The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30
DISCUSSED POLITICS.
Banquet of Chicago
Hamilton Club.
Addresses By Many Noted
Republicans.
Gen. Henderson One of
the Speakers.
Cushman X. Davis and Senator
DOlliYer Also Speak.

Chicago, August 29.-Prominent men
from all parts of the country gathered
around the tables IN the banquet hall OF
the Auditorium hotel tonight to attend
the feast given by the Hamilton club OF
this city IN their honor. The Hamilton
club IS a Republican organization. and
It's banquet was, after the menu, ban
quet with politics the chief thing under
discussion. The great hall which has
been the scene of many notable gather !
ings similar to the Gone that filled It
tonight was never more handsomely or
eiaborately decorated, The walls were
hung with national colors, great bou-
quets and garlands of flowers Of the same
oolors as those IN the flag were to be
ound upon every table and the deoora-
tions throughout were of q patriotic and
military character.
President Fred A. Bangs OF the club
acted as toastmaster, and with him at
the head table sat Col. d. b. Hender-
son, Speaker OF the House Of Representa-
tives; Senator Cushman Davis Of Min
nesota; Senator Do1Iiver of Iowa; Charles
q. Dawes, comptroller Of the currency;
Gen. Shaw, commander-in-chief of the
&. A. r.; Walter Warder, acting COVER
nor of Illinois; Lieut.. Gen. Miles, Major
Gen. Louis Wag ner, Gen. Daniel E.
4 Stokes. Judge Leo Bassieur and others.
President Bangs opened the speech
making with short address at the end
Of which he introduced Speaker Hend er
son, who spoke briefly.
The address Of Speaker Henderson was
most happily received. and he was hearth
ly cheered as he resumed his seat.
President Bangs than brought forward
as the next speaker, Senator Cushman
*. Davis. who replied as follows to the
toast: 'Our Destiny"
DAVIS 5 SPEECH.
Senator Davis of Minnesota said in
part:
This campaign IS portentous. Others
have beon conducted on q few issues,
economical or mora In this one the
/ Democratic party and its candidate, the
OF every policy, domestic ana
foreign, monetary, financial, pro-
tective and expansive which has made
the administration of President McKf n
ley one of the most glorious IN our his
tory by the splendor OF its military and
naval achievements, by Its revival of
dying Industries, by It's financial legisla-
tion, by its making the United States
the trst money power IN the world, by
+ It's extension OF our sovereignty and by our
advancement to the very forefront of in
/ ternatlOnal influence.
The measures and policies which have
wrought these imposing achievements
re- ia ose whose abr0gattOn is de-
manded by the declaration of Democratic
I principles made at Kansas City.
/ This declaration does not denounce the
+ administration of President Mckinley
for It's failures, it condemns it for its
/ achievements. 1t declares them to be de-
structive of true prosperity and subver-
sive OF our institutions. 1t demands that
the gold standard shall be abolished. and
that protection to American industries
! shall cease.
For the first time the sovereignty of the
United States over territory held by an
unquestionable title is to be abandoned
ana the flag lowered and that, too, IN
| capituIatiOn to Uagrant insurrecUiOn
aoainst It's authorfty-aIl this and more
than this, is demanded by the Democratic
parry as q reason for It's investiture with
power and is promised to the American
people in case power is given to do 1t.
Such demands, such promises, such
threats, such consequences, Will receive
the most oonsiderate condemnation Of the
people.
No Democratic platform, no Democratic
speaker. expresses any satisfaction with
our triumphs IN war, or with the abound
ing prosperity of our people, or with our
4 international ascendancy. How can they
rejoice in prosperity which falsihes
every prediction they made four years
ago, and the approval OF which now
would refute every claim that they can
possibly make for their political restora-
zion.
The present administration has kept
the faith in which the American people
invested it with power, has performed
every act to which it was pledged, and
has fulfilled every expectation which has
arisen from sudden events which were
II Unforeseen four years ago.
The Democratic party was silent re-
| specting our relations with CHINA. be-
cause to declare opinions upon that sub
/ iect which the American people would
recaive with contempt and spurn
with disgust would cause the brook stick
Ghost of i'm perialism and mtlitarism to
vanish In an instant 20 to speak 1t would
! annihilate those paramount Issues
because it would admit that even the
blind, when told, can perceive even II
they cannot see it, that the status, the
occupation and the sovereignty OF the
United States in the Philippines are at
this moment and in this great crisis OF
civilization commanding and absolutely
indispensabIe 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 little China, cancel hersel
as q factor In the great oivIlizing anu
commercial change in bhe Astat1c Orient
an event fully important as the d1scov
} erv of Anerica@by Columbus.
There are few events in our diplomatic
and military history more honorable THAI