It Was A Great Day!

Last Saturday wae a gala day íor WJiLtmore Lake. It was the anniversary of the ij-reat day that pleasant place enjoys every year. It was the Farmer's Pieiiic Day, and it vas a muignificent Buccess - both the picnic and 'tlie day. It was a Kuccess from the rising oï the Bun ,to the going down oï the saine, aod well on to the rising vi ths eum the followlng day for some of the youmger partdeiiajits, wliu fonnd ika-sure in tripping tlie light faut ast ie toa to well played danse ni'usic. THE SUN AHOSB ja a clooid tiiat day. The trulh piobably was that the dust and sonoke toad enveloped and dong to thi- paart oí the earth's atmosphere in such great quanüti, s that the sun eonld aiot penétrate it much to the pieasure of the greal erowd, íor ic :ei tainly was warm enougli without a.ny o;' the i un'.s rays to hi lp boil and írizzle the hunnanity i oiin s'-tod there. The wiiter oí this was a véry tortnnate person in having a Iriend's invitatioii to ride uut to tJie Luke, and that iiiund, although au ex-supervisor- Mr. Tred B. Braun, oï Ann Arbor towji- had within iiian a great delire nat to take any one's dust. He also had a Jiorse of like disposition, and between tJie tWO the dust question was solved te om' extreme pieasure. It was fortúnate that the sun was obtcured nearly all day, for otíierwLse tliere would have been much discoaniort. AÜRIVIXG OX THE OROtTNBS at about 9 o'clock, it was ascertained that there were at least 3,000 or 4,000 aJiead of uö. PeopJe from a distance had gOit up early iu the moraing, and arrived at the Luke before the heat oí the day and the dust of the roa ds should overtake them. And tliey continued to arrive all day long, and people wlio are credited with good judgineait estin'.ated the erowd at froim 6,000 to 8,000 during the afternoon. We sliou'.d place the number at fully 8,000 people. They lined the streets from beyond the Steven's Housa, to near tlie school house, and were iscattered all about tlie Lake and banks. Every boat about the Lake was in use, and it was Certainly a beautiful siglit to stand upoai the banks and gaze over the siaooth and silvery surface of the waters and watch the coming and goimg of the hundreds of (loating Kht-lls with their huniaai oe'cupants. The picnicers sailed and they rowed, and they .plied the waters with steam craft also. ilany people did not visit the station, but went to the groves alomg tlie banks and enjoyed the day m a quiet way by themselves or with tlie campers, of whom there are many. A liUSY TIMB. Tlie etreets of AVhitmore Lake piesented a regular circus day sight. The taan witli the ïnei-ry-go-round, wias there, and so was the diminutivo Ferris "Wheel, and the pop corn, lemonade, candy, peanut and sandwich stands occupied almost every iivailable oook and corner, and some that didn't appear to be very available. The health lift, the hit-it-with-a-hammer, 'the oanie ring, the hit-the-babym-three-throws and get a cigar, the phonograph, Ithe audiphone, the lung 1 ester, the rausde tester, and so on, soliemes without number to make au honest penny in an easy way, were all there staring you in the face and asking you to invest. Tlie young man and liis best girl promenaded up and down tho streets lKUid bi hand, thrilled "witli a bliss that no words could express. Ttoe simart young man, the fellow who had arrived at the age when he alone knows it all, was there making fun of everybody and everything, and in turn being hiinself laughed ot and guyed ly others. There were some city dnrles flirting witi country girls, and some city girls flirting with country 1 ys and viee versa, and we believe they all had a good time. The older folfcs nauntered about, &haking hands with iiiends and neighbors, onatting together, and reöftUImg oíd times, lmt pq-incipally disejtt;iióg tibie diüugth ttnd poor pro.-pects. And last of all thie politician, the oifice-seeker, the awful good f ello w just now, was there tickled to death to meet .you. He would hliake hands with you and make you feel that you were just 'the person of all others ttoat he liad traveled vay out there to meet. ïh.Ls peculiar character was ïiot conlined to any one political party. Xo indead. For tlie tlrét time in years the republican eandidate va as numerous, as glil of toogue, as enthusiastic and eager as hls demo-ravic opponent who has held the field alone to nisnself so loas' to Ya-hleii;iv tounty. Every one seemed to believe that a ïiomination was not equivalent to an electiou in this county itMs fall on the democratie ticket, as of yore. It would be out of place to write ■tliis up aaid noit state that Gus Peters was there, for he was, but some way the good republican brethren had to meet hls caaididate, as well as these oí the other parties, at the djjot aaid escort hini to the hotel. Why this ehould have been was and Is still ia mystery. A FLOW OF ELOQUEXCE. Direotly after Uinner, or at about half-past ome o'elock, the crowd v ended its way to the epeaker's s,tand in the grove, preceded by the Salem band, an. oaganization which does credit to its town. As had been previously advertised, the .'peakera wt're to be tlie candidatei for govemoi- of the various p-art les. They were all present except Mr. Fisher, the democratie candidate, who by reason of a prevkras engageiment, was obliged to seiwl a substitute, the Hon. C. P. Black, of Laasing1. The exereises were opened by singing the patriotic hymn America., folLowed by a very feeling and eloquent prayer, offered by Rev. W. H. Shannon, of KaLem. Then Miss Donna Pinckney "I.ong Live Amerika'" in a pleasing nianner. THE OPBKINQ KE-MAUKS. President Henry C. Yaldron then made a í'ew remarles as to this gathering which Sor sixteen years had beein customary with the íarmera thereaboute. He spoke oí the work oí the fanmer, how hard he had to toil, and how meagre his returns were oí late. He fcaid that things were eadly out of joint some way, wlieu the farmer co'uld not recelve for liis producís what they actually cost lilni, amd that he Avould leave tho (solntiooi oí the question to the four gentlemen present. He would like .to have them teil the audienee of somo method by which the prlce of wJxeat could be raised above 50 cents per busJiel and wool above 10 cents per po-u ud. If they could not do it they had better give up and not run ior office. The Salem Glee Club then sang a coanic song "All On Account of Eliza," which placed the audienee in good humor. GOVERNOR RICH Sl'EAKS. The first guberaatorial cantlidate introduced wa-s Gov. Riah. He was greeted with applause as he stepped foiward, nd coüimeuced by expressing his pleaijure at neetiag eo many peole of tlie commoupwealth. He thought that though the four politieal. doc-tors present might iDrescribe for the prevalent dteease in the body politie, 'that the patlents, would be as as mucili in the fog as ever, when they lieard the remedies. As a eooisequence the Governor determined not to ,peak to them of politics, but to give them a brief account of the ttate goveroiment, and how and where tlie anoaey went to that they paid in taxes, and whether or not it was expended wisely. He then told of the varióos state officers and their duties and who ooinposed tlie varióos etate boards and and their du(Continued onSth Page.) IT WAS AJREAT DM ! (Contïnuedfrom lst Page.) ties. In tliis he paid a high compliment to the mea who have served tihe state bo acceptably anl so faltlifully on these boards without any coanpemsatian except tJie consciousniess of haviiig wOU done a duty to their etete and their fellow-eitizens. Aniouig the earliest things to ppeak of was tlie educational systein, that was so -svcll foiindcd and adapted to this gre-at and growing state, that it has been extensively copied by other tat-es aaid countries. He iirst mcaitioued tlie University a -tlie wowning glory of the educational Bystem of tive state; next the Normal tcliool for those deeirlng a different training; then the Agrioultural College, tor advauceanent in agj'icultural and medíanle arts, an insrtiUrtion tliat was of doubtful need for a itiane, but now becoming one worthy of the state aaid the tural anasses, vhoin it aims to educa te. ThO crowuiing act of the founders of thls epleoidid edueational system was thO accmnulation of a íund that should be eaored for all tinne to come to tliO support of t he common schools. So the raüroad corporations were to IthO puople and they guarantee compelled to pay a specific tax aml this has been applied" to this fuud, tlie interest of which now amoimts to nearly $1,000,000, and which pays back to the taxpayers $2 where he pays $3 in taxes. Tliis fund has been paid to tlie (people a.ml they guarantee tlie interest in perpetuity. This was deemed tdie safest way to invest tlie amouni io that thieves oould never break tdirough ajid steal nor auytJiing happen to destroy it. Then ithe Btate charitable institutkxns weie each. reviewed and the good work acconiplfeJied by them told about. How well Michigan cares íor íier mitortunate insane, deaf, dumb, blhid, íeeble minded, also the oíd eoldiers -vlio are without homes. Tlien carne the care of the children ivitliout bonus, or "vith hxligent parents- tjie school at Coldwater, taking tliO little ones from 2 to 10, and tlieim on the right road to good cit-izenship. Thien the industrial Ischool for boys, and the one for girls, taking whose who are from 10 to 16, and making tJiem, if sueh a thing is possïbte - and it most always is - good men oud women. Tlie Governor also reviewed the necessity for tlie work of the State Board of Correctioiis and Charities, paytog a high compliment to the noble spirit 'which actuates these people, amd the grand work they do ■without anomey or price. He also Bpoke of tlie Commissiones of Insurance, and told liow the insurance companies were c-ontroUed 60 tlxat iwhen losses were had they were paid, amd the oitizens Avere not Bwindled as ■was once so frequent. The Rnilroad CommLssioner and the State Oil Inspector eontroiled the greed pf these great corporations doing business witvh. the people, whlle tlie 3airy and Food Commiseioner ■was beginning to get the affairs of that office in shape so that adulteration of food producís would be less practiced. There are upwards of 7,000 in the fifteen cliarit ;iUlc in-titutions of the state, all lts warde, to be guarded and cared for, and including the state capítol there is $10,000,000 of the people's tnoney invested in the buildings thereor, and it eosts $2,000,000 yearly, lor $1 per capita to do tliis ■work, a, work tliat makes our state faanous. Pavti.san.ship is nover eonsidered in the boards oí control of these institutions, eind it ie a gHorious and wondorful fact tliat Michigan never has lost one dollar tlirough any of them altliough the only ooimpensation of the members thereof is the honor of serring Ihe Btate. AVhat other state can anako iío jiroud a record ? MdcJiigam i-lands to-day in the front rank of tho nations of the world in lier eduni t ional Bffstem ; her methods amd works of charity ; and all that goes to make np a great and progrest-ivo ooujitry. In reg-ard to the condition of the people and thedr prospecte he believed m looking on the bright side, accepting "vhat couldn't Te helped witli good grace, and going earnestly to work lbo mako tihlogs better. AVhen he looked about the audience he did not see ony evidences of hard times. Tliere were no pinched faces, no ragged c'.othes ; everyone looked as 1 tliey were -well fed and eared for. He then. tokl of Vlsltlog the nortliern mmins listricte botli before and aiter the panto, and how thankful those present islioukl be that tliey were agriculturalists. In closing he told the story of the Swiss minister tvuo came over to tliO Centennial exhibltion, and gazing upan tliO people present asked how this oouW be a free country willen there were none of the poor clase (present? Upon being inforcneh thiat those he faw represented all classes, farmers, mechanies, merchante, shoemiakers, blacksmiths, etc, he was loth to believe the statement. Upon finding it to be true by mingling pnd conversing with tbem he raised (hls hands to heaven reverently and said : "My God, wiiat a glorious country ! No poor people ! No poverty ! No sufíering I" After ithis speech the Lombard Quartet GLub eang a eong entitled "And Qult you all Like Men," wiüch raised every republiean ofi hls seat wilth a oheer. TUK WAIL OP A POPULIST. It is a strange coineidence that the oalamity party rhould have for its candidate ior governor one of the joUiest, best fed, best dressed, quickest-wltted men in the state. Dr. A. W. NiclioLs of Ionia. He coniinenced ilils talk by about meeting a frlend a. few days previous -vlio wanted to bet htm four horses tliat Gov. Rich woukl le re-elected by 40,000 majority. Wlien asked why he wanted ito niake suoh an absurd bet, the fi-iend replied : "Well to teil the trutli, I haven't anythlng to feed tlie horses and just as live lose the bet as not." Tlic Dr. said that he had concluded not to speak of politics, but to talk about religión, something which would itoucli everyone present. In order ito preaoh he m.ust take a text, ao 'he quoted from Deuteronomy 2319: Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of vituals. usury of auytlüng that is leut upon usury, (But the good Dr. did not quote the verse following, which reads) : Unto a stranger tbou mayest leud upon usu ry; but uuto thy brother thou shalt uot lend upou usury : aud the Lord thy God muy bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to iu the land whither thou goest to possess it. Tlien he took another text from Matt. 23-14 and 15 : Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye devour widow'a houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore yj shall receive the greater daiiuialion. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocritesl for ye compass sea and land to raake 3ne proselyte; aud when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the ehild of heil than yourself. Then a third from James 5 - 1 : Go to noy, ye rich men, weep aud howl lor your miseries that shall come upou you. And yet not satisfled he jumped to Nehemiali, and recoinineiuled the audienee to read the entire chapter 5. It is too much to quote entire but we will give the jiortion that he probably referred to : Some also there were that said. We have mortgnged our lands vineyards and houses that we might buy coru, becauseof the dearth. And I was very augry wheu I heard their cry and these words. Then I consulted witb myself, and I rebuked the nobles uud the rulers. 1 pray you let ns leave off this usury. i iloreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people Now that which was prepared for me daily was oueox aud six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, aud ouce in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet f jr all this reijuired not I the bread oí the governor He commeoieed his sermón by saying that our forefathers etarted a real CliiLstian church liere in America, by decLaring tliat all men were born free and equal, etc. Sixty-nine mülion out oí the 70,000,000 people of this country Btill abide by taat declaratiou. ïlie balance are nionopolists who Keek to enclave their brothers. The press of the country is to blaine for it all. The. prese of the country, botli demooratie and republican must obey the beek of the monopolists. Tliey dai-e not do otlierwise. If they do not obey tliey know the c'onsequences : down (goes their shanty. "If I could get o'ou gentlemen to sliut up shop," said the Dr. tuming to the reporter's table, "and not print a newspaper from now until Not. Gtli, there -would not be enough democrats and republicans left to hold a caucus. You see I give you credit for it. But wlien you iget twenty or thirty thousand of these engines of thought hammering away on any subject day t-er day comtlnuaUy, 365 ilays oí the year, it cam not fail to make its impress iipon t.he human mind, and you see how relentless thls power oontrolled by the monopolista is. "Liet dier once sa ld : 'Iet me make the BOiigs oí a country, and I care not who makes its kiivs.' I say let me make the newspapere of a country ui;] I care not av.Iio preaches from the pulpits or eoimmands tlie ar mies." Theov be ípok eof the "g-ood oLd profelavery times 50, 55 or 00 years ago, wheii wheat was $3.50 a'bushel and wool $1 por pound." (Didu't the Dr. make a. jnistake In his reekonlng ?) '■Moaiey is the life oí a nat ion. Money is las essential to the prosperity oí a people as blood is to the heulth al. a person." Then he told how rthe people were behig: bied by lvavimg th Currency contracted. How tiie -Talue of the iai-ms had fallen ïrom $100 rto $90, from $90 to $80 and eo on down the ecale to $35, the ■prioe he had seen paid per acre fov a good farm recetntly, in Bangor, Me. A few y Oars ago your sou could go away west, or up north. and get a farm, tl homestead. Caín he ncw? No. It has aXl been given away, squandered by the government. Enougli land has been given away to monopolist land corporatlons and foreigners, like Ixrd Brassy, tto make five sucli stiltes as Michigan. There are 4,000 monopolista in thls country who control everything, even the pulpits. The great preacher Dr. John Hall for instance, is a specimen .monopolist. Does he preaeh agaiast usury ? Does he teil his congregatioin that they must not rob their brothers? No, sir ! He dare not do it He preaohes to his wealthy eongregation in the morning, and then países around carde announcing : ' 'I wfll hold a service at 3 e'clock p. m., in the basement for servante, etc." That 's the way ho preaches Christ to the people. He dare not teil the men in his eongregation to restore back to the poor, ragged outcasts in the tenement houses the property which they robbed tliem of. The once fameus Dr. MeGlynn m-as praised for his deep Clnistia.n spirit and noble deeds, and the Catholic church was given credit for btlng Bihrewd enough to get lihn back Into its ranks. There are two dangerous classes in this country. lst, the tramp who pro wis about your house stealing what he can lay hold of. 2d, The monopolist! who is even more langermis than the tramp, for he is more powerful, miore greedy, and less apt to be prieked by his conscience. The gooner tJie country is rid of them both the bett'er for au. We have no use for either of them. The Dr. then got in a remeniscent mood again and told about how he once rode totoira on a load of wooj that brought an even $1,000 to its o-nner. AVhy don't we have such pricos now ? Bccause the monopolist fixes tlie pi-ices on everything. On the wheat yoii raise, the wool you proönce, on the coat you wear, etc. 'I teil you, do yoii know what I would do if I ehould be eleeted governor ? Tliere is one thing I would do. I would sca.re the old parties down at Washington so that thoy would Ínflate the currency, 100, 150 or 200 per cent. If we had plenty of curreney and honest transportatlon would tlie farmers out in Xebraska. be giviaag away their cattle, and slieep and hogs ? No, sir ! Tliey would be able to ship in some of our surplus corn and wheat to feed their live stock wíth." (But just how a man can get money, be it ever so chcap, when he has nothing to se'.l or to pledge, is a problem ihe wily Dr. dict not stop to explain.) He gave the sugar senators a dig, told how pure and upright the populist s were everywhere, and gave as a panacea íor the ills just now afflicting the business of the nation a graduated income ,tax. The more a man te wort.li the more he would have the govenunent bleed ]iim, and all the surplus that would arise from this immense- according to bis ideas- eouvee of i'evemie, he would apply to making roads. He would skin the 'S andcrbilts, the Astors and other ■wealthy men and macadamize every road in the nation. You see the Dr. has either a wonderful idea of the anioumt of wealth the monopoU-ts have. ora poor idea of (the extent of roads in this country. White this gentleman made a speech that kept his audience good natured, yet he never clinched a statement or jiiüved an aesertion. It was froth, wild, visionary, absurd propositions, a howl of calamity that had a tendency to make hifi unt hinking liearers re1les and fault flnding. It is too bad tliat so brlght a man as this gentletman appears to be, does not his ability to make men and women content with tlielr lot and happy that they live in the best land on God's green footstool, and have all the inecessities and many luxuries of thislife. For we do not believe that tliere "was a man, woman or child in tdie hoaring of his voice tliat day, who had not enough to eat, drink and wear, amd.nearly every one of them, with eomething eaved npi, besides. At thO olose of this speech Mr. N. D. Pierce, of Dexter, sang "Coxey, Keep off the Grass," in a way that pleased üiis auditors, if they didu't approve of the sentiment. IT WAS l:TKKJIIil.Y DRY. President .Waldron next introduced Hon. Albert N. Todd, tlie prohibition candidate ïor governor. Mr. Todd w;is as tlihi as Dr. Nichols was thick, and suffered somewhat from following- a gentleman accustomed to jjubUc fpeakiaig. That Mr. Todd had never exercised ihis lungs and strengthened Jiis volee by practicing "We won't go Home till Morning,'1 and "Reeling, Keeling, Eeeling, Rolling Home Boys," in the stilly -vee small hours of the night while out with the boys, was quite evident. His voice and his stature were both against likn, and his speech, while very good, was made up largely from document., speeches, tnagazine and nevvspaper artides, etc. What he said niiglit do for an argument fore a jury, or to prove a point before a clase, but for a niiscellaneous otowü likO the one he was talking to he failed to oréate as favorable an impressioii Oiis abüity evident ly entitled hiim to. He read a seet'on or two oí tlie prohibitory platform, and ni a de the assertion that it was "wortliy the adimlration of God and the angels." He said that the drink traíiio bad caused seventeen thousand millions oí pravas in this land, but failed Ito cite his authority for the figures. Beventeen thousand million is a good many, esp-ecially when we consider that there are only 60,000,000 people here now, all told. The AVilsey Glee Club sang1 "The Teniperance Cali," and sang it well, atoo. THE DEMOCHATI0 SIDE. Hon. C. P. Black, of Lansing, was then into-oduced as a substitute (you know Grover once sent a substitute ajso, wliem he dldn't find it convenient to go hiimselí) for Hon. Spencer O. Fisher, the democratie candidato for governor, who eould not be present in peí-son. He ishowed himself a sagáclous Fisher-man however, in sending eo excellent a gentleman in his place. Mr. Black answered the charge made by Mr. Todd against the oíd parties that fchey didu't believe in tempéranos because they had no prhoibition plank in tlieir platform, by etatthat he failed to ínnd any plank in the prohibition platform relativo to virtue and ruorality, yet he liad not tlie faintest doubt but that tlie meinbei-s of tJiat party believed in virtue aiul anorality. He, as a member of tibe legislature liad voted to subniit tte prohibitory aniendment to a vote of the people. He professed to lie a temperance man and to lead a temperaaioe life, but he ■waa nob a proliibitionist. And he gave a reason wtoy he was not. As a boy and young onan lie lived under a prohibitory Caw, (ind nnder that law the grooers and. nierchants söld wlüeky the sanie as they so'ld calioo aoid pugar, ovr tlie same counter. Wihen the lav was changed that sort of busiaess was stopped, and tlie grog whop on every four corneis was made a tíling of tiie past aJso. He did not beüieve witJh Dr. Xichols for Jie th.ouüht that wheii a gtone Avas taken out Df a strueturc a good woikiiKin i hould hav-e anotJier one r-quared and finisihed ready to put in its place. Tlie Ir. could tear down, but lie could not build up. That was ttoo much like Ingersoll. lniiersoU could tear down the Chrietiaa religión, but he never offered any i hing to take its place, therefore he did not consider him a good man to ío'.low. Mr. Black did not believe tilia t tliere was o mncli woe and misery ajul unliappiness in this enunti-y-ns had been aeserted. He faiied to see any evidence of it beüore him, at any rate. He admitted there were monopolists, but iie was not prepared ito coaidenin t!ie republican party Cor their existence. He did not assail tlie republican party as unpatriotic, but was willing to give them credit for what ,they had done. Tluey are responsable for .all the legi.-lat:on effected in ithis nation for tlie piast 35 cears. All laws made, all laws repealed has been the work of tüie republioain party. If the protecti-e tariff Jias been benefieial tliey are eutitled to the credit, but if it has caused business depression tmd disaster they must be held responsible therefor. AVe once had a law which levied an income tax, but tlis repuljlican party repsaled it. ïhcy pasead the Bhernian law and they demonetized sálvér, iï these ■were right then the republoan? thould have the credit, ii WTOOg they tliould bear the blame. On tlie eilver question he notlfeed that Overybody was scrambliag into tho baaid wagon. As for hmseli he had always been a silver advocate, aaid witJi his own hand diaïted the iplank in 'ilia democratii platfoian. For years ilver and goid went liand in hand nntil tlie repubiieau party dtanonetized silver, which he believed was wrong. He believed debts sliO'Uld be paid on the same basis om wüiich they were contracted. Oin tliis siüver question he said lic was glad to see that his friend Gen. ISpalding, ithe republican candidate for congreis in tliis disti-ict, was better than his pa.rty. To blametlie demecratic party ïor the present state of affairs was nnjut. AVe had fallen into a panic. Tto.6 lawji of the democratie congress li.id had no time to take effect. You Taiylit os well say' to a man who had just had his leg amputated, "why don't you aiise and walk?'1 Tlie itaiiff question was a selfish ■ome. Each congiessman's district Jxad iomething to protect, and it was a dirty i-craniblo. But wheax a nian's tatesmanship is no broader than his business, it is poor statesmanship. He should sink his own private interests andiact for the good of the whole poople. Mr. Black said that he did not like tlie present bill but it was letter than nothing, and fchould be given tim-e to take effect. He believed that business would piek up and t nat we hhould enter upon an era of pro.-p?rity. GEN. Sl'ALDING SAYS A FEW WOEDS. After some 'more music Gen. Spaldimg, the republ'can candidate for congress, who was present upon the stage, was called upan, and made an excellent speech for ome that was iimipromptu. It takes a very brlg-ht anan to make an impromptu speech and not sa y som et hing that it would have been better to have le!t unsaid, but ths General was a success. He said it was t'he apprehen-lon of danger that ecared inen. The country bad expected that democratie friends were goimg " llve UP to tlielr pledged word, and give the country .absoluto free trade. That 's what ecared ithe bui-ine-s of the nation. He thought the aetion of our present inember of congi e -s was Tery peculiar, to say the least, because he talked one way and voted directly the other wiay. In regard to his own opinión of the sllver question ithe General had never ohanged his mind. He bslieved t.hat a mist;ike was made in demonetizing (iil ver. He had ever since advccated its restoration to its old time place. He drew tlie plank in the platform adopted at Chicago when Gen. Harrison "was nominat-ed, that advocated the remonitization of eil■ror at tbe ratio of 16 to 1. He was a banker and made a study of th8 questiora, and aoted as he honestly belleved to be riglit. He was not an extremist, mot a monometalist, but he was a bimetalist and believed in both gold and tilver as money metáis, at the old time ratio. Speaking jf hls own occupation Gen. Spalding sald it uvas 'quite diversiíled. He was a mi'ller as well as a banker, and a farmer as well as a miller. He had been a farmer all iiis Ufe. He was running the bank ijust now to try and make money enough to keep the fanm golag, and AvhiLe aöknowledging that it was a nip and tuck job, he had been able to accomplish it so f ar. The Geaieral 'gave some very apt illu-trations of thO working of the tariff, aaid made his points so plain that the audienoe had no diftliulty in grasping tliem. He created a very favorable ianpression. GRAND FINALE. After amother song Avhich was of tlio coimical order, this part of the prögraimmo -vas ended. It was a greal isuccess every way. Oaiis little incident it might be well tb epeak of. The democratie county coinmittee had failed to provide any music-, and when called upon for a soaig, Artliur Brown, the chairman of the democratie eoumty committee arose and announced that the deinocrats liad postponed their song until the Gth of November ,when it would be given, and be perfeetly satisfactory. It is altogether probable that they are practicing on a dirge of some sort. OFFICERS ELECTED FOR NEXT YEAR. President, Henry C. Waldron, of Salem. Secretary, Hon. William BaU, of Hamburg. Treasurer, A. B. Phelps, of Dexter; Directors - W. B. Thompson, Salem; S. T. Gridley, Ypsilanü; W. E. Stocking, Ann Arbor; Geo. McDougal, Superior; N. E. Carpenter, Ypsilanti; E. A. Nordman, Dexter; George A. Peters, Scio; William H. Glenn, Chelsea; H. D. Platt, Ypsilanti; Peter Cook, Urania; H. B. Thaycr, Salem; S. Gage, Chelsea; L. D. Lovewell, South Lyon; E. T. Walker, Salem; E. E. Leiand, Emery; C. M. Starks, Webster; J. B. Vanatta, Salem; George S.Wheeler, Salem: William Ball, Hamburg; and Philip Duffy, North field.