Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-03-10
DR.. STRIKER S SPEECH.

Republican Club, presided, and acted
as toastm aster.
DIR. STRIKER S SPEECH.
President Merriam had only brief
word of welcome to say in opening the
feast of wisdom and the flow of soul. ~
He then introduced DR.. Sryker to speak
to the toast of Lincoln" As already
said, DR.. Stryker's address was a re-.
markable achievement, that moved his
audience to demonstration seldom
seen at public dinner. He spoke in
part as follws:
Mr.. President and Fellow Republi.
cans.-Though it is somewhat out of
my line, you will permit me to remark
that clubs are trumps! Laughter J
And suppose | should add that of
them all this club is the ace Certainly
in the last twelvemonth a remarkable
hand has been played for all it was
worth. Applause. With what Charles
Lamb delighted ina clean hearth,
good fire and the rigors of the game"
the superiority of the American lead
over the "bumble puppy" has been
demonstrated, and the absurd finesse
from two spot to q jack from the
platform to the candidate-having
failed, the best hand has scored by
tremendous odds. Of wise and timely
Administration, the strongest pledge
80 far given is in the selection of that
old Oneida County boy, Lyman j.
Gage, to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Applause. His clear head is mounted
upon first class backbone. And I for
one, am thankful that Speaker Reed
is at the old stand, where he can be
got at in 1900, Brighter days are at
the door. Empiricism is passing. A
trusty leader with his party about him,
shall carry us over the glad threshold
of the new century. (Applause.)
But my errand. The holiday and the
man. Thanks, under God. to him
whose singular greatness is the token
of all these your greetings, we have a
Republic, undivided and indisible!
Applause Your title is National: so
be your sympathies and your endeavors.
He whom we are met to celebrate was
Republican, and was not ashamed to
say so. Applause. Confusion is re-
vealed in the sterility of the hybrid.
Be it ours to wear the name Republi.
can as he defined and ennobled it who
held party as his instrument, politics as
his opportunity, patriotism his motive,
and the peoples ultimate truth his goal.
Applause.
Upon this radient and solemn ami.
versary you are assembled to relight
the torch of the wide awake and the
tlambeau of mourning, gazing through
all, upon yonder untorn emblem. the
guerdon of our awful travail when
freedom was reborn, and the guidon
of our forward marching. Beautiful
flag! Dearer for his true sake who
loved and maintained it! Having
beamed over broken manacles, may it
never blush over broken promises!
From fort and feet. from school and
capitol and home, let it float unsullied
the morning bloom of freedom and
equal justice to all who hope because
they remember. And if by foes with.
out, or direr foes within, its true mean.
ing shall ever be menaced, may it be
protected and lifted higher yet by
hands that shall take heart of grace
in recalling him-knight of the axe
and master of the pen-who made ours
else it has teen or shall be
Lincoln s land Applause.
WHAT A STORY.
What personality, and what a
story How exhaustlessly fascinating
its pathosl My poor sickle can only
CLEAN. AT first, as we think of his
heredity and environment, we wonder
how such man could have issued
from such circumstances, but, reflect,
ing, we discern that those antecedents
were not accidental, but Provideutial.
and that the God who intended the re.
suit furnished the disciplines.
Sprunp from the loins of tho noonIa