The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-28
GUEST OF HONOR.
The President rendered a Banquet by
the Glover Club.

Philadelphia. Oct. 27.-President Nc
Kinley was the guest of honor tonight
at the peace jubilee banquet of the
Clover Club. where he met nearly all
of the distinguished visitors to the city
and the leading citizens Of Philadelphia
as well. Among the 200 who sat around
the table were the following: Vice
President Hobart, Secretaries Alger and
Wilson, Postmaster General Smith,
| Gems. Miles Shafter, Wheeler, Sumner,
McKibbin, Greedy, Graham. Ludlow
and Lawton, Commodore Philip, United
States Senator Penrose, Charles Fl.
| Cramp, Commodore Casey, Commander
| Cowles, Gov. l.. A. Cooke of Connect
cut, Thomas Dolan, Capt. Robley D.
| Evans, Pension Commissioner Evans,
| Gov. Hastings, Col. r. w. Huntington,
| Y. 5. nj. G.; Lieut.. Richard Person
| Hobson, Gov. Lloyd Lowndes of Mary
land, Commander Mead, Archbishop
Ryan, Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, Gov.
| Ebe e. w. Tunnell of Delaware, Gov.
| j. II. Tyler of Virginia, Lieut. Com
mander Richard Wainwright Mayor
| Warwick and Commodore Watson.
President Mckinley was given an en-
thusiastic reception when he entered
the beautifully decorated dining room
along with Postmaster General Smith
and Secretaries Alger and Wilson. In
response to the patriotic introduction of
Col. Mcclure, the president of the club,
the president said:
Il can not fOrego making acknowl-
edgment to this far-famed club for the
permission it has granted me to meet
with it here tonight. You do not seem
half so bad at this stage as you have
been pictured. No one can unfold the
future of the Glover Club. (Laughter.)
1t has been so gratifying to me to par
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Philadelphia in this great patriotic
celebration. 1T was a pageant the like
of which do not believe has been seen
since the close of the civil war, when
the army Of Grant and Sherman
and the navy of Dupont, Dahlgren and
Porter gave the great review in the
capital city of the nation. And | know
of no more fitting place to have a
patriotic celebration than in this great
city, which witnessed the first conse-
Grafton of liberty and of the republic
AS stood on the great reviewing stand
witnessing the soldiers and sailors
passing by my heart was filled only
with gratitude to the God of battles
who has so favored us, and gratitude to
the brave soldiers and sailors who had
won such signal victories on land and
sea and had given a new meaning to
American yalor.
1T has been especially gratifying to
me to participate, not only with the
people of Philadelphia but with the
people of the great west, where / have
recently visited, in doing honor to the
American army and the American
navy. No nobler soldiers or sailors
ever assembled under any flag. You
had with you today the leaders Of San
tiago, Porto Rico and Guantanamo
We unfortunately had none Of the
heroes of Manila with us. But I am
sure that our hearts go out to them
tonight and to the brave Dewey and
Otis and Merritt, and all other gallant
men that are now sustaining the flag
in the harbor city of Manila Ca voice
Sow about Hobson?'')
1.-THE American people are always
ready for any emergency, and if the
Merrimac is to be sunk there is an
American officer to do it. He succeed
ed in doing what our foe had been I'M
able to do-sink an American ship. Cap
plause.)
Il ask you gentlemen of the Glover
Club to unite with me in toasting the
army and navy of the United States
without whose valor and sacrifice We
could not celebrate the victory we have
been celebrating today. Not only the
men at the front, not only the men on
the battleshiDs and in the battle line,
but the men at home. with ambition
to so to fight the battles of American
clVlllIdtlOn, SnOulu De the recipients OF
the gratitude of the American peo-
pie.
When he finished his speech the pres
ident left the hall to go to the reception
at the Academy of Music. AS he pass
ed from the room General Miles entered.
The head of the army received an ova-
ton as he pressed through the crowd
to his seat next to General Shafter. The
latter arose as General Miles appeared,
reaching out his hand, cordially. greet
ing his chief The public exhibition of
good feeling between the two generals
was greeted with almost deafening APP
plause. General Alger responded brief
ly on behalf of the army, and Captain
Evans was called upon as a. representa-
tive of the navy. He thrilled his hear
ers with a simply told story of the bat
tie of Santiago. filed with personal
"reminiscences. General Miles made an
extended address, in which he paid an
eloquent tribute to the American sol
dier and sailor.
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