The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-01
Members of That Organization
And Invited Guests Extend
A Welcome to the Junior
Senator of Indiana.
TALKS ON PROBLEMS
OF COMMERCIAL NATURE.
Takes a Hopeful View of Con-
ditions, Believing the Ma
tion Able to Meet Problems
Confronting 1t.

Before an audience of representative
business men of Richmond that taxed
the seating capacity of the CONNER
cial club rooms, the Hon. James A.
Hemenway. junior senator of Indiana,
spoke at length Monday evening on the
commercial problems Of the day.
Senator Hemenway is the first of Q
series of speakers who have been in
vited to come to the city and deliver
addresses before the Commercial club,
during the fall and winter. Unusual
interest was manifested by members
of the club and the limited number of
| friends invited, in the address of SEN
ator Hemenway as this is the first
time he has visited Richmond in an
official capacity. Consequently men,
bers of the club were eager to hear the
| statesman who has served the state
both as congressman and senator with
creditability.
A half hour before the senator ar
rived at the rooms, every available
seat was occupied. AS each member
of the club and the invited guests en-
tered he was relieved of his ticket and
was presented with a cigar, the favor
of the evening. Thus the time was
whiled away until eight o'clock, when
President John F. McCarty, of the club
called the meeting to order, and after
a few Introductory remarks. Stated
that President r. l.. Kelly, of Earlham
would introduce the speaker of the
evening. President Kelly said In part:
Welcomed by Kelly.
81 feel this a very great honor and
privilege you have conferred on me, to
welcome the junior senator and speak
a few words of greeting from this or
ganiZation. | appreciate this honor
for several pronounced and we'll defin-
ed reasons. First, 1 consider 1t an
honor to be spokesman of the business
and professional men OF Richmond. for
no city has more honest, sincere. con-
cientious, straightforward, sane men,
than can be found within the limits of
the business interests of this city. This
city is recognized for it's conservative
sane type of citizenship. Then, / ap-
preciate the honor of representing this
Commercial club, for it has stood for
something in the past. 1t has stood
for the highest and best things in our
civic life. This club has an honorable
history. 1t has contributed to the So
cial, moral and material growth OF
Richmond. AS a concrete example of
its influence in the material growth,
have but to point to the Westcott ho-
tel. The chautauqua is an example OF
the social and intellectual influence OF
this club.
But | feel the honor Of representing
this organization tonight because l
feel a warm reception to the speaker OF
the evening; feeling that comes with
spontaneity. The man to whom we
have the honor of listening this even
ing is the embodiment of much of these
virtues that we have been speaking Of.
Senator Hemenway came into his SEN
atorship with perhaps as few acquaint-
ances as any man who enters public
life. His acquaintanceship has been
largely confined to the southern part
of the state, and but little has been
known Of him. personally, here in the
northern part of the state. But we
did not need to personally know him.
His virtues and acts in public life have
commended him to us and speak for
themselves. We are proud for what
he has done for our state while in con-
gress and since his entrance into the
senate, therefore. I esteem it a high
-j,-yJa
cial club Of Richmond, the Hon. James
A. Hemenway, junior senator of our
state
Senator Hemenway then delivered q
we'll prepared speech devoted to the
commercial questions now confronting
the American people. The senator read
most of his address from manuscript,
except for an occasional illustration or
story. to prove a point. Many of his
illustrations were drawn from his own
experience in public life and were well
chosen. He speaks slowly and dis
tictly, and while he does not impress
one as being an impassioned orator, he
displays a degree of conservatism and
practical knowledge that elected the
approval of all who heard him and
branded him as a careful student of po-
litical and governmental questions.
Following his address an informal
reception was held at which all pres
ent were given the privilege Of meeting
the senator. His address, in part, was
as follows:
Hemenways Address.
| Gentlemen-I am pleased to be with
you on this occasion not only for the