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HON FhANh MAJ NfE's W0RD
PAINTING 0F ,THh GREAT
FIGURE aF tHisT0RK,
OTHER SHINING FARTY LiGnTs
Deliver Intereating After-ninner
sDess hes--A Successful AFFAIR
"a Was,

"F'f N'Hiff5 ~ lHe iIRl hlhlH ~ me
Union 10 make b'eh, IL, the birthday
Of Abraham Lincoln, the martYred
president, legal holiday met last
hlshi la The spacious dining room Of
lhe Hyan hotel, ana with number
81 the members az the present iegis-
lalure ana other good Republicans
dld homage to the man OF the people
who rose from the position Of an oh
scure country boy 90 The honor OF he
lng the president Of the people
Seated az the banquet tables We're
| perhaps 200 men, including business
men ialirHad men, nhyscians, lawyers,
newspaper men, bankers, Legislators,
state eeuniE and city officials and poll
ilriahs The room was tastefullY
adorned with old Glory aud about the
walls We're pictures Of Lincoln, Wash
| inston, sherman, Sheridan, Grant and
| Mckinley, while Ranking The table at
| which sal the speakers Of the evening
| was mass Of ported plants. The tables
| We're decorated win cut flowers OF
| various sorts,
iien Moses ii. Ilapp was tnastmas-
| Ter or the evening ana sat at the center
| az The long table facing the rest Of
| the hanaueters, tAhaut him were Lieut.
| GOV. Gibbs, Hon4 J. a. Jones, Or a. j.
stone, Mayor i1Afan, llli Warner, Har-
| rs richardson ] 30. Adams, Hon.
Frank M Nye and william Henry
| tiustis, AinneaR0isi Condo Hamlin,
Darius +. Reese and Senators Stevens,
Gulkin, Spencer and Sheehan.
thoroughly substantial menu was
| discussed during The courses Of which
kieists orchestral disooursed music.
When the cigars and coffee had been
reached Gen. CfApp, the toaslmaster.
| called FIRST on Mayor Prank t. Doran,
| who spoke 90 the toast THE Twin
| Cities" Mr.. Doran felt that il was an
| honor 10 be The chief executive Of a
CITY which could mtlster such large
and representative lot nf Republicans,
| ana said mndestlg that he felt unequal
| to the task Of appropriately responding
| 90 the toast. He welcomed those in his
| hearing, who did not belong here, to
| ~ Faui ana begged that the audience
excuse him from an extended speech
when there We're 80 many more ela-
luent gentlemen 10 follow him.
Hon Frank N. Nye, ia whom the
| TOAST ot The evening, "Linnnln," was
dgals4IEu was introduced ny ten.
| tlapp as having received his inspira-
| ION from hayhoad recollection Ut
| Lincoln, IN the very shades or his pa
| lfiatsm. Mn Nye acknowledged very
| gracefully The haapr e0nfeired' u1lbuli.
him by the presentation Of the princi-
| pal Toast which was one sacred ana
Inspiring. lie said, Ia part: You ask
me- IN giving me this toast, 10 speak
| on the great, The good The true. and
| | must fain acknowledge | approach
| he subject with much dilfd6nce, far
| he who would succeed in handling a
| subject like this must, In a measure,
| approach the spirit Ut Abraham Lin
coin, VINO was ana SIN 10 the greateat
man Ia American history. II Is
The silent and invisible things and nol
noisy actions, which cGntral the hesl
acti0ns nf men. This Is as true Of society
as II Is in the world ar nature. We note
the hahhie, the strife the ain If battle
and say u Is wonderful exhihitinn Of
power. SO II u.s. bat II is only the final
expenditure If power. In the homes Of
the weeping wives and aisters and sob
hing children there Is found the foun-
tain of power and the source af a ma
TONS might. it was this most power
ful element Ia the makeup Of the
man whom We have met 90 honor that
we most admire, Washington came ia
us from the aristoeracy, but he came
80 us clean We rather regard him as
a steel engraying Washington could
not tell a lie Lincoln could tell a lie
but wouldn't. His life and teachings
mark an ezra In The political world al
most as marked as amy Ia The religious
world The true lest Of his greatness
is that his star viii Increase Ia hriliancy
as time goes on aud his saying will
never he forgotten: The government
Of the people, for the people and by the
people shall not perish from the
earth.
Lieut.. GOV John l.. Gibbs said he
was inclined to take advantage Of the
occasion to do what he never was al
lowed Ga 90 la the senate, of which he
Is the presiding Oiticer-taik. He had
many good men la the senate, some of
them lawyers, some of them neWapa
per men That reminded him that once
he made "A speech during a campaign.
newspaper man also made speech.
The paper on the day following con
tanned The other speech generously
punetuated with the ward in brackets
"applause and al the foot was The
Brief note "Mr. Gibbs also spoke"
Mr. Gibbs spoke briefly about I.incnln,
and expressed the view that the peo-
ple's choice from "the West had ahil
ty honesty and iirmness, which, after
all constituted real greatness.
Speaker Jones, or the house 0r rep
resentatiVes, made hit. Rising to
his feet he remark al lacpnicaiiy; "Mr.
Jones also spoke" He iniimated that
with the usual nerVesrsity the toast
master had given him a toast, 1.-THE
Legislature" IA subject about which he
knew little tie ran the gamut ~ toasts
and delivered humorous quipa 20 most
Of his friends on the card tie spoke
OF the awe ia which Legislators are held,
but decided that the little Girls view
that "they were only men" hit the
thing of properly ana was what they
should he,
William Henry Huetis followed up
facetinus introduction at the hands Of
Gen Clapp Withian interesting talk on
Lincoln, intending nthe original and
subsequent estimate Of the man ny
Hon. phurioW Weed, made before and
after Linealns nomination. MI hustis
is one ~ tbe best aatemnore speakers
in Minneapolis, and made a rafting
talk in which Ihe wished 10 eXnresa
his participation inl Joy 81, Paul felt
at having ia her City The capital Of
the great North star slate,
Hon. IL II Stevens made one Of the
most eloquent AddrHsses on the card
Said he; THE tQaat Given calls for
the highest einanenGf, ftier0es ar an
Minnesota was ithe iiTst State 90 aend
her men 90 the lfr0nt, Her Legislature
was also the first 80 make a LEGAL Holt
day OF the dag when was born the
great enmmnner iinenln Is what
Moses was, until Lincoln came Not
land where there 10 oppression, his
name Is a beacon light on the pedestal
OF humanity, lie was a man az the
common people, a hero, man Wha rose
"a an emergency tie fnrpelully COM
paTed the great torrent al the lloIum-