The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-12
LINCOLN ANNIVERSARY.
The New York Republican Club Gives
Spread.
Nearly Three Hundred Distinguished
Men Are Seated at the Banquet
Table.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Republican
club tonight gave their Lincoln anniver-
sary dinner More than 300 men dis
tinguished in nearly every walk of life
were present and the orators for the
occasion came from all parts of the
country, each in his own way typifying
and representing some sentiment or phase
of national politics. The club president,
John S. Smith, presided. At his
right sat Secretary of the Treasury
Charles Foster and at his left
Colonel Robert G. Ingerson. Other
guests at the table were Chauncey Nj.
Depew, Congressman W. G. Squire of
Washington, Congressman ]. 7. Hull of
Iowa, Congressman j. G. Taylor, Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior Bussey,
General Horace Porter, and Congressman
johnson of North Dakota. President
Smith in making his opening address
said: 1.-THE little skirmish of last No
vember was but temporary triumph of
Great Britain and the Anglomaniac which
will be blotted out in the great tide of the
Republican victory that will sweep the
party into power in 1896. -
Colonel Ingerson responded to the
toast abraham Lincoln.'' He said, in
part: abraham Lincoln was strange
mingling OF the tragic, heroic and gro
tesque. A personihcation of all that was
gentle, just, humane and honest, merci-
full, laughable, lovable and divine, and
all these sterling attributes he conse-
Grated Tor the use OF man. Lincoln had
no ancestors. He had no fellows and no
successor. How can we account for this
great character in our history? He never
abused power except on the side of
mercy, and knew no fear except that of
being wrong. His was the grandest figure
of our time and the gentlest memory of
our world.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster fol-
lowed Colonel Ingersol. Speaking for
the administration he thought the coun-
try now comedies that the great Office of
president is filed by as able man as
ever sat in that chair. He possesses many
traits which have been described of Lin
coin. He never did anything in the
world he did not think was right.
Headed by such man it is not surpris-
ing that his cabinet and ministers have
been unusually successful in their offices.
Chauncey Nj. Depew spoke to the Ere
publican Party He said in part: 1t is
our pride and glory as party that there
had been neither incompetency nor cor
ruption in the Republican administration
from Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin Har-
rison. The most explicit pledge and
promise of the Democratic platform was
the repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver act; but yet the i'm
perative mandate of the chosen
leader of the party calling upon
the Democratic House of Represen-
tatives to fulfill this plank was answered
when Democratic Representatives voted
s'no," and Mr.. Bland sent back the def
ant message: "If Cleveland attempts to
carry out those Chicago promises, we, the
majority of his party, will split the or
ganization and wreck his administra-
tion.'
Senator Wolcott of Colorado. responded
to "Our Departed LEADER speaking in
eulogistic terms of the life and services of
Blaine