Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12
HONOR HER CUES IS
Chicago Welcomes President and
Other Distinguished Men.
MARQUETTE CLUB GIVES AsBANQUET.

Patriotic Utterances by Several Noted
aspeakers-Preside McKinley,s
Busy Sunday - Reception to-. aslss
& IS Canadian Pr ENTER.
Chicago, Oct. 9. Chicago on Satur-
day welcomed as her guests President
Mckinley and his cabinet, Vice Presi-
dent. Mariscal, of Mexico, and Sir Will
frid Laurier, the Canadian premier.
The distinguished visitors arrived at
different times during the day, and
each was given genuine Chicago well
come. The first of the festival parades,,
that of the wheelmen, was held Satur-
day night, many thousands of bicylists
with their machines decorated in all
kinds Of fantastic shapes rode through
streets so thickly lined with people
that it was almost imp possible for one to
move. Indeed, soSgreat was the throng
that Chief Ripley announced to the Off
scial reception commit tt ZEE that i tswould
sbe utterly Impossible for him. even with
"a Battalion Of police officers to force a
passageway through the, crowd inorder
that President McKinley mi breach
the reviewing stand, and for; this reason
the plan was Abandoned and the presi-
dent failed to secure a vie Of the novel
parade.
Banquet at the Marquette Club.
h The president attended the banquet
given by the Marquette club. Fully a
thousand men were present, and upon
his entrance all roset to their feet cheer
ing and waving their apkins in spon-
taneous outbreak of loyal ent husiasm.
The president, althoug his name was
not on the toast list Of the club for it's
Auditorium banquet, was called on to
speak Immediately after Archbishop
Ireland had delivered the address of the
evening. The president said:
The Presidents Address.
''Mr. Chairman land Gentlemen of the
Marquette Club: Twill not interrupt the
orderly progress of the programme which
has been laid before you, and to, which I
must insist that your chairman shall adj
here rise only atthis moment to express
my warm appreciation Of sthe affectionate
salutation OF the Marquette club and to.
say that Irecfprocate it with all my heart.
We are snotsstrang gers. This scene here to-
night is not. alto her I'M amiliar to me-.
7 stood before you once before, now more
than three years of, your honoredi guest,
and have for you all here tonight only
most grateful recollection and unstinted
gratitude. You have not only been my
friends, faithful and unfaltering at all
times, but what is of more moment. and
what is much nObler, you have been at all
times faithful to your country, faithful to
the inviola bility of public faith, standing
always for honest government and honest
money, and forever standing for the hon or
and integrity of the flag wherever it floats,
carried by our soldiers or our sailors, on
land or on sea- [Long and continued
cheers and applause
Ireland Cheered.
Archbishop Ireland's Grafton was
. M naggnifcent aPostrophe to the Ameri-
can republic. Full and clear the words
of the eloquent prelate raised high in
honor the name of liberty, the fame Of
the country and the glory OF. its des-
tiny. He showed that the journey Of
the flag, the journey it is now making
into unknown lands far beyond the seas,
was march Of true liberty He raised
his voice to proclaim5 that in Asia as in
America the flag meant liberty and all
the blessings that go with liberty.
The president was the first to see and
to applaud the practical thought with
which Archbishop Ireland closed his
speech, and toward which all his .elo-
quent reasoning had tended When
the speaker said: The flag herever
it goes, liberty goes with it, it was
President Mckinley who first leaned
forward and struck his hands togther
in approval, and it was his lead that
the members Of the Marquette club fol-
lowed with right good will.
other Speeches.
Secretary Of War Root paid glowing
tribute to the American soldier, re-
counting his achievements in the An
TILES and the Philippines. The army, he.
said,.Wass carrying out the answering
purpose of the admins ton against
difficulties which were almost beyond
the understanding Of the American
people. It was fighting in Luzon
against the selfish conditions imposed
by military dictator, who had been
permitte ed by the generosity of the
United States to gather around himself.
all the forces Of disorder. Secretary
Root declared that the testimony of
such men as Admiral Dewey, Gen. Mer-
ritt,t Gen. Greene and Senator Beverage,
of Indiana, showed the Filipinos to be
Incapable of self-government His ref
erence to Dewey was followed by cheers.
The title of the United States to the
PHILIP pines rested on the sure founda-
ton Of international law, he said, and
the surer foundation of the duty the
American people owed to humanity.
Senator Fairbanks. of Indiana, re-
sponded to the toast !: : The Present Adj