New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-13
DIR. STRIKERS ELOQUENoE.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED AT THE
REPUBLICAN CLUB DINNER
HIS GLOWING TRIBUTE TO LINcoLN-sENAToR
PLATT, or CONNECTICUT; EX-GOVERNOR
WOODBURY. OF VERMONT. AND JAMES
II. HoYT. OF CLEVELAND
| HIS GLOWI

! FbArT' OF CONNECTICUT; EX-GOVERNOR
WOODBURY. OF VERMONT, AND JAMES
II. HoYT. OF CLEVELAND.
ALSO SPEAK
For number of years the annual dinner Of
the Republican Club has been the most i'm
| portant OF the various celebrations that mark in
this city the recurrence of the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln. This year is not the exception
/ that proves the rule The dinner Of the Republi-
can club Of this city that held in the Hotel
waldorf last evening was the eleventh annual
Lincoln dinner and it was Of the best. But
If the Republican Club dinner was the feature
OK the day the speech Of the Rev. DR. Melanc-
thon Woolsey Stryker, president of Hamilton
College, was the feature Of the dinner. DR.
Stryker's speech was whose like has not
been heard at any dinner in this city this winter
His subject was Lincoln" and in more senses
than one he was the orator Of the evening.
His address was frequently interrupted with
bursts OF cheers. and from the first word to the
last he held the attention OF every person in the
big banquet room. More than once in the course
Of Dr. STRIKERS speech men leaped to their feet
and cheered. and at its close there scene
. or enthusiastic confusion, everybody rising, and,
led by N-Goyernor Morton. waving their hand
kerchiefs or napkins at the orator. Dr. Stryker
had hardly sat down before he was overwhelmed
with congratulations upon his brilliant eulogy
of the Martyr President.
SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM RAMPANT.
But the dinner remarkable for more
things than Dr. Strykers address although
that was sufficiently remarkable. The spirit OF
patriotism was indeed rampant. and found ex-
preston fror the lips Of every speaker.
Down upon the who'll scene gazed the calm
features Of Lincon pictured in the Carpenter
portrait while portrait Of Mckinley. painted
recently in Canton b. the French artist, Chart
tran, stood upon an easel the platform. Be-
hind the guests Of honor hung the banners OF
Illinois and New-York. while many silken Stars
and Stripes dimmed the glory OF the flowers
that had done duty at the Bradley Martin ball
and we're SIN upon the walls
Arthur L. Merriam. presiden. Of the RepuhI-
can Club. presided. and acted as postmaster
At his right sat the Rev. DR.. Stryker. and at his
left Senator Plat. Of Connecticut The other
guests If honor were: Ex-Governor Levi p Nor
ton. James II. Hoyt, Of Cleveland; Mayor Strong
the Roy. Or Edwin G. B5lles. /. h. Chittenden
once an intimate friend of the man whose birth,
day the Nation concentrated yesterday ex-
Governor Urban A Woodbury.. Justice Pardon c.
Williams. Judge william Writ Howe, S. s. Nc
Clure. Frank r. Carpenter the Rev. Or. Robert
:. Macarthur and \. Willis Lightbourn.
sat at nearly two-score Of small tables that
we're distributed about the room. Nearly
seventy-dve women filed the big balcony. where
refreshments were served
SOUVENIRS PRESENTED.
Every guest received souvenir Of the oc7o
cason an edition de luxe Of Lncolns famous
last speech. which VS. delivered at the first
Republican state Convention Of Illinois. at
Bloomington, May 90, 1886.
At the time. so it thought. the reporters
were too much wrought up by the speech to
take notes Of it, but it afterward appeared that
II. c. Whitncy had kept his head sufficiently TO
record the spe, From his notes II was
printed in "McCIure's Magazine" last septem-
her Ices were served in a miniature reproduc-
ton Of the house where Lincoln was born.
DIR. STRIKERS 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.
Striker to speak to the toast Of Lincoln. AS
already said Dr. Stryker's address was a re-
markable achievement, that moved his audience
n demonstrati tons seldom seen at a public DIN
ner He spoke in part as follows
3, vi sdmewbat out of my line you VIII permit M
10 remark that clubs are truInps. 'ltuE" ~ -
i S up ace Certainly. in the last tweIvemonth
remarkable hand has been played iGr al IL ~ IA.
worth applause With what CharI.S ldn'Tp 49,, ~
lighted in Ia clean hearth. a good hTe dtG trie
rsors Of the gametne suPeTi0[ has 0I been dem
oa 1. and the absurd hnesse from tW9spot
b 10 fHitd the best hand has scored by ire
mendous odds OF wise and tlmeE Au ~ ~
seecton Of thai OLD Oneida County boy Lym1I a.
Gage. TO be the Secretary OF 1nn g up6n Grst
Class backbone and for onG d am 5nG Shere he
H NV; 6e cot at in 1900 Brighter days are tt Lne
door Empricism is pass sb55 carrv NJ over the
%i,9 tbreshold OF the century CApplSSa'e
But my Grand, the no,da 9.a ann !Hingular great
s rs ,he token Of all these your ,n
have Rygg a2 , gna q 'Naoa aa so be your SYM
pathies and your endeaTors Ire md vas not
ashamed to say !y,orii,,v Of the hybrid Be it ours
yeaied IN 1be n name Republican as he defined and en-
nobied IT who held party a. h!s M H. rnntiva and
,iGs eo1 H, Ultimate truth his goal pPapSe 2o
Upon this radiant ana s tbe torch Of the wide
are arcs and the fsmbeau Of mourning: ea sa-
through all uI'n yG ,raTa when freedom re-
don OF 1 our he guidon OF our forward mar'hIns
eaqfa nag ,,nI BfaFdr tor Haylns beamed 9ysr
broken msnaeles f6r ay and feet, from school and
prorit md home let it hoat unsu4eH-.ne NO
ing bloom Of freedom rS sTG T. And If by foes
%ou, or Girer foes within ls uuc m ard lifted
ever be M boIds that shall take heart OF s.dCF
llE1o NV him knight or the axe ,'i' - ta-n
IN recaIlITi r1adc oure-whatever else ii mas pee"
me sbb KAN he incoln's land! tAppiau7eJ
WHAT STORY.
VIVA, personality and what story, ,now s,ck,e
ho,stIcssly fascinating its pathos: MY poo' hcrs5
can only CLEAN At first as W., mn , s,,cr a man
ny ana bore issued from such circumstance n
reecct,ng. we discern that those an''c'ue',S ,o1
70, accidental but Proyidcnt'l' ana 'na' .ie
who intended the result furnished e,lg 80 no their
e.,,r,,,e from the lons OF the people 10 D' '''
,.,dsr and commander. he was one by "no"n
enau always mean more 10 be an Afne'I''' ,,,'-