The Portland daily press., 1900-04-28
In HONOR OF GRANT.
Dinner Americas Club
Of Pittsburg.
Widow Of The Great Soldier One Of
The Guests.
Address By Postmaster
General Smith.
Glowing Tribute to Grants Mem.
DRY BY Cong. Cousin.

Pittsburg, April 27-The fourteenth
annual banquet Of the Amsrious Repub-
Iican club of tsis city. In commemoration
Of the birthday OF Gen. U. S. Grant, was
held at the Hotel Schsnlsy tonight. The
guest Of honor was Mrs. Julia Dsnt
Grant, widow OF the great soldier and
statesn an, and am ,ng the other distin'
guished per ,onages preent were Post
master General Smith, Congressman
Robert W. Cousins of Iowa Senator
Hanna OF Ohio; Gov. Atkinson OF West
Virginia; Col. James K. Burnett OF
Pennsylvania ard Charles II. Dick Of
Ohio.
The banquet hall was sastefully Deco
rated in the national colors with por
trait OF Gen. Grant In tbs oentsr.
Seated In the balcony were Mrs. Grant
and reception committee OF twenty live
prominent Pittsburg ladies'. II was the
first time that Mrs. Grant has attended q
BANQUET given In honor OF her hu shapd
When she entered the room shs was en-
Enthusiastically welcomed. At the end OF
the feasting Hon. Robert Pitcairn, the
chair N an, introduced the POSTMASTER,
Hon. Clarence Burlsigh Of this city. Mr..
Burlsigh welcomed the guests In an
eloquent speech and than introduced
Postmaster General Smith who responded
to the toast National Development -
MIR. Smith said;
Great names are the richest legacies OF
a people. The lives OF great men typify
and iliumins the life OF the nation.
Their glowing story makes its Inspiring
epic. We rightly dedicats their birthdays
not onIy to personal homage, but 10 ma
tional review and rejection.
The name of Grant ts enshrined among
our immortais. The lapss OF tire only
exaIts his deathless fame. He incarnated
the rugged. rssolute, unyielding char
octer Of the Amer loan people, He urys-
talissd the genius Of their saving sense.
He impergonated their patriotism, their
tenacity and their unfaltering devotion
to duty. He breathed hts own heroic
quality in burning wurds OF unconauer-
able purpose that cleaned through ths
gloom Of nisht like meteors. He took
the chivalrous but leaderless armies Of
the Union ana led than to new hope and
glory and tripmph. 1t is ht that In hou-
oring his memory we should dwell on the
thsms of the national greatness.
The nation he served was preserved for
a glorious mission, Its early history wss
ington had been President only thrse
years when the foundations were laid
through the discovery of the Columbia
river in 1889 for the acq ois ition OF Ore.
g)n. Only elsven years later Jefferson
dout Led the domain Of the republic by
the bi illiant Louisiana purchase. 1t wal
only sixteen years afterward that oIl
flag waved over the land of fruit and
flowers through the cesslon of Florida
Another twenty-five years airdlsd the
broad plains of Texas. Three years more
Witnessed our expansion over the golden
treasures OF California, and five yeaIs
later added the Gadsden purchase.
Altar an interval Of only fourteen years
wa once more expanded over the frozen
fields Of Alaska.
From that time on we made no terri
torial ext ens,on until the annexation OF
Hawaii and the acquisitions growing out
OF the Spanish war. In our previous his
tory the longest interval Of non-sxpan-
sion had been twenty. five years and the
average interval WAS ouly twelve years.
Our fathers were not afraid OF expan-
Jim. They accepted Its logical advance.
Bat after that period of frequent expan-
sion n ariy a third OF century passed