The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-29
A HOUSING BIG MEETING
AT YOUNG TEN'S REPUBLTCAN
 CLUB HALL LAST NIGHT.

| and Stiles JudsOn, Jr.-General George l H. Ford Chairman of tho Meeting =
 The Club VIII Keep Open House New
 Years Day.
 ] The hall at the Young Mems Republi-
 can club was filled with large and en-
 thusiastic audience last evening, the oc-
 casfon being one of the social meetings
 of the club which have become so popu-
 lar and which have been more success
 ful this season than ever before in the
 history of the club. The entertainment
 committee spared no pains to make last
 nights meeting a success, and it's ef-
 forts were not in vain. The committee
 had invited United States Senator Jo-
 seph R. Hawley of Connecticut. Judge
 Edgar M. Warner of Putnam and Stiles
 Judson, jr., of Stratford, to be present
 and speak. The invitations were ac-
 cepted and the addresses by these three
 prominent men were listened to with
 marked attention and received with ap-
 plause.
 William Gay, chairman of the enter
 tainment committee, in brief speech
 introduced General George H. Ford as
 chairman of the meeting. General Ford
 after accepting the honor introduced
 Stiles Judson, jr. Mr. Judson is presi-
 dent of the State League of Republican
 Clubs, and his remarks were largely on the work accomplished by the organi-
 zations about the state. He gave his
 hearers rousing talk on good republi- can doctrines and pointed out what the party had done and is doing for the
 state and for the nation.
 Judge Warner was next introduced, and he spoke on National Altriusm.'' His address was in part as follows:
 I never have felt that the republican party controlled the rising or setting of the sun or the orderly procession of the seasons, but I notice that whenever that party has controlled the government of this nation the rising and the setting of the sun and the orderly procession of the seasons have been for the liberation, elevation and prosperity of mankind. know that we owe much to the patriot- ism and devotion of our friends aud helpers in the civil war-those war dem- ocrats who, at the call of their country under a republican president, shoulder ed the musket to save the union--and I also know that we owe very much to the equal patriotism and honor of those gold democrats who refused to follow their party into dangerous financial heresy and nobly voted for Mckinley and the honest gold dollar and protec- tion and prosperity to the American home.
 The election of William Mckinley definitely marks new era in the hiss tory of the United States. The Revolu- tionary war created us nation, the civ- il war proved to ourselves and all the world that we were nation with pow CTS of self-preservation. Commerce and the ties of family and friendship have bound all parts of this country togeth- er, and the Cuban war, with the glori- ous and unexpected climax at Manila and Santiago, introduced us a united people into the family of nations; and we like it our not we are now and forever must be world power to be reckoned with as never before. No body really expected war, and surely nobody except a few conspirators and yellow journals wanted war, but the cup )f iniquity of Spain was full. The cry of thousands of starving little children md the agonies of the reconcentradoeS s 'eached our ears All efforts of diplo- macy were exhausted to prevent the conflict. But the clock of time had ,truck and we entered into a war with me of the oldest and most naughty na- ions of the earth solely, to save oppress- d mankind Where in all the history if the world do we find one like it? In he Revolution we fought for our own fife and liberty; in the civil war we ought for our own life and saved the black man only as we saved our own government But in the Cuban war we ought for the wretched stranger at our loor, of alien race and language, of different culture and education, resem- ding this people in nothing save the passion for liberty. It was a magnifi- ent spectacle-north, south, east and vest rallying at the call of humanity! his last two years will ever be memor- ble in remarkable national history. Events have crowded each other with mazing rapidity. We walk as in a ream. One hundred days of war have lldA6cu LIlG OL lIlc WOIlu IIlUIG han a hundred years of ordinary actv- y. Less than two years ago our bought and vision were limited by ither ocean; now they are world wide hen we thought of our own people; ow we must think of other people who ave been providentially thrust into our amily almost without our knowledge nd against our will. The successful srmination of the war brings to our problems of national ad- as important as any ever breed upon our attention.
 This nation has always been fortu- ate in having great men for great / rises. All of them helped bv other E len, of course, but standing out them-f dyes with magnificent personality Washington led the infant colonies ina lorious war to a grand consummaAon l the birth of free nation. fin oln, with his life's blood cemented for yer the union of states, emancipated 1e black man and forever made free
 Dor honorable. Grant, the hero of the most merciful military whose deeds are embamed history, did more for the perpetuity
 free institutions by his noble and agnanimous civil life and heroic, pa ent death, than he did on the field of attle.