Notwithstanding Predictions From The

democratie press and our democratie brctUren generally, the banquet of the Michigan Club last Friday evening was no failure. Not to any appreciable extent. The tables were never more completely filled, and the republicana attending were never more thoroughly alive to the situation. There was never gathered in the city of Detroit a more earnest and enthusiastic body of men than filled the rink that night upon the foorth annual banquet of the Michigan Club. If any republican went to that gathorIng in the least wavering in liis fidelility to tlie grand old republican party, he went away a better republican and a more earnest American citizen than lic ever was betore In his life. liever before in the history of the lúiL'i'ipan Club bas thcre been such an able prcsuntatlon of the live issue of the d.-iy, by such an array of eloquent and and able speakers. There was not a ]oor speech or poor speaker in Uie entire list; every one of thern were eloquent; not only eloquent but brilliaut. The eflect of this meeting cannot help but be beneficial to the republican party of this state. lts enthusiasm cannot but tend to givo the party of progres?, of liberty, of equality, of reform, a tre■nendous Ímpetus. Could it have been possible for every man, every young man especially, to have heard the feeling appeal of Senator Bruce for the preservation of the rights of hia people, and to have heard the pi un unvarnished truth from the lips oí Senator Frye that night, there would scareely be a democratie vote cast In the northern states untll the the great wrong, and shame, and disgrace of the nation should be righted, and until every man having the right to exercise the franchise in tliis union should be accorded that right.