The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-13
Bryan At COLUMBUS
SPOKE AT THE JEFFERsON-JACK-
sON-LINCoLN LEAGUES
DOLLAR DINNER
CROWD ENTHUsED OVER HIM
A DEMONSTRATION SUGGESTIVE OF
THOSE OF LAST FALL WAS
WITNESSED
WARM PRAISE FOR JEFFERSON
Was horn Among the AristOcracy,
but Was the Champion of the
Common PeOpIe-Other
Speakers.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 12.-The ninety
second anniversary of the birth of Abra-
ham Lincoln was celebrated here tonight
by the Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln
league, with a dollar dinner at the Column
bus auditorium. There were fully fifteen
hundred people seated al the tables which
and 1000 more were seated in the galler-
les which had been thrown open to spec
tators. Many ladies were noticed among
those at the tables. The bill of fare was
nct elaborate. There were no cigars and
no beverages stronger than coffee. It was
Z O'Clock before the banquet began, and
considerably after before the speaking
started. The feature of the evening was
the demonstration in honor Of Mr.. Bryan.
He was received with loud applause when
he entered the hall, but the crowd fairly
went wild when MI Bryan was introduc-
ed to speak. Men climbed upon chairs
and cheered again and again, and it was
some minutes before the demonstra ton
subsidized.
Congressman John ]. Lentz, as toast
master, introduced Mr.. Bryan, ''the last
time said Mr.. Lentz, 81 had the pleas
Ire of introducing Mr. Bryan to you, ]
introduced him as the next president
of the United States. 1 again Introduce
him to you as / did then. Following is
an abstract of Mr.. Bryan's speech:
Never has this nation been more IN
!ieeu t1e'1lS laSn II Is To-Day or an earnest and
eiJh iI oo5n !eN-NaI eI JeHefSohlan prln-
c1ples, While other statesmen, appearing
at different crises and meeting the re-
sponsibilfties of their respective times
nave nave Haae partlal application of Demo-
cratic principles
Jefferson is the only one who formulated
, Dennocfatlc code applicable to all times,
al situations and all people. Though the
S5 champion OF the common people, he was
porn among the aristocrats and was as
lIltlInateIy acquainted with the membGSs
OF the mousse OF have, as those VINO
Struggled to meet by daily work their
od1Iy wants.
he was called a defnaSogue by his en-
enleS and yet he exhibited a neral cOur-
age Which none Of his detractors have
ever possessed, and in behalf of a. right
eous principle he would oppose the world
Two years before he wrote the declara-
ton of independence he prepared a sum
mary view Of the rights of British Ameri-
authority which England claimed-that
was not the work of a denlagogue.
lie ATTACKED the laws of primogenfture
and entail, and saved America from d
landed arfstocracy-that was not the
work Of demagogue. He condemned
slavery when the system was popular in
ms state and in the nation. and he Gid
emancipation crowned Lincoln with mar
tyrtiom and immortaIity-that was not
the; work OF demagogue. He organ
lied the Democratic party, and bv the
strength OF his leadership overthrow an
opposition intrenched in part and bulwark
by the business and social forces So
successful was his administration that
his reelection was practicallv iInanirons
and for years the executive chair was was
filed by men unto whom he had been a
GamaIiel. q
At this time when corporate !lonopolv
is fast extinguishing industrial independ-
ence, we need revival of the Jnffer-
sonfan spirit which demands a govern