The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13
REPUBLICAN WORKERS HOLD LARGE BANQUET
ALL CONFIDENT OF
 PARTY SUCCESS
At Coming City E1ection-candidates All Present Except Two for seIect- men-Leaders All Give Warning Against over-Conadenoe and urge Combined work-Town chairmaa Macdonald as Toastmaster--Affair Great Success.

MhcuoudAu as IOastmAsteF--AMafr
 Great Success.
 The banquet of the republican ward committees which was given in the hall of the Young Mems Republican club last evening was the most successful
 one in the history of the party. and the strong feeling of party loyalty which was everywhere evidenced argues well for the success of the G. Q. F. ticket at the coming city election. In addition to the three hundred or more ward
 workers present. all the candidates on the republican ticket were present ex- cept Henry Hillman and Anthony ver- di, candidates for selectmen, who were
 unavoidably prevented from attending.
 The large hall was handsomely dec
 orated for the occasion. Nichols or chestra furnished the music. The guests table extended across the front of the hall, and extending at right an- gles from this the whole length of the lhall were seven long tables at which
 the ward committees were seated The banquet, which was greatly enjoyed,
 lasted from 7:30 o'clock until o'clock,
 and when it was finished and cigars had been lighted Town Chairman The odore H. Macdonald arose and as toast-
 master gave brief address before in- ltroducing the speakers. He spoke, in part, as follows:
 It is more than a pleasure for me to welcome you all here this evening. It l is always a good sign to see so many 1 stalwart works gathered together on | the eve of an election. You are all hard workers, but it will do you good l to take a night off and gather together 1 for the general good of the party. 1 have only two things of which I am particularly desirous of speaking to you this evening. The first is that our par l ty has placed in nomination a ticket which is as good as can possibly be se- lected, and one which we can back up | in every particular and in every single instance. We have no excuses to offer for any of our candidates, for every one
 of them is a republican. We have not
 had to go into third party or the democratic party for any of our selec- ! tions. (Applause.) My honest belief ias kliistI OIl next IueSUity the voters or InlS city will elect the entire republican
 ticket. Cloud and continued applause) i The records of our candidates as citi-
 zens and business men show their true
 worth.
 The second matter of which Iwisf 1 to speak is to warn you not to be over-
 sanguine. What is necessary for suc-
 cess is good hard work, and by your
 presence here you show your willing ness to work and demonstrate the fact that you are working hard. The ticket
 which we will present to the voters on
 next Tuesday has been unanimously se-
 lected, and do not believe that many
 republicans are going to leave us to
 vote some other. In closing I would
 say that we have hard work before us. and would urge that you do not cease
 your efforts until the battle has been 1 Won.''
 Mayor Studley was the first speaker |called upon, and he, as well as all the Iother speakers, was brief in his re- {