Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-13
BIG CROWD N ISOLATED LOCALITY
Chief Executive Delivers Address.
Which is Detferentially Received
Many Other Orators Participate.
Including Ex-Governor Folk and
Luke &. Wri9ht.-Negro Speaks.
(By Associated PreSS.)


uODGENVILLE. KY, Feb. r.
ham Lincoln is to be marked by a
pile OF stone.
1t is to be simple but classic
building Ct granite and it is hoped
that i. may be completed sometime
next fall. when the then President
Taft will cfficia;e in dedicating it a.;
the present President Theodore
Roosevelt today officiated in laying
its foundation stone.
Many Orators Participate.
The corner stone laying took
place after appropriate forensic cere-
monies. which were participated IT.
BY the President OF the United States,
Governor Augustus E. Wilson, OF
Kentucky, former Governor Joseph
". Folk. of Missouri. president OF
the Lincoln Farm Association: Hon.
Luke E. Wright, secretary Of war.
who spoke as ali exConfederate sol
der: General James Grant Wilson.
OF New York. who represented the
Union soldiers, and |. T. Montgomery.
of Mississippi. negro, and an ex-
slave.
With one exception the orators,
representing not only the conflicting
sides in the great struggle. bat the
present generation as well: the TWO
political -arties. and the white and
black races as we'll as the different
sections of the country. spoke from
the same platform with the s,ars and
stripes futtering over them
There were probably six or eight
thousand people present.
Presidential Party Arrives.
President Roosevelt and his IN
mediate party arrived shortly before
che O'Clock. after a drive over 4
heavy red clay road from Hodgenville.
ard five minutes afterwari Governor
Wilson called the assemblage TO
gether.
The President was cordially and
deferentially received. He was fire.
quently interrupted by applause. brt
il was always well-timed and neve,
boistercus enough to cause eithe: an
noyance or much delay.
Other speakers were also literally
applauded.
More CONSPICUOUS Posit on.
Mr.. Roosevelt aroused special en-
thusiasm when he mounted a chait
and gave the crowd better O2por-
tunity to see and hear him
In the main. he confined himself
closely to his manuscript but at the
beginning departed from it to maxi
reply to complimentary a!lusicr3 20
himself by Governor Folk.
The Presidents address fellows:
One Of Two Greatest
We have met here to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary Of the birth o
one of the two greatest Americans:
4 OF one Of the two or three greatest
men of the nineteenth century: Of QUE
of the greatest men in the worlds his
tory. 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
paifuI labor. lived to lead his people
through the burning flames of struS
gle from which the nation emerged.
purified as by fire. born anew TO
iof,ier life. After long years of iron
effort. and Of failure that come more
often than victory. he at las; rose to
;he leadership Of the Repuhilc. at tn"
moment when that leadership mad be-
come the stupendous world-'ask Of tn"
tine. He grew to- know greatness. but
never ease. Success came TO him bT'
never happiness. save that which
yprings from doing well painful an"
vital task. Power was his. bu'
not pleasure. The burrows deepene"
on his i~ow brt his eyes were Un-
dimmed by either hate or fear. HI
quaint shoulders were bowed. but his
y,ccI thews never faitered as he bore
for a burden the dcstinies OF hiS
people. His great and tender heart
shrank from giving pain: and tn
task allotted him was to pour out like
water the likelihood Of the Young men
Ynd - feei in his every fibre the sor
row of the women. Disaster saddenes
bu, never dftmayed him. A. the red
wears Of war went by thev found him
ever doing his du'y In the present
over facing the future with fearless