The Rock Island Argus., 1879-12-08
Last Nights Dispatches.
THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB
A Grand Dinner Speeches. Toasts, etc

THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB
A Grand Dinner Speeches. Toasts, etc
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-The Chicago Com
mercial Club. an organization composed O
the principal business men of Chicago
gave their annual banquet this evening a
the Grand Pacific Hotel. 1t was an
unusually noteworthy affair, on account O.
the large number of distinguished guests
from abroad. Among the number were
Gen. Grant, the Hon. j. B. Logan, the
Hon. Alex. III. Rice. ex Governor of Mas
sachusetts; John W. Chandler. President
of the Boston Board of Trade and Presi
dent of the Boston Commercial Club; f
". Lincoln, ex-Mayor of Boston. and
eleven other gentlemen identified with the
Commercial Club and with the interest of
Boston; also FL. Wilson Brown, President
of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce;
Ezra Millard, President of the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce: H. 0. Stannard
Ex-Governor of Missouri; Alfred Russell,
Detroit: Robert Donahue. Burlinnton
Iowa; the Hon. j. f. Wilson. Iowa, and
many others. General Sheridan. Judge
Drummond, E. B. Washburne, T. B.
Blackstone and Col. Fred Grant. of Chi
cago, were among the guests. Dinner
began about o'clock. aud was most superb
in every appointment and feature.
THE PRESIDENT.
j. W. Doane, was flanked on either side
by Gen. Grant and Gov Long. He pre-
sided with dignity and his iptroductions of
speakers were made in feiicitous remarks
of good fellowship which gave a spirit of
warmth and trlendiness to the proceed
ings, which was in perfect accord with the
occasion.
THE TOAsTs.
The first toast was. Our inland States
develope and become equal in strength to
the seaboord cities" Gov. Bagley, of
Michigan. responded in a speech bristling
With humOr and which was interrupted by
constant outbursts of applause aDd merri-
meut.
GOV, BAGLEY's SPEECH.
Nr. President and Gendemen: As bus
mess man, land as believe you are all bus
mess men, or at least did believe so when
came here, but | have made up nv mind
that some OF you are speech makers, but
am not. The last speech l made was
across the lake at St. Joe. 1t was poll
teal speech. | undertook to persuade the
RNOPiS VI ~. - OC AaldI iAEiC NdS UuI one
party in the land that could be trusted
and that was The Republican party
because | happened to be a Republi-
can myself, and the audience began
slowly to disappear, end they kept
going as ] kept going on talking, ard
finally two men who sat on the front seat
got up to go, the last two iB the house, ]
got down from the platform and took one
OF them by the collar, and said to him.
shall not let you go until you promise me
you will vote the Republican ticket.
wanted to make a convert, and he said he
would promise me anything if ] would let
him 60, and he went | said to him. how
about this other man that sat with you?
Well, he said, that didn't make any differ
ence; be was deaf and dumb and couldn t
hear, So you see | 90 not make speeches
in that sense. But | cannot tell you how
glad l am as a business man to meet with
the business men of Chicago on this very
auspicious occasion-glad to u eet our old
Michigan friend, Gen. Grant daughter J |
find wherever | go that there are Michi
gan men. l remember the general very
we'll when he was stationed at Detroit, in
the Fourth Infantry. | haven't any
doubt that he learned great deal Of the
art OF war In that city So | see in Chi
cagO whenever 1 come mere, II TINS Inter"
state commerce that you talk of, that you
come over into Michigan and gobble out Of
it all our lumber kings ami principal men
from the west side of the state and bring
them over here to Chicago and boast of
them. Now we boast of Michigan a great
deal. We are very proud of it as a state
We feel that it has enlightened and civil
lied the states that adjoin US. We feel as
we look over the census that We have even
done a great deal tor New Englapd. There
are 100000 adults in the state ofMichigan
who were born in New England, or the
state of New York, and most Of those that
were born in New York were originally
from New Euglgnd. The homes that we
have made for them-for you know that
they leave the country with the most won
derful aacrity when they get money
enough to travel, l,-and We have taken them
out to Michigan and have taken the cor
ners off them and rounded them up and
made them smooth and rotund, jolly and
good natured. We have taken the east
wind 10 out Of their faces, and SO we ca
Michigan the
MASSACHUSETTS OF THE WEST.
La all trades with New England they ge
the advantage of us. We send then