Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-12-06
THEREPUBLIC ISSAFE
PRESIDENT DECLARES THERE -
NO DANGER or EMPIRE.
frat speech Since Ballots Were Cast
In Made by Executive before fne
Union League at Phiiadeipnia-
Meaning Of the Verdict.

When the American people choose
| President they expect him 20 unuel-
stand what forces designated MIN iol
| the highest honor men can confer Iney
expect him to appreciate and compre-
bend the responsibilities to when nc
| has been called. They expect nim
rightly to interpret the peoples verdict
and thus prove himself able accurate
| " to execute the peoples Will. Presi-
| dent McKtnley's address at Ph1iadei-
| phia on Saturday, his first formal com
| ment on the verdict OF Nov. ., Oh all
| these points meets the peoples just ex-
| pectations.
"Be not disturbed; there Is no danger
from empire; there is no fear Tor tue
republic" With these words Presldent
Mckinley, in his first public ADDRESS
since the election, replied to the charges
made by his political opponents during
| the national campaign.
The Presidents speech was Delivered
at the annual banquet OF the Union
League Club, one Of the Oldest anu
most influential Republican Organlza-
tions of the country, the occasion being
| the celebration of Founders Day.
President Mckinley was the guest OF
honor. there being present also GOV.
| Theodore Roosevelt Of New York, Vice
| President elect, and all the members OF
| the Cabinet, with the exception or Sec
rotary Of War Root, who is in Cuba.
Before the distinguished assemblage,
| which included many Of the foremost
business men of the city, the nations
Executive made his first extended COM
ment on the result of the election. He
said that the victory won at the polls
could not be considered in any sense
an individual triumph, but instead was
declaration by the people OF what
they wanted maintained in government.
The duty Of the party chosen to manage
the affairs of the nation, he said, was
to interpret rightly the public will and
execute it faithfully.
Meaning of Peoples Verdict.
That the verdict of the people was
against the false doctrine of class dis
tinction, for maintenance Of the gold
standard, for commercial expansion,
for beneficent government under Amer
lean sovereignty in the Philippines, and
for the honor of national obligations,
the President said was plain to all. He
expressed satisfaction at the decisive
nature Of the victory, and gave credit
to all the forces combining to elect the
Republican ticket. These, he said, in
cluded many who belonged to another
party and many former Republicans,
who had been separated from the party,
but had returned to their old faith. A
special tribute was paid to the great
body Of labor, engaged in mechanics
and agriculture, who contributed to the
success.
President McKinley's address was as
follows:
Gentlemen Of the Union League:
An after-dinner speech is to me always
difficult performance; an after-elec-
ton speech after dinner is still
more difficult task, and l shall do little
more than make acknowledgment to
this patriotic association for its unceas-
ing loyalty to the government, for the
earnest support it has given to the pres
ent administration in the trying years
through which it has passed, and ex-
press my sincere thanks for the great
honor this meeting and demonstration
bring to me, which should be shared
by my distinguished associate on the
national ticket, the Vice President
elect, as well as by those connected
with me in the conduct of public af-
fairs.
eve are always in danger of exag-
geration on an occasion of exultation
over political victory, and, while the
result mainly is due to the efforts of
our splendid party, there is sometimes
a tendency to give too little credit to
other forces which, silent though they
may have been, were none the less DO
tential. We must not withhold gener-
GUS acknowledgment from that great
body Of our citizens who, belonging to
another party, powerfully assisted in
the achievement of the result which
you celebrate tonight; nor from that
other large body, former members Of
our own party, who with honesty OF
purpose separated from us a few wears
ago on financial issues, have now re-
turned and are home again to stay.
Nor is any accounting for the vic
tory either just or accurate which
leaves out of the calculation the almost
unbroken column Of labor engaged in
mechanics and agriculture, which re-
jected the false doctrine OF class dis
tinction as having no place in this re-
public, and which rebuked those teach
ings which would destroy the faith of
American manhood in American char
acter and American institutions.
AThe business men in every nart IF