The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-06
Hill, 0Iney, Mcclellan and
Others Speak.
HILL HITS ROOSEVELT
0Iney Brings Forward the Name of
Cleveland in Connection With
the Presidency. Montague
of Virginia Speaks.
Bryan's Letter.
(By the Associated Press.)


New York, JAM democrats of promi-
nence from the city, State and nation
assembled here tonight at the dinner at
Sherrys in honor of George B. Mcclellan,
the newly installed mayor of New York
city, among those present being Richard
Olney, of Massachusetts Ex-Governor Da-
vid B. HILL of New York; Congressman
David DeArmond, of Missouri Charles
A. Towne, ex-senator from Minnesota:
Ex-Governor r. E. Pattison, of Pennsyl
yania; William A. CASTOR. of Boston, and
Charles F. Murphy, now leader of Tam
many Hail. Grover Cleveland, Judge AL
ton B. Parker, Senator Arthur p. Co..
man, of Maryland, and Senator John P.
Morgan, of Alabama sent letters Of re-
greet.
The following letter from Grover Cleve-
land was read:
Il very much regret that a vexatious
indisposition prevent me from attending
the dinner rendered by the citizens of New
York to their newly elected mayor, Hon.
George B. Mcclellan. AS a former resi-
dent Of the city, still interested in all
that pertains TO its welfare, l would be
pleased to participate in an event which
viii give opportunity for the expression
of 4 well-grounded anticipation of the
civic benefits which should result from
the triumph of the New York Democ-
:acy.
while the assumption of the duty IT.
vOlved in Jne government of the greatest
city of our country, creates grave re-
sponsibilities, the impressive thought can
not be evaded, that the manner in which
the Democracy of the city snail meat its
municipal responsibilities, within q large
degree determines the extent to which
cur fellow countrymen, in every pait
of the land, will be willing to trust TIE
Democracy of the nation in broader
fields of governmental rules.
Those far beyond the limit of New
York who love the Democratic party, con-
fidently expect that the methods of the
new municipal administration viii be so
clean and efficient and its high purposes
so manifest in all things as to impress the
entire country with the purity and peace
promised by the national supremacy OF a
safe and conservative Democracy
The speakers included Mayor Mcclellan,
Richard Olney, David B. Hill, Charles A.
Towne. and Congressman DeArmCnd. Ex-
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran was
elected as POSTMASTER, introduced as the
first speaker Mayor Mcclellan in an adj
dress in which after referring briefly to
questions of national policy, he took up
political conditions in New York city,
declaring that Democratic government had
49, ~ 7lished in New York so far as law
olish it but that the Democratic
re IN of New York city had made
. rk Democratic not through the
in spite of laws.
eClellan was introduced as 'fae
son of an illustrious sire"
you to join with me in sending
fea- Democratic gathering in the
E nocratic city, the glad news to
rem throughout the land that we
L-.lrrte of New York are resolute in our
1sr wrest the State and nation
from Republican misrule. Because we are
capable of much, much is expected of US;
because much has been given us, much
will be required. Let us then, at the be-
ginning of the presidential year, present
to the country the spectacle Of a united
ard loyal party, striving earnestly 10 he
worthy of the name of Democrats. Where
ever they are tonight, in the East IN the
West, in the North, or in the South, let
all Democrats hear our avowal. Sinking
every sordid and selfish and unworthy mo-
tive; united for a common object and in a
common cause, as were our forbears in the
days gone by, We stand for right and JUS
tice within and without the boundaries of
our country, that we may restore the rule
OF the people in its truest sense and insure