New-York tribune., 1908-02-13

ment of the facts because they are right ana
because the people, in their deliberate 1uog"1n, 1W
demand that they should be accomplished w
are all fortunate that we have Lincoln. w nas 81
would the country be If we were all iot o.
sordid money grabbers, with nothing TO point "
but the particular sharpness Of A, or the spe
ciai success in some petty manipuia.loh on 4! -
What grand thing ut Is that we nave Ell, .no ,ad az.
hef<tance of the memory Of a man VINO mao
everytbing that we could aspire to in intellec-
tual attainments, who was endowed Win
strength Of moral purpose. VINO was peiieo,iS
sincere in the interest of the people, and VINO
gave his life work and eventually his ire user
in order that our Union, with ITS opportunities
I am proud, my friends. to have had an op.
portunity to study Lincolns life. II any OF
portunty do not let another year go by without
making "a thorough study OF that career: IL Is
epitome of Amerioanism WIZ ,eanZe n1, can a,,
possibly imagine. 1t is simply representation
OF man upon whose brow God had written a
line of superiority, who never arrogated IL 10
himself except in his great function OF dlscharg-
ing the highest office OF government. DeIeateo
again and again. failing to realize the ambition
that was next to him, again and again he arose
by sheer of intellect and character untli ne
came to the point where nations nuroen .was Wa
nut upon him, and he carried 1t 80 noDly tnat
forever he will be to nations representa-
tive Of the typical American.
President Roosevelt who Is member or tne
club, sent letter of regret at his fnaplity 10
attend, but the four hundred or more guests
arose and cheered when Charles II. Young, VINO
ing a toast to ''our fellow members. Besides
Governor Hughes at the speakers table were
Governor Augustus E. Wilson Of Kentucky;
Morris Sheppard Democratic Representative to
Congress from Texas; John Maynard Harlan.
twice Republican candidate for Mayor of Chi
cago; Senator Depew, Herbert Parsons State
Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff, General Horace
f. Porter, Mortimer c. Addoms, General Henry
E. Tremain, Louis Stern, Justice James A.
Blanchard. Robert c. Ogden. Ex-Governor
Nahum J. Batcheder of New Hampshire. and
the Rev. Percy stickney Grant.
DEMOCRATS AT DINNER
Democrats as well Republicans ate and
Joined in the applause which followed the eulo-
CYSTIC references to Lincoln made by the speak
ers Among "the strangers who were taken I'M
to the feast and flow Justices Mccall,
O'Gorman, Greenbaum and Davis, District At
torney Jerome and President Woodrow Wilson
Of Princeton. Republicans OF various shades OF
opinion to particular Presidential candidates
followed closely the Governors speech with an
ear attuned to pertinent references on the ques-
ton. What they heard gave no cause fc- appre-
hension that the Governor has departed from
his oft expressed declarations that he was not
Selling opportunities to enhance his own candi-
dacy before the people.
He kept closely to the subject OF the IN
whose memory the dinner held, the nearest
expression to political utterance being his dec
laration that Lincolns theory to the sound
ness Of the people, was all right, and his own be-
lief that any abuses that might exist would
eventually be righted by the deliberate Judg-
ment of the people.
There was hearty applause and twice three
cheers when the Governor rose to speak, which
were repeated with great vigor as he passed
through d waiting line Of handshakers on his
way to the Union League Club in Brooklyn.
Governor Wilson, Of Kentucky apoiogized
for himself as "a neophyte before that Nestor
of all after dinner speakers" as he turned to
Senator Depew. He declared that the state IN
which Lincoln born had shown Its belief in
the truth of Republican principles by register
ing 300, 900 votes in support Of them at the last
election.
In introducing Congressman Sheppard, Presf-
dent Young said the committee in charge OF the
dinner, although representing Republican or
ganization, took the position that the fame OF
Lincoln had passed beyond sectional lines.
Therefore it had invited from that section of
the country where Lincons acts first the
cause Of violent controversy a representative
differing in political faith but not in loyalty to
the government. At these words. as the Con-
gresham arose to speak, there was a hearty
demonstration from the diners, who Joined with
a will in the singing Of the old rallying song Of
Dixie
CONGRESSMAN SHEPPARD'S SPEECH.
Representative Sheppard reviewed Lincons
career from the time when, through death, he
lost the tender influence of his mother until he
was struck down by the assassin. Continuing,
he said:
His death was of the profoundest caiamities
that ever shocked the earth To his noble WIFE
he remarked as the ciandestine assassin was about
to fire. There is city l desire so much to see
a
old Jerusalem but in a few hours he was to stand
among the gories OF the new Now. what Is the
OF to MS e E? e is e eeopen 9G
the idea of brotherhood. which the continued
emanates from his spectral figure it rises from
that April night in 1860. the shadows on which it
is the love of Abraham Lincoln for every man,
and a. child beneath the american nd ag
crat. true to every principle that aniInates my
among you tonight Northerners and Republicans
equally true to your convictions. as fellow coun-
country as wen as Texas. Massachusetts. Cali |
fornia and Illinois dear to me as Louisiana
Lincoln is of the fundamental buttresses of the
reunited and unconguerabe America of the twenti- |
century. In fulfment OF his desires and dreams
the American people to-day mighty and a !
deathless brotherhood Forgotten are the discords
Of the past.
MIR. HARLAN PRAISES GOVERNOR.
Mr. Harlan evoked great applause from the |
gathering when he said that the country outside !
of New York had come to respect and admire |
Governor Hughes for his lofty conception Of |
public duty and for his quiet confidence in the |
good Judgment Of the people. Mr Harlan said: |
II dishonest wealth shall not cease to exploit the
ignorant and the weak. inevitable result
or later, must be that the ignorant and the weak
by sheer force of numbers will take the law into
their own hands, and with results which may |
well shrink from contemplating. The strong should |
cannot be lifted to the level of the strong