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Show KOBESOX DIKED. Or a Meetliie: of Republican .Tlulcon teu Is. Huiyti L.iMtied Over Ciruul't Shoulders. Trenton, N. J., 3. The public dinner last evening to George M. Kobeson, ex-secretary of the navy, was a grand ailair, Senator James G. Blaine was among the company Hon. Thomas N. McCarter presided and announced that the banquet was a social aflair, to give the opportunity to welcome back to New Jersey an old friend. Robeson spoke principally princi-pally in defence of his administration of the navy, and i us is led that its con ditiou was better now than ever before. be-fore. The administration of which he was lately a part was defended us one whose acts history would defend, the head of which had spent his lite in answering adverse criticism by uniform good conduct. This occasion oc-casion had no political significance. He was not a candidate for office. He was a party man and believed in party for political purposes. I Blaine defended republicanism as national, especially as it was administered admin-istered by General Grant. The pro-1 teciion of the rights of citizenship in every state was its cardinal feature, and a government that did not offer protection to every citizen in every state had no right to desmand allegiance. |