New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-11
HOLDS TWO RECEPTIONS.
President Speaks to Hamilton and
Harvard Clubs.

Chicago May 1O-At the Hamilton Club
suls in Chicago, resplendent in their varied uni
forms. AS he greeted the last of the consuls
the doors were thrown open and double line
of those invited to the general reception en-
tered. 1t was an hour before the last man had
shaken the Presidents hand. When the last
guest had passed down the stairs John A eau
ger. president of the Hamilton Club, made u
brief speech Of welcome, and President Roose-
welt. in reply, spoke as follows:
L doubt if any member Of the Hamilton Club
mas longer and pleasanteT associations with it
than have. l have been your guest again and
again; have spoken before you again and again.
and long before had risen to what we will call
a position of notoriety it was before the Ham
1ton Club that made speech with a title
tion but which did-"The Strenuous Life
Qaughter)-and l mention it now because from
that day to this l have ne~er dared to use tina
phrase the strSn sols life' at all. 1t was dele
cation from this club that came down to meet mo
at Montadk Point when came back from San
tago remember that That delegation then.
with an enthusiasm which 10 human being out
side of the club could have foreseen to he war
ranted by after events nominated me for Presi-
dent IN 1904; which, as 1t was six years in adj
vance did not at that time look upon very
riousy. daughter and applause. And dele
CATION from YOUR club came on to be present at
my Inauguration as Governor q have shaken
hands with certain members OF that delegation
to-day. and the membG1s of tina: delegation
bronze inkstand with Abraham Lincoln's head
on il, and it is in my library, and IS the ink
stand L now. (ApplaUSe) So that 1 have
these personal associations with the Hamilton
Club which have established claim upon me.
And then. what is Tar more important, gentle
men, than any question: affecting myself, have
had for the Hamilton Club real and hearty
respect that is due to any organization which
tries to give expression to it's belief through
deeds as we'll as words and which endeavors
steadfastly to be thoroughly practical and yet
to live up to high ideals have felt that you
Ir,1-a rf in IA hliGli la FH
Of citizenship, Of good citizenship in this coun-
try.
You. by your name. commemorate a great
Observation-Disclosures Of the most brilliant
and one of the greatest constructive statesmen
OF the era of constructive craftsmanship; man
to whom this republic owes well nigh meal
culabe debt, and the man who took the chief
part in writing that volume Of essays which:
collected under the name Of The Federalst."
is still a guide to honest efficient and RESPONSE
BILE government.
Hamilton lacked but one great quality. it was
the quality which his great adversary Jefferson
possessed in so peculiar a degree-trust and be-
lief in the people; and with good fortune.
in our second great crisis of the republics life,
developed son of Illinois, a man born in
Kentucky, but by adoption and long life citi
OF Illinois man who combined the
strength, the efficiency, the far-sightedness OF
Hamilton with Jeffersons intense belief in the
people; man greater than either-Abraham
Lincoln I feel that this club not only COM
menorat ties the name and the great services OF
Alexander Hamilton, but in all that IT has done
and is striving to do is applying practically and
So. gentlemen for many different reasons for
reasons of old associations. Of appreciation Of
what your attitude has been toward me, and Of
appreciation of what you doing in the life
of this great city. OF this great State and there
fore Of the Nation, / am doubly and trebly
pleased to be to-day once more the guest of the
Hamilton Club.
At the close Of the speech the President re-
tired under the canopy before which he had
been receiving, and while seated kept up a gem
eral conversation with few around him while
the parlors were cleared and turned over to the
Harvard Club of Chicago.
The Harvard Clubs president, Kellogg Fair
banks, stood at the Presidents left and made
the introductions. More than three hundred
graduates OF Harvard filed by, the earlier class
men leading. When the last graduate had re-
tired to the rear Of the parlor President Fair
banks introduced Samuel 8. Greeley. who read
a short address to the President In reply Presi
dent Roosevelt spoke of the great need OF T4ar
ward for Western blood" He said
Mr. Greeley and fellow Harvard men. 7 naes
hardly say what very real pleasure IL has haar.
TO greet you this afternoon. but Mr. GreaIa,,
spoke Of Harvard winning the West M,
pet theory has been that the very best thin
that can happen to Harvard is to have the Wes@
win II, and hail every Harvard club west 10
the Allegheny even more than / do those aaSt
| Of there. for Harvards mission I'm the counts,
can be incacula oily furthered if II has sufcien.
amount Of the Western blood that does thinos,,,
| IN II. and for that reason / am particuIa rI,.
pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chfcago
again under as pleasant circumstances as hava