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Show BANQUtT IN HONOR Of SECRETARY Of W SELECTION OF DICKINSON AN HONOR TO TENNESSEE. Members of Iroquois Club In Windy City Are to Be the Hosts on This Occasion. Chicago, March 6. A banquet la honor of Jacob M. Dickinson, whoo selection as secretary of war Ih rtv garded as an honor to both Tennessee and Chicago, will be given by the Iroquois Iro-quois club here Tuesday next Thu club is a Democratic organization of which Mr. Dickinson has long been a member. Former Mayor Dunne created a sensation sen-sation in the club by refusing to attend, at-tend, In a long letter he said Jtnlio Dickinson had gone over to the U-publican U-publican party and that it was highly inconsistent, if not ridiculous, for a Demejcratic organization to extend its congratulations to a member who hai abandoned the party." Judge Dickinson flatly denied Mr, Dunne's allegation. "I have always been a Democrat and am still one," he said, adding after a mome-nt, "although "al-though I did not vote for Bryan." |