Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-03

Chicago, Aug. 30.-Prominent men
from all parts of the country gathered
around the tables in the banquet hall
of the Auditorium hotel last night to
attend the feast given by the Hamil-
ton club of this city, in their honor.
The Hamilton club is republican or
ganizatiOn, and after the menu politics
was the chief thing under discussion
President Fred A. Bangs of the club
acted as toast-master, and with him at
the head of the table sat Col. D. B.
Henderson, speaker of the mousse of
representatives; Senator Cushman K
Davis of Minnesota; Senator DOlliyer
of Iowa; Chas. G.. Dawes, comptroller
of the currency; Gen. Shaw, command
Warder, acting governor of Illinois;
Lieut. Gen. Mills, Maj. Gen. Louis
Wagner, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, Judge
Leo Rassieur, and Others President
Bangs opened the speech-making with
a short address, at the end of which
he introduced Speaker Henderson, who
spoke briefly President Bangs then
brought forward Senator Cushman K.
Davis, who replied to the toast, Our
Destiny. Senator Dolliver of Iowa was
greeted with prolonged cheers as he
rose to respond to the toast Prosperity
and It's Causes. A number of inn
promptu addresses were made by local
speakers.
Senator Dolliver spoke in part as
follows: II have been asked to speak
about national prosperity, it's causes
and effects, it's incoming and out-go-
ing; it's salutatory and it's farewell ad-
dress. The subject would be one en-
tirely non-partisan if it were not for
the fact that good times in the United
States have got SO completely mixed
up with the republican party, that it is
almost impossible to separate them,
either in your own mind or in the pub
lie thought Senator Dolliver then
praised the Dingley tariff bill of 1896,
which he said, was passed "by the all
most unanimous consent OF the only
nation for whose benefit it was framed
the United States of America" Con-
tinuing he said: Il count that great
statute as the cornerstone Of national
prosperity which followed close upon
it's enactment In 1892 no other queS-
ton was discussed, today the demo
cratic party runs away from the tariff
question in which the wages and en-
ployment of every American citizen is
involved, attempts to decoy us across
the Pacific ocean and to hide it's record
and plans for the future in the work
of can't, of hypocrisy about the declara-
ton of independence. The republican
party stands ready to meet them either
on the mainland or on the high seas;
but I do not mind telling you that
while we propose to meet them, while
we propose to whip them wherever we
find them, we recognize that the real
field Of this battle is here, and not on
the other side of the world Senator
DoIliver criticised the democratic party
for what he termed the attempt to
cover up the only sincere and settled
conviction which it has, by pushing to
the front a lot of cheap OratiOns on the
subject OF civil liberty" Continuing
he said '"The world is so arranged
that every masquerade Of false pre-
lenses, trying to do business upon
high moral scale, sooner or later comes
to a point along its line ofmarch where
it can distinctly hear the laughter OF
gods and men, Such point, think,
was reached at Kansas City, when
Senator Tillman was selected on ac-
count of his voice to read the declara-
ton of independence, with it's sublime
precepts about equality of men and the
ultimate basis of human government.
Until Bryan shall stand up somewhere
before the American people and in an
audible tone of voice utter one word OF
manly disapproval of the crime against
civil liberty, which in undisputed dem
ocratic communities of the United
States has left ten millions Of people
helpless outcasts before the law, I for
one intend to treat his declarations OIL
the subject of equal rights as unfit for
the respect of the American people"