Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-02-24
The Dining Room Filled With Guests
For the Time, of the Happy
Denis.
Plates Laid For Two Hundred. VIII,
Participate In an Affair Thor
oughly Pleasant.
Governor shortridge, Senator Roach
Rev. Nash, and Others, Answer
to Toasts
And the Lion Lies Down With the
Lamb and General Good Feel
ing Prevails.
The BanUuet,

The Banquet.
The democrats jubilated Monday over
the election of a member Of the party to the
United States senatorShip. A right royal
banquet they rendered to about 200 invited
guests, and for two hours, from 10 O'clock
until IL, feasting and toast making were in
order.
In the dining-rOOm of the Sheridan were
laid plates for upwards of 100. The tables
were arranged in two long rows, II at
each side, and at these the guests were
seated II served. Senator Bidlake and
Representative McCanna looked after the
comfort of the guests, and perfect was the
attention received by everyone. The spread
was of the first order. At the head Of one
table sat w. N. Roach, the newly-elected,
with Governor Shortridge and family at
his right, and John d. Benton, who acted
as POSTMASTER, at his left. At the head of
the opposite table were Judge Lauder of
Wahpeton, and Rev. F. B. Nash of Fargo.
Mr.. Benton began by stating that there
was, in the midst of the gathering, a nat
ural cu~riOsity-nOt a mOnstrOsity-but in
all, a curiosity-a United States senator
from North Dakota. He was a democrat,
too. Successes, he said. had come to the
democratic party so rapidly of late, and
there were so many good democrats in the
room that it was difficult to tell where 10
commence, but the committee had decided
to call first upon Governor Shortridge to
respond to the toast "The President of the
United States"
The governor was heartily a%pplauded as
lie arose. lie thanked the assembly for
their kindness, and said that the toast was
one to which he could respond with pleas
ure. He spoke of the president as one of
Gods nOblest men, the embodiment of
truth and honor, one whose sympathies
were closely allied with those of the work
ing classes; spoke feelingly Of the almost
J return to the Jetfersonian simplicity OF
olden times evinced in the recent appoint
ment of a democrat, Jackson, to the SUI
preme bench, and closed amid a burst of
applause, loud and prolonged.
1.-THE GOVERNOR"
Was the next toast, and to this Senator
Stevens was called upon to respond. Mr..
Stevens said he, as we'll as the entire
people of the state, had an especial interest
in the governor, not as any particular per-
sonage, but as an official of the people.
That the governor as an official might
ever be a man, with broad enough mind to
be a friend to every interest and enterprise
which might benefit the state and its
people and it was his most earnest wish
May the party by whom he is elected ever
stand by him, and may he always re-
member that his is all election by the
people, for the people and of the people.
tTHE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA"
Was responded to in pleasing manner by
Senator w. N. Roach. who, in beginning,
said that were it not for the inspiration
afforded him by the magnificence of his
subject, he would feel like requesting
those assembled to excuse him. There
was something in the very title of the
toast. however, which impelled him to re-
spond. 1t was hardly necessary, he said,
to dilate upon the future posi-
bilities of the state in the matter of ad.
vancement. A look at the progress of the
state, from the time not long ago, when it
was hardly known to the eastern people,
OF intelligence and beauty as seen in the
very banquet hall was added evidence of
the material for The states advancement
After the happenings of yesterday
he Sf ii Meth pn nRfaane rApp %as a ind
and after having seen the immigration
and the improvements it did not require
any stretch of imagination for him to pic
ture the future in glowing colors. He
could see in the near future a state with
100000 OF 100000 inhabitants. A state
banded; with its black diamonds dug up
from the bowels of the earth, and trans
ported to all parts of the nation; its broad
acres and fertile valleys teeming with
everything which tends to enjoyment. The
legislature, he felt sure, would aid In so far
as was possible toward the ultimate real
izatiOn of this picture, and in his capacity
as United States senator he would contrib
ute thereto as far as lay in his power.
"THE COURTS"
Was the next toast, and to this the
ever pleasing Judge Bartholomew was
called upon to respond. Before he
entered upon his answer to the toast, the
Judge said he desired to congratulate Mr..
Roach upon his election, and not alone to
felicitate him but the democratic party
upon their success. He wished the names
Of the twenty. three men who overcome a
republican majority and who crowned
earnest efforts with success to go down
into history. Governor Slortridge at this
juncture expressed q desire to know what
seventeen independents going down into
history, also. aud at this there was a burst
of laughter and %applause; and the judge
said he had no doubt but that tho twenty
three would care for the seventeen.
He said it was odd for republicans to
have to congratulate democrats, as they
had not had much of 1t to do until about
three months ago. And although 1t come
u little awkward at first. they (the re-
publicans. were becoming enfOrccdly &C
cmst0med to it. [Laugnter.]
it was fortunate for the state that they
had had, In constitutional convention, mel
! who REPRESENTED the cOurtS-laWyerS of