New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-12
MR. HENDRgCKSS SERENADERS.

MR. HENDRICHS'S SERENADERS
We may be entirely wrong in the suspicion,
but we cannot help thinking that the Young
Mems Democratic Club OF this city was JUST
trife disappointed in the remarks of the Hon.
Mr.. Hendricks from the balcony OF the ruin
Avenue Hotel on Wednesday evening. 1t was
not precisely the entertainment which the
Young Mems Democratic Club had counted on.
For that patriotic association, If we understand
the purpose which animates it, cares no
more about Europe than Alderman FUR
roy does about Joflerson's Manual, or
tlan an average Democratic convention
does about the preaching OF Jonathan Ed
wards. They did not hire a brass band, and
set MP calcium lights, and organize process
sIon, and rally round Mr.. Hendricks, merely to
have that eminent statesman tell them what
he thought about Europe; how he lunched at
Queenstown and found the people OF Ireland
much more contented than ne had supposed
them t0 be; how charmed he was with Scot
land; and how delighted with London; and
what he thought about the English Govern
ment and English statesmen, and about France
and Gambetta, and transportation facilities on
the continent, and standing armies. and all
cratic Club is not rushing round in process
siOns. with brass bands and calcium lights,
absorbing information of this miscellaneous,
historical ana geographical character. II there's
any one thing they are thoroughly posted about
already. it is Ireland AS fer ENGLAND, they con-
slider her dcspOt they probably never heard
before of Gambetta, and have low only dim
notion that he is running for Alderman some
where On an anti ammaDy ticket; and as for
standing armies the only one they care to
hear anything about is our own standing army
of Federal Ofiicehoders, whose places they want
t. take. They screnaded Mr. Hendricks not
because they thrsted for information concern
ing foreign climes, but because they wanted
10 hear something about Mr. Tilden's general
health, and some vigorous remarks about the
bate great Fraud.
Mr.. Hendricks must have been severe dis
appointment to them. They called for poll
ties: they drummed and fled and buglod for
notifies; they searched for politics with calcium
lights; and he gave them geography, history
and a tourists experience. Fancy the feelings
of the Young Mems Democratic Club, after in
curing the expense of serenade, to have the
hero of the occasion come ont ON Il balcony
ginning at Queenstown, with not one earnest
word concerning the present dOwn-trOd-
den condition of this country under the
heel of the usurpcr, and the I'M
Dosjtion of what the impassiOned Becbe calls
an "accursed fraud" But they waited pa
tiently through it ALL and listened, or seemed
to listen, III respectful, wondering silence. Per-
haps they hoped as he went on that, after
crossing the channel and passing along by
easy stages from the French elections to the
war in Turkey. he would gradually work
around through India and back home
by way of tho Cape of Good Hope III
time to touch upon, if not treat exhaust
ivelv. the great questions which are ut
present agitating the Democratic party,
20 wit: the regularity OF the Tammany dele
g.ton at Albany; Mr.. COx's chances for the
Speakcrship and the defeat Of Jones Mt Ny
ack, by Alderman Purroy. How they must
have looked into each others faces and won
dered a. he went on and on with his geOgra-
Dhy and his "reminiscences of travel, and at
last wound UP without ever having expressed
an opinion upon the great question OF Tammany
and anti-Tammany or made the most distant
alluslon to the recent tIiumphs of Purr0y.
We are constrained to believe that the club
WAS disappointed. And yet we may be wrong
about it, 1t is by no means impossible that
the club was yearnlng for information about
Europe, and went for it with brass band.
Only il does not seem quite like a Young Mems
Democratic Club 10 90 for information in
such demonstgatiye way, and at such an ex-
pense.
Mr.. Hendricks, we understand. leaves this
morning for his home in Indiana. He takes
with him all the political views and opinions
he brought across the ocean None of them,
so far "a we can learn, were confiscated for
payment of duties in the Custom
House, and he left none with the
club that sorenaded him, or lying around
loose mt his hotel. Probably he will
bring them out later. He goes away with the
satisfaction of having given the Young Mems
Democratic Grub of this city n great amount
and variety of useful information concerning
Europe, which that noble organization, not
being able to mastIcate, proceeded Immediately
to wash down at the bar.
THE IVDIiI ron on LIFE