New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-02-13
In LINCOLN'S MEMORY.
REPUBLICAN CLUBS DINNER
AT THE WALDORF.
SPEECHES BY SENATOR HANNA. SENA-
TOR DEPEW. JUDGE BALDWIN. OBJ
NEBRASKA; WHITELAW REID
AND OTHERS.
AND OTHERS.

The Republican party of this city and OF this
Nation was well represented last night at
the Lincoln dinner of the Republican Club.
which held at the Waldorf-Astorta. Sem
ators. jurists. editors. leaders in commerce. and
in manufacture from the Empire State. from
New England and from the Far West. joined
IN euogizing the and in listening to loving
| "reminiscences Of the rail splitter, the emanci-
pator. the martyr Abraham Lincoln II was
the ninety-second anniversary Of his birth, and
the fifteenth time that the Republican Club
has so honored his memory.
Fully five hundred persons attended the din
Not few Of these were women. Dinner
was served for them in the Astor Gallery and
afterward they occupied the two balconies OF
the big ballroom where the men dined. and from
there they listened to the after-dinner oratory
and We're not slow in bestowtng the favors OF
their applause by handclappng and the waving
of handkerchefs.
The rooms were Iavishy decorated with Amer
lean flags. and flowers Of many kinds decked tho
| tables. The souvenir represented scenes in the
early life of Lincoln Several times the diners
rose to their feet the band played National
airs and Joined heartily in the chorus.
GENERAL. TREMaIN PREsIDEs.
General Henry F. Tremain. the newly elected
president Of the club. presided. and introduced
| the speakers At the guests table with him sat
John ". Baldwin. of Omaha. Neb.. who delivered
the address upon Abraham Lincoln: Senator
Marcus A. Hanna. who came on from Washing-
ton, although suffering much from rheumatism.
and made brief remarks upOn The Business
Man in Politics.; Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew.
Whiteaw Reid who responded TO the toast
"Our New Possessions; Senator-elect Joseph
r. Burton Of Kansas. who expected to-
| make speech upon "The Republican Party"
| but was too i'll 10 do more than say a few words:
Hugh Gordon Miller of Norfolk. Va. who spoks
for The New South: John w. Griggs. Attor-
ney-CieneraI of the United States; Senator john
NJ Thurston. Senator Albert j. Beveridge. Corr
neus n. Bliss. Senator n. B. Scott. Judge Ed
ward T. Bartlett. Frederick S. Gibbs. Charles A.
Case. Robert c. Morris and the Rev DR. George
T. Purves. Governor OdeII was expected. but
at the last moment sent word that an attack OF
rheumatism would prevent him from attending
A letter of regret was received from Robert T..
Lincoln. OF President Lincoln. saying in.
part:
IL would be quite impossible for me 10 be press
ent, even if could divest myself Of the feeling.
| gatherings of this kind. They are very gratify-
| ing TO me in their evidence Of the esteem in
| which fathers life and character are held
| by his countrymen through all the lapse OF
years, but from the beginning of those commem-
orations Of his birthday it has seemed best to-
| me that my part in them should be limited 10
such inadequate expressions as 7 could make
by letter or message. of the pleasure which they
give
THE CHAIRMANS INTRODUCTORY.
II was late when General Tremain raped for
order. and made the following Introductory re-
marks:
The honor has fallen upon me to open the exer-
cises OF the evening-for Republican athletes al
tinsiished guesIS and the handsome Women Who
historic
sion No greater pleasure than 10 extend this vel
larger satisfaction could ever come TO the little
band of men who for twenty-five years have sought
% cultivate IN this Democratic metropolis 1ruit-
full hotbed of continuous and radical Republicans
Words cannot emphasizes our appreciation OF ths
fact that on these Lincoln anniversaries. whose
tabishng. the President by his Cabinet representa-
tives Governors Senators, Legislators of State and
Nation jurists editors. men Of commerce and OF
come tonight. from New,Engiand and the Pacific
sIona to ioin vtrb ms in Sounding tha I.incOIr
strains of patriotic harmony. Willing ears IN every
State listening for the music of your tones TO.
night. and will be encouraged by your words or
Nation always moves forward. not backward. The
party that looks only backward VIII fail 10 moves
But do not mistake me- am not here to msr
but the medium Of presenting to this 6GhHans da
sented TO address on this birthday Celebration
"REMINISCENCES OF LINCOLN.
A Young student OF moral philosophy once asked
dences which are the joys OF college life II sha
ness OF sins. Yes she answered. 1t IS prayer
mo" replied her fair questiOner, we must nrsc
nv offences this evening will first commit the sin
of saying further that would not; II could. trust
myself to the flood OF treasured memories that
rush upon of the Iamented President and loved
and hOnOred man.
Under widely varied circumstances Of sayety and
of sadness of dignity and OF relaxation as a boy.
4euen2a' 9s and eyes and fthery benignity my
Ie0fiO COuntPl1nCG
among men, Of a figure not Uncouth but gracefut
S6,In Ssom6 ' as n Was superb in it's serenity and
seIf-relance, OF a heart as true and sympatneuc
at the bedside OF the wounded, now relaxing amid
the gayeties Of the camp. or again, giving out m
spirit and often in quoted language tne evidences
a collegiate competitor: or. again, as the COM
mander-in-Chief, superoly Tidins (for ne was an
imposing horsemani along the lines or tne tens or
thousands whom he sadly sent TO the battle DEATH
All these and other "reminiscences gray me S 1T9n
yet they exalt him who, il not the founder was
the great expounder, as well as martyr OF thar
Republicanism which tonight we humbly re-
In that spirit let us. as Republicans. ask the
ers OF the evening will say the rest. 7 only press
the button
JUDGE BALDWIN ON LINCOLN
The toast Of abraham Lincoln was then
proposed and drunk in silence. the guests stand
ing General Tremain then introduced Judge
John ~ Baldwin. of Nebraska. Mr.. Baldwin is
a thfcxset man. with clean shaven face and a
far reaching voice His elOquence several times
caused his hearers to interrupt him with ap-
plause. He said:
From the praires of the Northwestern States.
swept by the bTeezes Of Republican, victory, salute
You. The work OF holding some states SJeadIaSt
returning to the fold those that had been lost and