Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-07
REED AT A FEAST.
The Ex-Speaker Talks Politics
to New Workers.
DEPEW MAKES FUN FOR THE DINERS

N"twithsrsading the Fact That He Is
Under $4,000 Bonds in n Criminal
Case-Big Railway Men Held to Bail
for the Tunnel Disaster-A LAWYER
Who Was Capable of BIushing-A Case
of Skin Grafting-Panza's Disastrous
Exhibition of Marksmanship.
NEW YORK, March IA dinner was
given by the Federal club at Delmonico's
last night in honor of Hon. W. P. Ar
noux. Covers were laid for $50. Chaun-
cey M. Depew presided, and the speakers
were Thomas B. Reed, Henry Cabot
Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, and ex-Judge Arnoux.
Maj. Mckinley was kept away by the ILL
ness of his wife. Letters were also re-
ceived from Secretaries Blaine, Proctor,
Noble and Tracy, Vice President Morton
and Postmaster General Wanamaker. Be-
lore the gentlemen sat down to dinner
reception was given in the parlors to
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine Ex-
opeaker Heed was the first speaker.
Good Friends and Advertising
He said: II trust that 1 appreciate as
much as any other man the advantage of
having good friends. Half the struggle
OF life is to get hearing. Advertisement
Is the absolute prerequisite to the sale of
goods, and your best advertisers are your
enemies. Your friends some times go to
sleep; your enemies never do. The gen.
eral public do not pay much attention to
the advertisement, but proceed to examine
the goods. The Fifty-irst congress
has been extensively advertised, bat the
nnhlIn
has been done. Whenever this country
awakes to the fact that the doctrine of
human liberty must prevail from one end
TO the other, then justice will be done to
Che man that enforced an honest count
and an honest law.
Challenge to the World.
ii will challenge the world to point to
the equal of the Fifty-first congress for
the great good it has done. We have done
more than pass great measures We have
shown to the people of this country that it
IS possible to have responsible govern
ment. This country to-day, with its Co.
O0O, 900 of people, cannot be governed as
when it had 100000. Our government
has got to be the growth of the necessities
OF the people and cannot De adopted from
any other land. What 1 claim for the
house of representatives is not what it
has done, but what it has rendered posi-
bic for all time TO be done.r Mr.. Reed
was heartily applauded at the conclusion
of his speech.
Depew's Characteristic Talk.
When Mr.. Depew rose to introduce Mr.
Reed he said: Il am here tonight quite
unexpectedly. [Laughter.1 Until mo-
ment before l arrived. Thought it would
be impossible for me to come the coro-
Ia " nr hal g.
everything that happened on a road of
which happen to be director The cor
oner informed me at a late hour that in
view of the present exigencies of the Re
publican party, if would give bail in
SIS, 900 he would risk my presence at this
banquet [Laughter.l Mr.. Reed said to
me little while ago that this is the first
time he was ever brought into such close
contact with the criminal classes of this
city" Laughter
The Car and the President.
"The gentleman who, in his capacity as
speaker of the house, enforced the rules,
brought the body within the limits of the
law, gave it to understand that congress
had met to transact business, and COM
PEELED it to transact its business, is n
car Applause The president of the
United States, who has fulfilled the prom
lScS III JUe upon winch
he was elected, in the speeches and letters
which he gave to the public, is decorated,
Is caricatured, in the comic papers and in
the press as a man of little size in a large
hat. Laughter.
As to the Avoirdupois.
well, il avoirdupos and adipose
-[great laughter are modern elements
of craftsmanship, as our Democratic
friends think-[laughter and applausel-
judged by that standard, Diminishing all
above the shoulders on the best scales in
the country, President Harrison weighs
more than Governor Hill and not so much
as ex-President Cleveland. Laughter
Hills wooing of the Goddess.
cleveland, who six months ago seemed
the unanimous choice of the Democratic
party, nov has the silver spears of the
west and south pointed against his breast.
Governor Hill and Senator Hill wooed the
star-eyed goddess of reform as only a
bachelor can WOO; the star-eyed goddess,
through her prophet, Watterson, who for
got to put stamp on it, answered it: Il
cannot love you, but l will be a sister
to you" Laughter.l
Remarks by Other Gentlemen.
Messrs. Roosevelt and Lodge condemned
Governor Hill and eulogized ex-Speaker
Reed and the Fffty-first congress, the for
mer, in the course of his remarks, compli-
menting ex-Presidenti Cleveland for his
anti-silver letter. Gen Woodwork aud
ex-Judge Arnoux followed in speeches in