Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-13
NEW YORK CITY.
Gov. Hughes in Turn Guest Of Two
Republican Organizations.

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Hughes as their chief guest of hon
OF two Republican organizations in
the greater city celebrated Lincoln's
birthday this evening by dinners Of
more than ordinary interest, by rea-
son, not only CT the governors pres
ence, but because of the Importance
attached to this stage Of the prelim-
mary political utterances by him or in
his behalf.
Gov. Hughes began his round Of
speeches by attending the 22d annual
Lincoln dinner of the Republican
Club of the city of New York at the
Waldorf-Astoria, where his compar-
atively brief address was listened to
with marked interest and interrupted
by frequent bursts of applause.
spirited defence of President Roosevelt
by John Maynard Harlan of Chicago
was another feature of this dinner.
Considerable attention was attracted
also by the felicitous eulogy of Abra-
ham Lincoln by d Democratic con-
gresham from Texas-Representa
Morris Sheppard. Gov. Augustus Will
son Of Kentucky also spoke briefly.
Leaving Manhattan borough, Gov.
Hughes went TO Brooklyn, where he
vas the guest of and addressed tn"
Union League Club. At this func-
ton, his appearance was greeted by
enthusiastic demonstrations. At the
Republican Club he said in part:
There is one man who presents 10
the american people above all others
in his many-sided greatness the
type, the representative of those quail
tiles which distinguish American char
acter and make possible the mainten-
ance OF our national strength, and in
Abraham Lincoln we recognize not
simply one who gave his life for his
country, and rendered the most i'm
pJrtant service that any man could
render in the preservation of the Uni
on, but who seemed to have centered
H. himself these many attributes which
we recognize as the sources of our ma
tional power. He is, par excellence the
true American.
~ have long been q student of Lin
COIN" continued the governor. 81 have
narvellcd at the ability which he dis
Played. There has been no greater eX-
pedent of that shrewdness of intellect
which SO pre-eminently characteriZes
the American. But Abraham Lincoln
devoted all his talents, all his extraor-
Iinary perpicacity to the welfare of the
people. He was a man Of principle
He was a man all of whose acts were
iounded upon a recognition of the fun
damental principles which underlie our
republic. Rarely has the doctrine OF
The relation Of the nation to the states
and Of the government to the individ-
ual been more lucidly expounded tnan
he eXpounded it in those sentences
which probably are familiar to you all
He said:
The nation must control whatever
concerns the nation. The states or any
minor political community must con-
tro' whatever exclusively concerns
them. The individual shall control
whatever exclusively concerns him.
That is real popular sovereignty
Whenever you are tempted to think
IN a discouraging manner of the fu-
ture of the American republic you
should read the annals of those times
when the union was itself in the bal
ance and you should realize how in
evitably to the demand of reason the
AHlerlcan republic responded ana TOW
necessarily anything that cannot
stand against honest judgment must
fail in this enlightened republic. My
friends, Lincoln represents what the
American republic is capable and III
one personality typifies what we have
accomplished and Of what we can rea-
sonably hope.
why. with Lincoln should we not
have patient confidence in the ultI-
mate justice of the American people.
Undoubtedly abuses exist, undoubted-
ly abuses must be cured
eff there Is any man who thinks, or
any set of men who think that, BY
any astuteness. they may stand in the
way Of progress and may prevent the
corrections of evils that exist, let them
beware: they will find themselves i'm
potent. Progress will take no account
Of them. The American people will adj
vance step by step surely and inevi-
tally. to 4 realization Of their ideals.