The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-25

A Brilliant Close at the Tables ofa Round OF
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brilliant Close at the Tables ofa Round Of
Entertainment.
The banquet at the New Denison to the
National Wholesale Druggists Association.
last evening, was an affair long to be re-
membered. There were three hundred
guests at the tables. and the menu was ele-
CANT, and chOlcely serSed. The decorations
of the large dining-room were unique and
artistic in character, though not lavish, and
the programme containing the toasts and
and responses was a novelty. The covers
were of chamoIs skin, with red cords bear
ing o cork seal. and with the motto of the
association on the second cover. 1t was a
handsome assemblage, nearly all the gen.
tlemen being in full dress. Mr.. Van
Schaack, of Chicago, the newly-elected
president, after the banquet was dispatched,
rose and said: 'Fellow-members. once
more we gather around the festal board.
This one of our meetings is always well
attended, llaughterl and it doesn't require
a ~roll-call to secure a quorum. We have
orators with us tonight. l believed if Henry
Clay or Daniel Webster were here they
would grow green with envy
to hear the lofty flights of elo-
g %ifl be m %nie1 we W have a r fsw fel to esl,e Te.
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marks about the Groves of Barney and the
Blarney-stOne. Mr.. Van Setback introduced
John NJ. Peters. of New York, as the toast
master of the evening.
have kissed the Blarney-stone, but i will
guarantee that Mr.. Van Setback kissed the
old woman who showed it,: The first toast
OF the evening is. The President of the
Mr.. 7Toast-master and Gentlemen said
the Judge, II do not misinterpret the senti-
ment You have offered: 1 know it is not
ions. 1t is meant in compliment, in honor.
to the Office. rather than to the man
t Tao occupies anS 50 it it 1t should il true be in in
fact. that he who enters that
high Office becomes the Nations chief ex-
%ecutive and not any party President. IAp-
plausel: The man who now occupies it
sovereign citizens of America, and for the
time at least he is President Of every citi-
| zen, for the voice of the majority is the
voice of all. As the President of the Ma
| ton he occupies the highest ofiic e in the
power of men TO give or of man to accept
he is the head or q nation of millions Of
freemen, a nation that makes mighty an
swer IN the ~roll-call of nations; the sails
OF whose ships whiten every sea. and
whose flag is honored and respected
every where il is given to the winds of
heaven. [Applause. Young as this Ma
ton Is 1T Is "a leader in the great and state
~ procession OF nations. 1t has taught
lessons in military science, in naval affairs,
III mechanics. In commerce and in medicine
to every people beneath the sun. 1t needs
not the gift of prophecy to enable one to
see that 1T will teach many more, for human
power can no more stay the cOnquering
spirit of American progress than it can bind
| the tides of the ocean. Great and con-
tinued applause. 1t would be a high honor
to be the chief officer of such a nation, even
If honor were due to the miserable accident
OF birth; but 1t is an UNNECESSARILY higher
honor, because it is the gift of freemen. A
great people. wisely governing themselves
Is the highest expression OF manhood that
men can give; and in no thing else is tho
office of President so great and honorable
as in the fact that it is the highest type
and expression Of the right of men to gov
Gentlemen. the man who is now our
President is, for himself and for
his, own high qualities. Of head
and mind. worthy the respect
Of y sweT wba ir esoose 70 IbA s snnsilo. no those sas
he will discharge the duties of that great
Office to the full measure of its high de-
mands... To my democratic friends l will
say, that he will discharge the duties of that
high office as well as any Republican can
do. Whatever he does will be done from
an honest and conscientious conviction. It
Will be done so ably that it will command
respect, even IL 1T does not win approval.
In the Language. of your sentiment here.
this is his home,' and doubt not that some-
times, amid the cares and p~erplexities of
state. he turns with longing to his
dear old Indiana home. Here he came
thirty years ago and more. poor in
the worlds goods. but rich in the
great qualities of his higher manhood.
integrity, intellect and honor. [Applause.l
Here he won his first triumphs and honors
laurels and left his loved ones when he
went forth as a soldier of the Union. Here
he came when the war was over, wearing
the star won on Resaca's bloody field. [Ap-
plause.l His fame has reached the conti-
nents beyond the sea and the far-off lands
of the ocean. Here he has lived a life of
stainless purity, an upright, God-fearing
man. Here every man respects his personal
life and character. although many condemn
his POLITICAL tenets. Here. at his home, ev-
cry one honors his splendid intellectual
power, although many are not of his party.
am to be pardoned, hope, if now / speak
as a townsman and friend for yenturinr the
prediction that when the historian writes
the history of these years, high among the
illustrious men of his times will be placed
the Hoosier Harrison" lGreat Applause.
''The Western Wholesale Drug Associa-
tion" was responded to by James Richard
son. of st. Louis. who, in conclusion, rave
the honor of starting that association out
of which the present one grew to James 5.
Burdsal, of Cincinnati. He said when that
gentleman died the association should. in
grateful remembrance and as a testimony
of the fellowship and good feeling he had
brought about, put upon his monument
the preamble to the constitution of the
Western Wholesale Drug Association.
1.-The National Wholesale Druggists Asso-
c~iationn was responded. to by George A.
Kelly, the retiring president, in a brief
but pleasant speech. He noted that the
organization had brought about better
methods of business. and mutual good will
that had contributed much and would con-
tribute more TO general success. Looking
back TO 1876" said Mr.. Kelly, and now at
our association to-day. and what il has ac-
complished, we may well say: We builded
better than we KNEW"
Common Honesty" was the toast as
signed TO Daniel Stewart, of this city. 1T
is one of those subjects to which it is diff
cult to respond he said. "A Chicago busi-
ness man went home late one evening, and
told his wife that they bad been
invited to a party He wanted
her at once to go to her apartments
and prepare herself as soon as possible,
She objected. but after a while came to the
head of the stairs and was heard calling
'Peter' 'Peter' What is it my dearf' the
husband responded. Must / wash for a
low-neck party. or for a high-neck partyi
lRoars of laughter. / have thought. in
thinking over this little incident. that we.
in our intercourse with each other, should
at all times wash for a lOw-neck party. SO
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