The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-13
IN VARIOUS CITIES
OF THE UNITED STATES CELE-
BRATE THE EVENT
NEW YORK AT THE ASTORIA
JUDGE BALDWIN, OF NEBRASKA
SENATOR HANNA AND OTHER
SPEAKERS
EVENTS IN OTHER CITIES
Postmaster General Smith the Orns
tor of the Event at East
Orange, New
Jersey.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-On the nine-
ty-second anniversary of the birth OF
Abraham Lincoln and in honor of his
memory the Republican club of the city
OIL New York gave a banquet at the Wal.
Goff-Astoria. Gen. Henry S Tremain.
the president of the club, presided. With
MIN were seated at the guest table Rob-
ert c. Morris, Rev. George T. Purvls,
George b. Sloan, Cornelius N Bliss
Whitelaw Reid Senator John M Thurs
ton, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, Joseph
r. Burton, Judge John n. Baldwin. SEN
ator Hanna, Attorney General John w.
Griggs, Senator N B. Scott. Senator Ed
ward T. Bartlett, Hugh Gordon Miller,
Frederick S. Gibbs and Charles A. Case
While the dinner was served in the
large ball room, another dinner was be-
ing served in the Astor gallery to about
seventy-five women, guests of members
of the club.
When the speechmakfng began, the
women filed into the lower tier of boxes.
All orchestra played patriotic airs during
the dinner
Senators Depew, Thurston and Hanna
were given an ovation on entering the
banquet hall. A letter of regret from
Robert E. Lincoln was read at the din
ner
Gen. Tremain opened the after dinner
speaking with a brief address, after
which the toast of Abraham Lincoln
was proposed and drunk the guests
standing. Gen. Tremain then introduced
Judge John N. Baldwin, of Nebraska,
who made the Grafton of the evening,
in response to the toast He was fire.
quently applauded.
POLITICS AND BUSINESS
Senator Hanna was introduced as the
next speaker. He received tremendous
ovation as he arose to respond to the
toast THE Business Man in Politics.
He said in part:
Politics is business. and very serious
business at that. AS for me- in the dis
charge of the duties to which of late L
have been called, l have noted with pride
and pleasure the ready res 3onse of the
business man to any appeal to him on
behalf of the needs of the country.
1--WE had a great example of that at
| the close Of the last campaign when
! those thousands of business men of the
| metropolis stood for principle. I am hero
TO thank you for what You did then
| Upon you must largely depend whether
the great principles for which Lincoln
| stood and for which we stand shall per-
! petuate the foundation of our government
| and it's policy.
''The Influence of the business man In
politics is more far-reaching than one
would at first imagine. We don't wish
to arraign class against class. The great
| mass of workingmen who are the en-
ployes of capital, and therefore the part
ners of capital, WELD a great influence
either for good or evil as they are made
to see things. It Is the duty of the bus
illness man of America to show that great
class-the most powerful because of it's
rumbers-that we do not discriminate
between classes, but that we have their
welfare at heart. Then we have no fear,
" hen it comes to an issue between Re-
publicanism and socialism
Senator Depew spoke informally.