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HITCHED ON TO ROOSEVELT.
ILLINOIS WAN PUTS HIS CAR ON
PRESIDENTS TRAIN.

Did II While the President Waa Having
Luncheon With Senator Hopkins at
Aurora. lIl.-NIayor Of Joliet Works
Little Game OH the President.
BLooMINoToN H., Juno 3.-When Presi-
dent Roosevelt's train reached Aurora,
the homo Of Senator Hopkins, to-day, there
was bit Of friction. While the President
was at luncheon at the Hopkins home.
a committee Of patriotic folks from Joliet
arrived in the private car Of John Lambert,
well-known in New York for his connection
with steel interests. Without consulting
any one on the Presidents train, Mr.. Lam
bert had his car hitched to it.
Nobody in Il, 900 miles had been allowed
to do that. Mr. Mellon and the other rail-
road presidents who have travelled with the
President Of the United States have never
suggested such thing. Mr.. FELTON,, the
president OF the Chicago and Alton, had not
thought Of doing it on his own account.
but Mr.. Lambert did not know any of these
things.
Back from Mr. Hopkins's came the Presi-
dent. Secretary Loeb and Assistant Sec
rotary Barnes. In about two seconds after
their arrival Mr.. Loeb sent Mr.. Barnes to
ask Mr.. Mccoy. the Pennsylvania agent.
who attends to the railroad matters of the
trip, how that car got there.
The answer was that the railroad people
put it on. The railroad people took it
of. Mr.. Loeb then invited most OF the
people who had been passengers on the
car to ride over to Joliet as guests Of the
President But no twenty minute ride
could cool of the burning breasts Of the
Mayor Of Joliet and other of Mr.. Lambert's
friends.
They went up and down the Presidents
train, talking to one another in the veft-
bules and occasionally exploding with
language.
AT one OF his stops to-day-at Dwight, the
home Of great -intoxcant cure" enter
prse--the Preeiden spoke most appro-
prately in ranstorm that was falling in
torrents.
He listened to a Democratic Mayor who
formally pledged his support to the Roose-
welt movement in the next campaign. After
his speech the Mayor handed up button
on q flexible wire and said:
Mr.. President, please press that The
President did 80.
snow, Mr. rresi dent said the Mayor.
"You have opened our great sanitarium
and hotel over there. ~ that spark the
doors were opened and the fires were light
ed, and smoke will soon pour from the
chirnneys."
The President couldn't very well rebuke
the hospitable converted Democratic Mayor
for using him in the starting Of private
enterprise, but he Is said to have expressed
qualification afterward that that busy
spark had not also started a bartender
to mixing drinks
Uncle Joe" Cannon. the Speaker Of the
next house, Senator Hopkins and number
Of other statesmen. have travelled with the
President to-day. A drive in the rain,
Bloomington programme tonight.
At Freeport this morning the President
participated in the dedication Of the Lincoln-
Douglas Memorial. He said
Congressman Pitt, and you, my fellow
countrylnen meet to-day to commence
memorable scenes in accordance with
which the whole future history Of nations
Is moulded. Here were spoken the winged
words that few through immortal time
and that will fly through that portion Of
eternity, recorded by, the history Of our
struggle which, after convulsing the nation.
made il, in fact, what it had only been in
name, at once united and free.
1t is eminently fitting that this monu-
commemoration OF the great debate that
here took place, should be dedicat ted by men
whose deeds made good the words OF Abra-
ham Lincoln-the soldiers Of the civil war
Cheers and applause.l
THE word was mighty. Had il not been
for the word the deeds could not have taken
place. But without the deeds the word
would have been the idlest breath. II Ia
forever to the honor of our nation that We
brought forth the statesman who. with far
sighted vision, could pierce the clouds that
ohscured the sight Of the keenest Of his fell
lows. could see what the future inevitably
held. And, moreover, that we had back of
the statesman and behind him the men to
whom IL was given to fight in the greatest
war ever waged for the good Of mankind.
for the betterinent Of the world.
y have literally hut a moment here, but
] could not resist the chpnce that was Of
fered me to stop and dedicate this mcnu-
Ment, for grest though We now regard
Abraham Lincoln, my countrymen, the
naoe a pmt him. aVen
'Tn all history do not believe that thenn
ia to he found an orator whoee speeches
will last as nnduringly as certain speeches
of Lincoln's. and In all history, with the sole
public. do not think will BIZ found another
statesman at once 40 great and 40 single
y. artcd in his devotion to the welfare Of his
people. We cannot too highly honor him.
And the highest way in which we can
honor him is 70 see that our homage is not
we join loyalty Of the heart, and that We
pay honor to the memory Of Abraham
Lincoln by 80 conducting ourselves. by so
carrying ourselves as citizens of this re-
public that we shall hand down undiminished
to our children and our chidren's children
the heritage we received from the men
who upheld the statesmanship of Lincoln
In the council, who made good the scholarship
OF Grant in the field" lCheers and applause]