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

Erassus Bratnerd. OF this city. WAS ore
OK fae principal speakers a. the montaig
dinner Of the Clover Cab. in Philadelphia,
on tina night OF May -. and bis topic
was seattle The Clover Club Is ore
Of the best known social organizations N
the werid and its ynontaly iiunexs are AZ
ways notable occasions This espscai
banquet was made unusually important by
the distinguished character Of the guests
present. The PhiIGeaphsa Times said N
its report: There were men distinguished
IN this city, men who ssaEd high n the
councils OF the nation. and on account or
the history-naking character OF the times.
when patriotism IS the knowingly trans
cendeaS impulse than an.rnates the Amer
lean heart, IL was . rarely impressive &C.
casion." The dinner was IL homer Of Post
master General Charles Emory Smith. and
there were present, among others, Score
tary OF the Treasury Gage, Secretary or
the Interior Bliss, Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Senator Hanna, Congressman
Adams and Commissioner or Pensions
Evans. Col. A. *. Mcclure presided and
introduced the guest ef honor IN witty
address. Mr.. Smith 1ittingiy responded ard
then Secretary Gage spoke on Patriot
ISM Secretary Wilson. Secretary Bliss
and Senator Hanna were called upon Tor
speeches and then United States District
Attorney James II. Beck. delivered an
eloquent address in memory OF Gladstone.
Other speakers were Second Assistant
Postmaster General W. s. Shailenberger,
DR.. Taicott 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
erd and Postmaster Thomas l. Hicks.
Mr.. Brainerd said n the course OF his
remarks:
~ <z@fx~ f,., L.
that you do not live in Seattle. There. as
Joshua babe the sun stay I'm m:dheaven.
the star OF empire in its Western course
has been ordered to stand. To mark where
1t shines effulgent over that most progress
sive. most energetic. most industrious of
cities God has placed one OF his I'M
mutabie monuments. a silent sentinel peak
rising sheer into the dome of heaven.
nearly three miles high from the seashore
level. there to point TO the lodestar OF the
manifest destiny of this imperial domain
OF ours.
Where rolls no longer the Oregon. but
the Columbia, and where the Pacific's
pulse throbs against our hearts. there We
hold the key which unlocks the chill and
icy doors to wealth beyond the imagina-
ton OF an Arabian Nights dream; there
the broad fields OF waving grain pour forth
wealth OF food exceeding in value the
product of African diamond mines. there
the teeming 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
gittering Olympics are made to yield a
product to shingle and shelter the nation:
there We unite the two grandest names IN
the nations history-Washington and Co
lumb.a: there the American with grim
determination and irresistible energy turns
to face and fight uaca the real sacene OF the
worlds activity today. For lille as some
OF you may feel 1t, We KNOB that Sew
ards prophecy Is a 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 to follow the guns
OF him whose name shines In letters CT
light on your walls. the American hero,
Dewey"