The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17
ME|=C0NING At
END \. |! !. IN KENTUCKY I.
Celebration in Louisville Closed
Yesterday ADDRESS Made
BY Stevenson.
(By Associated Press. , 4

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LOUISVILLE KY. June 1s. = ;reater5
Kentucky Day, to-day brought the cere-
monies OF Home Coming Week to a.
close. Adlai Z. Stevenson, formerly yice.
President OF the United s tates, and Henry
,lNVatterson made the chief addresses
Several prominent KentuckIans, including
General s. b. Buckner and former Cow
ernor Preston Leslie. made j short
speeches. The remnants OF the cabin In
which abraham Lincoln was born have
stood all week In the Central Park, and
the addresses OF to-day were delivered
IN the shadow OF his boyhood's home and
sdwelt largely with the story of his life.
M ri Stevenson said: ssggi Wy II
Is a. kentncklan! born. I have Kept the faith 4
aysat your INVITA- tlon returned to bear some
~ r In the ceremonies OF this hour.
The ., management that Kentucky had set apart
was W out. and q glad welcome awaiting. toucr-s
Cd 2, The ilearts all the sons and daughters OF
the srn nd old Comnonw Il .i4:;
!, 9tnses grace. Ways In grace 6. once
NhereSsl on aIways
her children may have wandered, ali 4 ROAD
at some time, lead back to the old home !; u 1
the which cling tender
where sleep the ashes OF ancestral dca d So
!, me earnest desire TO meet and Smingle With
hardshlps and dangers Of frontier iifs \ whos,
t 70 and Wisdom made sure ana steadfast
spsndd
the Ohio at your cordial bidding. we are 10.
day IN our snncestral home. 8
yited luz IL without a pa rail, j. The i kindiya
words that have been spoken, the cordial grasp
assurass the arsest saseaaf ~ E 70
welcome -
/, /, am honored BY speak d,
al, Sdo.f
m x oe one Keniuckian BY birth.
n Its grandest sconception-an American sOe
Lincoln. no words can be uttered, nor with
imperlshable fame. His nap,e Is the common,
serase The people and all
spendid This upon our free
Is the sublime UNDERLYING prnc-
The youth OF noble aims every incdentHef a
tasn ehis, shs. from
station 8, to the most exalted yet attained by
T. no other country Than ours could such ats
hands NJ ma We're Injured to toll. whose bread was
eaten hard conditions thai poverty
.L1 whose only heritage was BRAIN In
nnsr lofty ambilona and 5indomtable pur-
e. Let y never be that the man
could know no temptations purity OF .iife thae
was meyer questioned patriotism that no sec
HHu n. nXeuneBs OF
turning it - -
the light OF what we know "a wei MI hinv
~ ma na ka IN saying hat. tho death Of no
l4sshs 20, 50 grsyous to be borneas that &c
The II men who new. Abraham Lincoln, Who saw
nlm fnee e To face have with few
upon upon the bnsy stage: The book Ia s. foitYsr
sosed upon the dread pageant fcivil strife.
sectional animositeg, thank God belong now 4
only to Re past The mantle q peace Is over
borders. - y '" s''''' W.
Through the instrumentallty. In no small
measure OF the man born upon your soIIsithe d
f EsSs5nmen en- les by
to us. The responsibility Of Its preservation
ena sttaamsmss6n rests upon the successive
81 a@speloG Us sacred the emory
by the sublime lessons OF his wondrous lie
ana grateful to God for all ne has youchsafed
70 our fathers and to us in the past, take
comra &c and 5turn our faces resolutely, hope.
tullys trustinglys to the future. ~ sft i
Visitors who came for the home coming
week departed to-day by thousands.