Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-29
RENDERED THE MEMBERS OF THE ORATORICAL
 ASSOCIATION
AT THE HOTEL TRUL0CK
By Hon. T, H. Hayis Nixon, the Representative Ot Grant
 County in State Legislature.

An invitatie n was extended to the members and friends of Mr. Nixon of the Pine Bluff Oratorical Associ- ation to meet him at l a. m. at the Prulock hotel to spend Christmas, and there to dine with our friend, the gentleman from Grant.
 At the invitation ofl Mr. Nixon we were invited to Room 54, and there conversed until the swell-known cat erer, Sol Wermser, had placed before us dish fit for the gods. Games were indulged in and then at the solicitation of Mir. Nixon we were in- vited to the table to feast with him as stated.
 After lunch, Mr Kerwin toasted to the health of the gentleman from Grant, and said:
 ''Mr. Nixon, friends and members: l duly appreciate the kindness of our friend, MT Nixon, and l will say that expect to see Mir. Nixon one of the brightest men of the day. and turn ing to Mir. Nixon, said: We like you. We have friendship for you strong and lasting, and although 1 myself have only known you for three months, my friendship is that of years, and be assured that if ever D. J. Kerw in can be q friend to you, you may well feel safe that it will be most in the time of need"
 Beno Altheimer said in toasting to the health of MT. Nixol: You are smart, you are cultured and refined. You are what l term a gentleman Of whom Grant can be proud, and I corroborate the statement of Mir. Kerwin that am your friend at all times, and that knew and hoped to hear of our friend s success. in the State as well as i'll the national af- fairs, and then thanked Mir. Nixon for the remembrance of his friends
 Mir. Levine, in toasting. said: Friend and brother, we have felt your education in the oratorical rooms, and have felt the warm grasp of you hand, and we are your friends for now and evermore. Rou are ths metal to achieve success aud inde- peRdente is within reach.
 Smiling Ike then said: "Mr. Nixon you are friend and a scholar. and we one and all like you. The Pine Bluff Oratorieal is proud of r. Havls Nixon, and we thank you for the kind manner in which you have seen fit to reciprocate the feelings of friendship, and may success Le your guiding star, and prosperity your goal is the wish of your friends.
 MT. Heath, as a friend, began thus, ''I am no speech-makef, but feel as if had kncwn this gentleman, Mr. Nixon for years. He is educated but simple; determined, but kind; and l am his friend because he is .nine.'
 MT. Nixon, in replying with emo tioD, madesthe finest speech listened to at banquet in Pine Bluff. He wae witty, eloquent and majestic in thoughts, and assured us that his friendship was as great for us as 5 man could bear to his brother, and we have won his friendship through our hospitality aud kindness. Ht l spoke in glowing terms of his scounty and said that Grant had seen fit tt elect him, as he loved. every mar woman and child in that county, ht would do nothing contrary to thl wishes of Grant. and would try to keep the friendship he admired se warmly of his friends in Pine Bluff and the Association.
 Owing to the wee sma' hours we all took to our respective homes extolling the kindness and singing praises of T. Havis Nixon B. A