The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-16

members who were seated on the front row
of seats Mayor Humes came in later.
President Preston invited Judge Balinger.
president of the Mckinley club, TO take
the chair. Judge Bailingcr was loudly ap-
plauded. He said:
81 feel honored to meet with you, fellow
Republicans, not in q divisional spirit, put
as united organization. applause |
have never in my experience enjoyed nght-
ing for the principles or the Repubicen
brother Republicans When the brains and
energy of true Republicans are united In
a common purpose they always win. CAP
plause) Contests are inevitable, but after
We have settled our differences we viii
and shall present a united front to the
enemy" (Appiause)
Two Secretaries Arc seated.
Mr. Preston. from the body of the house
said that as there were two secretaries,
Mr.. Schively and Mr. Inglis, they should
both be at work and he therefore requested
Mr. Inglis TO take his place at the secre-
tary's desk with Mr. Schively. Mr. lnghs
complied, being given hearty cheer; He
made short but appropriate speech in
acknowledgement.
A recess of ten minutes was taken TO
enable the conference committee to set
tie the preliminary details of the ratiflca-
ton meeting and banquet in honor of
President Mckinley's denomination at
Philadelphia Judge Root, chairman of
the committee. reported after the club
had been called TO order again that the
committee had decided to have ratih-
cation meeting June 2, at the armory.
and a banquet on June %, when the city
VIII be filled with delegates from various
parts of the state TO the coming conven-
ton of Republican clubs.
1t needed but the speech of Josiah Col
Inns. ir., to awaken the latent enthusiasm
in the gathering. After the formalities of
consolidation had been carried out Mr..
Collins demonstrated the fact that he is
vi oil
a half-hour's talk which elected the
heartiest applause. He said that as the
Populists had swallowed the Democratic
party there was nothing left for gold
standard Democrats to do except to join
the Republican party.
Since the Republican party has come
to our way Of thinking" she said, in a
halfhumorous vein. we who supported
President Mckinley with you in 1896 are
glad to be called Republicans. tApplause)
My new political home is not furnished
with rich remembrances Of victory--vic-
tories won and of party differences heal
ed. but hope in time, by taking an in
terest and a part in the affairs of the
party, to relieve the plain character of
my new abode" Applause.l
Mr. Collins characterized Bryan as
steam megaphone who was the walking
high priest of pessimism and opposition
to national progress.
Sectional strife and feeling was wiped
OUT when President Mckinley, at the cut
break of the war with Spain. appointed
er, to command the cavalry In Cuba he
said I'm that act he made 1t possible for
a Southern man to become Republican.
The withered hearts that wore the blue
shook not the bloody shirt, but the mantle
OF charity, and thereupon the American
people gave the world an exhibition of
what true American manhood can be snd
do President Mckinley knows how to
combine principles with policy. and there
in lies the true statesman" tApplause)
MIR. Collins Favors Expansion.
The speaker declared in favor of expan-
sion. When the rule OF the Spanish
priests In the Philippines shall have given
way to that of the American public school
teacher he said then the inhabitants
of those Islands Will rise up to bless tho
day when the American nag loosened its
silken folds over them. the emblem OF ie-
ligious and political freedom (Applause.)
The policy of expansion or Imperialism, II
you please. has made this country grow
from a thin fringe OF people along the
Atlantic coast, surrounded on one side by
tyrants and on the other by Indians, to
the present splendid proportions of the
the American nation speak for the wisdom
of that policy" (Applause)
At this tuncture MIR. Kerr was intro
duced as the president Of the new club.
He spoke eloquently and In forceful style
for ten minutes He said
"The union OF these two clubs means
the death and everlasting burial OF the
Wilson and anti-Wilson cry. of the
Humes ana anti-Humes issue, as well as
the Ankeny and anti-Ankeny cry in KING
county. applause ] am honercd by be-
ing selected as your president, and shall
endeavor by fairness 20 merit the conf
denco YOU have reposed IN me"
He congratulated the club on the huspi-
ciOus circumstances under which the ma
uonal convention was about To meet at
Philadelphia The people. he said would
indorse the administration of President
Mckinley by record breaking majority
In November. and rehuke the Widest rev
clry and partisan inCapactty." exempitnel
In the Chicago platform. The administra-
ton OF President Mckinley had brought
work 10 100000 who were idle in lsos. ana
had restored tho producing capacity of
the country to It's FUN standard. enabling
the United states 20 make an unexampied
showing In commercial and business ad-
VanCemont.
on motion Of Judge Balllnger the club
adjourned, subject to the cali Of the presi-
dent