The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-03

orchestra in an adjoining room all the
While discoursing sweet music the prasi-
dent, acting as postmaster, called upon
Hon 5. G. McLendon of Thomasvil.e
who responded eloquently to Georgia"
With an Introduction from the president
that needed eloquence and thought to sub
stantiate 1t, MIR. McBendon supplied The
need, and ii was with the frequent ap-
plause punctuated commentator of his
audience, that he responded 10 his toast
Opening with thanks and appreciauve
expressions Of the pleasure he felt in be-
ing with the members of the club, Mr.
McLendon devoted himself at some length
to an exposition of the great names that
have made Georgia great applauding in
choicest rhetoric the accomplishments and
deeds of some of the states nehlest sons
and commencing them to the undying
honor and veneration of the generations
that follow. Opportunities, the speaker
said, remain a. this day, and the United
States and Georgia remain to be bettered
by the grasping of these opportunities
and their use for the advantage of those
institutions, political and social, that re-
dound 10 the glory and honor of the coun-
try and state Georgia, through the eff
forts of these sons of the present day,
Will preserve her glory and add yet
brighter stars to the brilliant galaxy of
stars to which her people proudly point.
With this sentiment the speaker closed
amid the applause of the club, whereupon
the president, with happily chosen words,
introduced Mr.. Yancy, who responded TO
the toast Young Alumni" the younger
brothers to whom the university must
look for its support In years TO come
Mr.. Yancey, after Introductory remarks,
that were well received addressed him
self to those whom he represented, the
younger alumni, gathered with oder mem
hep Of hn ola f.rst
est Of Georgia and the University of
Georgia, whose efforts are to be directed
to the pushing onward of educa tlonal adj
vantage and the upbuilding and regener-
alton of the state. The interests of the
university should be consulted, the speak
er said, through other means than those
to be brought by the politician, and its
end, the instruction and improvement of
the youth of the state, should be compass
ed by the zeal and love of her sons. The
mantle Of the fathers has fallen upon the
sons, he showed, and efforts of the young
alumni should be unspared in fulfilling the
hllal duty to the alma mater
Mr.. w. w. Gordon, Jr.. was called on
for song after Mr.. Yaucey's speech re-
spending happily with Just a Song at
Twilight" in The chorus of which the
membersl joined.
Our Country's Departure from the
True Principles of Democracy" was a
toast that called forth some little merri-
ment from the members as announced by
the president who led up entertainingly
TO his introduction of Mr. Shelby Myrick
TO respond to the toast. Mr.. Myrick be-
gan with a declaration OF his love and
reverence for the university telling some
thing of Its grand achievements, but
turned soon to his subject showing
wherein the country has deviated from the
straight and narrow path of true demoe-
raey. MIR. Myrick followed the
history OF the country from
les inception, leading chronology
caily, through peace and war, up to
the present day of imperialism and de-
parture from the time-honored principles
of democracy, a great crisis in the his
tory of the United States, when empire
or republieanism is to set its seal upon
the land as the will of the people may die
tate. The speaker declared that this
country should make the policy it's Con-
gress declared for Cuba three years ago
that which should shape ts course with
the Philippines, and warmly he denounced
the methods that are pursued by the ad-
ministration in its dealings with the ISL
ands, his denunciation evoking the an
plause of a number who seemed to sym
pathize in his view of this widely-dis-
cussed question. Mr.. Myrick differentiat-
ed between expansion and Imperialism,
commencing the former as exempified in
the purchase of Louisiana and other ao-
QUESTIONS of contiguous territory, but de-
riding the latter and Philippine aggran-
dizement as a means for the forwarding
of the interests of the United States.
Col. A. r. Lawton. after Mr.. Myrick's
speech, sang II Am Gwine Back to
Dixie" which, as is invariably the case,
was well received.
Chancellor Hin was then introduced,
and his speech was an intensely practical
and entertaining story of the uni
verslty as he had known 1t a student, and
as he knows it as chancellor. Several
jokes the chancellor told out-Depewed
Depew, and evidence of the appreciation
of his audience was by no means lacking
for the members responded vigorously to
every point made. After quite an array of
these jokes, some of which did not spare
himself. the chancellor devoted some min
utes to talk of the university as II IS
to-day, telling of an instance to show the
healthful moral atmosphere that sur
rounds the institution Education was
commended, and the ideals of Jefferson
Intentionally were mentioned, and the
speaker closed with a statement that the
achievements of his own administration
OF the university are in prospect rather
than in the past as are those of his pre-
decessors, and begged the assistance of
his assembled friends in prosecuting the
work of the institution and promoting its
veal.
Mr.. Hills was the last speech, and upon
It's conclusion the club adjourned.