The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20
A Large Number of Prominent
Democrats i'm Attend
ance.
Interesting Speeches Made By Ex-Gov-
ernOrs Hendricks ard
Tilden.
Full Report of the Reception and Speeches.
IBy Telegraph to the SENTINEL

NEW YORK, June II.
The reception to Governor Hendricks at
the Manhattan club was an immense ova-
ton, the leading lights of the democratic
party in this state and hundreds from New
Jersey and Pennsylvania participating as in
vited guests. Among them attorney
General Charles F. s. Fairchild; Senator d.
B. st. John, of Newburg; General P. NJ. B.
Young, of Georgia; Judge Josiah G. Abbott,
of Boston; Senator T. F. Randolph
and Ex-Governor Joel Parker. of New
Jersey; Senator Joseph E. Mcdonald,
of Indiana; c. W. Chaplin, of Massachusetts;
G. A. Walroth, Senator VIM. Pinkney Whyte,
of Maryland; Secretary of State John Bige-
low.
At late hour the festivities attendant on
the occasion
WERE IN FULL TIDE,
and many speeches. owing to the lateness of
the hour of assembling yet remain to be
made.
IBy Associated Press.J
New YORK, June 12-The reception given
to ex Governor Hendricks this evening by
large gathering of the best known democrats
S Srili sne 'liy lighted Inc up rooms braDs
band played outside and large
crowd assem- bled in Fifth avenue. Amongst
the assemblage were David Dudley Field,
Judge Donahue, E. J. Courtney, Augustus
Schell, John Mckeon, Benjamin Wood,
Judge Westbrook, Judge Van Brunt, VIM. G.
Wickham, George w. McClelland of the
"Old Guard" Chief Justice Curtis, Chief
Justice Daily, Lawrence Turner. Colonel
Wingle, and many others. Shortly after
9 o'clock ex-GOvernors Tilden and
Hendricks were announced amid great
cheering and clapping of hands. The chair
man, A. j. Vanderpool briefly introduced
the distinguished guests, and Governor
Hendricks spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN-1 thank you for the honor you
do me. / appreciate il in part an express
sion of personal respect and confidence, but
more as a declaration and assurance OF your
support of the principles and politics of which,
in honorable association with your
representative in the political contest Of last
year. beg TO assure you that appreciate the
honor you show me-the more highly because
of your devotion to the political principles
which experience has shown to be essential to
the preservation of good and pure government
and the 9Es OF he Rs
city and state, state and OF st indI-
of local self-governmenti in all the states where
il had been denied. They insisted upon a re-
duction throughout the entire public service
in expenditure, not by hundreds. nor yet by
thousands, but by many millions annually.
Therein was involved also great reduction of
the vast army of Office SOL
dies, and substitution of honest for
dishonest administration. Contendtng for the
results so notably right and honorable, their
cause was grand and their victory glorious.
will not disturb the pleasure of this occasion
by undertaking to recount the means whereby
the VIII dassa snd jTT6gmen nsu she PeSplds
in Louisiana and In Florida.
and at Washington is not and can not be made
satisfactory to the country, for the Obvious
reason that 1t was not true. A great and sin
cere people will rest their final judgment only
upon truth, and never upon fraud, successful
dent and his cabinet adopt part or whole OF
the politics and purposes 10, Tor
contending for many years, ana which be-
came so distinctly defined last year, even that
can not remove or quiet the public discomfort.
The democrats will make no factious opposi-
ton, nor will they seek to embarrass the de
CncfO administration, but will sustain 1t In
what is right because 1t is right and for the
welfare of the country, and not at all
because of any fealty to the party
that stands defeated land condemned by the
people. The people can not allow the selec-
ton Of their chief magistrate to become a
thing OF chance or of sharp practice. The fraud
first triumphant in American history must be
assigned 70 its proper place among the crimes
dare to attempt its repetition.
He who is elected president must be inaugu-
rated. Until this is settled and made sure no
democrat can be seduced from his devotion
and allegiance in any way, not by allure
in the abandonment by the administration of
vicious principles and dangerous policies and
the ado ption Of better doctrines and just meas
ures. The democrats will not intrust their most
cherished principles 10 the Keeping of the
power which Is attained By vicious and cor
rupt means. They will, therefore,, continue
their faith In the right of the majority to rule,
in accordance with the constitutional provi-
sions- All democrats rejoice with un oounded
Joy that free republican governments
are once more allowed to the states
of South Carolina and Louisiana.
They rejoice I'm the good fruits that must fol-
low. They know that peace and good order
Will prevail, that capital Will be made secure
and labor safe; contented and happy that en-
terprise will revive and the cruel burdens OF
the government and public corruption viii
and ands advance in price, but they
know that, in the Language OF Governor Nor
ton, ft had become inevitable; that good gov
eminent In states was not free will offering
on the affairs of the country for years. The
democrats had contended In congress and be-
throughout the south, a. finally It became in
evitable, because right and truth were too
strong to be longer suppressed In this
firmly with their party out OF power with no
patronage 70 dispense and no money TO dis
tribute, but animated by the spirit OF our
l1sti,a Ions ana inspired s Dy the sentiment
inherent In the people. The democratic party
during the past ten years has restored one
state after another, until now The tread Of the
but In every state the people are
governed by the lawso their own enacting
ssa by 'ss Ges" o. ,Se'I boms 10
west. and nv Associations have been