The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-01-14
'OLD HICKORY !"
GRAND DEMOCRATIC
LOVE FEAST AT co.
LUMBUS, OHIO.
In Memory Of the Illus
triN;lS Soldier and
Statesman.
WIG CL0sEse ssESL WITH
GUT i RIVAL ENi'siE AT
FEUYIoNS 0F THE
PEOPLE.
ABtEQUET ATTENDED Dy DEI0c-
RACT'S SHINING LIGHTS.
BardcE Of gacaeTe News Reflected In
Special Dispatches.

ale banquet ever given in Cnlum-
bus was rendered The Democrats
of Ohio and the nation by the
Jackson Club, Friday night
Nearly 2,cG0 invitations were
sent out, and while there were
only present several hcndred,yet
among them were found the rep
resentative Democrats of the
country. The City Hall was
elegantly and profuseiy decora-
ted, and everything passed of
nicely.
Hon Joseph Outhwaite was
President of the evening, and
Hon. Thomas Powell acted as
toastmaster. The first called up
on was ''the most distinguished OF
them ali, the Old Roman
Judge Thurman being assigned
"Constitution and Democracy
responded in a short, but pointed
and happy speech. He said:
THURMAN's REMARKS.
"Mr. President, you have Civ
en- me q very, light and trivial
subject. Laughter. I suspect
the toast makers thought 10 make
Jun of the old man. They prob
ably thought the Constitution
was an archaeological society, and
an old man was President. AS
there are many prominent peo--
pie here it would only be polite
ness and Jacksonianism for me
to allow them the floor. You
have heard me before and will
again, so good night
The Hon. Joseph Mcdonald, Of
Indiana, recited a history of ''An'
drew Jackson" portrayins the
grand character Of the mau. his
noble deeds and efficient seryi-
ces rendered to the country,
speaking at length upon his sue
cess at lew Orleans. The next
speaker was the honored guest
from Kentucky,
MIR. HENRY wATTERsoN,
and his remarks received the
ovat ton of ,he evening. He was
given ''The New Sectionalism-
Its relation to the President, mis-
Policy and the Democratic Par
ty," and said: "In responding
to the toast you have assigned
me this evening, 1 was once, in
a moment OF unguarded conf
dence and effusion. l dare say,
imprudent enough to suggest
that any reflections and observa-
lions l might make must needs
embrace an apology for the Dem
ocratic press / will try to speak
of the virtues of tie Democratic
press, and to consider 1t rather
as a possibility than as a disap-
pointment. All Of us wish, I am
sure, it were ten times more vir-
tuous and potent than its most
enthusiastic devotees pretend it
to be. But, when I recall the OBJ
stacEes it has had to meet and
overcome these five-and-twenty
years, bringing with them a rev.
olution to the whole system Of
journalism, a revolution whose
advantages have all whipped over
TO the Republican press; when /
remember-as who can forget?-
the military commi ssions and
martial laws, The suppression Of
individuals and Of information,
the wariike ANA icism Of public
opinion and feeling on both sides
OF the battle line, and South as
we'll as North, chilling and kill
ing the energies of an jniie pend.
ent and a Il, press. l wonder
that there is any Democratic
press at all. The Democratic
press, whatever it may rot be. is
the friend of civil liberty and civ
ic process. It has never been a
slave. either to party or 10 power.
1t has always stood by the poor.
and against the oppressors; by
the law, and against lis usuTpers;
by the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States, strictly construed and
fairly enforced"
OTHER Notable sPEECHES AND
SPEAKERS.
The next speaker was Hon.
Dnrbin Wald. The "Ola War
Horse mastered "Free Coinage
of Gold and Silver" He said -
NO more important political
question demands a,tentio n than
the coinage ofmoney. Commerce
makes money, not tho Govern
ment, and though the Govern
ment certilies lis weight and i;ae
ness. 10 com gold and silver is
to discriminate against one sDe-
cies Of property in favor Of anot''-
er. The cardinal Democratic
principle Of equal rights to all
demands q free coinage of gold
and silver, to preserve the green
backs as legal tender to the Gov