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our country; that he has so handled the adminis 

 tration of affairs as to make us feel a justifiable 

 confidence that hereafter the storms of party politics 

 in the United States shall never touch the govern 

 ment of the Philippine Islands, and that whatever 

 changes of administration there are here in the 

 Union, there shall not be a ripple of change in the 

 course of conduct in the Philippines marked out by 

 Governor Wright and his associates. The man of 

 whom that can be truthfully said is a man entitled 

 to honor from his fellow-countrymen ; and of Gov 

 ernor Wright it can be truthfully said. 



AT THE FOUNDERS' DAY BANQUET OF THE 



UNION LEAGUE, PHILADELPHIA, PA., 



NOVEMBER 22, 1902 



Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Union League: 



Forty years ago this club was founded, in the 

 dark days of the Civil War, to uphold the hands of 

 Abraham Lincoln and give aid to those who bat 

 tled for the Union and for human liberty. Two 

 years ago President McKinley came here as your 

 guest to thank you, and through you all those far- 

 sighted and loyal men who had supported him in his 

 successful effort to keep untarnished the national 

 good faith at home and the national honor abroad, 

 and to bring back to this country the material well- 

 being which we now so abundantly enjoy. It was 

 no accident which made the men of this club who 

 stood as in a peculiar sense the champions and up- 



