Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-13
NAMESAEE HONORS LINCOLN
Young Mems Republican Club Of Capital
City Celebrates with Banquet
MISSOURI CONTRIBUTES ONE OF ORATORS
Secretary of state SwanEer Of That
Commonwealth and Attorney GEN
eral Brown of Nebraska Tell
of Party Achievements.
tFrom a stan Correspondent.

of Party AchieNcments
From a Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 12-(Special Tele-
gram. 1.-The anniversary of the birth OF
Lincoln was appropriately observed here to-
night at the seventeenth annual banquet
of the Young Mems Republican club. The
banquet was held in the dining room of
the Lindell hotel, which was decorated with
flags and flowers and pictures OF the
martyred presdents-Lincoln. Garfield and
McKinley-togethcr with picture of Presi-
dent Roosevelt Covers were laid Cor 200.
The speakers were Secretary of State
John f. Swanger of Missouri, and Attorney
General Brown, the former talking on
The Republican Party of the West and
the latter on Lincoln and His Party.
Both speakers were eloquent and were
enthusiastically received and their speeches
were frequently interrupted by applause
President Walter Anderson of the club
presided and introduced the speakers
Mr.. Swanger arrived in the city at
o'clock. He was met at Falls City by
Councilman FramDton and \. r. Talbot
He had been scheduled to arrive at noon
but owing to missing connections at St
Joseph he was delayed several hours.
Svnnger on western RepublIca nisnI.
In beginning his speech Mr. swanger,
who was the first speaker, thanked the
club for the invitation extended to him
and said:
The generous welcome you have ac-
corded me is not presumed to be a personal
one, but is understood to be an eNpressio,.
OF 6rotheriy greeting to the m Y2SO Yn a rePaon pa
loyal devotion to the principles of our
party at last coaxed the mysterious
CIV xnsifI Arl.
Mississippi and Texas and join that family
of states which is marching to the drum
beat Of progress, prosperity. and power
American politics, Theodore Roosevelt
Then followed description of the trials
of the republican party of Missouri TO get
the state into the party of progress and
description of the time when the victory
seemed won, and then Nebraska turned
loose that Nebraska cyclone. flying in its
wake crown of thorns and a cross of gold
with free and unlimited coinage of words
at the ratio of 16 to ! more than we had
ever heard before" When the storm was
over. said the speaker the Missouri repub-
licans were scared back into the brush.
Four years later Nebraska again repeated
the dose with the "frightful message of Inn
perialism" and again were the republicans
! scared back to the brush
Leaders Out of the West.
Continuing, Mr.. Swanger said:
Out of Missouri, Kansas ana Nebra ska
came the questions which gave birth to the
republican party. And the west had BEEN
the recipient OF manifold blessings from the
republican party The leaders of the party
came from the west. John G.. Fremont. its
| first candidate for president, came from
Missouri. It's hrsr president Abraham Lin
| coln,- from tho west; Grant, wood hauler of
| st. Louis and tanner OF Illinois, a son of
| the west Hayes and Garfield from Ohio.
sons of the west; Harrison from Indiana
Mckinley from Ohio, and the last rcpub-
| lcan president, Theodore Roosevelt he, too.
/ is of the west. The west gives To the re
publican party its undivided support. The
republican party has been true to the west.
| kets have been placed at the doors of the
| people Of the west, rural delivery, the dis
| tribution of seeds; II has contributed to the
| irrigation of the arid lands; II has furnished
means for experimental stations.
| Mr. Swanger concluded his address with
| "a comparison OF the crop values and ship
ments during the last democratic and re-
! publican administrations, and closed with
! an appeal to the Young Mems Republican
club to stand for the principles of the re-
publican party.
Attorney General Browns Tribute.
| Attorney General Brown spoke i'm part
as follows:
In 1860 Lincoln promised humanity a
united ana inssparaole a union OF states
| With the help of patriotic people of the
| land without regard to party, Lincoln re-
promised reconstruction, then resumption
Of specie payments, and then the main
w9 of kep @ GoS 1886 be darn
! itself to establish an industrial system
which would give to labor and capital EN-
ployment and investment. This promise
was so well kept that calamity has been
forgotten. Want and idleness have beer
/ at be of he tuh
day in every American home; so that 10.
day labor has more bread and meat to eat
better clothes To wear more hours foI
recreation, more and better books to read
more and greater blessings to enjoy, than
ever before I'm the history of this or any
That promise was so well kept that capi.
! tai Is today i'm the height of its glory
reveling I'm returns and dividends never
every year. Tho soil and the range were
! never so busy The country's production
OF raw material exceeds all records while
tho factory never before yielded large
a volume of 1nished product.
/ The home market has grown 10y leans
and bounds while TO the world beyond thC
1 seas America Is exporting a larger surplus
of the product of her brain and musci,
( than ever before More and larger homes
more and larger schoolhouses. more ant
! larger churches. more and larger hTicl
built last year than in any previous year
moro American ships iioated. more rail
| roads built. more steel rails laid. NOR,
before Fortunsto indeed must be IN,
| country and pormancnt indeed should b,
the Industrial policy that gives 10 lab0l
and capital such opportunities and sucI
| a harvest.
! Another Pledge BEING Redeemed
let II he remembered that with tn,
growth Of individual achievement the gov
ernment itself has been endea vuring I,
keep step. For half a century all partir!
that held national conventions have beer
promising the people TO build an isthmiar
canal. That pledge was ir Lincoln's plat
form. and il was left to Lincoln's part,
two years ago to begin the redemption
of that promise, and as evidence of III
good faith and by way Of assurance tha
the canal would actually he built congress
turned the job over 10 President Roosevelt
| The government, under the inspiration
of the president, has other unfinished bust
ness of Importance. In 1857, nineteen year
ago. the 5th day Of next. April, congres
enacted the law known as the interstat I,
commerce act, which provided for th'