The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-08
BANQUET Oh MARQUETTE CLUB
1T BRINGS TOGETHER MANY DIS
TINGUIsHED MEN TO GREET
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY
SENATOR FAIRBANKS SPEAKS


CHICAGO, Oct. 7-Thirty-1ve hundred
men gathered around the tables In the
great banquet hall of the Auditorium to-
night at the annual banquet of the Mar
quette club. This banquet is regular
event and, although coming at the same
time as the fall festival, is not distinc-
lively part Of it. The festival BAN
quet under the auspices of the banquet
committee will be held on Monday night.
The guest of honor tonight was Presi-
dent Mckinley, who sat at raised ta-
Die on the east side of the hall On
the right of the president sat Archbishop
ireland, of st. Paul. Others at the ta-
BILE were Secretary of the Treasury
Gage, Attorney General Griggs, Postmas-
ter General Smith, Secretary Hay, other
members of the presidential party and
offers of the Marquette club.
There We're no special decorations at
the banquet, great mass of roses in
front of the president being the onlv
floral display
The banquet was set for p M, but
1t was fully an hour later than that
tlme when it began, and o'clock when
PRESIDENT Wickerham, after the tables
had been spread, called the gathering
TO order and introduced Addison Ballard
an old settler Of Chicago in It's early davs
IN speaking to the sentiment "Old Chi
cago. He was followed by Archbishop
Ireland, who rose to speak to "The
american republic" The archbishop
was given an ovation as he rose. Arch
bishop Ireland spoke as follows:
80 THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
,,, The he,,5A,n American republic! We salute her
| pledge, of undying love and Loyalty; God
dure and prosper. -
The American repuhlict T iI,ar+,,, 80
creat1on; temple Of human right and Of
hiuinan i,stia olgnlty; symbol and guardian of
ton. uefo-
The American republic! The prize Of
Valor and Of self-sacrifce to our reVolT-
tionary s1res; the idol Of the hearts of
generations of Americans; the embodi-
ment OF our own highest civil and po-
ilIlea1 nn6 Il CONCEPTS; she is ours to cherish
tant future ages undiminished in power
and grandeur.
The American republic! Nav Ameri
cans never fair to know the ftillness of
her beauty and of her greatness, and
may they never fail to serve her with
the fealty and the energy which her
merits demand
The American republic is the best form
OF organized democracy revealed in hu-
homase rom bs 1eh she claims
draws to her herself the attention of the
world. Her democracy and her organiza-
of dlo4 tbe OF her democraeysMbehold the glory
IL n66Q there We're to define
racy, would repeat the clear and com
pIeheensive efe words of Americas mar
people, by the people, and for the peo-
Democracy. the sovereignty of the peo-
pie! How oft in history the fair vision
fitted across the minds of peoples! Usu-
ally it was but dream-a dream of an
ideal condition, too ethereal to be thought
possible in societies of mortal men. Now
and then, the vision did seem to unfold
into something real; men hoped that de-
mocracy was descending upon earth in
living form; they touched the, hem of its
garment; they heard the whisper of It's
voice. Now and then, indeed, the peo-
pie, as distinguished from the ruling
few, We're in measure recognized, and
obtained in part their rights In the con-
troll of public interests. However, as
centuries rolled by, men were growing
stronger in thought and in act, and their
with the teachings Of the divine prophet
Of Galflee and they were going out far
ther and farther in quest of human
rights. Democracy was, in very truth,
coming to dwell with men; her spirit was
passing over nations; her breathingS
We're permeating their legislation, here
less, there more; and at last, when
new nation was to be born on the West
ern continent, whose boundleSs resources
and graphical situation betokened fu-
ture of pre-eminent power and influence,
whose native territory had never been
encumbered by the political traditions
of an Older world, democracy wooed its
favor, and incarnating herself in its life
and fame, stood forth upon the earth in
all her force and majesty-the American
republic. They even who fain would
ward off democracy from a people, ad-
too fair for earth. Democracy" it has
been said, lis government for gods,
not for men,
WHY MEN LOVE DEMOCRACY.
The reasons why men so love Demoo.
racy are quickly told. Democracy is civil
and political liberty, Liberty &c the right
and power to control ones own acts, lin
laws inherent in human life. 1t is the
possession of ones own being; a re
trenchment of it is retrenchment OF
ones own. being. Hence the sweetness
in the enjoyment of liberty, the bitter
ness in the absence OF 1t. That some con-
cessions of ones liberty must be made to
cessions no one will regret. for they in
sure protection to the remainder of ones
remaining liberty. But let not such con-
cossions be greater than the absolute
needs of society require. else there Is
servitpdc. with all the pains OF servi-
tGde. and. i'll the determination of the
extent OF such concessions let each IN
div!dual lie allowed his part of action.
SO that @ concession OF a degree of lib
ertv !s the exercise OF liberty. And
those are the conditions inherent in
democracy. which IN this manner Is lib
eIty itself. Ne wonder that the hearts
OF men 90 o1t so readily to democracy.
Der9ocTEcy Is civil and political equal
ity., AN men are crentcd equal" as IS
declared IN the authoritative document
OF democracy. the American declaration
OF independence. All men are created
euual'-no;. Of course. IN natural
dowments-5G, equal In all rights and in
all opportunities derived from the legal
enactmcnts of the nation. In a democ-
racy one man IS not born nntrician or Il
feudal lord. and another plebeian or
serf: every one is born q man. ak
that and nothing else. nor are offices
and diCniticS the exclusive appanage OF
q family, or Of class; they arc within
the reach of every citizen he who is to-
day the poorest and the humblest may
tomorrow be the highest and the most
honored. In a democracy a man is
what he is through his Creators gifts.
and his own energy and wisdonl: rot
what human regulations make him.
Democracy Is the recognition of the
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