The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-13
ending with three hurrahs that shook

1 the building.
 The governors remarks were perhaps
 the briefest of any of the evening, but
 were straight to the point His flrst
 words were in explanation of his action
 in choosing the dinner at which he was
 presiding to the one given on the even
 ing of February 2 by the Republican
 league, to which he was also invited as
 the guest of honor. A number of league
 members were present, and his expla-
 nation was received with applause, in
 which many of them joined. His ex- planation was this:
 'Mr. President and Gentlemen-I have
 always heard that William Shakespeare
 somewhere wrote that comparisons are
 odious,' but have never looked through the books to see whether this quotation
 has been correctly made. They are
 words that are always wise, and might
 we'll have been written three hundred
 years ago in Stratford- d-on-Avon. But
 whether Shakespeare wrote them or not,
 he certainly would have written them
 had he lived three hundred years later
 in New Haven Sound. And if he had been wise enough to have been born in New Haven in the nineteenth
 century instead of in Stratford in the | sixteenth, he himself might have read i Shakespeare as written by Lord Bacon,
 and still found material enough for oth-
 CT famous plays, to be called The Con-
 edy of Errors and Much Ado About l Nothing But I use this last word in
 the significance which it will have after
 a brief explanation.
 Some three weeks ago a gentleman called upon me and gave me an invita- | ton to attend an annual dinner which New Haven republicans were to give on the evening of February 2. did not 1 then note the words that defined the | organization which was to give this en- tertainment, for my whole mind was on the second fact of the date, which was set at a time when I knew I should be sorely pressed by business cares and by social engagements already made. "A few days thereafter I received a letter from gentleman who in his off, cial capacity, as I supposed, represented
 the general republican organization of this town, or city In this letter I was invited to become one of your guests at this dinner here tonight but did not realize that this was to be the annual dinner of any organization-I supposed that it was to be a special banquet given by New Haven republicans, and, in sense, by all New Haven republi- cans, in honor of the memory of Abra- ham Lincoln. In making my decision to come with you tonight did not mean to choose, and I did not know that was choosing, between any separate and well defined organizations of this city"
 Following his explanation, which he delivered in manner convincing as be- Ing his true motive in acting as he did, GoVernor Lounsbury, although invited to answer to the toast "The State of Connecticut" was so carried away with the patriotism of the scene that in it's stead he delivered a glowing euloey to the memory of Honest Old Abe" Only hampered by his delivery, he spoke with much feeling upon the great work &C., complished by Lincoln, and in closing spoke as follows:
 Abraham Lincoln was grandly a suc- cessful man because he believed in him. self and in his mission: because he be- lieved in the people, and because he had the patience of his faith We must not say that he died too soon for he lived to see the fullness of his triumph. For four long, weary years, amid the 1eers of his enemies and sometimes the doubts of his friends, he carried the burden of his work No word of impa- tience passed his lips, and so he was not condemned from some mountaintop to view a land which he must not enter. He saw his decree of liberty confirmed by the written law of the nation. He heard the hosannas of a race as under his own flag he rode through the streets of Richmond.
 "A generation has passed since Lin- coin died, and still We shudder at the deep damnation of his taking off It is hard to realize that what was tragedy and tears to us was rest and peace to him. We cannot know tonight how much this celebration may mean to him in that far-off land of which we know so little and in which we hope so much But this we do know, that the memory of Lincoln remains forever to inspire the citizen, and to exalt the state"
 Followin g him Mayor Farnswo1th tim ing himself to his fair allowance, spoke in very happy vein upon the city. with the great contrast between New Haven to-day and the New Haven of the early times of the whipping post, which Judge Baldwin Is trying to re- vive again, and expressed himself as much preferring New Haven of the i present time. The many members of | the club who have performed creditable ! work in the public service then receiv- ed mention from him, as denotng the { kind of men the Young Mems Repub- | lican club was composed of
 Toastmaster Gaffey then introduced the Rev. Dr. Levi c. Gilbert to reply to the toast Abraham Lincoln" Rev Dr. Gilbert modestly said that he could hardly find words to speak of Lincoln after Governor Lounsbury's spirited eu- logy of the dead president; but there was so much to be said of the good man that all present might say something without exhaustng the subject. Going on Rev. Dr. Gilbert spoke in an eloquent manner, which held his audience breathless, right to the end of his eulo- >>O1m>sss>~ss~zN ss<u 0AI = ll {