New-York tribune., 1885-01-25

ago and confess that they looked 10 i,oned me hs
aass is 70 that sss every s
Sfp tef AppSuse We @ Of the press least did all in the
abuse and Saamny promised e& 'ra sppaass
and here ,.S tonight 5{ls1 Al, .asssedea SSls fS to
doing DOING 10 " great many things and in doing some W
Of them in spite Of pretty mge1 ad to Welcome him
Of him today as we did when he let, private life
@ on when he goes Of ,%,s,.. Slcs ca@ eDsIs ask
Gn 0r nG'eRs r2s yo %Gr' with the cnbs best
and prosperity TO ex-Mayor Edson' lAPpau'o "N'
Mr. Edison IN response said;
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LoTos CLUB;
Every Mayor the City of New-York for years past
Stalled in his position Mayor, was he ruled ont Of
office until the Lotos Club said "a m So aa4Snsef G@b 70
be present this % evsIng ca was "mShter xSTyh m'I
ElSs now IS the H%y CUSTOM Of the LotOs Club
the incoming Mayor, and to receive sop ef ValS ho
Was 1Us the Mayor that preceded Mayor Grace Was It
4 dS not wasn kirk s@~' and here this Syen1S
yed to take the seat at the ls sn. OF peen sns pf
vented from appearing here by an Injunction
Laughter and aau;e therefore gady sppcaf or
one one reason reason Mayor Grace and myself have
only changed places this year He sits at the rs5 and phe he
sat at the Left anghe veor, hence you will both
Mr.. Edison 1continung,-I venture to hope and ven
self in the oce Of Mayor that he win occupy both sides
OF the table Loud applause and laughter, 3 lords which
dropped opp NM from your lips two years ,I. asO
You will tdSi ps Issans me from n rSas 'Hf Ton
saS darnS1 referring to the incoming Mayor
"we shall assail him for what he has done Tor what
for what he has not power to dS; h for rrtoS do
ing what the people who elected nm ,@ wansSo mSo
opposed him wanted There was one thing which len
% did St wSso @ aa to say did not say
that courts and ses dGer would and be IG%T peHSy
the periormance by the Mayor of the clearly @
ieved it. But you would then have spoken like truc
M" Nj President desire to say ,,a in com CON.
munlty who will more heartily support any measures
of the soyernment of the City of New-York than
will during the next two years Applause no i mai. ian
man who shall inaugurate those measures lLoud APP
PEW WORDS FROM MR.. JANIS.
In few kindly words Mr.. Reid called upon ex-
Postmaster-General James. who was greeted warm-
ly when he rose. In tho course of thoughtful
speech Mr.. James said:
William II. Grace is not experiment as Mayor
Previous experience and trial have tested his character
and capacfy and taught him to understand clearly
what the people want-and that they want vast dcaI
No chief magistrate III past
been free TO follow the dictates OF wise Judgment
and enlightened conscience than the head OF me cy
government. A strong, earnest Mayor Will make his
Strength felt in every part of the municipality lie can
strive to make the police as reSpectaoie ana ana
improve the Dock Commission instil new life into the
Park and Excise Commissioners; maintain the splendid
employees OF the city give an honest days work
for honest days wages aud that the laws for the gov
ernment the city thoroughly and mpartiay exc
cu;ed This is a serious and imposing task for one man
to undertake but there never was more nrSpGn. mo
man to rise equal to the occasion lApplause.I
SOME OF MR.. DErEw'S REMARKS.
The President then introduced Chaun-
cey NJ. Depcw as the man who
might have been United States Senator,
but is not" Mr. Depew said among other good
In reply to the reference of your president to the
who might have been United states Sen
denals pracsed from the dawn of history to the
present time, the which exces them all is when
within two inches OF his nose. with the Ger.
dHn }%ny and @ he resisting S S1@ bower R maintained nowh
standing the fact that Of all thngs In the world be loves
may have had in the world, much of country,
man. bred and born to have ever wanted TO be 0t
sH' 'f serene smile OF sat.facIion 9vcr;prcadlng
the Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt who has been ever since
have known anything about municipal government
and who informed me that tonight, sitting
by the side Of an ex-Mayor and next to the present
II
ever expected to- Laughter have noticed; as si iiis
rang that principle in political history that the noyei
pause that have with that Commissioner OF Pub.
he Works who may yet be Mayor Who in Inc interest ci
come member Of the Executive oHg Go%mit,
sachen, Of Tafnrnany Han, and who remarked in my
hearing when both propositions were presented 10
forget thar Boston man PLAYS the game FOR all there is
in IT," Laughter and applause ,,.
should have felt II msiOrlune not 10 nave Deeh mere
to night congratulate my fellow members OF this club
in performing the duties which they always
pc eanenilv snd the Mayor Of New.York that
the performance Of that duty they have for the first
whom everybody wanted to sec Mayor again. !
shall tngPse not tn n@' hat @e avor Psee
may say that rather than submit TO the unlimited tay,
which he informs he has had at nnunerable dinners
since he was nangurated up TO thi time nc Woua
prefer the truthful things that were SAID ABOUT MN III
I confess that l was surprised, looking at muni,
cipa politics from from ,o r1Ta, Wa. an P0ns enc6y Ti
of the common school system when he fraudulent
business man. when he belonged TO particular party
ncpa m oSi reform %m smpy ne for he
should have been almost unanimously reelected Mayor
Mr. Depew spoke at some length Of the necessity
of so amending the laws as 10 give the Mayor
greater powers in the matter of appointments and
control. and then holding him to greater responsl-
bility for the wise aud economical adminlstration
of the affairs of the city and then concluded as
follows:
night to enforce is, that If the people elect
the people and let the Mayor be the peoples Mayor
There has been another topic touched here tonight ny
the President and referred to by the Mayor upon
which would like to say aword. IL has been en-
forced by the lesson OF the cablegram which came
here this afternoon, which said that explosion had
occurred in the Tower OF London, by which twenty-five
or thirty visitors 10 that ancient and his
toric spot have been either killed or
wounded. I went the last
yner with every member of my family. As
| landed upon the tender in the outer harbor OF
| Queenstown. intending to make Journey through
! ireland, man arrested by the British
detectives, upon whom was found enough
dynamite TO have blown the ship upon which we had
| been carried the Atlantic into atoms 80
| small that not even boat would have
| been left As looked at my little
| boy the hope and pride OF my life; ms looked at
| ,uifc In, attertlOna