Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-30
A GRAND ADDRESS
SENATOR DAVIS RESPONSE AT
HAMILTON CLUB BANQUET.
RESPONSE TO "OUR DESTINY"
Patriotic Gathering Of Americans Who
Believe in Their Country's
Honor.

Chicago, August 29.-Prominent mer
from all parts of the country gathered
around the tables in the banquet hal
OF the Auditorium hotel tonight to at
tend the feast given by the Hamilton
club of his city in their honor. The
Hamilton club is a republican ~organiza-
tlon, and it had a menu With politics as
the Chief thing under discussion. The
great hail was never more handsomely
or eiaDOrately decorated. The walls were
hung with the national colors. great bou-
QuetS and garlands of flowers of the
same colorS as those in the flag We're to
be found on every table and the decora-
lions throughout We're of a patriotic and
military character. Among the notable
guests were Speaker Henderson, Sena-
tor Davis of Minnesota. Senator Deliver
OF Iowa. Comptroller of the Currency
dawes, Commander-in-Chief Shaw OF
the q. A. r.. General Miles, Major Gen
eral Louis Wagner. General DAME. Sick
les, Judge Leo Raisseur and others
President BanSs opened the speechmak-
ing. with a short address. at the end OF
which Speaker Henderson spoke in part.
as follows:
The name of Hamilton ~uggest three
hought that may be appropriate to
1900: First a strong government: sec
ohu, a Jus government; third, a pro-
tectlVe government. In this great world
OF ours, full of powerful. massive. ag-
sfesslVe governments. this nation as a
government must be strong to take care
OF our people and their interests. No gov
ernInent a be strong that is not inst
we cannot hold the love and support Of
ON people unless we are Just in the
enactment, in the Interpretation and ex-
ecution of law.
'Ihl government must protect capital
and labor and give each a fair share r.
must protect the rich and the poor tho
PACK and the white and the brown. also
MI. BfNan. Unless We have a govern
H1eht Dig enough to extend it's protective
power to everything that the old flag
ioa's over II comes short of it's duty.
aye, and. gentlemen it must be a GOV.
ernment that will protect its citizens in
me heart of Chicago or in the heart Of
China "t "
The principal address of the evanin.
Was by Senator Cushman X. Davis Of
S.linesota. whose magnificent speech is
given in full.
DAVIS GREAT SPEECH.
This cmpaign is portentous. Others
nase oeeh conducted on a few issues.
economic or moral. In this one the dan
ocratlc party and it's candidate. the NAN
tEe reversal of every policy, domestic
ana foreign, monetary, financial pro-
iscllFe and expansive which has made
,ne administration of President McKia-
ley one OF the most glorious in our his
tory by h spiendor of it's n~nilitar nv
and naval achievements. by it's i.eviva,
OF aylng industries, by it's financial leg
lslatlon, by its making he Irnited
states the first money power in the
world ny Its extension of our sovereign
~ ana by our advancement to the very
forefront OF international influence
The measures and policies which have,
wrought these imposing political results
are seVerally n respectively con-
oemned, either in themselves or in their
JUST consequences, and the a~broeation
~ aan by the declaration of dem
ocratlc principles made at Kansas Citv
declaration does not deno1nce
me ADMINISTRATION of President McKin-
icy Tor its failures. it condemns it for
us achleVements. 1t declares them to he
of true prosperity and sub
verslve or our institutions. It demands
lnat the gold standard shall be abolished
that protection to American indus
tries shall cease.
For the first time the SOVEREIGNTY Of
the United States over territory held by
an unquestionable title is to be aban-
uoned and the flag lowered and that,
1Co, IN capltulation to a flagrant insur-
rection against its authority-all this.
ana more thar this, is demanded by the
democratic party as a reason for its in
Nestlture with power and is promised to
me American people in case power is
w -" ouan such
promises, such threats, such conse-
quences. will receive the most consider
ate condemnation of the people.
NO democratic platform, no demo-
cratic speaker expresses any satisfaction
with our triumphs in war. or with the
Astounding prosperity of our people, or
with our international a~scendency. How
can .hey rejoice in a prosperity which
1alslies ef cry prediction they made four
years and the approval of which
now would refute every claim that tnev
can possibly make for their political res
toratfon.
1.-The present administration has kent
the faith in which the American people in
vested 1T with power, has performed
every act to which it was pledged, and
a fulfilled every expectation which
a arisen from sudden events which
We're unforeseen four years ago..
IN THE ORIENT.
THE democratic party was silent re-
spectlng our relations with China he
cause to declare opinions upon that sub
Ject which the American people wor1d
not receive with contempt and spurn
with disgust would cause the broom-stick
ghost OF Imperialism and militarism to
vanish in an instant. So to speak would
annihifate those paramount issues" be-
u it would admit that even the
bilnd when told, can perceive even if
they cannot see it, that the status, the
and the sovereignty of the
United States in the Philippines. are at
this and in this great crisis of
clvillzatlen commanding and absolutely
halspensable They vindicate the wis
dom of holding those possessions, unless
the United States is to recede to the
shores of the American continent, be-
come herself a little China, cancel herself
as a factor in the great civilizing and
commercial change in the Asiatic Orient,
an event fully as important as the dis,
covery of America by Columbus.
There are few events in our diplo-
matte and military history more honor
able than the consummaSt skill. the
wise conservatism and the unfinching
courage which the administration Of
President Mckinley relieved orr legation