New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-10
SAYS 1T FAVORS REBELS.
Southern Society President ATTACKS
administration an Panama Case.
LIKE SECESSION, HE DECLARES.

IN caustio terms, Robert L. Harrison president of
the southern Society criticised what he considered
the bastv recognition Of Panama by this country
at the Southern Society dinner at the waldorf ASe
night He declared sarcastically that the FepuoI-
can party. in it's heyday. was Illustrating oS ina
action that secession was wholly wrong. Iul'a
was formed up here in the city, he sa1d While down
In panama a few haIfbreeds stirred up a disturb
ance which they called revolution; a repuonc' So
called was formed and it telegraPhed TO the FreSi
dent of this country that it had appointed olp4o-
matte representative who formally received
- .ha ranubrc recognized. Not that treatment
did the South receive when she seeded he deciard
Rather to the surprise OF the guests the dinner
passed off without any serious reference 10 tne
negro question. In fact. there was rather an over
turning OF traditions when Thomas Nelson rage
.ai5 TIA. there was a great bond OF affection be-
tween the better element Of the Southern whites
and the negroes. To be sure, Robert L. Harrison
the president In his speech touched on the dinner
TO which President Roosevelt invited Booker l.
Washington To this too, Mr.. Page supplied a
counter trritant when he remarked that as 1t was
the Executives first mistake In that direction. he
thought II should be forgiven
This was the eighteenth annual dinner. As usual
there was a social gathering after the dinner it.
self was over. The galleries were filed with
women who were Joined by their husbands and
friends. There were some $50 guests at the din
ner. An orchestra played many Southern airs.
and there Southern songs.
tary OF the Pennsylvania Society; John Marshall
founder of the New-York Southern Society; Ed
ward Owen. Judge James Fitzgerald. president Of
the Friendly Sons OF st. Patrick; Thomas Nelson
Page. Hamilton W. Mabe, President Woodrow
Wilson, the Rev. Philip ~ H. Brown, Robert II.
Turtle, president OF the St George Society; Colgate
Hoyt. R. NJ. Stuart-Wortley. president Of the
British Schools and Universities Club James f.
GraybilL president of the Georgia Society; the
Rev. DR.. ]. Nevett Steele. president Of the Mary
land Society; William W. Ellsworth and DR.. George
1, Stewart. president OF the Canadian Society.
Others present were John c. Breckenridge, Patrick
Calhoun, John C. Calhoun, W. n. Jackson, Charles
F. Moore, James W. Osborne. George F. Peabody
H. NJ SomervilIe. E, E. smathers. D. D. sutphen
and ex-Justce Augustus Van wyck
President Wilson of Princeton was the first sneak
or. 1t had come to be national question. he said
what the result OF the great mixture OF boods and
nationalities in this country would produce. The
Southerner, he held. had contributed a peculiar
touch OF character, possibly because he never lost
his prejudices. The SOutherner he said. always
had flavor. whether he acquired It In solid or
liquid form The danger in modern democracy he
said. was that the would be dragooned into
thinking just his neighbors did No strong lives
were ever lived without ardor OF opinion He
added:
practice and their homes the pictures OF the
Cherish heVr soi bvan e Iere Tesponsibe II
we return with all the ardor Of our hearts to the
cherished we shall verify our pedigree could
I'm no other way The South Is a region in which
ideals have lived; men had visions OF high and
those ideals to come into the level OF those whom
we consider the greatest men.
Hamilton Wright Mabis talked of the New
America the product Of the America OF expIora-
ton, Colonial America, provincial America, and
sectional America" This new America he said
had within the last thirty-seven years: Il was
a building This country he said. was not ma
terialistc The ideals OF the South wers very beau