Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-25
HIS LIFE AN OPEN BOOK
NIB. WIN. o9ILEtR's EuIoeY OF
THE PRESIDENT.
Discusses Roosevelt, the New Yorker
Meeting of State Club satur-
day Night.

More than 800 persons, representing the
various state clubs of the District, were en-
tertained at the National Rifles Armory
Saturday night by the members of the New
York State Club at reception and dance
Music for the evening was furnished by the
New York clubs orchestra, and solos were
sung by Mrs. Jessie Spencer Hover accom-
panied by Mrs. Bessie N Wild. Mr. William
Miller Collier solicitor of the Department of
Labor and Commerce, was the speaker of
the evening. His address dealt with the
leading political issues, and he declared that
President Roosevelt was the only man for
the next presidency. sg.e-
He said, In part: THE life Of Theodore
Roosevelt is an open book. His career, pub
lie and private, is known to all men, and his
and deeds are the subject of discussion by
millions Volumes have been written ABOUT
him.
"The New Yorker"
'Tonight as a New Yorker, 1 shall speak
to you men of New York upon Theodore
Roosevelt the New Yorker. Few men have
played a more active part in the affairs OF
the empire state; few men have flled
greater number and a greater variety OF
important public offices.
There has been no more brilliant career,
and, better yet, there has been no more
worthy record of faithful and successiu,
public service. We are specially concerned
with what he has done for New York ana
with what he, as a New Yorker, mas oone
for the country.
Theodore Roosevelt is the greatest OF tne
sons of the empire state, because ne mas
been at all times and under all circumstances
Theodore Roosevelt the man and Theodore
Roosevelt the citizen. The supreme neeo
of our present-day political life is men-ln isi
$l,ai,. maj
are mindful of their own personal response
bility. men who are ready to do their lnol-
vidusl share of the work in which all must
unite.
.In office and out of office, he has always
insisted that public affairs shall be con-
Quoted upon the plane of citizenship rather
than of partnership. and that the same
standards of honesty that prevail in private
transactions among those who are worthy
70 he called men should be applied to
notifies The constant political hght IN
New York is for honest government IN
state and city. Roosevelt has done much
to secure this for the people OF the empire
state not only by demanding, when he him.
self has been in office, strict hdel1ty 10 DUTY
upon the part of his subordinates, but al.
so by bringing about the establishment of
better administrative systems winch nave
worked permanent reforms.
mo public man is more popular through
out the country than is Theodore Roosevelt
the New Yorker. none more popular in New
York than Theodore Roosevelt, the Amer1-
can. The unanimity of the demand for his
nomination for the presidency foretells his
triumphant election. AS the seventy-eight
delegates of the empire state will present
his name to the republican national con-
vention so will the vote of that state be
cast for him on election day, no matter who
is the democratic candidate or what is the
democratic platform.
The hall was tastefully decorated with
ed with palms. The committee in charge
of the entertainment included: John Bull
Tough, Middleton Smith, John Babcock, G.
Hutchinson, jr., A. H. King, NJ Harris, r.
T. Anderson, Edw. ]. Cantwell. Fred E.
Weber, Charles f. Lockwood, Douglass ].
Murray and James B. Robinson.