Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — IROQUOIS CLUB BANQUET. [ARTICLE]

IROQUOIS CLUB BANQUET.

In-Jofl'drson’s Honor—Also to tlio Glory of Clevolaml. The Iroquois Club dined at Chicago the other night in tho big, flower-docked dining-room of Ihe Palmer House in honor of the l'39th anniversary of tho birth of Thomas Jefferson, Then, having honored the day puffleiently by olinking glasses to tho memory of that sound old Democrat, the party put in the rest of tho evening llstoulng to the praises of another good Democrat, Grover Cleveland by name. It was properly not a Jefferson dinn r, although Thomas Jefferson's name had the place of honor in tho list of toasts, and nearly everybody who spoke said something about that modest old gentleman who hitched his horse to a fence and went up to speak lilh inauguration speech. But Jefferson was dead a long time, and grass was growing around his grave before the oldest man whoso whiskers swept the table at the Palmer House was born, and, in fact, he xvas only a foil behind which the Iroquois Club might elect another hero who is very much in the flesh. It wus a Cleveland banquet all through. At the hea l of the toast list was printed one of Mr. Cleveland's sayings: “The nation’s strength is in her people. Tlio nation’s piosperity is In their prosperity. Tho nation’s glory is in the equality of her justice. The nation's perpetuity is in the patriotism of all her people.” The speakers were all Cleveland men, and most of them have been marked in their thtek-and-tkin advocacy of the ex-Presldont.