Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23

the first republican and the republican
party of today his descendants.
George NJ. Bourquin responded to the
next toast, The President" as follows:
, The President of the United States"
1t is the highest2 Office and the noblest
title enjoyed by man. Not the prize of
war and conquest, nor the heritage of
weak descendants of slant-browed and
scrofulous kings. but the reward of
merit to proved patriotism or statesman
ship, conferred by the free will and
choice of millions of American freemen.
AS a whole, the nation has been fortu-
nate in it's presidents: From Washing
ton to the president of today "A men
have occupied that high station; all of
them good men, even though 20 of them
were lawye-s exercising their best juds
ment to discharge their duties rightly.
Some of them We're men of such SUPER
excellence that Others are dWarfed yby
comparison, but in the administration
OF each was some Vii Tue peculiar to
itself alone. Even that of Mr. Cleveland,
rank failure though we deemed it in dts
day, had it's redeeming feature. In his
Venezuelan message he atOned for q
multitude of sins, for therein ne revivi-
fed the Monroe doctrine and set it upon
a foundation as firm and unshakable
as a granite mountain. In a good cause
he SO vigorously twisted the lions tail
that he won the respect and admiration
of every true American. And, too, he
paved the way for republican success.
sions.
The president. rightly or wrongly. is
given the credit for the good resulting
from policies enforced during his regime,
and visited with the blame fer the bad
resulting therefrom. 1t is the reward of
the penalty attached to the office; none
can escape 1t. And what will history
say Of the present clNef executive? He
found the people discouraged. He in
spired them with hoL% and confidence.
Exposed to she baneful competition of
cheap labor, he cast about them the
robes of protection. Where there was
industrial id.eness, following him came
busy and remuneratve toll. Capital,
concealed, emerged from it's hiding place
and made active dropping trade and
commerce. The mills We're again en-
ployed, abandoned fields were again Gull
tiVatel, vacant warehouses We're filled
and emptied by the demands of plenty.
and ref.ed yet again. Mining, aguicul-
ture, manufacturing and transportation
all revived. Where before was hunger
and want came tine full dinner pail"
and want satisfied. A bankrupt treasury
he filled to Overlooking, and he brought
the nation an era of prosperity at home,
and honor and prestige abroad, that was
at once the wonder, the admira ton and
the envy of the world.
''All this and more is due to the Wise
policies of that true republican, that
great Amelic lean, William Mckinley, the
president of the United States. This
its not the occasion demanding our
presidents biography nor a detail of the
good things of his administration. Suf-
fee it to say of him that he is self-made
so far as it is given to man to be the
architect of his own fortune. Indeed,
the veracious chronicler relates it, he
came into the word without pair Of
shoes to his feet and not a nickel in his
pockets to bless himself with.
His parents endowed him with re-
spectacle ancestry z good constitution
and the foundation of an education, anc
his industry. honesty, perseverance and
devotion to duty did the brest.
His administration about to close, has
, been made conspicuous by remarkable
series of events. Ttla war with Spain;
it's victories of Manila and Santiago, ana
it's fruits and consequences, stand first.
The flag hauled down in Hawaii, in
honor has been raised again. The Sa
moan question, ICt nearly Thirty Years
a menace and danger has been settled
as we always wished it. American diplo-
macy. before scornld in the courts OF
Eun ope, has been indicated, and now
shines as a star of the first magnitude
We see unsurpassed prosperity at nome,
and a foreign trade SO tremendous that
the balance IN our favor during Mckfn-
ley's administra ton is greater than DUR
ing the adminiStra tons of all his prede-
cessors combined. A settlement with
the Pacific railways gave the nation
2500O 900 before despaired of, and an
empty national treasury is filed to repie-
ton. Peace and wan both had their vic-
tories, and we have gathered the fruits
thereof. And now an appreciative ana
grateful people have chosen William
Mckinley for second term, soon to .De
entered upon.
Great things have been DONE but
great things are yet to 90. it needs no
prophetic ken to say that among the
accomplishments that will render nota-
bic this second term will be the firm es-
tablshment of law ana order in our
possessions beyond the seas, accompanied
with all the blessings of American adj
ministra ton. The isthmian canal will
be provided for the arid lands viii be
nut in the way of full reclamation, the
merchant marine will be restored by
wise and needed encouragement, the
home territories will become states. and
last, but not least, our just claims upon
fair Cuba shall not be ignored by any
ungrateful, irresponsible faction assum-
ing to be 1.-The state" burt will be settled
on a firm and favorable basis. conceded
or forced-doubtles s in the end by max
ing Cuba TERRITORY belonging to the
United States"
And all this, with their beneficent
consequences, under President Mckin-
leys administra ton, will give him, in our
countrys affections and history. place
only lower than that of Washington and
Lincoln. For, as stars fade before the
sun, so do other men and presidents pale
before the awful Story Of these two.
TRUE he has been criticised by the