The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-01
A Large Crowd Greeted Hon.
A. J. w. Ham Last Night.
A GIFTED SON OF GEORGIA
LECTURED on THE TIME-SERy-
Err AND pLACE-HUNTER.
TIE ALUMNI BANQUET YESTERDAY
The Commencement Exercises viii Take Place
this Morning. Reception by the FacuI-
y To-Night--The Business
Meeting Yesterday.

~ Tonight The Business
Meeting Yesterday.
Yesterday morning the Alumni Assoc
citation of the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College met in business session and
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year:
President-C r. Williams.
Vice President Sidney Kennedy.
Secretary and Treasurer-H Hugh Prim-
rose.
Orators. Il. Asbury.
Toast Master-C. W. Gold.
Chairman Elk. Com.-Chas Pearson.
Banquet Committee-D. Cox and Hugh
Primrose.
At the college, the chapel was crowded
With friends of the institution, and the
annual alumni address was delivered by
DR. Thomas Martin Ashe, of this city.
1t was a fine Grafton and won much
praise The following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That Il vote of thanks be
rendered the Manufacturers Record. the
News and Observer and the Morning
Post for their courtesy and valuable as
sistance in publishing matter relative to a
textile school at our college"
Resolved That Il vote of thanks be
rendered the Raleigh Chamber of Com
merce and the Watauga Club for their
kindly interest and valuable assistance
towards securing textile school at our
college' .-GEy
THE.BANQUET.
After the address the Alumni gathered
about the banquet board and enjoyed
pleasant hours of social intercourse The
toasts of the banquet were as follows:
Toast Master G. ID. Francks
The class of 90, H. E. Bonitz
The class of "a, r. ID. Patterson.
The class of 90. David Clark.
The class of 90. a. s. Traps
The class of 81, b. j. Wooten.
The class of '9S, Il. c. Lamb.
The Farmer Boy. Ii. H. Oliver.
The First Boy, c. r. Payne
Textile School, G. b. Williams
Our Wives, Present and Future, I'll.
E. Bonitz
State Aid, G. W. Gold
The Future Millionaire Alumnus, G.
b. Williams.
The Bachelors. c. NJ. Pritchett.
The Ladies, John Howard.
ADDRESS TO GRADUATES.
Hon. II. j. W. Ham, the Georgia hui
morist and statesman, delivered his fa
nous lecture on the thine Server and
Place Hunter before the graduatingI
class of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college last night The hall was filled
TO overlooking with the friends of thel
college. As the speaker put it. "all the
young ladies were there and the young
men viii be whore they are, and the
old ladies, too, all handsome and who
help to end our sorrow" Mr.. Ham
dwelt on the discovery Of this continent
by Columbus, and said he believed that
this government was ordained as AMI
asylum for the downtrodden and OPP
pressed of the earth, LAND of the free
and home of the brave, a country Of the
people by the people, and for the people,
one that will never perish. He did not
come before the people as the apostle Of
any creed or political party but he had a
message of warning, free from section
alism, appealing to every lover of liber
ty TO hold up to scorn the time server
and place hunter" Mr. Ham said that
North Carolinians were so modest that
only nine men ont of every ten aspired
to public office, while in other states ten
men out of every ten are longing for 4
slice of Uncle Sans pie. Such modesty
as that displayed by the Tar Heels.
coupled with merit generally gets what
il goes after "Christened Eli.
The speaker paid glowing tribute
to Thomas jefferson, one Of the found
ers of the republic He also stated a
matter of history that the phrase "A
government Of the people, by the peo-
MI md fo,. In - N o0InaH
by Lincoln rs many now think, but was
spoken forty years before by Theodore
Hook, an obscure Kentucky lawyer.
Mr.. Ham described the mouth as fol
lows: The front door Of your operative,
red lane to internal toothache, the dudes
chief attraction. young girls peaches and
cream, baby's growing glory, the
chronic office seekers tool chest for pie,
the tobacco seller and baToom keepers
pride. If it were not for the mouth the
cornet, soloists and chorus girls would
go down III obscurity, there would be no
glad greetings or sad bood-bye's, the
hired men would not be called for din
ner the breath that would fill d ten
acre field and kill a hog would never be
smelled again, and the sharp shrill voice
would never cry ont again; where did
you get that hatE'
Mr. Ham advised the graduating class
TO enter politics, not 10 seek office, but
to see that honest and capable men
were put in the responsible places OF
the nation The speaker closed with a
glowing and brilliant tribute to mother
home and the bible, which he says is the
foundation Of hove, liberty and the base
Of all law and society.
The universal opinion of al those who
heard the distinguished Georgian, was
that his lecture was one of theN ablest
wiltiest and most entertaining that has
ever been delivered in Raleigh. The vast
audience SAT spellbound under the elo-
qnence, pathos, humor and beautiful
blights Of 0ratory for an hour and three
quarters, and every one present earnest
ly wished that the gifted speaker had
gone on for an hour or SO longer.
RECEPTION TONIGHT
The exercises attendant on such occa~