The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-14
TRIBUTES PAID ID
 THOMAS JEFFERSON
Hoar Says He Had Abiding
 Faith in Justice
MEMORIAL ASSN BANQUET
Among the Speakers Were Senator Hoar, Gov. Montague chas. Emory Smith and w. J. Bryan-Din-
 ner Was Non-Partisan.


 Washington, April 1S.-Senator Hoar and Governor Montague of Virginia, former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith of Philadelphia and w. J. Bryan were the principal speakers at a dinner given at the Hotel Barton tonight under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Mem erial association, in celebration of the 16Oth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Nelson Page was toastmaster. The dinner was not of political character. Senator Hoar respond ed to the toast, The Author of the De- claration of Independence" He spoke In part as follows:
 If we want a sure proof of Thomas Jefferson's greatness, 1t will be found Tn that fact that men of every variety Of political opinion, however far asunder, find confirmation of their doctrines in him, Every party in this country today reckons Jefferson as It's patron saint. In the late war which rent the country about the Philippine islands, one side quoted what Mir Jefferson said in the Declartion of Independence, and the other what they thought he did in the acquisition of Louisiana.
 ''The supporters of a protective tariff claim him as the highest protectionist in our history. The free trader maintains that the spirit of everything he said and everything he did taught the doctrine of unlimited freedom in all human conduct, except so far as may be needful Tor the restraint of actual crime
 Had Abiding Faith.
 Speaking of Jefferson's confidence In the success of the right principles, AIT. Hoar said:
 More than any other statesman down to his tine-more than any other states man I can think of, save Lincoln alone he had a steadfast and abiding faith in justice, righteousness and liberty as the prevailing and abiding forces in the con- duct of states, and that justice and right eousness were sure to prevail where any people bear rule in perfect liberty. Upon this doctrine as on a cornerstone, he laid the foundation of the republic"
 Charles Emory Smith responded to 'The Louisiana Purcheses speaking in part as follows
 '"The purchase of the Louisiana terri tory was by common consent the supreme act of Thomas Jefferson's administration as President. There are three master facts upon which his enduring fame chiefly rests First he was the author Of the Declaration of Independence. Sec ond, he was the founder and leader of party and school of thought which under various names has divided the na- tion from it's beginning to the present 4I ,tr1 ha da ffa I.outeiar1a chase.
 "The honor which belongs to no person Is greater than that of simply having been the President under whom the pur- chase was made. He was the father or the vital policy which brought that splen- did continuation. The crucial necessity which led up to the Louisiana acquisition was the free navigation or the Missis- sippi.
 Tt has often been urged that in this great acquisition-the most important act in all our history between the adoption of the constitution and the civil war Jefferson was inconsistent with his principles and professions. In a great pub lie emergency he departed from his gen. eral theory of interpretation, and in do- ing it he did transcendent act of states manship and achieved an incalculable ad- vantage for the republic"
 Bryan the Last Speaker.
 MT. Bryan. who was the last speaker on the programme, addressed himself to "The Statute of Religious Freedom"
 He concluded as follows:
 ITO Jefferson the doctrine of free speech and freedom of opinion applied to everything because he rightly understood that no censorship of opinion could be permitted that would not be more danger ous to truth than to error. Jefferson rec ognized that the Christian religion rested upon love and that love is the very an- tithesis of violence and of brute force It is well to remember that the Declaration of Independence itself rests upon the same foundation which supports our re- ligion-namely, love-and those who deny the doctrine of human brotherhood are not apt to respect the creed of inalienab1e rights and natural equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States.
 "Jefferson was the greatest statesman known to history He believed in the rights of the people and had a heart large enough to take in all human kind. He hated tyranny whether 1t manifested itself in religious or secular affairs and applied his doctrine to all questions"
 The other speakers were Andrew A. Lipscomb, ''The Thomas Jefferson Me- moriaI Associations" President Henry Needham of Columbia university "Jeffer- son as a Promoter of General Educa- tion;' the Rev. J. Stafford, Jefferson as Citizen of the Commonwealth of vir- ginia."
 Press Club Celebrates.
 Albany, N. r., April 13.-One hundred