The record-union., 1899-10-08
At the Annual Banquet Given by The Mar
qustte Club at Chicago.
The President Also Delivers an
Address at Galesburg, Ill, Com
memorative of the Contest Be-
tween Lincoln and Douglas in
the Memorable Campaign of
1860.

CHICAGO, Oct Thirty five hum
dled men gathered around the tables In
the great banquet hall of the Audito-
rum tonight at the annual banquet OF
he Marquette Club. The guest OF
t-,f. II was President Mckinley, who sat
at a raised table on the east side of the
hall. On the right of the President
sat Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul.
Others at the table were Secretary
sage, Attorney General Griggs, Post
er General Smith, Secretary Hay,
vtner members of the Presidents par
and officers of the Marquette Club.
There were no special decorations at
the banquet, great mass of roses in
s1ut of the President being the only
nlay
II was the appointed time when
President Wickersham. after the re-
mains of the banquet had been re-
moved, called the gathering to order
and introduced Addison Ballard, an
old settler of Chicago, who gave a
humorous description of Chicago in its
early days, in speaking of the sentiment
"Old Chicago"
He was followed by Archbishop Ire
lean Republic" The Archbishop was
given an ovation as he rose, and his
speech was an eloquent tribute to
American manhood and to the repub-
lie, which he declared to be the best
form of organized democracy revealed
in humanity's history.
As soon as the applause which greet
ed the Archbishop as he took his seat
had subsided, President Wickersham
introduced Secretary Root.
The Secretary of War spoke of the
need of improvement in the fighting
machinery of the United States army
and expressed the hope that the les
sons of the recent counfiict would not
be lost upon Congress.
: After dwelling upon the efforts to es-
tablish a formidable force in the
Philippines, the Secretary stated that
by November 10Th $4,000 American
soldiers would be there.
mo American Executive has the
right to take one rod of land from un-
der the sovereignty of the American
people and he will maintain that SOW
ereignty in the island of Luzon, come
who may against it,"
Mr.. Root then spoke in high terms of
the character of the American soldier
as a citizen, saying that his services
in this direction were more to his credit
than any victory he had ever won.
The Marquette Club is a Republican
organization, and from the applause
which had greeted every mention of
, President McKinley's name and every
allusion to the policy of his Admins
tration,. it was foreshadowed that the
response of Senator Fairbanks of In
diana to the sentiment, THE Present
Administration, would be greeted with
wild applause. The remarks of Sena-
tor Fairbanks. which We're received
with great demonstration of approval.
were in part as follows:
THE present administration needs
neither an apologist nor a eulogist. It's
imperishable record is written. and is
before the world. 1t is an admins
tration of arduous deeds done. which
lift it above the dead-level of history.
1t has been confronted with great
questions of domestic policy; ii has
solved them. 1t also has encountered
grave foreign problems, and well it has
met them. No emergency has been so
great, or exigency so severe that it has
not been met on the high plane of ma
tional duty and national honor.
Few administrations ever succeeded
to power with more weighty response
bilities, or of which there were more
exalted expectations. There were years
of distress, years of hopelessness and
= crippled enterprise back of US. There
was a Macedonian cry from all sections
u,
The Administration was essentially
pledged to the maintenance of the
public credit, the public faith. Public
credit is preserved. yes, it was never
so high at home and abroad as it is
in this historic hour
The first duty which was laid upon
the Administration was TO secure the
readjustment of the tariff, and the en-
actment of a genuine protective meas
ure. To this end Congress was con-
voked in extraordinary session at the
earliest practicable moment, and a
tariff law was enacted. 1t has served
well it's purpose. 1t instantly gave
confidence to enterprise, quiekened de-
pressed industries, and the signs ana
evidences of commercial activity were
soon witnessed on every hand. Do
mestic commerce took on new energy
and life. and our foreign trade soon
reached and passed the high-water
mark of the successful and splendid
administration of Benjamin Harrison.
1.-The determination of the Admins
tration to preserve inviolate the public
faith and inflexibly uphold the gold
standard, gave an assurance and conf
dence to commerce that had all of the
potency of the most solemn congress
sionaI enactment. Commerce knew that
no chimerieal monetary schemes would
be allowed to corrupt or tarnish the
circulating medium while the present
Administration was in power. 1t knew
that free silver coinage was, for the
time being at least, as dead as the
Rameses; and that in the light of prac-
tical experience, the American people
could not soon be led to adopt any of
the current financial sophistries and
heresies.
Prosperity came. 1t came to the
$4,000 600 of American citizens; and in
exceptional abundance. It came by the