. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . s were all suggestive of a reunitedunion. President Hope Reed Cody, in introduc-ing the speakers, said: Ladies and Grentlemen,—Fellow Americans:The Hamilton Club welcomes you and joins youin extending most cordial greetings to our hon-ored guests. As an organization the HamiltonClub is not ashamed of its partisanship, but it isproud of its patriotism. It stands not for candi-dates, not for the selfish ambitions of any man,but for undying principle. In the past it hasmany times found great pleasure in callin
. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . s were all suggestive of a reunitedunion. President Hope Reed Cody, in introduc-ing the speakers, said: Ladies and Grentlemen,—Fellow Americans:The Hamilton Club welcomes you and joins youin extending most cordial greetings to our hon-ored guests. As an organization the HamiltonClub is not ashamed of its partisanship, but it isproud of its patriotism. It stands not for candi-dates, not for the selfish ambitions of any man,but for undying principle. In the past it hasmany times found great pleasure in callingtogether vast audiences of Chicago citizens, inthe heat of bitterly contested political battles, anddiscussing with them party policies, upon whichwe could not all agree. To-night it finds infi-nitely greater pleasure in having brought to-gether this magnificent concourse of patrioticcitizens, knowing that to the theme of this even-ings celebration every heart in this hall beats inunison. Thirty-four years ago to-night it would, ofcourse, have been impossible for the two sections. IN CHICAGO. of the country to join in celebrating AppomattoxDay, but every day during the past generationthe North and the South have been slowly butsurely coming closer and closer and closertogether, until in the year 1898 the attack of aforeign enemy tore down the curtain of sectionalprejudice, and disclosed a united country. Thus is it possible for us to-night to enter-tain side by side at this banquet board, this Gen-eral of the Northern army (General Black), thistrue representative of the loyal South (Mr. Set-tle), this statesman (Mr. Smith), member of thePresidents official family, representative here ofthe great patriot whose head and heart have sowisely guided us during the troublesome monthsjust past, the President of these truly UnitedStates, William McKinley; and this Americansoldier, who was, during the Spanish War, themost notable and typical representative of theunited arms, our honor
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