Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-01
BANQUET AT DETROIT
REPUBLICANS MEET AND MAKE
SPEECHES.
Gov. Pingree, Timothy L. Woodruff,
Gov. Nash, Gov. Shaw and Other
Leaders Celebrate Gen. WashinGton's
Birthday Anniversary.

Gov. Nash, Gov. Shaw and Other
Leaders Celebrate Gen. Washington's
Birthday Anniversary.
Detroit correspondence:
The fifteenth annual banquet, of the
Michigan Club brought greater number
of party leaders of the State together In
Detroit than has been the case for years.
This was due mainly to the fact that
larger field of candidates for State offices
is in existence than history records before
in party ranks. Over a score opened
Headquarters in the various hotels and
kept active corps of lieutenants busy
among the hundreds of politicians pres
ent. This was particularly true of the SIN
candidates for nomination for Governor.
Several striking oyations were given to
the stars who appeared at the banquet,
but the enthusiastic reception accorded to
Timothy l.. Woodruff, Lieutenant GOV
ernor of New York, far outshone all 9TH
err features of the occasion. introduced
as the probable candidate of the great
pivotal State of New York for the high
office of Vice-President of the United
States, Mr.. Woodruff stood mute before
long -continued storm of applause such
as would have easily upset the equanim-
ity of a less sturdily poised person than
the brilliant and aggressive young New
Yorker. Maj. Gen. Shafter, Cows. Nash
of Ohio, Shaw of Iowa and Pingree of
Michigan all received welcomes second
only to that Of Woodruff.
More than 500 Republicans sat at the
annual feast. The galleries were filled
with spectators. The big armory was
Al, H.
ington's portrait had the most conspicu-
GUS place. Pictures of President Nc
Kinley, Admiral Dewey and Gems. Shat
ter and Alger were suspended from the
gallery fronts. A score of well-known
Republicans, including the speakers, pass
ed across the hall at the outset, headed
by the POSTMASTER, ex-United States
Senator John Patton, Jr., arm in arm
with Lieut.. Gov. Woodruff.
The committee located the spring State
Republican convention at Detroit on May
3. During the day Gen. Russell A. Al
ger gave a reception to the Michigan
Clubs guests, which was very largely
attended, and was much in the nature or
an ovation to the general himself. Inc
candidacy of William III. Elliott OF De-
troit for the Michigan membership of the
Republican national committee came to
the 'front.' and during the day Lieut.. GOV.
Woodruff Of New York State, the Platt-
Roosevelt candidate for Vice-President,
held an impromptu reception at the Rus
sell House.
The banquet in the evening was at
tended by at least twelve hundred polltl-
clans. Senator John Patton, Dr., or
Grand Rapids acted as POSTMASTER. GOV.
Pingree delivered the welcoming address
as his final appearance as Governor be-
fore the club.
Pingree's Va1edictory.
'After eleven years of continuous ser
vice I have no desire for further political
preferment," he announced. His speech
dealt almost exclusively with his we'll
known ideas upon taxation. In the course
of it he took occasion to deny that he
would ever bolt the Republican party.
'sIf my declaration of independence he
said. apropos of his announcement that
he would run on a ticket Of his own
should Ferry be nominated, "has called
attention to the real issue of taxation, 1t
is a good thing"
Gov. Nash Of Ohio was warmly re-
ceived and his address on washington
and the Northwest Territory" made an
excellent impression.
Lieut. Gov. Woodruff of New YORK
was decidedly the orator of the evening.
His subject was washington, the Ex-
pansonist" 1t was an eloquent tribute
to the policy of the national administra-
ton, and his references to the efficiency
Of Secretary Of War Alger brought forth
great cheering.
Referring to the expansion policy of the
Government Mr.. Woodruff said:
90 %hn
has been unparalleled in the history of
nations. Three hundred and fifty thou
sand square miles and 100000 people
constituted the area and population of
the thirteen colonies. The territory has
increased ten-fold and the population
twenty-five fold.
s'The acquisition, after the war Of
American independence, of the Northwest
territory-of which Michigan was a part
increased by two and half times the
original domain of the nation. This again
was doubled by the purchase of the Lou
isiana territory, at an expenditure of less
than the cost Of three frst-class cruisers
of our modern navy. The acquisition Of
Florida by purchase, of the Oregon terri
tory by partition, Of Texas by annexa-
ton, of parts of Mexico by cession, and
of Alaska by purchase, again doubled
our domain.
''The addition of Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands although
equal to the territory of the British ISL
ands-increased by only one-thirtieth the
area of the United States which was
already nearly equal to the whole Of
Europe. From Boston as the Hub, with
the Carolinas and the Appalachian noun
tains as circumference, we had, by the
acquisition of Alaska, carried the geog-
raphical center of the nation westward
step by step, beyond the Golden Gate,
until it matters not to-day whether, in
setting forth for the furthermost frontier
of the republic, we turn our faces toward
the rising or the setting sum-"
On the subject of the Nicaragua canal
he said:
1.-THE independence of Cuba and the
possession Of Porto Rico will be of ines
Unable value to the maintenance of the
canal across the isthmus of Central