly three hundred MEM
bers of the club and guests were present
and fifty ladies dined in the Empire room"
below.
When the speaking began the ladies took
seats in the gallery. Rev. DR.. w. II. p.
Faunce said grace. Cornelius ]. Bushnell
IedAthe singing between courses with Tent
ing Tonight on the Old Camp Ground"
John Browns Body MY Bonnie" and
the like. For favors each diner received
a neat silver badge, a medallion of Abra-
ham Lincoln, suspended from a bar bear
ing the legend, 1.-THE Republican Club
Among those at the guests table with
President Chauncey NJ Depew were Con-
gresham c. A. Boutelle, Albert j. Bev-
eridge, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt, First Assistant Post
master General Perry S. Heath, Elihu
Root, ex-Mayor w. l.. Strong, Gen. Thomas
r. Eckert and George W. Smalley. Presi-
dent Depew called for order shortly after
o'clock and after a few remarks, in which
he referred to Theodore Roosevelt as the
"cyclonic Dutchman" and to Mr.. Beveridge
as "a young orator of the West, from the
home of one of the brainiest, ablest and
best-equipped Presidents we ever had"
said, in part:
THANK heaven, the clear and superb ut
terance of President Mckinley at the man
ufacturers banquet two weeks ago, and the
impregnable front of the Republican MEM
bers of the House of Representatives, have
cleared the atmosphere. Those two things
have done much for national credit and
Republican hope. Now the representative
must take one side or the other The good
Lord and good devil period has passed
1t has been the glory of the Republican
party. as distinguished from the Demo-
icies were national , The pemoeratic nartv
might be for free trade in free-trade
State and protectionist in a. protection
State, and for sound money in a sound
money State, and for fiat money in fiat
money State, and for free silver in free
silver commonwealth. but the Republicans.
the East or of the West, belonged to one
party, which stood upon one platform and
had only one kind of principles for every
latitude and longitude.
ut is an axiom almost i'm Washington
Mr.. Depew said, that the utterances of
Mckinley, and of Gage, and of Reed, and
politics. But temporary success is worse
than defeat when it is won upon the maxim
faith is believing what you know is not So
There has been MO more inspiring and no
more hopeful spectacle, no more dramatic
picture of the battle in the forum than
when the silver resolution the resolution
OF reputation Of national oblga lions, the
resolution which meant, IL successful dis
came down from the Senate. With the
prestige Of the most august body In our
government behind II, its descent upon the
House was like the charge of the old guard
AZ Waterloo. But the old guard bit the
dust and crumblea to pieces upon the i'm
pregnable squares of honest money led by
that greatest pariiamentarian of our times
Speaker Thomas Il. Reed"
Mr.. Beveridge's Eloquent Address.
Mr.. Depew then called upon Mr.. Bev-
eridge to respond to the toast abraham
Lincoln" after the toast had been drunk
standing.
Mr. President and Fellow Republicans--
To-day, when the Republican party Is mar
shalling its forces for its second great bat
tic for civilization. II is an inspiration to
Iemember that Abraham Lincoln was a
Republican. He was a Republican in order
that he might most truly be American. He
was Republican because Republlcanism
meant equal opportunities for all-because
L meant the rights Of man reduced from
theory into practice. Abraham Lincoln was
Republican because II was the Republican
party that put the plOw, the loom. the anvil
and the pick In the heradry of honor and
or glory He was a Republican because the
Il changed dreams to deeds. proposed as
well as opposed, builded where II tore away
ana destroyed only when destruction would
not be fatal TO that which should remain.
This soul of the common people was a Re
publican because republicanism meant the
nation triumphant over sections: because
OF the people guided by their sanity: be-
cause IL meant the common man working
out the problems of civilization through the
methods of conservatism. Abraham Lincoln
was Republican because he believed In Il
national government strong enough to live
because he believed that maintenance of law
needs no Apology because he believed. to
use MS very words, that there Is no griev-
ance that Is a fit object of redress by a
mob" He was a Republican because he was
iOg1c1an or progress, and, therefore, UNI
dersteod that home market is the major
premise, a foreign market the minor pre-
mise, and American supremacy throughout
the world the conclusion of the great argu-
n1ent of commerce. He was a Republican
national peace. deareF than all besides,
Abraham Lincoln counted the honor of the
American people and raised his warning
the emergency financial powers of gov
ernment And our hero was q Republican
because the Republican party meant new
hope to all mankind because. in the word
Republican. as Lincoln uttered it, was
mingled the music of falling letters, the
songs Of toiers I'm factory and field. the
shouts of happy children made heirs of OPP
portunity and the anthem of Gods plain
people raised 10 their Just estate. This was
our leader-this is our master still. Let
those who WILL adopt repudiation's financial
creed. embrace the sectional doctrines dug
from CalhOun's grave and accept the gospel
Of hate preached from pessmism's pulpit
But with malice toward none and charity
the Republican party believing ever in the
eternal good viii receive our principles. our
policy and our Inspiration from Abraham
Lincoln. the first Republican.
UNION OF CONSERVATIVES.
Abraham Lincoln is the Nations well be-
loved, and so all men write into his life
their individual opinions. But we, the heirs
OF his party and his purposes. have a right
to know the truth. This great achiever was
practical When preparing for his work he
said, How TO do something is the desid-
eratum' And seeking an answer he found
that, where manhood suffrage prevails, no
thought can be written into law. no purpose
find fuIiillment, except through that organi-
zation OF those who think alike. called
political party And he believed in that
cooperation In principle, that brotherhood
Of belief. called partisanship. He was the
partisan OF n cause.-the saving of the Ma
tion. All else compared to that was unim-
portant. That was why he wrote that inn
patient tempest or patriotism, Horace Gree
ley My paramount object Is TO save the
Union That was the issue that burned
from every star in the flag. Until the Ma
tons life safe he asked patriots to for
get everything but that and become. In
every election, the partisans of civilization.
And to-day, when the honor of the Ameri-
can people Is the issue. to-day when free
institutions trial; to-day, when ques-
tiOnS that search out the very heart OF or
ganized society are involved, the spirit OF
Abraham Lincoln commands all who agree
GA the principles of conservatism TO forget
Incidental differences and strike together
everywhere and always until reDuda ton.