New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-26
EX-GOVERNOR CAMPBELL INTRODUCED.
The next speaker was Ex-Governor Campbell
Of Ohio who spoke in part as follows:

Gentlemen of the Ohio Society would include
the ladies' in this greeting but friend southard has
old men may do that with impunity, and therefore,
you see am debarred from the pleasure. | am
nmr bonored Peace Commissioners. that
God moves in a mysterious way His woners
about four or five years ago-an ohio ianquet-and
l remember how my old friend Michael d; Harter,
speech that should not take the Hawaiian Isl
for as "A volunteer / took issue with him. and said
that. while perhaps ourselves would not see It,.
orr children would ike 10 see the islands east Of us
and the islands west of us. the republics north Of
from The Isthmrs TO the pole under the American
t nag The HawaiiaH Islands have come to US. /
might say. by force OF gravity. We have also got
great islands in the East, and nnumerabe islands
SO far the results ought to BE- a SOURCE Of pride
TO every American citizen We got Porto Rico
without any question. and we will get Cuba. just "a
we got Texas. As To tho Philippines. first. We
conquered them: second. these gentlemen beside
me bought them. They are ours and we can do
what We want with them. our first duty. say, is
to Kill the assassins, The bushwhackers, the muir
derers who have been shooting down American
soldiers. And to begin with | should take Mr..
other kind. O.aughter)
And yet, am not an expansiqnisi. ! belong to a
party that cannot even expand over this country,
and they are lucky II they get four years at a
time. But have deep faith IL American liberty.
conscience and American love Of justice. and am
sure that these qualities which have made America
Powers that constitute the world Will enable our
Government 70 cope with this question. ! believe
ana ot hey e6no f3 h S ag Wm
do II for them in 1900 Uaughter)
TRIBUTE TO JUDGE DAY
am sorry that Judge Day Is not here. HIS
career has been that OF "A typical American II
could not have come to any but him Two
years ago he was practising lawyer In a little
country town In Ohio. We have got lots more Ike
him out there. We have got thousands of them
They are our Ohio country boys unambirious and
mortal But they are all Days II you give them
chance. Judge Day was nrst made Asslsta mt
Secretary OF state. Then circumstances put him In
hrst place. and h. held that post I'm time OF
and trouble. We are compelled to say men a nd
as Americans that he did we'll Directly after this
he was appointed to the Peace Commission. and
there he made a record OF which may speak
with pride. He Eas at the front OF that body
He the leader. and he conducted his negOti-
ations not with any nderhand back door met h DDS
but In honest. manly straightforward way
call TO your attention. lie was born In the same
district which once represented In Congress and
he was born in a county that Invariably gave my
upward. lie is your neghbor and your friend.
always think OF him hrst In connection with his
great work ohio In the War" And It Is with
Colonel Minor Mlligan NJ his greatest personal
loss In the war. II Senator Gray's wife were here
fccl like SAYING about her husband. But cannot
snv 80 many nice things before his face. have
great deal OF him IN the Senate. We belong,
You know. To the same long suffering political
party.
These men have come to NJ. Just out OF "A little
war People dld not know what they wanted be
did not want war There We're men interested IN
stocks that had too many uckcrs In their back
offices 10 banker after war. but ever since the 18th
OF February. 1885 | have hoped and devouty
prayed for war Ever since 2G6 American sailors
went TO their death martyrs the Maine
have wished TO punish the perpetrators Of that