New-York tribune., 1903-02-09
IN LINC0LN'S MEMORY,
Vel Kno7cn Hen to Speak at Re
publican Club Dinner.
LOUIS STERN, President.


seventeenth annual Lincoln dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria on Thursday evening the dinner committee
headed by Charles H. Treat, has been at great
pains to get speakers for the occasion who have
won public attention by their powers Of oratory
There will be about five hundred at the dinner
We shall have the finest array of orators that
ever came together at a Lincoln dinner in TINS
city, Mr.. Treat said yesterday. I'VE have been
obliged to make the most persistent efforts TO
secure some of the speakers, going so far in some
cases to get them TO give Up other pressing en-
gagements nearer their homes There will be such
intellectual feast at the dinner that NOBODY
present fail to be delighted.
Louis Stern. president of the club, will be the
presiding officer the dinner. The Rev Wilton
Merle Smith has been invited to be q guest at the
dinner and ask blessing.
Ex-Governor Black is to deliver the oration on
Lincoln Speaking of the method to be followed by
Mr. Black in the oration Mr. Treat said:
Instead Of discussing Lincoln's life and career
from the standpoint of biography and its
effect upon the American people, the Ex-Governor
will branch out into broader lines and talk of Lin
coins influence upon the world-upon mankind
Lincoln has attained. in the ripeness of time,
d position alongside of Washington. where he
should not be treated of one people. His
great act as an emancipaor of millions and its re-
fex influence upon the Car of Russia, who eman-
cipated millions of his subjects. has brought his
name and work to the minds of all liberty loving
people, who cherish his memory and pay great
honor to his career.
bilities OF the world. His acts were an inspiration
to those who were despairing, and he set anew the
star of hope in the breasts of all downtrodden
people.
Mr. Black will be the first speaker at the dinner
Following him will be Chief Justice stafford. of
Vermont man who has attained the highest
honor for 4 lawyer in his State. although still
young man. Mr.. Treat says of him:
Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford is OF the
notable men OF Vermont At a little over forty
- he ho~ap Inst M he IL
prene Court of that State. Early in life he devel-
oped remarkable oratorical gifts. He has not been
known outside of his own State, and he will make
his first bow to the public large in NeWYork at
the Lincoln dinner of the Republican Club. He is
said to have an inspiring presence, we'll modu
lated voice of carrying quality and is altogether a
polished and fascinating speaker. His New Eng
land friends are taking great interest in his debut
before a New-York audience.
Judge Stafords topic will be Lincoln and
PhiIlips-a Contrast and Parallel Mr. Stafford
has always been great admirer of the statesman
he was named for. and highly honored in that
he spoke before him. when d young man, and re-
ceived hearty commendation and strong words OF
encoura cement to develop his oratorcal gifts
Wendell Phillips the great model as an
orator for college boys from the ffties to the sew
entes. but the trend OF events has been so mighty
that his attainments and career have been in
measure forgotten. Judge Stafford will bring out
in hearty shining contrast the great work that
was wrought by these moral giants
Chester l. Long the newly elected United states
Senator from Kansas, is to speak at the dinner on
Success Achieved in Administering Our Colonial
Possessions" He is noted for being the organizer
of the greatest political machine Kansas ever had,
ard he gained attention a Representative i'll
Congress by several fine speeches. His speech on
the Porto Rcan tariff bill SO pleased Pres
ident Mckinley that he described il as the finest
and ablest that mas been delivered on the
subject" This speech and one on th9 Cuban reel
procity question have been widely circulated The
Republican Congress Committee used million
copies Of them In the campaign.
Robert ". Taylor. Representative I'm Congress
from Mckinney old district in Ohio is to have the
toast Edwin NJ. Stanton, Lincon's War Secre
tary" Mr. Taylor has been a great admirer of
Stanton. His speeches in Congress against Nor
nonisn have attracted widespread attention His
forensic abilities have won for him high rePuta-
ton in the West
The address on The Republican Party viii be
delivered by +. W. Cushman. Congressman 1T
Large from the state of Washington. His
mand of eIoquence shown In his protest
against the methods of Speaker Henderson and the
Rules Committee of the House. His speeches are
often witty and sometimes sarcastic, and they have
attracted much attention in Congress