The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
ROOSEV ELI
Honored By a
Banquet.
BRILLIANT AFT AIR.
Speeches by Depew and the
Governor-Elect.

New York, Nov. 12.-Governor-Elect
Theodore Roosevelt was the guest of
honor at banquet rendered him to-
night by members of the Republican
Club, at their home on Fifth avenue.
There were more than a hundred din
ers. including many of the most prom
inent republicans in the city. The en-
| thusiasm when Colonel Roosevelt en-
tered was tremendous, the men stand
ing and cheering him vociferously.
| The guests table was in the parlor,
and presided over by CAaunceY Nj. De-
pew, president of the Grub. Seated near
Dr. bepew were Colonel Roosevelt,
| State Chairman B. b. Odell, Elihu
Root, Jr., Elihu Root, Judge William
K. Olcott, General Wager Swayne for
mer assemblyman d. e. Ainsworth of
Oswego, John Proctor Clarke and form
er police commissioner Frank Moss and
Avery D. Andrews
DIR. Depew opened the speaking at 10
o'clock.
Mr.. Depew, in part, said: '"The re-
lpublicans are satisfied with the popular
endorsement on Tuesday of their prin-
cipals and with the success of their
candidates. often in politics a party
deserves TO win but fails to do so.
This time, however, the party which
was entitled to the victory is master
of the field. Many politicians and
political managers advise a, still hunt.
Most of them fear oratory, fireworks
and brass band.
THE lesson of the late campaign is,
4 if you are sure of the soundness of
your platform and the merit of your
candidate, then the policy of the cam
lpaign should be eXhortation and eX-
hibition. The truth improves by ana
lysis and inspection, and the right man
becomes more popular and wins more
friends under the highest candle power
OF publicity. The doubterS who queS-
ton the wisdom of our speaking tour
. and lightning circuit of the state are
, now It's enthusiastic admirers. Our
conditions at the opening of the pres
ent campaign were full of peril New
questions never discussed and never
thought of in our scheme of govern
ment had been precipitated upon you,
new problems for the solution of which
we had no text books, must be met and
answered.
: I'm our state we had before us de-
fenSive campaign. 1t is the rule of
politics that to excuse is to accuse.
1t is the experience of politicians that
the jury of the people regard with dis
trust the party in power when under
investigation, even if with the best of
motives it is investigating itself.
I'VE can account for the marvellous
victories of Dewey, of Sampson and of
our army only by reverently recogniz-
ing the interpostion of Providence.
Now, in our situation in Empire State
Providence preserved from perils by
land and perils by water, from perils
of fever and perils of battle, and gave
the marvellous prestige with the popu-
lar mind of the charmed life to the
hero who filled every requirement of
, | o1Iba1-Y al nIia1 offian n t71iG af
commonwealth, to whom, with great
wisdom and foresight, the party lead
ers turned and who was hailed by the
convention as the peoples choice. The
situation changed, the current ques-
lions became obsolete, the campaign
resolved itself about the personality,
the record in civil office, the record in
private life and the reStlesSness and
onrushing gallantry of the soldier, Col
Theodore Roosevelt.
I'VE are done with the fighting and
the shooting. Now comes the fulfill
ment Of our pledges and our ability to
meet the expectations we have raised.
The Cuban problem, the Porto Rican
situation, the conditions in the Philip
pines, have come to us under the adj
lministration and wise policies in peace
and war of President Mckinley The
voters have decided that he has so far
done so well, they leave to him the
settlement of these questions in which
the future of our country is SO deeply
involved.
1.-THE republican party for the next
two years in the untried field of gov
lernment for distant possession and
alien races, is facing difficulties which
will make or mar its fortunes in 1900.
But the party which reconstructed the
!, union of the states, which inaugurated
the policies which have made our coun-
try supremacy great and prosperous,
has the initiative, the heredity. the ex-
Iperience and the statesmen to make
! these conditions work for liberty, hui
Imanity and the glory of our country
and the happiness of it's people wher-
ever the flag floats.
albany, for the next two years, will
be the most interesting capital in the
country. Every department of the
state government, every bureau and
commission will feel the force of the
tireless energy. the inquiring mind and
the enforcing spirit of Gov. Roosevelt.
Every city, great or small, will know
lin its government that the executive
chair is occupied by a chief magistrate
who has been both a commissioner OF
police and a soldier, and acted TO ms
own great fame, the public good ana
the glory of both services, upon ms own
courageous initiative.
"Gentlemen, here's to a successful adj
ministration and long life and lncreaS-
jog honors to Gov. Roosevelt.
| Colonel Roosevelt was repeatedly
lcheered as he arose to follow Mr.. De-
pew. In part he said:
II am going to open what ] have TO
saw to you tonight by asking you to
drink with me two toasts. In the first
place. I think we all should realize the
debt this state owes, the debt that de-
i cent people of the great cities owe, to
the splendid republican vote of the
icountry districts / give on behalf of the
republicans of the city of New York a
toast to the men of the country, which
! won the city last Tuesday. AS to the
second toast, l propose to drink the
health of those honest democrats and
honest independents without whose aid
we could not have won. Those gentle
men did not come to us because they
wished patronage or because they
wished office They came because they
believed in what we said, in what we
i promised. They believed that they
should have an absolutely honest adj
minstration at Albany. That the adj
minstration shall be as clean as a
hounds tooth l want you to drink with
the understanding that when you drink
1.-The toast you pledge yourselves to sup