The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-14
L|NCOLN'S MEMORY,
Jersey Citizens Commem-
crate the Martyr PreSi-
dent With Feast and
Speech.
JUDGE DIXON'S HARANGUE
Grand Talk About Law With
Latent Partisanship for
Spice.
GOVERNOR WERTS PRAISED.
He Is the Peoples Protector Horr
and McKelway's 0ratory.

He Is the Peoples Protector Horr
and McKelway's Oratory.
Brilliant lights Illuminated the Hotel
Washington last night, an d huge clusters
offiowers decorated it. spreading through
out the spacious rooms of the hutel fra
grant perfumes delicious to the senses.
The hand of an artist had been busy in
the dining-room, aid with rare good
taste, punches of evergreens had been
placed irregnlarly about it to contrast
with. and add to the floral display on the
long table which extended the entire
length of the room. To add still further
to the egect of the flowers. pyramids of
rbd, golden and purple fruit lowered
aioft from the table, mingling their fra
GRANGE with that of the roses. and boldly
setting mp a claim for recognition.
IS beautiful, casting defiance at the timid
lilies, the olushing rosesiand the shy
violets. Upon the wall at the end of the
loom hung the portrait OF Abraham Lin
colu, aud the big. thoughtful eyes from
beneath the great projecting forhead al
most spoke approval as they seemed to
fail upon tae table at which one hundred
persons were seated. In an adjoining
room were fifty more persons at another
table. the counterpart of the oae In the
front.
The occasion of this festivel appear
ance of The Hotel Washington was the
twenty-eigbJh annual banquet of the
Lincoln Association of this city, one Of
tie oldest, If not the Oldest organization
of it's kind In the United States.
AROUND THE TABLES.
It was seven O'Clock before the $50 MEM
hers and guests marched into the two
dining rooms. Ar the head of the main
I'd bic sat Charles T. Case, the President,
and at his right were st. Clair Mckelway
of Brooklyn. Judge Jonathan Dixon.
Colo ell Charles Fuller and Thomas M.
Gopsil, while at the left were eX-Con-
gresham Roswell g. Horr of Michigan,
Ere derrick Taylor and ex-Jud John A.
Blair. The menu was as follows:-
MENU.
Blue Points Deep Shell.
PoTAGE. AntOntilLdd0.
Green Turtle fanglaiSse.
HoRs D DoEUvREs.
Prime Celery. Queen Olives. RadiSheS.
Petit Bouchees la Refine.
Poisson. hduterae (B, d G)
Filet of Striped Bass la Joinviile.
New Boiled Bermuda Potatoes.
ENTREES st .Julien( B. GG.)
Fiet OF Beef La Jardiniere.
Punch Cardinal.
California Quail sur socie, Currant Jelly.
Lettuce, French Dressing.
DESSERT
Glace Nesselrode
Brie. Fancy Cake. Roquefort.
Coffee, Assorted Fruits. Cigars.
When the cigars were lighted walters
carried extra chairs into the main room
and the guests in the back dining room
flied in and speech making began.
THE SPEECH MAKING.
President Case delivered an address of
welcome in which he enlogized the mem
cry of the Martyr President" and
sketched the history of the local organiza-
tion.
Colonel Fuller. as POSTMASTER, intro
duced Roswell u. Horr, who responded
to the toast "Lincoln IN the Future" He
said:-"It will be many years before the
habit fnaugurated by this and similar
clubs of keeping alive the memory of
Abraham Lincoln will be abandoned.
Lincoln lived not only in his own day, but
he had that in him that will carry him on
in the future. Why is it that some men
live after death? have often asked my
self how many men-statesmen, we have
had in the United States, whose future Is
down for ages.
Observation-Disclosures
"If l asked you all to write the first
names that you believe this country has
produced that will live for all time, be-
neVe you WOulu Ouly Wflb6 Lures OIL t0otn.
do not think you would write the other
Lwo. You would first name George
Washington, for his position as the head
of a party that created this Republic
gives him a future. Then you would
write the name of A braham Lincoln, be-
cause he embodied the element that saved
The country that Washington created.
would be that of General Grant,
because he was the great
doer. He accomplished things. ana
that alone will carry him down into the
future. He will go into history as repre-
senting the most marvellous will power
of any man who has lived in the United
states. When the Angel OF death visited
him months before he died he said, wait,
/ have my wife to provide for;' and then
while suffering untold agony, he wrote
the most marvellous history of the deeds
of his own life. 1t reads like novel and
in it not single word can be found that
denotes the great suffering he endured
while writing. The fourth name that
should write would be Benjamin Frank
lin. He goes down into history from
simple brain power. The fifth man-now
who would nanlep
'Baine," said several.
''No; for though loved Blaine and fol-
lowed him day py day, cannot say his is
tue name. 1t is Daniel Webster, the
great expounder of the Constitution.
.ssN hat is it that makes Abraham Lin
coin live in the future? 1t is because he
was simple child Of nature. The man
never lived that could, with Lincoln's
limited education, state SO exactly what
he meant as Lincoln could. Lincoln
stanas today in nv Judgment the most
marvellous production of American in-
stitutions. He was. too, the most marvel
lousy educated mau-thRt Is. his sduca-
tion was purely his own. Lincoln will
live in the future because he filed the
bill. he did that which was necessary. 1t
is glory enough for any party to have
had for it's first President man like
Abraham Lincoln"
DEMOCRAT ON LINCOLN.
Colonel Fuller next, in a happy man.
ner, introduced St. Clair McKelway as a
Democrat and the editor of a Democratic
paper in Brooklyn, who would respond 10
the toast. What the United States did
for Abraham Lincoln."
Mr.. McKelway said:--"The United
States did much for Lincoln ln this
respect. his case should be differentiated
from Washington's, for Washington's
opportunities were made by the Injustice
and impolicy of British governmental
action toward the American Colonies,
whereas the equal faults and merits OF
the United STATES created for Lincoln the
opportunities which he improved. Lin
coin was moraist-and q politician. The
roles are not Incompatible. The union
bf them in such careers as Lincoin's,