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follows: President, D. W. Dame, of Carroll Co.; Vice- 

 Presidents State at large, W. C. Flagg, of Madison, and E. 

 Smith, of Bureau, with an additional Vice-President from 

 each congressional district, as follows : James Creed, Ma 

 rion ; S. S. Morgan, Livingston ; W. E. Magill, Mason ; T. 

 McD. Eichards, McHenry; C. W. Marsh, DeKalb; John 

 D. Armstrong, LaSalle ; A. N. Harris, Stark ; J. H. Pick- 

 rell, Macon; A. M. Hulling, Ford; Gen. W. B. Anderson, 

 Jefferson; H. W. Eincker, Shelby; Charles Snoad, Will; 

 Thomas Hendrickson, Vermillion; W. E. Alcorn, Eichland; 



D. Gore, Macoupin , E. N. Coffeen, Champaign ; T. Butter ^ 

 worth, Adams ; Joseph B. Barger, Gallatin ; Gen. J. Mc- 

 Connell, Sangamon. Secretaries, S. P. Tufts, Marion; L. 



E. Morris, Macon. 



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Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, addressed the meeting at con 

 siderable length. In the course of his speech he said : 



&quot; I recognize the fact that the producing interest is the grandest 

 and noblest interest asking for our protection, our fostering, and our 

 care. A large proportion of the people of this State are engaged in 

 production ; in cultivating the soil, in bringing out from our fertile 

 prairie soil the richness placed there by the Creator; and it will 

 always be the case in this State that the farming interest will be the 

 largest interest in the State, made so by nature. But we can t get 

 along without other interests. We can not well get along without 

 the professional interests, and yet I know we sometimes think that 

 lawyers do not amount to much ; but if lawyers do not amount to 

 much, when we get sick we like to have the doctor ; and if we do 

 not care much about Sunday, when we are about to die we like to have 

 a preacher. Now these professional interests must be preserved ; the 

 manufacturing interests must not be crippled ; the commercial in 

 terest must not be crippled; and the transportation, or railroad in 

 terest must not be abolished. Now, as a producing class, we can 



