The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-12
Presidents Lincoln Proclamation

Whereas, By joint resolution of
Congress it is provided "that the
twelfth day of February, 1909, the
same being the centennial anniver-
sary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,
be and the same is hereby made a
special legal holiday in the District
of Columbia and the territories Of the
United States" and,
Whereas, By the said joint reso-
luton the President is authorized to
issue a proclamation in accord with
the foregoing setting apart the
twelfth day of February, 1909, as a
special legal holiday;
Now, therefore, l, Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States
of America, in virtue of the author
ity conferred upon me by the said
Joint resolution, do hereby set apart
the twelfth day of February, 1909,
as a special legal holiday.
In witness whereof | have hereuntO
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this eleventh day of February, in the
wear of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and nine, and of the indie
pendencee of the United States the
one hundred and thirty third.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President: Robert Bacon, See
rotary of State.
Crowds of People.
HODGENVILLE, KY, Feb. 12.-
Last night and this morning long
caravans Of people from all the
neighboring counties moved into this
little town and last night beds and
shelter were at premium.
Bright and early yesterday morning
Governor Folk, Clarence Mackay,
Robert ]. Collier, Richard Lloyd Jones
and a half dozen other specials of
the Lincoln Farm Association arrived
and Hodgenville turned out. Every
man, woman and child in town was
down "at the train" The party pro-
ceeded to the farm, where Governor
Folk put the country folk on the wit
ness stand. All of them told of the
recollections their ancestors had of
Thomas Lincoln and of the boy Abra-
ham.
Arrived Early.
The Presidents special train arriv-
ed about II 80 this morning. He, the
members of his family, General
Wright, General Wilson and the 9TH
ers were driven in carriages to the
farm. The President was escorted
by Union and Confederate soldiers, a
squad of Deputy Sheriffs, mounted
police from Louisville, Company c.,
of the First Regiment, K. N. G. and
detail of officers.
Governor Wilson, his staff and
other distinguished guests arrived
on the second train and a third and
a fourth train brought soldiers In
full regaia, brass bands and 1,200
to 1,500 citizens of Louisville.
Ceremonies Were Brief.
The ceremonies at the farm were
brief. Governor Folk Of Missouri,
made an address on behalf of the
Lincoln Farm Association.
The President was enthusiastically
received and spoke in part as follows:
One of Greatest Americans.
We have met here to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary Of the birth of
one of the two greatest Americans;
Of one of the two or three greatest
men of the nineteenth century; of one
of the greatest men in the worlds
history. This rail splitter, this boy
who passed his ungainly youth in the
dire poverty of the poorest of the
frontier folk, whose rise was by
weary and painful labor, lived to lead
his people through the burning flames
of struggle from which the nation
emerged, purified as by fire, born
anew to a loftier life. After long
years of iron effort, and of failure
that came more often than victory, he
at last rose to the leadership of the
Republic, at the moment when that
leadership had become-the stupendous
world-task of the time.
Fortunate as People.
AS people we are indeed beyond
measure fortunate In the characters
of the two greatest of our public men,
Washington and Lincoln. Widely
though they differed in externals, the
Virginia landed gentleman and the
Kentucky backwoodsman, they were
alike in essentials, they were alike in
the great qualities which made each