The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-19
MR.. HENDRICKS GAYEL,
The Emblem of Authority and Impair
TALLY Presented to kr. Hen
bricks Last Night

A large number of ladies aad gentlemen
assembled in the parl0rs of the Bates House
last evening, the occasion being the presen-
tation OF a gavel to Vice President-elect
Hendricks by Ben F. Ravens, ex-Mavor of
Terre Baute. The gavel is made OF Indiana
hickory, and is the handiwork Of John
Mack, the seventeen-year old son OF Judge
William Mack, Of the Prairie City. In pre-
sentlDg the gavel MIR, Ravens said
Mr.. Vice Presidential young friend of mine
has honored me with the duty of presenting to
you this beautiful gavel. ! Will read with your
permission his brief note accompanying il:
"Vice President Hendricks:
"DEAR SRI have made for you this gavel
Every piece in ii is OF Indiana hickory" as good
as tennessee over produced. hope you Will be
pleased 70 accept It, as IN your hands 1t will
eyer De the emblem Of authority as well as impair
Rose Polytechnic Institute"
Indiana is honored by your election. And as
you have always been the friend OF young men, il
is very appropriate for an Indiana boy, at 0E In
little mementO.
- may increase your appreciation Of it to know
that the boy who made IL is the ETa0dson Ct your
old-tme friend and colleague John @. Davis, and
the son OF your lifelong friend. Mr.. William
Msck. lie is seventeen years of age, a student at
the Rose POLYTECHNIC institute, In whose shop he
prepared the design nd made the work himsef
lntrinsically II is of little value but know it
VIII be treasured bv you so long as YOU live: for
all over the state last which hoaed high the
banners of Cleveland and Hendricks until kissed
ny victory IN November lis many pieces. so
deity joined together into one, symbolic the
firm ana eternal union of the States
while The wood, 50 solid, tenacious
and enduring, together with its name
viii ever suggest the public and private integrity,
the bCldneSs OF sctiOn. and the farseeing execu-
tive wisdom OF hat hero aud statesman whom IL
has ever been yoE- delight 70 honor. "Od Hickory,
of TeDnesst G
on nc in OF next month, when you call to
M oef fhara ffvn hOHrr
world, the tap of tbs little gSve will usher IN an
ere OF reform and honest government.
Mr.. Hendricks responded to the address as
follows:
Mr. HAvENs-I am gratifed that my young
friend has chosen you TO be his mOuthplece in
presenting this beautiful gsYel You and have
been friends for mauy years. aud therefore your
pTese tatlon Is the more agreeable to me. 6p.
pIeciate this present for many reasons. first, be-
because 1t is presented by a Young gentleman
WhoseiyOuth Us yet charming. He Is the son Of
nv esteemed friend Judge Mack, whom have
known end greatly respected, and whose
fT1enosbfp prize. Il Is presented
by the grand ol OF John G. Davis the able repre-
trlct many yeas ago In our ersonal relations
as IN our politics, we agreed. This present from
his grandson reyiYes interes ting memories. i sD-
preciate 10 because in the language of the ad-
dress and OF the letter IL represents i'm
Partially well authority" May
| say 10 you, air that in my hands il shall con-
bnue to represent the authority necessary to
maintain decorum in legislative proceedings 50
necessary 10 the enactment OF wholesome laws,
and also that imparliality that is Que to all the
members OF a legislative body. / thank my young
friend for the beautiful present.