Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-08
ST, JACKSON'S ANNIVERSARY
Local Democrats Look Forward to the
Coming Of Tonight,
OMAHA OBSERVANCE TO Be ELABORATE
Many Guests from Outside Accept
Invitations to Attcnd-Distin-
guished Missourians Down
for Responses to Tonsts.

The various committees and subcommit-
tees having in charge tonight's banquet of
the Jacksonian club met at the Jacksonian
club rooms last evening and completed the
arrangements for what will undoubtedly be
the greatest democratic banquet ever held in
Omaha. Secretary w. II. Herdman of the
banquet committee has received acceptances
from over $50 democrats of more or less
prominence, and it is expected that plates
will have to be laid for about 300 guests of
the club.
Governor Holcomb and Judge Sullivan
will be the guests OF the club, but will
not take part in the post t-prandial exercises
Every official at the state house at Lincoln
has accepted, and numerous contingent
from Lincoln is expected to gather around
the banquet board. Ex-Governor Stone of
Missouri and j. A. Graham, managing editor
of the St. Louis Republic, will arrive in the
city at noon. They will be met at the depot
by the reception comittee of the club, of
which DR.. A. Hugh nipple is chairman, and
escorted to the club rooms. During the
afternoon they will be driven to the grounds
of the Transmississippi EXpositiS1 and
shown what big show Omaha is preparing
for next summer. Other distinguished Wis
itors will also be taken to the exposition
grounds, and an especial effort will be made
to convince all the visitors of the grandeur
of the coming exposition
The banquet will be held in the spacious
dining room of the Paxton hotel This will
be handsomely decorated by the Philadelphia
Decorative company, and a large invoice of
flags and national colors has been received
from the Quaker City especially for this oc-
casion. large orchestra will furnish music
while the banqueters eat their delicacies and
drink their wines.
AMID SpEALyERS
7. j. Dunn will act as toastmaster and will
introduce the following toast responders:
The Day and Why We Celebrate IT, a. C.
Shallenberger, Alma, Neb.; Business and
Politics." Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri;
THE Press" j. A. Graham, managing editor
of the st. Louis Republic; Our Future
Course" w. II. Thompson, Grand Island
Neb.; Government by Injuction," G. NJ
Hitchcock, Omaha; Nebraska Under the
New Regime" e. c. Page, Omaha; THE
Jacksonans," T. ]. Nolan, South Omaha;
"a Reunited Democracy" w. d. Oldham
Kearney, Neb.
During the afternoon the Jacksonian club
will keep open house at its club rooms Fie-
teenth and Harney streets, in honor of its
guests, and opportunities fer meeting the
visitors will be given all who call. The
banquet is announced for $50 o'clock, but
preceding this affair there will be an in
formal reception in the rotunda of the hotel.
The invitations for the banquet are rather
elaborate, and are ornamented with litho-
graph picture OF Andrew Jackson. The
menu cards will be equally attractive, and
will contain besides the list of courses, the
musical program, the names of the guests
and of the various committees.
Letters of regret from the following well
known democrats will be read: Joseph S. c..
Blackburn. ex-senator of Kentucky; Chair
man Atwood OF the 1896 conventions COM
mittee cn platform, of Kansas; Mayor Van
Wyck Of the City Of New York, Mayor Car
ter Harrison of Chicago, Thomas Patterson,
editor OF the Rocky Mountain News of Den
yer; George Fred Williams of Boston, eX-
Congressman Charles ]. Towne of Duluth,
Mimi, and Father Nugent of Des Moines, Ia.
Ex-Governor Altgeld Of Illinois, who had ac-
cepted the invitation to be present and re-
spond to toast, has since his acceptance
been compelled to decline cn account of ILL
EesS.