The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
First National Bank

 gation from this club that came down to meet me at Montauk Point when came back from Santiago l remem- Der that delegation then with an en- thusiasm which no human being out side of the club could have foreseen 10 be warranted by after events, noml- mated me for President Tn 190t; Wnicn as 1t was six years in advance did not at that time look upon very seriously.
 You. by your name, commemorate great an-Hamilton-one of the most brilliant and one of The greatest constructive statesmen of the construc- tive statesmanship; a man 10 whom this republic owes a well night incai- culable debt and the man who took the chief part in writing that volume of essays which, collected under the name of the Federa'tst. Is still guide to honest, efficient and responsible gov ernment
 Hamilton lacked but one great quality; it w&e the quality which his great adversary, Jefrerscs1, possessed in so peculiar a degree--tlrast and belief in the people; and with our good for- tune, in the second great crisis of the republics life we develored son Of Illinois, man born in Kentucky but by adoption and long life citizen of Illinois--a man who combined the strength, efficiency. the farsightedness of Hamilton with Jefferson's Intense trust-Abraham Lincoln. I feel that this club not only commemoraScs the name and great services of Alexander Hamilton but in all that 1t has done and is striving to do is applying practically and effi- ciently the principles of Abraham Lincoln. So, gentlemen, for many diff ferent reasons, for reasons of old asso- citations. of appreciation of what your attitude has bee ntoward me and of ap- preciation of what you are doing in the life of this great city, of this great State and therefore of the nation, am doubly and trebly pleased to be today once more the guest of the Hamilton club"
 At the conclusion of the speech the President retired under the canopy be- fore which he had been received and while seated kept up general rapid fire conversation with a few around him while the parlors were cleared and turned over to the Harvard Club of Chicago.
 More than 300 graduates of Harvard Club headed by President Fairbanks filed by, the earlier classmen leading. When the last graduate had retired to the rear of the parlor, President Fair banks introduced Samuel s. Greedy, who read a short address to the Presi' dent. In reply President RooSeVelt spoke of the need of a Harvard for western blood" He said
 MT. Greedy and fellow Harvard men: I need hardly say what very real pleasure it has been to greet you this this afternoon but Mir. Greedy spoke of Harvard winning the west. My obser- vation has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the west in 1t and I especially hail every Harvard club west of the Alleghenies as we'll as those more east of there, for I feel that Harvard's mis- sion in this country can be incalcu> ably furthered if 1t has a sufficient amount of the western blood that does things in 1t; and for that reason l am particularly pleased to greet the Har- yard club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as l ever have had the pleasure of greeting them be- fore. Good bye and good luck to you"
 The Harvard yell was given with a will to the President. The reception committee of the Iroquois club was now introduced and it took the Presi. dent in hand. The whole party hurried to the waiting carriages and were rushed to the Auditorium annex where the president was scheduled for an hour of rest, broken only by the recep- ton of a labor delegation presenting to him a protest against the use of troops here in connection with tho teamsters' strike situation.