The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-05-02
THE REfORMER'S AT DELMONICO's,
George William Curtis and Others Give a
Farewell Dinner to Minister Pc ntlletsn.


Farewell Dinner to Minister Pendlet.n.
The complimentary dinner given at
Delmonico's New York last Tuesday
night, to Minister George H. Pendleton
by the civil service reformers was largely
attended. Mr.. Pendleton sat at Mr..
Curtis's right, as the guest of the even
ing, and beyond him on the same side
were Senator Evarts, Hon. Wayne Nc
Neagh, Judge Noah Davis, Hon. VIM.
Dorsheimer, Dorman B. Eaton, Sher-
man S. Rogers and Ex-Attorney- Gen
eral Shoemaker. On the chairman's
left were Carl Schurz, Oswald Often
dorfer, John Jay, Senator Warner
Miller, Leroy ID. Thoman, Rev. DR..
George l.. Prentiss, Theodore Lyman
and Hon. Roswell P. Flowers. Among
those who occupied seats at the various
tables were: Congressman Hewitt,
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Collector
Robertson, S. B. kins, Hon. James
O. Putnam, of Buffalo Henry A. Rich
mond, of the state civil service COM
mission Perry Belmont, Congressman
o. B. Potter, Everett P. Wheeler,
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn Horace E.
Deming, Silas w. Burt Judge W. H.
Rawle, of Philadelphia; Wager Swayne,
Arson Phelps Stokes, F. B. Thurber,
F. X. Pendleton, son Of the new min
lister; Elliott and Edward Pendleton,
brothers of George H.; Horace White,
Charles F. Mclean, George Haven
Putnam, Charles Collins, John H. Schu-
man, Joseph w. Sutphen and about $50
others.
Shortly after 9 O'Clock Mr.. Curtis
raped for order, and loosely opened
his address by saying that this assem-
blage is pleasant congregation Of i'm
practicable viSlonaiies, amlablc senti-
mcntalists, harmless theorists and po-
lltiCal lunatics, who have come to make
public attonement for their supposed
follies and mistakes by offering a sin
cere tribute ofrespect to that American
statesman who has identified his name
with the least romantic of all things
commanding the public attention-the
reform of the civil service We have
seized this occasion to offer to one of
the highest government officials our
honor and regard, because that gentle
man, as Senator of the United States,
and as a distinguished leader of po-
litical party, has declared in the Senate
that he believed the spoils system was
a great crime. Because we believe
with him we are here tonight, Repub-
licans and Democrats alike, to bid him
God-speed in his new career and to
pledge ourselves to him and to each
other, that neither our interest or
credit will allow us to fail to carry the
provisions of the Pendlcton bill further
and further until its spirit penetrates
the whole civil servive of our country
and emancipates that service from the
degradation of patronage, even as ma
ture in balmy spring time is enamel
pated from the paralysis of frost" Mr.
Curtis said that all great inventions and
reforms were abused in their inception,
and concluded thus "Our object was
not to abolish parties, but the abolition
OF the abuses which destroy the func-
tons of partes.'
When Mr.. Pendleton was introduced
the gentlemen cheered him for several
minutes. Mr.. Pendleton responded to
the toast "Our Guest of the Eveeing."
He said that in this reception he was
receiving the highest honor ever con-
ferred on him. He reviewed his long
fight for civil service reform, and spoke
of the scars he had received in the
struggle as honorable ones. In con-
Guiding he said that he would oppose
the spoils system as long as he lived
His remarks were greeted with pro-
longed applause.
Senator Evarts responded to the
toast "The Senate of the United
States" Hon. Wayne McVeagh re-
sponded to "The Spirit of Reform"
Other toasts were responded to by Carl
Schurz. Hon. William Dorsheimer,
Sherman S. Rogers and George Tick
nor Curtis.
Mr.. Pendleton will sail Saturday for
Bremen on the steamer Elbe.
Philadelphia Pension Agents In Troubles.
The Commissioner of Pensions on
Tuesday last directed the suspension at
the Philadelphia Agency of 1872 pensions
which have been drawn, although the
pensioners are dead. In some cases, the |
Commissioner says, the persons in whose |
names the pensions were drawn have |
been dead since 1871. He has also di- |
rected the suspension at the same agency |
of pensions to seven widows who remar-
ried in 1881, but who have continued to |