Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-24
LATE EA$TERN NEWS.
Tue IsOoUOIS BANQUET.
Enthusiastic Meeting OF Democratic War

TUE IHOoUOIS BANQUET.
Enthusiastic Meeting OF Democratic War
Horses.
CuIr>uo. Mach l6-'Tha head
quarters OF tie HoInois Club, in
Eiaverl.y's huiliing. presented an
animated appearance to-day, the
occa~iou being the reception III this
city hy the club Of IA large number
Of distinguished Democrats from
outside ihe city and a celebration of
the day. the ll5rh anniversary of
Andrew Jack>on's birthday, by
means of banquet al the Palmer
Hou.ciu the evening. The lroquois
Club j. IL newly organized body, and
COMPRISES the hes; Democrats III the
civ, and ihis event Is It's formal
Introduction to the attention Of the
outside world. TIE visitors were
escorted about the city during the
dav, aud late N the afternoon an
informal reception was held, where
political questions were avoided.
st ) o'clock this evening the club
and is guests, including large
number of local Democrats not
mcah,rs of the club, assembled in
the largc dining room of the Palmer
H"u-c, which was appropriately
decorated, and partook of super b
banquet The speeches, while
necessarily tinged with political
matters, were III reality not politi-
cAlly significant. During the even
ing kilograms and letters We're read
from those invited but not present.
Samuel j. Tilden sent the following
letter:
GREYSTONE,
Yonkers, y V, March II.
Gentlemen: | have received your
letter conveying to me an invitation
TO attend the banquet of the lroquois
Club in Chicago, the 10th inst, the
annivei sary of the birth of ndrew
jackson, and to respond to the toast
" Democracy. 1t will not he prac-
ticable for me to be present with
you on that occasion, but | cordially
sympathize i'll homage which you
propose to pay the memory of that
great soldier and statesman. He
represented the exultant nationality
of sentiment which had always
characterized the Democracy, and he
manifested i'll great public crisis
his own inevitable determination to
maintain the territorial iptegrity of
our country and the indssoluble
Union of the States. He likewise
represented the beneficent Jefferson
ian philosophy, which prefers that
nothing shall be done by the general
Government which the local authori-
hes are competent to do, and moth
ing by any governmental pow
er which individuals can do for
themselves. The great contest of
his administration arose out of his
efforts TO resist usurpation by Con-
Gress OF powers, III deroSation of the
Rights of localities and of individuals
as well as of the nation. | we'll re
member that in the debate in 1882
on the veto of the bill to recharter
the bank of the United States, Mr.
Webster, with all his eloquence,
denounced and deplored the specta-
Gle of an executive claiming the
power of dismantling the govern
ment of which lie was the head.
The overgrowth of abuses and arrog-
anco of authority which now conceal
as they have distorted our political
system, would have seemed fifty
years ago, when this debate occurred,
AS incredible to Webster as they
would be to jackson. The Govern
ment can never be restored and re-
formed except from the inside and
by the active, intelligent agency of
the Executive. We must hope Prov
idence will, III its own good time,
raise man adapted and qualified
for the wise execution of this great
work, and that the people will put
him i'll possession o. the Executive
Administration, through which alone
that noble mission can be accom-
plished and the health and life Of
our political system be preserved
and Refrigerated.
Your fellow citizen,
SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
Senator Bayard sent strong
States Rights letter.
Governor John Nj. Palmer's letter
discussed the relations of the State
and General Government and criti-
clsed the policy of President Arthur;
denounced the bill retiring Grant,
and Logan s education bill, deplored
the eclipse of Constitutional Gov
eminent and trusted the lroquois
Club would, with words of no I'M
certain meaning, reassert the ancient
Democratic faith in the simple, rigid
masculine purity of the Democratic
party.
Other letters were received from
ex-senator Mcdonald, Horatio Ssy-
mour, Gen. Hancock, $. j. Randall,
and u score of other prominent men,
including Democratic Senators.
The toasts of the evening "our
country" by Thos. A. Hendricks;
" Andrew Jackson" 10y VIM. f.
Villas; AN indivisible Union of in
destructible States" by l.. Q. C.
Lamar; "a reunited country" by
W. G. p. Breckenridge; "Local Self
Government" by Lyman Trumbull
tariff for revenue only" by Frank
II. Hurd; opposition to monopoly"
by John r. Doolittle; the Demo
cratic press" by Henry Watterson;
the Monroe doctrine by w. j.
Allen; the future of the Republic,
by Richard T. Merrick; "the pres