The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-20
LINCOLN DAY DINNER.
The Ohio State League of Repub-
lican Clubs
celebrate Lincoln's Birthday by a Banquet
At GAINESVILLE at Which FactionaI DIFF.
ferences were Laid AsIde-Mark
Hanna as the Guest of Honor.

0ANhoHlLLE, w., reD. 16.-1ne dining
hall of the Clarendon hotel presented
D scene of dazzling beauty when it
opened at nine o'clock last night for
the annual Lincoln Day banquet of the
State League of Republican clubs.
The furnishings were superb.
The senatorial question in which
danger lurked had been kept out of
the proceedings of the league conven-
ton and everybody felt like offering
thanks.
The wise old heads of the party had
rushed into GAINESVILLE, and, quietly
working with the more ~combative of
the delegates, they succeeded in rele-
eating the senatorial question to some
other tribunal for debate and decision.
1t was 1920 o'clock when the guests
sat down. Gov. Bushnell occupied
the post of honor, as POSTMASTER, and
was hanked on the right by Hon. NJ.
A. Hanna, Senator Thurston and Hon.
). L. Everett. On the left by Presi-
dent Leach of the State league, d. D.
Woodmansee, president of the Ma
tional league; Congressman McCleary,
Van Voorhis and N~orthway. The
banquet occupied two hours and a
half. At IL President Charles F.
Leach arose and made a short adj
dress.
He then introduced Gov. Bushnell
as the POSTMASTER, who in a few witty
remark presented Senator Thurston
of Nebraska, who responded to the
toast Abraham Lincoln"
Congressman James T. McCleary
spoke to the sentiment: The Amer
lean Congress-"
Then came the toast of the evening,
TO the Chairman of the National
Committee" which was drank stand
ing. Hon. NJ. A. Hanna arose and in
q brief speech thanked the members
OF the league for the honor accorded
him and complimented the work of
the organization.
William Allen White, of Emporia,
kas., spoke to the toast: Whats the
Matter with Kansas
MIR. White said:
have been invited here to tell you what is
the matter with Kansas. and l have come
nearly j thousand miles in the middle of win
ter to say that there is absolutely nothing the
matter with Kansas. For six OF seven ears,
however, Kansas has been under the spell Of
the demagOgueS. FrOmlS9 tolsy4 all parties WED
with one another in putting tommy rot into
their platforms. You gentlemen here in Ohio
have doubtless noticed with CONSERVATION
what fadS. what foolismS. what rank nonsense
have passed current for repuJlicaniSm ut one
time or another out in Kansas. When Jerry
Simpson ran for congress the Iirst time the re-
puoncans In his district stole his platform
bodily, and then absolved the republican NOM
tnee from the duty Of abiding by it.
The people could not vote as they pleased.
They had to choose the less violent of two
lunatics. For years a crowd Of fellows domi-
mated the republican party in Kansas whose
motto was "molaSSeS catches more flies than
vinegar As a result the state platform was
more Of a fly trap than a declaration Of repub-
licRn principles. These gentlemen say that
Kansas was built on the installment plan, to
be paid for In small monthly payments. They
preached a bogus way out OF debt, because
they believed that it was a sure way into
office. These political economists Of the soft
soap school would stand proudly on q platform
recommending mOOnshine as Il legal tender,
indorsing aStrolOgy, declaring for blue glass
and the barefoot cure, pledging the party TO
vegetarianism and cooping il up for the free
and unlimited coinage of aapdoodle. Think Of
what Kansas escaped with these ghost
dancers leading the conservative party for
half q dozen years. The wonder Is not that
the state went FOR Bryan, but that it did not 20
for Rev. Irl r. Hicks and George Francis
Train.
The people were so glad to get a chance to
vote as they pleased, to see the Shiny old bar
nacles scraped of the republican ship. that
they piled uD a republican vote which was de-
feated by a narrow margin only by the triple
alliance Of anarchy, greed and collie.
In that great battle whose line is forming,
between patriotism and anarchy, Kansas may
dedicate 10 her cOuuIrV'S service mon tr,r.bv
to fight beside the patriots of OhiO-Ameri-
cans as fearless as John Sherman, as dauutless
as Foraker, as powerful as Mark Mamma. And
one day Kansas may give the world a knight,
without fear and without reproach-wOrthy to
stand in the nations history beside VIM. Nc
kinney, of Ohio.
Prof. Booker L. Washington, of
Tuskegee, Ala, spoke ~eloquently on
Solving the Negro Question in the
Black Belt of the south" He said:
The negro problem in the south is fast pass
ing from a question OF sentiment into one of
businesS-intO one OF Industrial and CONNER
cial values. At no time since the scourge of
American slavery began to tear our country
aSunder has any national administrator had
such an opportunity to set in motion forces
that will result IN the b!ottiug out Of racial
and sectional differences.
The key to the solution OF the race problem
IN the south is in the commercial and indus
trial development of the uegro-a development
along this line that shall rest upon the broad
est and highest culture. Friction will disap-
pear and the two races in the south will be
as one, one in all their civil and COM
mercial relations, Just in proportion
as the negro, by reason OF skill
and educated brains produces something that
the white man wants or respects. When a
black man has the best farm to be found in his
county every white man will respect him. A
white man honorS the negro that lives in a
two-stOry brick house. whether he wants TO or
not. When a black man is the largest tax
payer in u community his neighoCrs will not
object very long TO his voting and having his
vote honestly counted.
/ propose that the negro take his position
on the nigh and disputed ground Of generosity,
usefulness, forgiveness, honesty in all things,
and that he invite the white man up and &C.
cupy this ground with hun; il the white man
in every part OF our country cannot accept this
invitation, we will thus prove that the Prob
lem is a white mans problem rather than a
Negro problem.
President d. d. Woodmansec re-
sponded to the toast: The Nations
Verdict"
Maj. c. +. Dick spoke on THE Work
of the Last Campaign"
Missing Mary M'Cu!!om Believed 20 Have
Eeen Taken To Cleveland,
CLEVELAND. O., Feb. 13.-Mary Nc.
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