The San Francisco call., 1905-05-11
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tonight the chief guest at a magnif1-
cent banquet rendered him by the Iro-
quois Club, the leading Democratic or
ganization of Illinois. Surrounded by
men who have fought against him In
two national campaigns. who depre-
cate many of his avowed policies and
who have frowned upon some Of his
political actions, the President was to-
night cheered to the echo as he entered
and left the banquet hall, was ap-
plauded with enthusiasm throughout
his address and at its close and was
given to understand that in his case
political differences were not a per-
sonal Issue.
The banquet, which was from first to
last an ovation, was given entirely by
Democrats to the leader of their polit-
ical opponents and many of the kindly
personal references made by the speak
erS of the evening, the majority OF
whom were men of Democratic faith,
deeply touched the President. In his
manner and words he evinced through
out the evening a deep qualification at
the warmth of his reception from men
who have fought him in political bat
ties before now and are ready to fight
him again tomorrow If they considered
it necessary. Throughout the entire
evening, however, ran the dominant
note of admiration for the character
of and friendship for the man himself.
GREETED WITH CHEERS.
The great banquet hall of the Au-
ditorium never held a gathering more
representative than that which as
sembled tonight to do honor to Pres
ident Roosevelt. Given under the aus
pices of a Democratic organization as
it was, 1t was but natural that the
majority of those present should be
members of that party. but scattered
throughout the banquet hall were
many men strong in Republican doc
trines and high in the councils of their
party in Illinois. At the President 8
table were Mayor Edward f. Dunno;
Charles F. Guntber, president of the
Iroquois Club; James Hamilton Lewis,
who acted as postmaster; Samuel
Altschuler, Judge Murray F. Tuley,
Sheriff Thomas Z. Barrett and other
Democrats. OF the Republicans there
were at the same table Governor De-
neen, Senator A. j. Hopkins, Judge G.
c. Kohlsaat. Judge j. w. Lands and
q dozen more:
Prior to the banquet itself, which
was set for Z o'clock the President
held an informal reception in the
rooms of the Art Institute, adjoining
the Auditorium on the north.
A few moments before Z o'clock the
President entered the banquet hall. He
had been preceded by several hum
dred Of the guests, and his arrival was
the signal for an outburst Of cheers
that continued until the President had
uaversed the long hall and stood by
his seat at the speakers table. The
President bowed repeatedly in ack-
nowledgment of the hearty welcome
extended to him.
The menu was long, and fully one
and a half hours was consumed be-
A a - IL ~,ly
President Gunther of the Iroquois Club
called the guests to order and made a
brief address of welcome to the Presi-
dent Toastmaster Lewis also spoke
briefly. J. NJ Dickinson, the first
formal speaker, responded to the toast
The Iroquois Club" Governor Deneen
who followed him, spoke on Illinois. :"
When at the conclusion Of the ad-
dress of Governor Deneen Lewis arose
to introduce President Roosevelt. the
entire assembly was on it's feet. wav-
ing handkerchiefs and napkins and
cheering with vigor. When his voice
could be heard Lewis happily intro
duced the President, wha spoke as fol-
lows:
1 very deeply appreciate the honor of being
your guest and guest of the city Of Chicago
b1,s 5hs sveS1s =, s and in looking ds at ti the
not the least anticipation of Chicagos ever
reversing that most complimentary vote which
1 SO deeply appreciated last year, because it
will never have the chance.
1 have accepted your kind and generous in
vitation to come before you because the longer
/ am in political life the more firmly con-
WINGED am l that the great bulk OF questions
OF most Importance before a people are
questions which we can best decide not from
the standpoint of Republicanism or Democ-
racy but from the standpoint of the inter-
ests of the average citizen. whether Repub-
lican Democrat.
There are foreign questions and there are
domestic questions. Our politics should, and
in the great majority OF cases do, disappear
at the waters edge and when 1 had to choose
man to represent in a peculiar degree the
interests OF this Government In one Of the
most important negotiations of recent years.
that concerning the Alaskan boundary 1 chose
the best lawyer. one Of the ablsst public men
and one Of the most fair-minded patriots that
could be found in the country and the fact
that he OF the opposite faith did not in
terfere with Judge Dickinson doing that work
we'll