The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-14
JEFFERSON,
1143-1809.
DEMOCRATIC CITR.


scription:
JEFFERSON,
1743-1S09.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
This was composed of incandescant
lights. 1t surrounded picture of
Thomas jefferson. Tall silver candela-
bra with shades harmonizing with the
floral effect We're on all tables.
The guests began to arrive at 6
o'clock. but the dinner did not begin
for an hour and half after that. Cap
tain Price of the Tenderloin and AZ pO-
licemen We're in and around the build
ing. A crank letter of a few days ago,
in which threat was made to blow up
the building during the dinner, seemed
to have made the police unusually vigil
liant. A number of detectives in even
ing dress mingled with the guests. so
| hat no unbidden person might enter.
There were a number of firemen also
on guard to prevent any danger from
fire. Inside the building was an army
of ushers and attendants. These wore
a drab uniform and silver buttons.
Just before the guests We're called to
order Richard Croker, Perry Belmont.
Commissioner Scanned and Commission
er Sexton entered a box. Mr.. Croker
was in conversation with those about
him and waved his hand to the guests
| all over the hall. There were fully 300
| more guests than the 1900 planned i0r,
but all found seats. This is said to be
| the largest number ever accommodate
| ed al banquet in the history of the
| city. The great dinner to Presid ant
| Mckinley at the Waldorf-Astoria was
| served to only 800.
The band struck up Hail to the
| Chief at 7:3O p. m. o'clock and Richard
| Croker. arm in arm with John Stanch-
| field, marched down the aisle. With
them were Frederick c. Schraub. Rob
| art u PnnSauplt of nd
| Amos H. Cummings.
The service of the menu was excel
| lent, but some confusion was caused
| by some of the diners stripping the
| tables of flowers and ribbons and
| throwing them to the women in the
| boxes. Mr.. Croker held a levee just
| before the regular speechmaking began.
| Mr. Croker shook hands cordially with
| every body and smiled as man after man
| congratulated him upon the success of
| the dinner. The confusion was very
| great. As the time drew near for the
making of speeches the orators We're
almost discouraged at the prospect of
making themselves heard.
Perry Belmont began to speak at 10
| o'clock. The uproar was so great that
| he could not be heard a hundred feet
away By degrees more quiet was OBJ
tanned.
Mr.. Belmont briefly sketched the
| character and public services of Thorn
as Jefferson. Continuing, he said:
This is not the place. or time, to re-
late in detail the history of the nego-
'tiations by jefferson with Napoleon,
| beginning in that month of 1902 when a
| Spanish officer at New orleans revoked
the license granted by the treaty with
| Spain of 1895 to deposit American pro-
ducts at that port and freely ship them
| thence to the West Indies and Europe,
and ending on that last day in April in
the next year when the treaty was
| signed.
attempts to impair the title of JEFF
| ferson to the honor of the American
! part of that successful diplomacy have
been failures. While jefferson baff1ed
the federalists who endeavored to push
him into a war with France, he con-
ciliated the Northwestern states. OK
asperatpd because deprived of an outlet
to the gulf. His official instructions to
Livingstone and Monroe, his private
letters to each, published not long ago,
disclose one controlling head on the
American side. Recent revelations also
show that jefferson exploited in a most
effective way the hopes and fears which
/ controlled the conduct of the great first
consul,
1T is not easy for history to separate
the president of the United States from
the credit or discredit of the chief acts
of an admin:strl ton. So it is with JEFF
! ferson and the Louisiana purchase;
with Madison and the war cf 1872: with
/ Polk and the war of 1S4S; with Lincoln
/ and the war of secession; with Grant
/ and the Alabama treaty. So will it be
! with Mckinley and the war with Spain.
Praise or blame for what was demand
! ed at Paris will be his. If the presi-
dent has the benefit of success, he
should bear the burden OF failure.
THE recent treaty with Spain has
| been ratified. 1t is now fixed fact in
our law and politics. 1t declares that
| the civil rights and political status of
the inhabitants therein ceded to the
| United States shall be determined by
the congress- The discretion and de-
cision are Legislative and not executive.
The presidents war power, growing out
| of the war with Spain, is at an end.