The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-20

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Letters of regrets we're received from ex-
| President Hayes, Governor Hill, ex Secre-
tary of State Bayard, Chief Justice Miller,
Senator John T. Morgan, Editor ]. NJ.
Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger, ex-
Attorney General Garland, Gen. John P
Rae, ex-commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic; Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler, Justice Joseph s. Bradley of the
supreme court of the United States, Gen.
Jubal A. Early of Lynchburg, Va, Justice
David ]. Brewer Hon. Carl Schurz and
Henry George.
Hon. James N. Cultivate was toastmas-
ter of the evening.
Thomas Ewing responded to the toast,
| "The Democratic Party in Relation to
Further Public Economies"
1.-THE Senate" Daniel w Voorhees,.
"Young Democracy" Calvin S. Brice.
"The American Statesman" John G.
Carlisle
Democracy in America" W. G. P.
| Breckenridge.
THE House of representatives." W. l..
L. Wilson.
1.-The Democracy of the Future" Don NJ,
The hour was late before the distin-
| guished guests left the banquet hall.
SOME OF THE GUESTS.
Seated at the speakers table were Allen
| VI. uliHdh, olOfCl SlCNCluhbi JhO. -
Lautz, chairman of the Thurman club,
| Allen w. Thurman, JAS H. Cultivate, ex-
Senator Jas. Mcdonald, ex-Postmaster
| General Don M. Dickinson, Congressman
| Wilson, Congressman w. G. p. Brecken-
ridge, Judge r. A. Harrison, Gen. Ewing,
Gov. Jackson, Gov. Boyd of Nebraska, ex-
Commissioner Coleman, Congressman VIM.
M. Springer of Illinois, Geo. Ewing Bishop
Watterson, ex-Gov. Bishop, ex-Solicitor
Gen. links, ex-Congressman ONeal lof
Missouri, and Congressman d. U. Burrows
| of Chicago.
At the conclusion of the banquet Mr..
John G. Lantz, chairman of the Thurman
club, raped the vast assembly to order,
and responded briefly to the address of
sponded to by Judge Thurman, the hon.
ored man of the OCCASION as follows:
THURMAN's SPEECH.
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens: am
not here tonight to make an elaborate
speech. l am here to express in few
sentences my heartfelt appreciation of the
honor you have so kindly seen fit to do me.
To thank with my whole soul my neighbors,
my fellow citizens of Ohio and the
distinguished gentlemen from other states
for their mark of friendship and esteem. |
am here at the age of n to repeat my testl-
mony. so often given, of my confidence in
the beneficent efforts of free institutions
and my firm belief of their duration on
this continent and their gradual but certain
extension over other and larger portions OF
the globe. hope thatit is not presumptuous
in me to say that think that | have some
of necessary qualifications of witness on
the subject in these same seventy years.
The constitution of nearly every govern
ment in Europe has been ameiorated by
the introduction of more liberal principles.
Central and South America have become a
congerie of republcs Canada and Aus
the revenue, and even in the
far east, Japan has become more
free and liberal with each year, and more
marvellous vet light seems to be breaking
over benighted Africa, and men of a
sanguine and philosophic disposition are
predicting without exciting ridicule, her re-
demption from barbaric sleep of centuries.
In one word, freedom seems to be gradually
circumnavigating the globe, and the polar
star of the navigator is our own republic OF
of the United States.
What have said may seem to some like
extravagant optimism if so, have al
ways preferred optimism to pessimism and
common sense to both and that | don't
think in what have said | have departed
from the teaching OF philosophers. NY
friends, it is seventy-o one years (slnce SIX
years of age) l became a citizen OF
Ohio and | have been one of her
citizens from that day to this, and | will no
doubt remain one of her people until
shall be laid in my final resting place on
earth under her sod. My friends, | can say
what probably no other man in this great
audience can say, that have seen and
talked with the first governor of our
state, Edward Tit1in, that accomplished
and most meritorious man and patriot
that we'll know by sight your first United
Sta ,es senator and subsequent governor
Thos. Worthington, one of the founders Of
!, Ohio; that have seen jeremiah Morrow
, your long honored governor and senator!
/, that | was in my youth acquainted !
, might almost say intimately acquainted
with that distinguished pioneer ant
brave soldier and experienced legislator
Gen. Duncan Macarthur. | was private
secretary to that grand old man Governor
Robert Lucas, whose memory will ever be
2 cherished by those who knew
7 him. that knew Jacob Bur
e nett, whose name is inseparabl1
e connected with the history of our state
l that have seen Gen. VIM. Henry Harri
g son and have heard him speak, and permi
i me to say that he was one of the most etfec
e tive speakers that ever heard; that whel
| was vet a young member of the bar ha'
h the good fortune to be honored by tn
Y friendship of Calvin Pease, Peter Hitch
d cock EbeneZer Lane, Reuben WOOD, Free
o r. Grimke, John c. Wright, Matthew Burch
h ard and others of the old judges of on
supreme court and became intimately &C
n quainted with other gallant gentlemen
Ii But there are two names which | woul
a like to say few words about, Thos. Ewin&
y who that ever saw him can ever forge
J. him! 1t was my happy privilege to be in
20 timately acquainted with him for man
,r years, and though for a long time W
e differed widely in political opinion
At and each of us advocated his own side wit
e. warmth and persistency, yet such ditlel
II ence never for moment chilled, much lie:
DESTROYED the friendship that had sprun
D. up between us. For 40 years / have bee
e, the devoted friend of Rufus p. Hanney an
~ firmly believe that he has been mine.
y, [Judge Thurman went on at length givil
r "reminiscences of his life and closed am
l. the cheers of the assemblage
"a CLEvELAND's SPEECH.
n At the banquet in response to the toas
ne American citizenship" ex-Presidel
"a Cleveland said:
Nv "Mr. President and Gentlemen: | &c
~ low the promptings of heart full of d
~ votion and veneration as tender from tt
Of Democracy of the great State of New Yo
O her tribute of affection for the man who
20 we honor tonight. | am commissioned
81 claim for my State her full share of glo
o which has been shed upon the America
';s name and character by one whose care
- and pXamOle cannot be pre-empted al