St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-13
ONE OF THE PEOPLE
EHAUNCEY DEPEW5s SPLENDID
TRIBUTE TO THE WORTH OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
SAVIOR OF THE REPUBLIC.
a MAN WHOSE QUALITIES MADE
1T POSSIBLE TO LOVE GREAT
NESS.
QUITE GENERALLY OBSERVED.
Nany Notable Speakers in Various
Cities of the Country No Him
Honor.
SAVIOR OF THE REPUBLIC.
QUITE GENERALLY OBSERVED.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The tenth an
nual Lincoln dinner of the Republican
club was held at Delmonico's tonight
and was one Of the most notable events
held in honor Of the martyr president,
Covers for $50 We're set in the banquet
hall, which was handsomely decorated
with the national ensign and large
portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
The guests were seated at round and
oblong tables, Elihu Root presiding.
Those invited to sit at the guest table
were Chauncey N. Depew, DR.. Emil G..
Hirsch, Of Chicago; Gov. Griggs, of
New Jersey; Senator Joseph B. For
aker, Of Ohio; Mayor Strong, Seth Low,
Gen. E. A. McAlpin and Henry E. How
land.
At the other tables were many men
prominent in the political. financial and
social circles of this city.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew was the
first speaker.
Mr.. Depew said, in part: Celebra-
tons of the anniversaries Of heroes
and statesmen, of battlefieldS and
significant events have, as rule,
only historical interest. They lack
the freshness and passion of touch and
aIldculneII. II HAS always DSeH Tic
habit of peoples to defy their heroes.
After few generations they are
stripped of every semblance to human
ity. We can reach no plane where,
after the lapse of a hundred years, we
can view George Washington as one
of ourselves. He comes to us so per-
feet, full-rounded and complete that he
is devoid of the defects which make 1t
possible for us to love greatness. The
same is largely true Of all the revolu-
tionary worthless, except that the col
onial danes have raised or lowered
Benjamin Franklin to the level of our
vision by deciding that he was SO HUI
man that his descendant in the fourth
generation is unworthy of their men,
bership. Thank heaven, we can still
count as one OF ourselves, with his
humor and his sadness, with his great
ness and his everyday LONELINESS,
with his wit and his logic, with. his
gentle chivalry that made him equal
to the best-born knight and his awk-
ward ungainly ways that made him
one of the plain people, our martyred
president, our leader" of the people,
Abraham Lincoln.
To-day for the first time since Lin
coins death, the 18th of February is a
legal holiday in our state of New York.
And it is proper that the people should,
without regard to their party affilia-
tions, celebrate in a becoming manner
the birth and the story and the
achievements of this
SAVIOR OF THE REPUBLIC.
'But it is equally meet and proper
for us who are gathered here as Re
publicanS to celebrate also the deeds
and the achievements and the char
acter of the greatest Republican who
ever lived This party to which we
belong, this great organization of
which we are proud, this mighty en-
CINE in the hands of Providence for
the accomplishment of more for the
land in which it has worked than any
party in any representative govern
nnent ever accomplished before. has it's
teachings and inspirations more large
ly from the craftsmanship and utter
ances of Abraham Lincoln than from
any other man. The first speech he
ever made was a speech for that policy
which was the first policy of George
Washington, the first policy of the
greatest creative brain of the revolu-
tionary period, Alexander Hamilton;
the principle of the protection Of Amer
lean industries.
Abraham Lincoln was an American
of Americans and believed in America
for Americans. The Republican party
in the policy which fosters business,
employment and wages; which stimu-
lates emigration and the distribution
of wealth throughout the land which
encourages the construction of rail-
ways, the digging of canals, the open
tng of mines, the founding of states
and the building of cities, is the party
OF America for Americans. The Re
publican party in 1895 stands before
the country as the only national party,
with the solid South broken and sec
tional lines gone. Abraham Lincoln
try possessed and draft the last man
capable of bearing arms to save the
republic. He would use any currency
by which the army would be kept in
the field and the navy upon the seas.
When the peril was so great that our
promise to pay only yielded 80 cents
on the dollar he prevented the col
lapse of our credit and the ruin of our
cause by pledging the national faith to
the payment of our debts and the re-
demption of our notes and bills at par,
In money recognized in the commerce
Of the world. The Republican party
stands for a policy which will furnish
abundant revenue for every require
nent of the government and which will
maintain the credit of the United
States at home and abroad up to the
standard which is justified by it's I'M
equalled wealth, power and progress
"All hail. the spirit, all hail the prin-
ciples, all hail the example, the in
spring example, of that man of the
people, that wisest of rulers, that most
glorious of Republicans, Abraham
Lincoln
FORAKER FOLLOWS.
Senator Foraker responded to the
toast 1.-The Republican Party He
took it for granted that there would
be tariff revision, to the end that the
government might have sufficient rev.
enue and our industries and labor suf-
ficient protection. 1t might be safely
assumed that reciprocity would be re-
stored, and made a permanent feature
of our commercial policy, and that our