The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
LINCOLN DAY
 IS OBSERVED Memorial Exercises in
 Chicago. MARQUETTE CLUB DINNER Senator McLaurin is One Of
 The Speakers. He Eulogises Lincoln as the Greatest Man America has Produced Since It Gained Its Independence. .. Other Addresses
MARQUETTE CLUB DINNER

Chicago, Feb. H.-Memorial exercises m honor of Abraham Lincoln were held here today on scale surprassing that of any nrevious local celebration of the anni- versary of hts birth
 Appropriate exercises were held in the schools, all the public buildings. save the postoffice, were closed and no business was transacted at any of the banks or on the Board of Trade or the Stock Ex- change. A large number of business houses also were closed during the after noon.
 In the evening there were a number of banquets. The largest of these affairs was held in the home of the Marquette Club, where at least several hundred members of the club gathered to listen to the addresses.
 Mir. Lafayette Young of Iowa. res bonded to the toast, Abraham Lincoln. :" He referred to the convention of 1S6o where, he said, the compromise of men made the platform and the providence of God the nomination. Lincoln, he said, was both statesman and general. Previ- ous to the war of the rebellion. he said, there was no spirit of nationality. The restoration of the Union of hearts and hands did not come until the blowing up of the Maine. Lincoln died before the pains and penalties of reconstruction, escaping the small bickerings following the war, even as he had escaped the small disputes leading to 1t.
 Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston spoke on our Flag in the. Tropics" His declsra- ton of what Is owed as duty to its new possessions by the United States was re- ceived with much approval. MT. Guild spoke in part as follows: f.
 We owe these new protected States and possessions the best possible treat ment. We owe it in honor to an inde- pcndeut Epba that iR exohsnEe; E tas- -S5ss icyaI geceptanee of her position as an armed sentinel at our gates that she shall not starve by utter exclusions from the benefits of our markets. We owe It to Porto Rico that she shall be brought in closer and closer relationship with our institutions. We owe it to the Philip pines that as they show themselves reader to maintain law and order, d greater and greater measure of self-gov- ernment shall be given to them"
 Senator McLaurin of South Carolina followed with an address on Lincoln and His Relations to the South His remarks were as follows:
 'T think I see the dawn Of another day when our country will be divided, not on sectional lines.' but In thought; when a man will act and vote not from the in- fuence of the mere locality. but in &C., cordance with the dictates of his con- science, judgment and the enlightened seIf-respect. This and this alone can make us one country. one nation. one people, thus realizing the hope of Wash ington, the ideal of Lincoln and the prophecy of Mckinley.
 What the people of the South now want Is a closer bond of brotherhood throughout our common country. In this they are notably seconded by the people of the North. The South needs the activity, the energy and the progress sive commercial and industrial ability of the North. The North needs the vast resources of the South. The two sections, working together can bring about an era of growth never yet attained in the his tory of our country.
 Meeting here tonight for the purpose of doing honor to the memory of the. greatest man this country has produced since 1t became an independent nation, we can take a lesson form the words uttered while the strife was on and in perfect unity and understanding so essential to our national growth. progress and pros- perity."
 Banouets were also held by the mem bers of the Lincoln Club. at which the chief sneakers were Governor Yates, ex- Tinted States Senator from Nebraska John W. Thurston, and Congressman Toss of Chicago.