Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-28
'KINLEYS WORDS.
Our Money Is and Must Forever
Be Unassailable.
NOW is THE TIME TO ACT.
Notable Speech by the President
at The Waldorf Astoria.
One Thousand Guests Present at the
Third Annual Banquet of The National
Association of Manufacturers.
NOW is THE TIME TO ACT.


| New York, Jan. 27.-The third annual
| banquet of the National Association OF
| Manufacturers of the United States
which took place tonight at the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel, was one of the larg-
est and most elaborate affairs of the
kind ever given in this city One thou
sand guests were seated at the tables.
The fact that President Mckinley
would be present caused a rush for
tickets. President Mckinley was driven
| from the Windsor Hotel, and was re-
ceived at the Waldorf-Astoria at $50
| O'Clock p. m. by the committee of mer-
chants and at once was taken to the
royal chambers. Half an hour later he
appeared in the reception room, where
he held a levee for more than an hour
| The banquet hall was magnificently
| decorated, the tiers of boxes being
draped with silken banners, The pres
| ident's flag was suspended over the
! head of the table from the presidents
! DOA. 1uSIS were SGNGu IOIs ldDlSS e2S-
| tending the length Of the room, an6
| sixteen small tables on either side Of
| the rows of long tables. In the Aston
| gallery annex were 80 other tables. The
! tables were deliberately decorated with
| flowers and ported plants The dais
where the president and other guests
! sat were also adorned with many flow
| ers From the reception room up the
| broad stadrways to the banquet room
were lines Of palms and great ferns.
The march to the banquet hall begar
at Ills and lasted until almost 73t
| o'clock D. m. President Mckinley, witt
| the committee of SO, marched into the
hall, the band playing Hail to the
chief"
1t was after 9 o'clock when Warner
Miller raped for order. Those who oc-
cupied seats of honor on the raised daif
were William Mckinley, president Of
the United States; William F. King, M
| E. ingalls,, d. w. P. Wilson, Darwin r
James, Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur
Thomas w. CrIdler, Randolph Guggen
heimer, Elihu Root the presidents sec
rotary, John A. Porter; Attorney Gen.
eral Griggs, Lieut.. Gov. Timothy L
Woodruff, Senators William P. Frye
Charles Emory Smith, Warner Miller
President Theodore G. Search, Henry e
Gowland, ex-Mayor William L. Strong
Clement A. Griscom, Thomas Dolan
William B. Plunkett st. Clair Nickel
way, William II. Michael, Col. w. G
Brown, Abner Mckinley, Henry b
Haight, Thomas McDougall and Fran
els H. Wilson.
The menu cards were volumes of vel
um bound in undressed calf, with 8
monogram burned into the cover, sur
rounded by scroll. There were etch.
ings Of Liberty" The Brooklyn
Bridge" Industry" a scene in Wal
Street." Commerce and Transports.
ton" and some Of the large buildings
in New York The presidents menu
card was the same as that of the
guests, except that the edges We're In
! gold, and the words 1.-THE President
were embossed in gold on the cover. This
menu card was presented to President
Mckinley by R. A. g. Smith as soon az
he was seated. 1t was 1880 O'Clock
when former Senator Warner Miller
again raped for order He referred to
the youth of the association, and said
that the meeting would be productive
of more good than anything
that had been held in this coun-
try for some time He said there was
nothing political in the organization.
The chief end of organization he de-
clared was to extend the commerce of
the United States abroad.
Mr.. Miller then introduced Theodore
c. Search, president of the association,
who spoke on the development Of Amer
lean industries and the possibilities for
their extension.
An extraordinary scene occurred
when the president was introduced The
men stood up in their chairs, the WON
en- in the boxes waved their handker-
chiefs; the uproar drowned the speak
er's voice. The cheering and clapping
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 Jan. %, 1895, was received
with laughter, which broadened into a
perfect roar when he spoke Of the ex-
tension of business instead of notes
The president spoke as follows:
Mr.. Toastmaster, Members of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers and
Guests: For the cordial character OF
this greeting l return my grateful
thanks. The genuineness of your well
come is full compensation for having
left Washington at an unusually busy
season, in order to participate in this
interesting meeting, / scarcely need re-
! mind you that we do not meet as
strangers.
Neither your business organization
v
unfamiliar to me. l have been with you
before, not as a guest, as now but rath-
er in the capacity of host recall that,
as governor Of the state Of Ohio, it was
my pleasure to welcome you to the city
of Cincinnati, on Jan. %, 1895, at the
/ initial convention of the Manufacture
ers Association. l well remember the
occasion. 1t was cold day. You had
lost everything but your pluck, or
Thought Won had C0l1Va 20 xxyo 9 tha only
l friend your grief could call it's own |
note with satisfaction your improved
appearance; now you are more cheerful
in countenance, more buoyant in spirit
more hopeful in manner and more conf
dent in purpose. Then, too, there are
! more of you here than there were at
our first meeting. Distances are, OF
course, the same, but travelling has been
resumed. Your speeches and resolu-
tons at that first convention We're di-
rected 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 object now, as. gather it, is to &c
out and possess what you have never
had before. You want to extend, not
your notes, but your business
/ sympathized with your purposes
then; / am in full accord with youl
intentions now. ] ventured to say al
the gathering referred to, as reported in
your published proceedings. speaking
both for your encouragement and from
a profound conviction:
This great country cannot be per-
manently kept in state of relapse.
!, believe we will reoccupy the field tenn
porar.ly lost Ito us, and go out to the
peaceful CONQUEST of new a'iS greater
! fields of trade and commerce me ~