The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-13
The ReeeptIo,,.

NEW YoaK, June lo,-The reception
given TO Ex-Governor Hendricks this
evening, by the Manhattan Club, was The
occasion Of large gathering Of the besl
known Democrats OF the city. The
rooms were brilliantly lighted and brass
band played outside, and large crowd
assembled In Fifth avenue. Among the
assemblage were David Dudley Field
Judge Donahue, S. ]. Courtney, Au.
gustuS Schell, John McKeon, Ben.
lamin Wood, Judge Westbrook, Judge
Van BruRt, William G. Wickham
George W. McClelland, OF the old guard,
Chiet Justice Curtis, Chief Justice Daley,
Lawrence, and many others.
Shortly after 8 o'clock Cows. Tilden
and Hendricks were announced, amid
great cheering and Clapping OF hands.
The Chairman, A. J.VAnderhael, brief.
y introduced the distinguished sacsts and
Governor Tilden spoke as iolloWs:
ThDEN's srEEcH.
Everybody knows that after the recent
election the men who were elected by the
people President and Vice President OF
the United States were counted out, and
the men who were not elected were count.
ed in and seated. disclaim any thought
OF personal wrong in noting this trausac.
ton. Not by any act or word Of mine
shall that be dwaried or degraded into
a personal grievance, which is the greatest
wrong that has stained our national an.
nails to every man Of the four and a
quarter millions who were deirauded of
the fruits Of their elective franchise. 1t
is as great wrong as it Is to me, and no
less TO every man OF the minority will
the ultimate consequences extend. Evils
in government grow by success and by
impunIty. They do not arrest their own
progress. They can never be limited ex.
cept by external force. II the men in
possession OF the Government can
in one instance maintain Themselves
in power against an adverse decision at
elections, such an example will be imi.
tated; dissatisfaction exists always. De.
vices 10 give color Of law, and false pre-
lenses on which to found fraudulent de.
cisions will not be wanting. The wrong
will grow into practice il once condor.
ed in the worlds history. Changes in
succession OF governments have usual.
ly been the result OF fraud
or force. 1t has been our faith
and our pride that we had established
the mode Of peaceful change, to be
worked out by the agency OF the ballot
box. The question now is whether our
elective system, in its substance as we'll
as its form, is TO be maintained by this
question Of questions until it is finally
settled. There can be no politics founded
on the inferior questions Of the Ad-
minstrative policy; it involves lie
fundamental right Of the people;
it involves the elective principle;
il involves the whole system OF popular
government. The people must signally
condemn the great wrong which has been
done to them. They must strip the ex-
ample OF everything that can attract imi.
tators. They must refuse prosperous
immunity to this crime. This is not all.
The people will not be able to trust the
authors or benefciaries OF this wrong to
devise the remedies, but when those
who condemn the wrong shall
have the power, they must devise
measures which shall render n repetition
OF the wrong impossible. II my voice
could reach throug ghout our country, and
he heard its remotest hamlet, would
say be ofgood cheer, the Republic will
live, the Institutions OF onr country are
not to expire in shame, the sovereignty
OF the people shall be rescued from this
peril and re.established. A successful
wrong never appears 10 triumphant as on
the very eve oftits fall. Seven years ago
corrupt dynasty eliminated in its power
over the million of people who live in
the city OF New York. 1t had conquered
or bribed, or aatteSed, and won almost
everybody into acquiescence. ltappeared
to be invincible. A year or two later its
members were in the penitentiaries or
in exile. History abonnds in similar
examples. We must believe in the right
and in the future. A great and noble
nation will not sever its political from
its moral life
At the conclusion Of the Governors
address Gov. Hendricks being loudly
called for rose and said;
GOV. HENDRICKS SPEECH.
GENTLEMES:-I thank you for the
honor you have shown me. | appreci.
ate it:in part as an expression Of personal
respect and confidence, but more as
declaration and assurance OF your sup.
port Of the principles and policies Of
which in honorable association with
your distinguished citizen | was
made u representative in the politi-
cal contest Of last year. | beg
to assure you 1 appreciate the honor
you show me the more highly because OF
your devotion TO the political principles
which experience has shown TO be essen.
tial to the preservation Of good and pure
government and the property OF the
people. Very earnestly the Democrats
Of this great city and State and OF In.
diana, as well as other States contended
for and demanded restoration OF local
self government in all the States where
it had been denied. They insisted on u
reduction throughout the entire public
service Of the expenditures, not by hun
dreds nor by thousands, but by many mil.
lions annually. Therein was involved
also great reduction Of the vast army Of
office holders and the substitution OF an
honest for dishonest administration. Con.
tending for the results so notably right
and honorable, their cause was grand and
their victory glorious. | will not dis
turb the pleasure OF this occasion by uu-
dertaking TO recountssthe means whereby
the will and judgment Of..the people were