New-York tribune., 1909-05-19
MCLELLAN UPSTATE.
Mayor Makes Speeches to Residents
of Corning and Bath.

Elrnira y. Y. May B-Msyor MCCLELLAN os
New York was the speaker OF the evening az the
annual banquet OF the Corning Business Mems
Association held this evening in Corning. Former
State Senator William J. Tully, Of Corning, and
Thomas Carmody, Of Penn Van. also delivered ad-
dresses
Mayor Mcclellan said:
1t is exceedingly gratifying TO me 70 come 70
Corning, especially as II IS the home OF ny friend
ticalIy opposed during the entire time that he vas
in the Senate worked constantly and earnestly
esfs of the people OF New York He is one Of those
men who is first a partisan. but last and all the
time a public spirited and able citizen
In my part Of the state when Corning is nsn-
toned the average man exclaims- That is the
place where Heyntger and the cut glass cone
from" Every one Of the thirty thousand fans
who, at the Polo Grounds last June. Heynissr.
by his GOODNESS and pluck, turn defeat into VIC
tory for his alma mater felt a thrill Of pride IN
that manly OF Corning and Princeton
The last time I ran for Mayor / made vhst
believed was a record in delivering eishty-folr
speeches and addresses TO aCOut one hundred
thousand people Assuming that all OF these were
voters. and they we're not l succeeded n SPEAK
venture TO say that the Mayor or torhlns = 20
sonaliy known 10 majority OF his constituents,
This characteristic Of the small community has
made il politically most uncertain quantity, as is
question, and refuse be satisfied with merely the
approval OF the boss or the hall marx OF ne n,s-
The small community depending as IL does upon
the individual EFFORT and work os every one OF ts
component parts, is the living and breathing PROOF
of Gods truth-that God made man IN his own
image, 70 stand upon his own feet and do lis DUTY
with all his might; TO work OUT his Cwn salvation
in his own way, in accordance with the oppor-
tunty and the grace that God in His infinite Wis
dom and mercy has given him
Earlier In the day Mayor Mcclellan addressed the
residents of Bath at the Soldiers and Sailors
Home. He said:
AS the OF veteran, il IS very great prlvi-
lege 10 be permitted 10 speak TO yOu. who WeEe
my fathers comrades, who loved and hOnOred nm
and whom he loved and honOred-
We who were born after the close OF the CtSH
but for YOU would not have received as cUf lHs.l-
tance the blessings OF a reunited and happy co1A-
try. have for YOU intense teeeil1s OF owns
pride, for feel that belong % Us, your S9-lS
even more than belong 10 YOU our ratners- -
The spirit Of 81 is much needed to-day aS y -
in the lustrum which was yours me nope o. -
nation is in the innate spirit OF conservatism 49,
is bred In the bone of the American people N.'c ~
we have inherited from YOU and which every oHSU1 o
YOU has constantly either consciously or une9a-
sCiously. been preaching ever since lsee Ins % ~
pulse toward conservatism which vas SVEN "
country BY the combined effort % all the
CT the Civil War great thai u VII e--S.S e--S.S
as LONG as the memory Of its authors s tL9+-s---
I'm the hearts OF our people. - ,r,-s
The great victory achieved hy ne man w s.S
the blue and the who wore the SItL sNte-ssssY.
and We hold equally IN loving memory sll - -s-s
the men who wore the blue and the men NLl -; .sSs
rhe srav not Only that they fought Icf p-Ll.---.s
but that after the smoke Of oattte - 80 nrfn-
thev went home and lived and WORKED l'- ~
ciple.