New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-14

the Manhattan Club, as q sponsor for the outoo;
and incoming Mayors and requested Aaron ! Va
derpoel to speak to the toast The Two Mavo,sn
Dir. Vanderpoel said,
MR.. Mr. PfEsID D1s The outgoing Mayor was good
mayor, lAppiauseI No man ever entered that os,,cs
and hled IL with less personal regard to friends than @
f Sas Guss Ss asyS G ass
In listening TO your President gentlemen thonSh th.s
wss IN De moe attic, meeting However, that may
York, and what we will have s government which e
responsible to somebody !cres q good" We have
is responsible for official nominations and 80 saw tx
US a,va nave y, one government Where we say
field Mr. bepew has introduced the question p Of pS
have good unless you have not ONLY the
In ONCE but the party, responsible. You can't have
the Mayor Is responsible. All good and aad
great movements come from manicipalltiss,
II s therefore, double DUTY for us to insist on GOOD
government In our citiss and to hold their officials
responsible In their duties lApplause.1
DIR. MACDONALDs REMARKS.
The president then called upon DR.. A. E. Mac.
donald to speak. DR.. Macdonald in responding ia
the invitation said that he had or two things ia
say to the outgoing and the incoming Mayors, from
the long experience he had gained as the head Of
a lunatio asylum. fLaughter.l He wished
to congratulate ex-Mayor Grace for
when Mr. Grace was entertained by the Lotos Club
just after his election he had spoken hatingly az
was the custom of Mr.. Depew augnterl while now
he had pulled a slip from his pocket and had
read unhesitatingy from the CHARACTERS
of typewriter. lLaughter.I II Mr.. Grace had
come ottener to the LOtOs Club he would have
learned more about the elevated roads and would
have avoided collision with a column of that
structure when he alghted precipItately from his
carriage recently. tLaughter.l To Mayor Edison
DR. Macdonald would say that the great thing for
Mayor to secure was an organ-a newspaper which
would support him at all times. Thus far
there was not single newspaper that could exactly
be called the Mayors organ. fLaughter He
hoped that the Mayor would have tho good for.
tune to gain the support OF both The TRIBUNE and
The Moon; or ii not the support OF IHH
TRIBUNE at least that Of The Moon,
because the latter had great advantages over the
former. Laughter and applause; In the trss
place nobody could sue ihe Noon Tor
libel taughter because all OF its editors
and contributors had been legally declared
irresponsible agents [Great laughter.l In the sec
Ond place, Ii anyone felt aggIieVed at anything
which appeared in the columns Of The Noon and
wished to resort personal chastisement repara-
ton for the injury, he would find at the Moon Of
fee whole room full OF fighting editors. Loud
laughter.
When DIR. Macdonald had ended his speech the
President arose and expressed the hope that Mayor
Edson might not prove bad an officer
as had been expected, and that he might go
out of Office bearing with him the universal respect
and the warm congratulations that were given to
his retiring predecessor. He then pro.
and the former Mayors of New-York,
and the company dispersed WITH good wishes and
pleasant words for the two principal guests OF the
evening,