| Show THE FEDERAL CLUB A Republican Welcome to Reed and Lodge DEPEWS FULSOME ELATTEET The Hero of the Force 3111 Praises the Rpub llcan Party for Killing the Proposition for Free Coinage NEW YORK March 6Chauncey Depow presided tonight at a dinner given by the Federal club at which many notables wore present Mr Depaw in his remarks said I am here tonight much t my surprise The coroners jury holds me responsible for all the accidents on tho railroads Dismissing Dismiss-ing this however I will say wo are here tonight to-night as Republicans There are no mug wumps to doubt ou faith in this world and the next We are present to give greeting to the Republican leaders in Congress We welcome Reed and Lodge and regret that McKinley is not hero A Republican properly constituted has nothing noth-ing to defend Tho Republican party always won its victories by being aggressive aggress-ive We are happy in the fact that the party of Garfield andBlaineof Lincoln and Grant is the party of McKinley and Reed Depew then introduced Speaker Reed who was received with great applause He said in part Half the struggle in life is to got a hearing When Christopher Colum bus discovered America it took him three months but it took him half his life to get a chance to discover it Advertisement is an absolute prerequisite to the sale of goods and your best advertisers are your enemies I will challenge the world to point to the equal of the Fiftyfirst Congress for the good it has done We nave done more than passed great measures we have shown to the people that it is possible to have responsible re-sponsible government This country to day with its sixty millions of people cannot be governed as when it had three millions Our government has got to bo the growth of the necessities of our people and cant be adopted from any other land Mr Reed spoke of the increased work of Congress comparing the work of the ono just closed with its predecessors What I claim for the House of Representatives is not what it has done but it has rendered possible for all time to be done Tremendous Tre-mendous applause of Reeds speech Congressman Lodge In his remarks saidi ho was not content with a vague declaration declara-tion I am a Republican The Republican Republi-can platform stated the party to bo the party of honest money The declaration of the fact was too vague but the killing of the proposition for free silver showed the party was in favor of honest finance Is was also the party for civil service reform and these facts explained what ha meant when ho said I am a republican Of the last Congress Lodge said We have given minority rule a deadly blow wo have crippled obstruction we have proved to the American people that the House can legislate legis-late and make it impossible for any majority major-ity in the future to escape responsibility by the miserable excuse that the minority would not let it legislate Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt General Woodf ord and Judge Arnoux also spoke |
