The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-13

CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-THE fifteenth an
nual Lincoln day banquet Of the Mar
quette club was given tonight at the
Auditorium hotel, covers being laid for
500 guests. The banquet hall was hung
with pictures of Lincoln, Mckinley,
Dewey. schley and Sampson and the
various generals of the Civil war The
president of the club. Henry B. Wicker
sham, presided. After the president had
delivered his address the Hon. George
Adams spoke on Abraham Lincoln"
Congressman James T. McCleary, Of
Minnesota, responded to the sentiment.
THE Union Lincoln Loved" He said, in
part:
Through all the centuries the question
has been asked after youth and man
hood have passed, and disappointments
innumerable have darkened the skies, is
life worth the living?' Various and char
acteristic have the answers BEEN Two
Of them stand out as types. In far off
India, the answer was: Life may be
worth the living II at the end of the
struggle the weary one may find rest In
complete effacement by being merged
into Brahma.' That was the doctrine of
weakness and despair. On the shores CT
Galilee a different doctrine was taught,
that of the dignity and worth and re-
sponsibility Of each human soul, and its
endurance as a separate and distinct
entity throughout all the ages of eternity.
This is the doctrine of courage and hope.
There are those III this country who
a.. a.
were best to find peace and rest from the
struggle of life by the effacement of the
individual man, by merging him into the
government and assigning his work to 1t.
Over against this political Brahmanism
l put political Christianity, which cher
ishes the personal dignity of each indi-
| vidual, and recognizes his right to work
out his destiny In his own way, as best
| he may. 1t is worth emphasizing at thas
| time that our government was not or
dained and established to do his work.
but to perfect him while he is doing 1t
himself-not to guide or direct his en-
ergies even, but simply to hold open for
him the golden gate of opportunity"
PLEA FOR CENTRAL POWER.
Gov. Russell, of North Carolina, re-
sponded to the toast, 1.-The Progress OF
Republtcanism in the South" He said
in part:
1.-THE opposition to negro suffrage among
the whites in the slave belts of the South
is almost as strong and universal as dur
ing the institution of slavery The mere
presence of the negro, coupled with the
fact that the federal constitution guaran-
lit, III
any other citizen having the same condi-
tions. has been sufficient to keep the
whites soldly in one organization-which
they call the Democratic party Thou
sands of them are in their real sentiments
against the Democratic party, and these
thousands are the property owners and
the business men. The manufacturers.
the solvent merchants, the bankers, the
prosperous planters are mostly at war
with the platform of the Democratic
party, and in sympathy with every tenet
of the Republican party. If they resided
in the free states Estates that were not
slave holding) they would be outspoken
Republicans. Thousands of them who.
themselves, or whose fathers in the ante
bellum period were anxious to go to war
for states rights, for notification, for Sc
cession, are rounding up towards the ad-
vocacy of strong. central federal power
with armies and navies behind it. They
have abandoned secession. They have
abandoned chattel slavery. They have
abandoned state rights on every question
but the negro question, but as to this
they have defied the national government
by fragrant, persistent nulification of its
constitution and it's laws. And this nulli-
f1cation has been submitted TO to an ex-
tent that looks like condemnation, IL not
approval If your war amendments can
not be enforced. would 1t not be better
to repeal them? Yet these men will go
into the Democratic primaries and vote
this year for Bryan and pray for McKin-
ley-not only pray for his policy, but also
pray for his reelection.
"Our business men know that the pol
Icy Of protection was the result of Hepub-
lican success in 1885, and they want 1t
continued until this country shall take
command OF the markets of the world.
They believe in it. They believe In u
central government, strong enough to put
down insurrection, to preserve peace at
home, and command respect for our flag
wherever 1t may fly on land or sea. They
believe in the policy Of expansion--a pol
icy which shall give US wider markets
and larger opportunities. And so feeling
they must come to the Republican party.