The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07
Party Career Is
Lauded at
Capital.
Movements
Portrayed
ViVidIy.

and celebrated the fftieth anniversary
of the birth of the party tonight with
a demonstration and meeting at Cap
itol Park, in which thousands joined.
The orator for the occasion was Hon.
Duncan McKinlay Of San Francisco.
whose tribute to the Republican lead
ers aroused great enthusiasm. other
speakers were Superior Judge f. G.
Hart, Senator r. T. Devlin. Joseph
Steffens and A. L. Hart Jr.
Duncan McKinlay was escorted to
the Capitol from the Golden Eagle
Hotel by the various uniformed Re-
publican clubs, headed by band and
carrying torches. Scenes Of enthusi-
asm marked the route to the scene Of
the open air meeting at the park.
where a vast crowd had assembled.
McKinlay dwelt at length upon the
last speech of the late President Will
liam Mckinley. delivered at Buffalo
shortly before his assassination, and
spoke of it as matching Washington's
farewell address and MOnroe's i'm
mortal pronOuncement of the inviola-
bility of every foot of American soil
from foreign conquest. Referring TO
the shock which the country expert
eneed upon President McKinley's
death, the speaker said:
ID. +. McKINLAY SPEAKS.
Theodore Roosevelt. with a wis
dom and judgment far beyond his
years, recognizing all the difficulties OF
the situation, Immediately upon TAX
ing his oath of Office made the one
declaration of all others calculated TO
avoid Business complications. financial
anxiety and political uneasiness, and
that was that the plans and purposes
of President Mckinley should be car
ried out to the end in the very spirit
as that in which they were conceived.
This declaration brought back con-
fidence and allayed fear and placed
President Roosevelt at once in his
rightful possession, that of one OF the
great Presidents of the republic, and
leader of the Republican party. As il
were, he had the interests of the ma
ton steady with one hand. leaving the
other free to grapple with new prob
lens and responsibilities"
The speaker said 1t needed such a
strong. resOlute business man as Pres
ident Roosevelt to bring TO conclusion
/ the legislation and negotiations over
the isthmian canal and TO overcome the
/ intrigues of adverse interests. both IN
I the United States and in the State OF
/ Colombia McKinlay numbered among
other recent achievements the laying
/ Of the Pacific cable, by private enter
/ prise. it is true, but enterprise hastened
/ by Congressional bills contemplating
such a cable. Progress has been made
under Roosevelt toward the building OF
a merchant marine. He characterized
I Ell al frfr for
macy the note of Secretary Hay defin-
ing the relationship Of nations border
I ing on the Pacific.
PARTY'S GREAT RECORD.
Continuing. McKinlay said: Cuba
has been turned over to her own Gov
ernment and treaties OF trade and al
lance have been made between that
new republic and the United States
which viii be advantageous to both
countries.
Porto Rico has been firmly estab-
/ Iished on her new Governmental basis
and is rapidly becoming not only pros
porous, but afluent.
The Philippine insurrection has been
enti. ely subdued and an enlightened
and progressive system of self govern
ment inaugurated. a system which,
containing as it does the representa-
tion Of the people themselves and a
participation by the people OF that Gov
ernment, must in a very few years work
out the problem OF a government Of the
people, by the people. for the people
of the Philippine Archipelago.
''Ths navy has been tremendously in
creased under President Roosevelt
There have been completed in the last
four years five battleships. four cruis-
ers, four monitors and thirty-four tor
pedO-bOaJs and tOrpedO-bOat destroy
ers, and in addition to this there ara
to-day under construction in the va
rious shipyards thirteen batueships
and thirteen cruisers.
The army has been reOrganized and
brought TO an up-tO-date standard
with a maximum force of 100000 and a
minimum force of $4,000 in time OF
peace.
Postal frauds have been exposed ard
the perpetrators. no matter how hiSh
or low their station. brought before the
bar of the Federal courts on charges OF
felony.
Timber frauds Of many years stand
ing have been unearthed and the per-
petratOrs prosecuted and more than
two million acres OF frauduIentIy OBJ
tained lands restored 70 the public do
main.
1.-The trusts have been vigorously dealt
with in a number OF suits A new de-
partment has been. added 10 the Attor-
ney Generals jurisdiction for the
one purpose of carrying on special
prosecutions against the violatOrs of
the various antitrust laws. and four
teen injunction suits have been COM
menced and injunctions obtained in
Federal courts against fourteen great
railroads prohibiting the granting OF re-
bates in freight rates to favored ship
pers
LABOR'S REAL FRIEND.
ORGANIZED labor has found a true and F.
loyal friend in President Roosevelt.
who stretched his constitutfoDal r,ov-ar