The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-23
OLD HIcKoRY,s BIRTHDAY.
How 1t Was Celebrated by the IrOquOis
Club at Chicago


Club at Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 15.-The headquar-
tiers of the lroquois club, in Haverly's
| theater building, presented an animated
appearance, tie occasion being the re-
ception in this city by the club of a
large number of distinguished Demo
Gratis from outside of the city and the
celebration of the day of the 18th an
niversary of Andrew Jackson's birth.
day by means of banquet ut the Pal
mer house in the evening.
The Iroquois club is a newly organ
| lied body, and comprises the best Demo
Gratis in the city, and this event is its
first formal introduction TO the atten-
| ton of the outside world. The visitors
| were escorted about the city during the
day, and late in the afternoon very in
formal reception was held, where po-
litIcal questions were avoided.
At eight O'Clock this evening the club
! and its guests, including large num-
| Der OF local Democrats not members of
the club, assembled in the large dining
room of the Palmer house, which was
| appropriately decorated, and partook of
| a superb banquet.
The speeches, while necessarily tinged
| with political matters, were in reality
| not politically significant. During the
| evening kilograms and letters were read
| from those who were not present.
Samuel j. Tilden sent the following
letter:
YoNKERs, N. Y, March 13-GENTLE-
MEN:-I have received your letter con-
| veying to me an invitation to attend the
| banquet of the Iroquois club at Chicago,
on March 10, the anniversary of the birth
of Andrew jackson, and TO respond to
| the toast, Democracy" 1t will not be
| practicable for me to be present with
you on that occasion, but / cordially
sympathize in the homage which YOU
| propose to pay to the memory of that
| great soldier and statesman. He repre-
sented the eXultant nationality of
sentiment which has always char
| acterized the Democrats, and he man
| ifested in great public crisis his
| own invincible determination to MAIN
tain the territorial integrity of our coun-
| try and the indissoluble union of the
states. He likewise represented the
beneficent Jeffersonian philosophy,
| which prefers that nothing shall be done
by the general government which the To-
| cal duthoratives are competent to do,
and nothing by any governmental power
which individuals can do for themselves
well remember that in the debate of
1892, on the veto of the bill to re charter
the bank of the United States. Mr.. Web
ster, with all his eloquence, denounced
| and deplored the spectacle of an execu-
tive claiming the power and dismantling
| the government of which he was the
head. The overgrOwth of abuses and
| arrogation of authority, which have dis
| torted our political system, would have
seemed fifty years ago, when the debate
occurred, as incredible to Webster as
they would be TO Jackson. The govern
ment can never be restored and reform
ed except from the inside, and by the
active, intelligent agency-of an execu-
| tive. We must hope Providence will in
its own good time raise up man adopt
| ed and qualified for the wise execution
| of that great work, and that the people
| will put him in position of power as
executive administrator, through which
alone that noble mission can be accom-
| plished and preserved and reinvigorated.
Your fellow citizen,
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
Letters were read from Senator Bay
ard, Gov. John II. Palmer, Horatio Sey-
mour, Gen. Hancock, A. s. Hewitt, Jer-
~ Black and others.
The toasts of the evening were as fol
lows:
sour country" by Thomas H. Hem
bricks.
ANDREW jackson" VIM. AviIas.
San indivisible union of indestructi-
| Bile state,'' L. G.. Lamar.
81 reunited country" VIM. p. C.
| Breckenridge.
Local self government" Lyman
Trumbull.
Tariff for revenue only" Frank n.
| Hurd.
Opposition TO monopoly" James R.
/ Doolittle.
THE Democratic press" Perry Wal
terson.
"The Monroe doctrine" VIM. P. Al
len.
"The future of the republic" Richard
T. Merrick
"The president OF the United States.
The reforms necessary to the proper
administration OF the Office John G.
Black.
"The state of Illinois" John D. Ea
ton.
@The city of Chicago" Carter h. Hsr
rlson-