Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
DRINK TO TAFT
AND THE TICKET
REPUBLICANS GIVE BANQUET
AT LEWIS CAFE
MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND EN-
JOY DOLLAR DINNER
Senators Flint and Perkins, and Com
gresham MeLschlah Guests OF
Honor, with Meserye Act
ing as POSTMASTER

sat down to the dollar banquet at
LEWIS last night as guests of the SECOND
and Third Ward Republican cluos' anu
at intervals arose to wave napkins anu
cheer for Roosevelt, Taft and the guests
- honor Senators Frank p. Flint,
GEORGE q. Perkins and Congressman
James McLachlan. 7on
With a reception committee OF 1So
nan under the lead of United states
Marshal Leo Youngworth, on duty' Ine
guests were steered past c gauntlet ol
outstretched hands, until all the ante
rooms at Levy's were choked 10 over
flowing. - TITO
AT o'clock the throng swung INTO
the big hall, which was lined with long
tables covered with Dishes ferns anu
strange bottles and syphons, the SPEAK
ers' table thanking one end OF the rooill'
Attorney E. A. Meserve, loaned 10 the
Second and Third wards by an aoJoln-
ing ward, was toastmaster.
on his right, in the order named, sat
Senator Perkins, Harry White of seat
tle and Los Angeles (Tafts Paclhc
coast manager), District Attorney Us
car LaWler, Judge r. B. Carpenter anu
others. ,,4.u
on Mr.. Meserve's left sat Senator
Flint, Congressman McLachlan, y. n
Burd. president of the banquet Judge
Il. M. Houser and Bradner Lee, CHAIR
man of the Republican city COMMITTEES.
Others at the guests table We're
Judges Jameson and Monroe, Waiter
Parker. ]. D. Fredericks, Otto Rlch'
Phil Stanton, Byron Erkenbrecher'
former Judge Gibbs of Pasadena, J. I.
Transue, Dan Miller, M. f. LlAe, .. -,
Seymour, David Goldberg, Motley
ii. Flint, Lee C. Gates, H. H. Roser'
Frank Prescott, Toby Newman, Leon
F. Morse, H. Cardell, Fl. c. S. McCart-
ney. w. H. Clune, o. r. w. Robinson,
w. II. McGill and others.
Feast in ShirtsIeeVes
Chairman Youngworth of the recep-
tion committee made the hit of the
early part of the evening when ne
climbed into the musicians gallery, told
every one to feel at home" and pulled
off his coat.
"All take off your coats and be COM
Portable" he shouted, and in a minute
a complete transformation had taken
Mace. White, blue and pink shirted
stalwarts sat where a moment before
coated Republicans had been looking
in vain for electric fans.
Some far-sighted Republican soon
after made hit by sending in huge
box of fans for distribution.
President Hurd raped for order with
two salt cellars and read a message
from beyond the Rockies, from Frank
H. Hitchcock, expressing regret that he
could not attend. Regrets were re-
ceived also from Governor Gillett, Sec
rotary of State Curry and others.
Toastmaster Meserve then introduced
Pasadena's favorite son, Congressman
"Jim" McLachlan, and the speaking
program started.
McLachIan's RecoIIections
Congressman James McLachlan in
his address reviewed past and present
campaigns.
LAS 1 view the situation this is to be
one of the most important campaigns
in the history of the nation" he said.
1.-THE wonderful prosperity through
which we have passed during the last
ten years is, in my judgment, the
cause of our greatest danger.
During such periods we are prone
to forget the real conditions that eX-
listed under the last Democratic con-
troll of the affairs of the nation and to
slumber in the midst of our apparent
security.
Some of us may have already for
gotten the conditions that existed here
in our beautiful city, when we last had
a Democratic president, a Democratic
United States senate and a Democratic
house of representatives,, when the
reigns Of government were wholly in
the hands of our Democratic friends.
Hard Times Then
"Then our orchards were burdened
with fruit, the granaries bursting with
the crops gathered from the fields that
year, but they remained unsold for the
season that there was no market. La
boring men swarmed in small armies
on our very streets looking for employ
ment, but finding no employment for
their hands to do.
1.-THE city council supplemented by
charitably inclined individuals, were
compelled to come to their rescue and
give them employment in our public
parks, to furnish these honest laboring
men with the bare necessaries of life.
Let us not forget the wonderful
transformation that took place when
the Republican party again came into
power. Every laboring man could then
secure employment, the products of the
orchard, the farm and the factory were
Immediately in demand at splendid
prices, and that condition has existed
substantially down to the present time
under the beneficent influence of Re
publican rule.
"The Dingley bill, which was Their
enacted as a law, transformed all in
dustrial conditions as if by magic
That law provided ample protection tC
all our industries, and especially to the
industries of California, and the gen
eral conditions have been almost uni
versally prosperous.
Tariff 5ugaboo
''If our Democratic friends should b
successful and carry into effect theil
a declarations with relation to the lower
ing of our tariff it would, in my judg
ment, paralyze and destroy every grea
industry in California and reduce us t.
the conditions that existed here in 1S9
and 1898. under the last Democratic
law, known as the Wilson bill.
y think that 1 would be derelict il
my duty tonight if l did not testify t.
the loyalty and devotion of our honore(
guest, Senator Perkins. During tel
years of service have never called OF
him in vain to assist in advancing thu
interests of Southern California in con
gress. No one from our own section
could be more devoted and loyal thai
he has been.
San Pedro Contest
81 we'll remember in that memorable
contest thirteen years ago, when thi
whole community was in a life anC
death struggle for a free harbor at GU
doors, Senator Perkins stood loyall'
Steven NJ White and myself in con
tending for the establishment of a har
Dor at st. Pedro.
"I can never forget the herculeat
work that he did when the Dingley bill
was framed in contending day am
night for a higher protective duty OF
all the great products Of California
the state he loved so well. 1t was my
privilege to be in daily intercourse witt
him during that memorable contest
and more than once, when the issu'