Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
KENTUCKY SONS
EULOG|zE CLAY
COL A. q. Warner Addresses the Blue
grass States CoIony-Prepare
for Picnic Early in
May

The Bluegrass state was well repre-
sented in the meeting of the Kentucky
society held in the chamber of COM
merce last night.
This society was formed in Febru-
airy and started with less than fifty
members but has grown until it has
membership of more than five hun
dred.
The meeting last night was presided
over by j. Marion Brooks. the secre-
tary. who spoke at length upon the
purposes and plans of the organization
and incidentally referred to the sobri-
ETY. and general rectitude of all Ken
tuckians.
"Kentucky's fame has spread
throughout the world" he said. Fair
women and fast horses and the finest
blue grass that grows beneath the sun.
And last, but far from least, the
whisky that we make there has a
worldwide fame. The ladies and the
horses we admit we want to keep. The
blue grass grows there and in no place
else and while we make the whisky and
are proud of it we don't drink it our
selves; we let the other fellow do that"
In order to get better acquainted, the
Kentuckians are going to have a picnic
on Saturday, May 5, and all Kentuck-
ians unto the seventh generation and
beyond will be there to do honor to
their native state. Senator Cole will be
there and deliver an address upon
Kentucky, Past and Present"
The particular occasion for the meet
ing last night was the birthday of the
greatest Kentuckian of all, Henry
Clay, and while his birthday anniver-
sary fell on the 18th, there was no
lack of enthusiasm.
There was eulogy of Henry Clay
delivered by Col. A. d. Warner, who
spoke in part as follows
THE character of state, nation,
q community or an individual is Just
as strong as the units that compose
it. And no people ON this earth has
more to be pSoud of, judging from
history, than the people of the Blue
grass state. For. in the history of the
world there stands no name that shines
out brighter than one of Kentucky's s
sons. At the age of 26, Henry Clay
was elected to the senate and from that
hour until his form was cold in death
there was no man who stood more for
the highest type of liberty than he.
He was an intellectual giant and
a leader among all the great men of
his time. He lived the simple life and
through all the hours of dark that
shadowed him he held one thing most
nlgn, the Jnlng that all kentuck1anS
hold most dear, and that is honor.
He was an honest man, no more, no
less His greatness is admitted by all
the world and coupled with the ad-
miration that has grown for him there
is higher tribute paid him-that of
honesty.
"He stands for all that people of
Kentucky hold most dear and those OF
us who meet here to do honor to him
can do no. more than keep in mind
just what he was and try. to emulate
him and so do honor to our native
state.
Had Mr.. Clay's advice and proposal
to buy all slave children and set them
free been followed there would have
been no Civil war. A nation would
not have been bathed in blood and a
worlds calamity have been averted and
the words Of his famous speech in the
United States senate L speak today for
the preservation of the Union are
words that should fill the breast of
every Kentuckian with pride that he
was one of those who marked the his
tory of the world, the highest type of
man."