New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-18

was an interested spectator in the gallery. He
| is an eloquent speaker" commented the Admiral
with considerable show Of enthusiasm.
COCHRAN PRAISES PRESIDENT.
The address of W. Bourke Cochran was
| chiefly notable for a qualified but none the less
| remarkable tribute to President Roosevelt,
| whose health he proposed.
| II believe" he said, that the 25O0000 plural
| ity for President Roosevelt at the last election
was the expression of the American peoples be-
lief in favor of those elemental qualities of the
day we celebrate and which are personifed in
| President Roosevelt.
| Il believe the votes were an approval of con-
| fdence in and love OF the man. 1 think that by
casting their votes the people declared that he
was among the best men who could have been
/ selected for the office and that he tried to be
| right and that under circumstances would he
covet his neighbours goods his wife, but would
| throw any out of the window who did So"
Amid thunderous applause Mr.. Cochran then
| asked the diners TO drink bumper" not to
the President Of the United States, but to Theo-
| dore Roosevelt. the man and product of the
| virtues they celebrated.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
The President, whose speech was stubbornly
interrupted by hurricanes of applause, spoke as
follows:
There was a popularity about these immi-
grants who came from Ireland to the Colonies
during the eighteenth century which has never
been paralleled in the case of any other imm1-
grants whatsoever. In all other cases. since the
very first settlements. the pushing westward of
tho frontiers has been due primarily to the
Of native birth. But the immigrants from
Ireland in the seventeenth century pushed boldly
through the settled districts and planted them
selves as the advance guard Of the conquerlng
civilization on the borders of the Indian haunted
wilderness.
men had begun to mix with their fellows of other
Stocks and they furnished their full share of
leadership in the great struggle which made us
a nation. Among their number Comm dore
John Barry, one of the three or four officers to
whom our infant navy owed most. On land they
furnished generals like Montgomery. who fell
so gloriously at Quebec. and Sullivan, the con-
queror of the Iroquois. who came of a New
Hampshire family which furnished Governors
to three New-Engand States. while the Con-
tnental troops of the hardest fighter among
Washington's generals Mad Anthony Wayne
were recruited so largely from this stock that
Light Horse Harry Lee always referred to
them as THE Line Of Ireland" Nor must we for
ing the days Of the Revolution who afterward be-
came the chief American general Of his time,
and as President of the public men who left
his impress most deeply upon our nation, old
Andrew Jackson. the victor of New-Orleans.
In the second great crisis of our country's
history-the period of the Civil Wharf.-The part
played by the men of Irish birth parentage
was no less striking than it had been in the
Revolution. Among the three or four great gen.
erals who led the Northern army In the war
stood Phil Sheridan. Some of those whom I am
now addressing served in that immortal brigade
which the fatal day of Fredericksburg left
its dead closest to the stone wall which marked
the limit that could not be overpassed even by
the highest human ValOr.
The people who have come to this country
from Ireland have contributed to the stock of
common citizenship qualities which es-
sential to the welfare of every great nation
They a masterful of rugged character
the qualities of whose womanhoOd have
become proverbial, while it's men have the ele-
mental, the indispensable virtues of working
hard in time of peace and fighting hard in time
of In every walk of life men of this blood |
have stood, and now stand, pre-emnent
statesmen and soldiers, the bench, at the |
bar and in business
That man is the best American who has in him !
the American spirit, the American soul. Such
man fears not the strong and harms not the !
weak. He scorns what is base cruel dis /
honest. He looks beyond the accidents of occu-
patton sociaI condition, and halls each of his !
fellow citizens his brother, asking nothing |
save that each shall treat the other on his worth
a man. and that they shall join together to |
do all that in them lies for the uplifting of this
mighty and vigorous people.
The Presidents departure for the Hotel Astor
was the cue for further demonstration. Despite
the lateness of the hour large number of peo-
pie were out to the President as he made his
trip from Delmonico's to the Hotel Aston and
to cheer him as he passed The start from Del
nonicos was made promptly at 1920 O'Clock.
President Roosevelt accompanied bv his
usual escort and with him in the carriage were
Commissioner McAdoo, Secretary Loeb and a
member OF the reception committee of the Sons
Of the Revolution
The sidewalks were lined with people From
the time the carriage turned out of 44th-st into
5th-ave the cheering began and kept pace with
the trip until the President disappeared in the
Hotel Astor.
The dinner given in the golden dining
hall. The main banquet hall and the annex
were decorated with festoons of the Stars and
Stripes into which was effectively woven the +.
gren and gold flag of Erin. The tables were
banked with American Beauty and Bride roses
and carnations. They were set off most effec-
lively by garlands of green and gold electric
lights strung diagonally the hall. Imme-
diatey back of and above the seat of the Presi-
dent were the Gaelic words, "Cead Mile Failthe"
in letters Of fire. signitying "A thousand well
comes" To the right and left of the guests
table were medallions of Washington and Roose-
Welt illuminated by unique electric effects.
The contrast of Washington and Roosevelt re-
called that the Friendly Sons of St Patrick en-
tertained Washington In 1882 as the general in
chief of the Colonial armies President Roose-
Welt is the first President the Friendly Sons of
ST. Patrick have entertained. although both
Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland. as ex-
Presidents were guests of the society.
The speakers, in addition TO the President and
the president of the society. were Justice Martin
J. Keogh, "Ireland's Revival: ]. l. C. Clarke
poem, 1.-THE Rough Rider Bucky O'Neill"; w.
Bourke Cochran 1.-THE Day We Celebrate; John
J. Delany, 1.-THE City of New-York"
The menu was in the form of a large booklet
IF nine pages. bound with heavy green cord.