The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-28
SIGNIFICANT ADDRESS IN
NEW YORK LAST NIGHT.
Must Be No Wavering From st.
Louis Platform.
CURRENCY PLANK REALLY COM
MAND OF THE PEOPLE.

or's Association in New York Last
Evening-Assures His Hearers That
Gold Standard VIII Be Maintained at
Teller Resolution Now Before the SEN
ate.
New York, January s7.-The third an
nual banquet of the National association
of manufacturers Of the United States
which took place tonight at the Waldorf
Astofial hotel, was one of the largest and
most elaborate affairs Of the kind ever
given In this city. One thousand guests
| were seated at the tables.
The fact that President Mckinley would
be present caused rush for tickets.
President Mckinley was driven from
the Windsor and was received at the Wal
dorf Astoria at 6.30 p. N. by the commit
| tee of merchants and at once was taken
to the royal chambers. Half an hour later
he appeared In the reception room where
he held levee for more than an hour.
The banquet hall was magniacentiy
decorated There were seven long tables
extending the length of the room and
sixteen small tables on either side of the
long rows Of tables. In the Astor gallery
annex were thirty three other tables
The tables were elaborately decorated
with flowers and potted plants.
The march to the banquet hall began at
| 7.15~and lasted until almost 4 80 p. M
President Mckinley with the committee
Of thirty-six marched into the hall, the
| bnnd playing "Hail to the Chief. =
| 1t was after nine O'Clock when the Hon
Warner Miller raped for order. The
Rev. Macarthur then invoked blessing
| Tho menu cards were very elaborate.
1t was 0.8O o'clock when former Sena-
tor Warner Miller again raped for order.
| He referred to the youth of the associa-
tion and said that the meeting would be
| productive of more good than anything
that had been had In this country for
some time. He said there was nothing
political In the organization. The chief
end of the organization, he declared, was
to extend the commerce of the United
States abroad "This association" he
in the cabinet, namely secretary of
commerce. =
| Mr.. Miller then introduced Theodore
G. Search, the president of the associa-
ton, who spoke briefly.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced. The men stood up in their seats
the women in the boxes waved their
handkerchiefs; the uproar drowned the
speakers voice. The cheering and clap
ping Of hands were redoubled when a
toast was drunk to the President.
| President Mckinley spoke slowly and
was plainly heard in every portion of the
hall. His reference to the cold day in
CINCINNATI January 90, 1895, was re-
ceived with laughter which broadened
into a perfect roar when he spoke of the
extension of business instead of notes.
The President spoke as follows:
Mr. Toastmester, members of the Nation
| al Association of Manufacturers and
guests: ,,. o,.r.o4on - 4s4 uoot
| ing, return my grateful thanks. The
| genuiness of your welcome is fully com
pensation for having left Washington
at an unusually busy season in order to
participate in this meeting. l scarcely
need remind you that we do not meet as
strangers. Neither your business orza-
nization nor your social reunions are al
| together unfamiliar to me. have been
| with you before, not guest as now, but
| rather in the capacity of host. I recall
| that as Governor of the State of Ohio, it
was my pleasant duty to welcome you
to the city of Cincinnati, on June y,
1895, Mt the initial convention. we'll re-
member the occasion. 1t was cold day.
You had lost everything but your pluck,
or thought YOU had. Courage was the
only friend your grief could call it's own.
| | note with satisfaction your improved
appearance now. You are more cheerful
In countenance, more buoyant III spirit,
more hopeful in manner and more conh-
dent in purpose. Then, TOO, there are
more of you here than there were at your
| first nesting. Distances are OF course
| the same, but travelling has been re-
sumed. Your speeches and resolutions
at that first convention were. directed
mainly to the question Of how to regain
what you had lost In the previous years,
or, If that was found impossible, then
how to stop further loss. But your OBJ
ject now, as I gather it, is to go out and
possess what you have never had before
You want to extend not your notes, but
your business.
l sympathized with your purposes them
am in full accord with you intentions
now. I ventured to say at the gathering
VrOCe6dfTlua eraakfDr both for vOur