New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-28
PRESIDENT AT CHURCH.
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sighted tireless Intelligent dlsinterested work
that has been done by all who are responsible
for this exposition. and more than by ali others'
by you, President Francis. (CheeTs and ap-
plaUse long Continued)
The country is under a great debt Of oblga-
ton to you and your associates and am glad
of this opportunity to express, however imper-
fectly. my sense of this obligation. tApplause).
1t is n peculiar pleasure to me to como mere
to see this great exposition, because OF what the
exposition was. / have always been greatly in
terested in Missouri. and during the last three
weeks / have grown to think of il, If possible,
even more highly than before. tApplause).
number of years ago | made a particular study
of one of the great men whom in time past MIS-
souri, has presented to the service OF the natlo!-
of old Tom" Benton. (Applause). L have al
ways felt that not only |, but every man VINO
had the welfare of the nation deep at heart,
could find very much by which to profit in the
career of Benton and his fellows of the Jack
sonian Democracy of that day. 1t is a curious
thing, gentlemen, how, as time goes by, we are
able to see in the men and in the parties of the
past features of the utmost usefulness 10 the
country even though al the time those men or
those parties seemed antagoniStic; and wish 20
say that any good American of the present can
find an incalculable amount from which to learn
and by which 10 profit in the principles ana the
practices alike of the Wings who followed the
lead of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, and OF those
whom they regarded then as the chief foes OF
those very Whgs-the Democrats who followed
the lead of Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. ana
Of Tom Benton. of Missouri and of Sam Hous-
ton, OF Texas-and perhaps the chief lesson to
be learned from the lives of all those men is the
lesson of broad Americanism--an Americanism
that should teach every man that he is no true
American unless tho welfare of each of his coun-
trymen is dear to him, and that without the
slightest regard 10 where that countryman
lives. fAppause)
Gentlemen. | reading the other day
speech made by Abraham Lincoln a couple of
days after he was reelected 20 the Presidency,
and cannot quote ii fully. but 1t ran somewhat
like this:
AS long as have been in this office have
never willingly planted thorn in any mans
bosom. (Applause). am gratifed greatly that
my countrymen Il am quoting from Lincoln)
have seen At to continue me in office, but il
does not add TO my satisfaction that any one
else is panied by the result
Those were the words CT Lincoln in 1864, and
| feel that any man who even tries to be fit TO
be President OF the United States should ap-
proaCh his duties in that spirit (applause); that
any man worthy of serving the people not mere
ly in that position but in any position of weight
in public life should have that sense Of citation
that anything personal in his triumph does not
lessen the sense OF infinite responsibility there
by cast upon him and the weight of duty he
owes to all his fellow citizens and he should
realize that. whatever the differences among our
people before election the election has
taken place the President Is the President of
section industrially, of all the people of the
North South. East West. and that he is
bound, again to quote the language of Abraham
Lincoln, with malice toward none. with charity
toward all. seeking after the light as God has
given him to see the light. to strive so to con-
duet himself toward all of them, and toward
his manifold duties as those duties arise then
the results of his efforts may be for the good
Of our common country" CHEERS and applauSe)