Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-12-28
Mayor Mcclellan Pays Glowing
Tribute to the South.

Mayor Mcclellan Pays CLOWN
Tribute to the South.
In reporting the annual Dime
3 Of the Southern Society of Ne,
York, recently held at the Waldorf
Astoria, the New York Sun says
The Southern Society gave tn
Rebel yell for Mayor Mcclellan
last night at it's annual dinner q
: Waldorf-Astoria. The yell wa
given not for any lingering bitter
ness to the Mayors distinguished
, ancestor, but rather in a burst Of
kindly feeling to the Mayor fol
the compliments he paid the South
and his fathers opponent, the
great soldier whose memory he
said would be "the priceless heri-
tage of reunited people,"
Col. McClellan's speech to the
Southerneis was one of the neat
est CT after dinner efforts. Its
complimentary character drew
tremendous cheering from the
Southern men before him and from
the Southern women above him.
The Mayor showed real feeling in
making it, and when he sat down
the men and women jumped up
and cried; "Three cheers for our
Mayor!" And then it was the
Colonel got the famous yell.
There were almost as MANY
women as men at the dinner, but
the women sat in the boxes. In
stead of the mass of flags and en-
blens usually used to decorate the
banquet room, there was, besides
the Christmas greens, just one
piece Of decoration-two immense
flags draped over the
head table.
In introducing the Mayo Mr..
Robert l.. Harrison, president of
,he society, said that he was the
irst Chief Magistrate of the city
Who had hOnored the society with
lis presence in the nineteen years
# its existence.
'In coming to you this evening"
aid Mayor Mcclellan, II feel that
am coming home, for nearly a
uarter of my life was passed in
ally and intimate association in a
he House of Represent atives with Il
len who, like yourselves, are from a
he Southland. l can almost see o
tting around me now Williams, o
nd Bailey, and Dinsmore, and De u
rmcnd, and Tucker, and Turner, o
I'D Sayres, and Dockery, and O.
lat prefix cheynlief of political a
aders, that gentle and kindly, d
nd strong, and able statesman, III
le best beloved man that has sat al
the House for generations, d.
harles r. Crisp; all leaders in In
- hurly, burly work of the L
ouse, every one Of them ready to u
,ht to finish for principle and la
It one of them willing to sacrifice fo
inciple for expediency. 10
at is this characteristic of the Lie
ut ern statesman that has pro- il
ked the sneering remark from
e Philistine that you are i'm
actical idealists. Our Philis-
lie brother cannot be sincere in
wing this, if he has ever seen the "a
oking chimneys Of the new col
nth, or its cotton fields, or the the
'wded harbOrs of maritime ser
vns. He cannot be sincere if he exI
ever attended dinner of the col
ithern Society in New York sat
| seen gathered around it's hos
able board men who are amoLg Mo
leaders of thought and activ- brio
in the great metropolis. NJ
'Idealists you are, and every CHI
riot must hope that idealists wit
will always remain. There is M
theory more false than that the are
ctical and the ideal cannot be Mr..
nd united in the same man. M
true heroes Of the world are gov
the men of action pure and peol
pie, who have destroyed EN-. In
8 or called them into being. be {
the men who in the perfor- Gla'
zee of their allotted tasks on even
h have been Influenced by lofty club
poses and by the highest am MI
)ns. iday,
Every man who has thoughts Mi
md the material, every man Lyme
has wealth gives to the peo-
something that will help to
them, whether it be hospi- De
or books Or pictures or other retul
IS of art; every man, whether spen
phere be exalted or humble, Mr.
III MS oaiiy HE seeks for tie spen
Is of right thinking and right who
G and right doing, helps just home
UGH in the development of the OF MI
an race. Al
-ou people vi the oouth q cen rend,
ago fought for yorr ideals, Chris
~" won; Quiz iater, you large
Mt, and the world said you A
Lee and Johnston and Wedr
ewal! Jackson were idealists, NJ N,
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of these, say you. Their last