St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-13
IN LINCOLN'S NAME.
Union Leaguers Make Campaign
Speeches on That Pretext.

Union LeaguerS Make Campaign
Speeches on That Pretext.
The storm Of last evening contrlved
to keep good many people
away from the Union league
rooms. AS it was the parlors
were well filled with Republicans who
were anxious to hear good words said
of their party, and of their party's
greatest man in all its history-Abraham
Lincoln. Yesterday was the eighty
second anniversary Of the birth of the
man who made his way from the humb-
lest station in life into the highest in
the United States. This beng a cam
peign year, the Union league thought it
a good plan to arouse enthusiasm by
memorial meeting in honor of a whilom
party leader who would not be in SYM
patty with the party had he lived a few
years longer. The Lincoln memorial
meeting was arranged for at short notice.
The programme was not long, and the
music, by the Masonic Quartette, was
not of the political and patriotic char
acter that the members of the club
would like to have heard ON that ac-
count
The first speaker of the evening was
Judge John p. Rea. Judge Rea's adj
dress was largely of reminiscent
character. He was young man when
Lincoln had reached the zenith of his
fame. He was also a soldier, and for,
that reason deeply interested in all that
Lincoln did. 1t was of Lincoln as
party leader, and of the Republican
party as tho party of Lincoln that he
spoke most. He made a good many
statements that the impartial historian
might have disagreed with, but all he
said was in praise of Lincoln and in
glorification of the Republican party
because it had elected Lincoln.
Frank NJ. Nye followed. The part in
the Lincoln symposium that had been
assigned to Mr.. Nye was particularly
suited to that gentleman's oratorical
powers. He spoke of the truth and
purity and dignity of the Republican
party. No one attempts to deny that
the Republican party made pretty
good record for a young party in the
years prior to the late '60s. Whatever
the party has ever done that is worthy
of com mendatiOn was laid hold on by
Mr.. Nye, and rounded into swelling
periods. He surpassed even himself in
his rhetorical flights.
r. q. Evans was the third and last of
the speakers that had been regularly
assigned to drop into oratory during the
evening. His address was devoted to
the young man in politics from every
side. He gave away the reasons why
the young men of the country should
always be Republicans. There were sew
eral impromptu speeches that related
more or less remotely to Abraham Lin
coin. All the speeches breathed a
spirit of campaign work on the eve of
decisive political battle in the nation.
1t must not be supposed from that, how
ever, that nothing was said about Lin
coin. He was lauded as much as any
man could deserve, and as much as the
most wOrShipful admirer of his career
could ask for. David Simpson, the new
president of the league, presided with
dignity. The speeches were interspersed
with selections by the Masonic quar-
tette.
One of the speakers that has not been
counted upon was Lieut.. Gov. Ives. He
addressed the club OH Lincoln as a
Politician" He found that the mar
tyred president was politician in the
fullest sense of the term-a statesman,
a man who understood and practiced
politics as the art of governing a great
people. His was one of the most
thoughtful addresses of the evening.