Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-13
ADDS TO ITS RECORD
Loyal Legion Gives Brilliant
Social Function.
MEMBERS MEET AT TABLE
Program Opens With Ceremony Of
Trooping the Colors.
GEN. ANSON MILLS PRESIDES
Speaker Cannon and Messrs. Cum
minis, Tawney, Davenport and
Bonynge Respond to Toasts.
GEN. ANSON MILLS PRESIDEs

Those who attended say that never
before in its long line of brilliant So
cal functions has the Commandery OF
the District of Columbia, Military ORDER
of the Loyal Legion, surpassed, ana
seldom if ever equaled, in splendor ana
enthusiasm it's twenty-seventh annual
banquet at Rauschers last night.
Abraham Lincoln, the ideallzed en-
bodiment of the virtues of the PLAIN
people, was the theme of oratory by
Senator Albert Baird Cummins. Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon, Representative raw
ney and others. But it was reserved
for young man who had never smeiied
the smoke of battle. whose face was
still aglow with the fires of youth-the
son of a veteran of the Old 9TH Massa-
chusetts Regiment-Prof. Frederick
Morgan Davenport of Hamilton College,
to fairly sweep his audience off it's
feet and cause ringing cheers and ap-
plause. When the festivities had drawn
to a close veterans crowded forward to
wiring his hand and thank him for MS
tribute to Lincoln and His Common
People, Still the Hope of the Nation
Trooping the Colors.
The program opened with a bugle
call, and Lyman F. w. Cushing, bear
ing Old Glory. and Capt Robert Ar
mour the banner of the commandery.
performed the ceremony Of "troopirg
the colors.
Mai. William P. Huxford. recorder of
the commandery. who arranged the
function. made the address to Brig.
Gen. Arson Mills, U.S.A., the command
err in surrendering the flags. Gen
Mills returned them with the expression
hoo IN
Maj. Huxford's custody with the same
creditable record for the next twenty
one years as they had for the twenty
one last passed.
After invocation by Rev. George Cal
vert Carter. pastor of ST. Andrews Epis-
cCpal Church, Gen. Mills arose.
Address by Gen. Mills.
1--WE are met with our guests to COM
memorate the centennial birthday of one
whom we. his contemporaries believe to
have been the greatest of the human
kind" he said. "One who in the loneli-
ness of poverty and toll in his early life.
like Joan CT Arc. listened to the voices
of his God and his country, and to whose
lot it fell in his later life to conduct
from start to finish the most sangunary
and yet the most chivalrous war ever
waged in all the tide Of time becoming
the most powerful man for good or evil
on the face of the EARTH yet. midst all
these viciSstudes-still listening to the
voices-he was the same great good and
lovable spirit, with malice toward none
and charity for all"
Toasts were drunk standing to the Pres
ident of the United States and in silence
Ito our deceased companions.
Toast to Abraham Lincoln.
The toast to Abraham Lincoln was re-
sponded to by Senator Cumm{ns. After
reviewing the career Of the martyred
President he said His name will be re-
vered more and more as the centuries roll
by, for his time is forever and everywhere
his place
Lincoln in his time. the speaker contin-
ued. was the most powerful man on earth
for good or for evil yet midst all his vi
cssitudes, still listening to the voices of
God and his country, he was always the
same great, good lovable spirit. with
malice toward none and charity for all.
because in and of himself he was lifted
life of free institutions among men, and
honoring him Is rendering a matchless
tribute to his followers.
Senator CumminS mentioned the great
scope of the civil war, involving c,OD,W0
men, the sacrifice of 100000 lives. a bat
tlefield that stretched 1,5O0 miles north
and south and 1000 miles east and west.
Men, he added have always loved
and fought for liberty. and oftentimes
have laid down their lives for it. in every
land where the sun shines. but in the
four years of the great war the problem
Of saving free institutions. in the face OF
criticism from all the world and OF dan
gers within and without, was solved un-
der Lincolns guidance. not only for the
United States, but for the whole earth
Address by Speaker Cannon.
Speaker Cannon. although not on the
program list of speakers, was introduced
and stirred his hearers with his theme,
Law Regns." taken from the motto on
the commandery's banner. Lincoln he
said was a wise leader because he was
out from the heart Of the plain people. a
man who could close his eyes and ask
himself the question of right. the question
of expediency, and answer it himself
knowing that that answer would be the
answer of the people from whom he had
sprung. Such was the man whom Illi-
nois had contributed to the glories Of the
nation"
The civil war, Mr.. Cannon declared, was
an event that recorded the capacity of
the Caucasian race for self-government
without an enabling act. He referred
evidently to recent events in which he
said minority of the people, for their
own ends. had sought to set up their
| own standards in opposition to the law
and the Constitution. They had made it
uncomfortable at times for him, he adj
mitted.
1t is the good sound, common sense
Of the plain people OF this country, how
ever. that can be trusted in all such
emergencies. il was pointed out. Mr..
Cannon mentioned McKiney's reluctance
| to declare war with Spain. but when il
became necessary. he said. the nation
| laid s5n.O0OOOO at his feet to be expended,
| in his discretion. fact that was heralded
around the world. and was the surest
guarantee of peace that could be given
Porto Rico Is ours he said. and Cuba
| Cuba unless she demonstrates her capac-
| ity for self government after being twice
! tried according to her own laws and con-
| stitution-well. are responsible for the
| preservation OF law and order even there. -
OF the Philippines Mr.. Cannon said
| that while the people of this country
must always remember the father mood of
| God and the brotherhood of man. we
| will commit suicide if we admit these peo-
| pie to our government until after they
| have thoroughly demonstrated their ca
| pacity and ability for self-government
after our standards"
| Representative James A. Tawney re-
! sponded to the toast, ''Lincolns Influence
| on the Future of the Republic Incl
dentally referring to Lincoln's great mod
esty and even humility. In his remarks
| to the great men around him before he
signed the emancipation proclamation
| NrT ,v,ao 81, NJ