St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-03
Dedicate Their New Club
House in New York With
= Good Cheer.
Vice President Morton and
South ern Governors Are
Guests.
Speeches by Chauncey M. De-
pew, Henry w. Grady
and Others.
A Pleasant Combination Of
Patriotism and Hos
pitality.


New YORK, May 2.-The formal open
ing Of the new and sumptuOusIy ap-
pointed home of the Southern society
in this city took place tonight. There
was grand banquet and reception. All
the Southern people of prominence,
called here by the centennial celebra-
ton, were present, in addition to long
list of New York officials and
prominent men. At the banquet
at which the president, John G. Cal
hOun, presided, the toast list was entire
iy informal. It was arranged to in
clude an address from the governors OF
each Southern state present, in the
order in which the states were admitted
into the union. The order of speeches
Morton, Chauncey M. Depew, Henry W.
was as follows: Vice-President Levi P.
Grady. Gov. Benjamin T Briggs, of
Delaware; Gov. F. F. Jackson, of
Maryland: Gov. John B. Gordon, of
Georgia; Gov. John P. Richardson,
of South Carolina; Gov. Fitz Hugh
Lee, Of Virginia: Gov. Fowle, of North
Carolina; Gov. Simon P. Buckner, of
Kentucky, and Col. Hancock, of Texas.
The dining rooms were taStefully
decorated with bunting and choice ex-
Otics.
PRESIDENT CALHOUN
In his opening address said that ever
since the effort was first made to estab-
lish in the great metropolis society of
Southern men residents, all had looked
forward to the time when the society
would rejoice in society of its own. At
last that hope was realized, He knew
that he expressed the sentiment of every
member Of the society when he said
that the one he would have been proud
to welcome above all others at the house
warming, was the honored president of
the United States, who, however. was
unable to be present In cOnse-
quence of imperative official duties.
1.-THE president desires me-" Mr..
Calhoun continued, ito convey
his regret, and with it his earnest and
best wishes for the society's welfare. But
am glad to say that among the many
guests who have llODOred us with their
presence is our distinguished vice pres
ldent. With US. too, are the governors
Of nearly all the Southern states. To
Southern welcome to our home, which,
while it is home of Southern men, is a
home of patriotism, of fealty to the gov
eminent, of loyalty to the flag and of
devotion to the nation.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON
was introduced as the first speaker. He
said that when the president Of the
society called upon him at Washington
and extended him an invitation to be
present on the occasion Of the opening
of the new club house, he had said that he
had a previous engagement, but that he
would come on condition that he would
not be called upon to make a speech.
But thank y0u," the vice president
continued, ''fOr the invitation, and de-
sire to congratulate the society in eS-
tabliShing home in the city of New
York. You have witnessed the cOrdi-
ality extended by the city of New York
to visitors to the centennial, and trust
will in this, your Southern home ex-
tend to strangers like welcome. 1
thank you for the warmth of your re-
ceptlon and leave it to Mr.. DepeW to do
the talking.
MR.. DEPEw,
being next introduced, was welcomed
with yell.
He said that he had never been more
impressed with the fact that the home
and inspiration of oratory lay in the
South than by the speech that had just
been made by the vice president of the
United States. 1--WE here in New
York." said he, ''as Republicans. have
been trying TO twenty-five years to get
a speech out of him, but in vain,
and here, the very first time you
get him before your society out
comes burst of eloquence that shows
the vice president to be following in
the footsteps Of Clay. Calhoun and
Webster. But the most eloquent speech
Mr. Morton ever made was to me:
not accept the nomination for the presi-
York open for the vice presidential
nomination. 1 am credited with being
a quick sighted man, but l never saw
into that matter until after the election.
Great laughter. If a young man wants
to get on in this life he had better be
banker: not lawyer" Mr.. Depew
said he had greatly enjoyed the centen-
NAL celebration, though he had not
danced in the quadrille; but he rejoiced
most in the fact that New York had for
a time forgotten her commercial
supremacy and her love for stranger,
simply that she might take him in
laughter, and had shown herself to be
the metropolis of American hospitality
as we'll. Judging the future by the rec
ord of the past century, Mr.. Depew
said he needed nothing but vermilion
for the painting of the horizon. He re-
ferred feelingly to his experience as
treasurer of the fund for the COnfeder-
ate soldiers home, and added that this.
too, had
ITS HUMOROUS SIDE.
One man had written to him as fol-
lows: COmrade, -. Snow" said Mr..
Depew parenthetically, Il was down
there awhile. but l did not shoot any of
you fellows, though that was not be-
cause / did not want to; and that you
are here tonight is by the blessing of
Cod" Laughter.l ''Comrade." said
Mr.. Depew's correspondent, Il am glad
you are doing something for the fell
lows that don't get no pension,
but l wish You would do some
thing for US. / am getting pen
sion of only sl2 month because I am
rated at the hospital with nothing but
and diarrh9a, and l wish you
would use your influence with Vice
II6SIuGllt NuOTtOA " Scb luc IdtcU 1OI
more serious" In recurring
again to the scenes of the past few days
MIR. Depew ventured the remark that
great many people had no doubt been
with the fact that the gov
ernOr of this state might be able to ride
a hobby but that he could not ride a
horse: and he called out a general and
hearty laugh when he reminded his
hearers that the great difference be-
tween horse and hobby was that one
could get off ''hoss" when he wanted
to.
Mr.. Depew was followed by Henry
w. Grady.
MIR. GRADY SAID:
"Mr. president and gentlemen: 1
say with all reverence that have never
seen a man whose speech so belied his
words as that of my friend, Mr.. Depew,
who said that eloquence had its home
in the South and then made the speech