The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-30
REPUBLICANS
 HONOR M'KINLEY

Banquet of Connecticut Me
 Kinley Association al
 Stratfield-State Notables
 Responded to Toasts-
 Judson Pays Respect to
 >Parkhurst = Rev. MT.
 Crafts Eloquent Address The banquet of the Connecticut Nc Kinley Association at the Stratfield last night, brought together the lead ing Republican politicians of the state. Major William H. Marigold was toast master. Among those who more or less eloquently responded to toasts were Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Weeks of Middletown. Hon. Everett J. Lake of Hartford. States Attorney Stiles Judson.l Hon. John G. Capers. United States Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue. of South Carolina, and Mayor Lee. It seemed to be admitted that the oratQrial honors of the occasion fell to Rev. Ernest J. Crafts. rector of Christ Episcopal church.
 | About 250 were present. The guests fell into congenial parties. which were seated at individual tables. convenient ly arranged to promote such sociabil-
 There was plenty of music. and from time to time everybody joined Justify in snatches of song.
 The speakers ta ble was arranged at the South End of the banquet hall. Above the table was a portrait of Me- fro al fr, Hnn
 Quite in the usual way the speeches were replete with jest and allusion more easily understood by those who burroW into the depths of politics. Mayor Lee remarked that he was a man with a mind of his own. even about the harbor line. His trouble he said. was. that he cannot get people to agree with him upon that subject.
 Lieutenant Governor Weeks regretted that Governor Lilley was not present. He referred to a meeting that he once had in Washington with the late John Addison Porter. who was the founder of the Connecticut Mckinley Society. He was of the opinion that Connecticut has more influence in the affairs of the country than Texas. which is so much larger.
 Mir. Capers made a eulogy of Mc- Kinley which reached so high a stand ard of merit that many who heard it deemed it worthy to be uttered as a funeral oration.
 / Hon. Everett J. Lake, large and beaming with optimism. uttered a pro- test against the increasing use of mon- ey in elections. He said that this prac- tice would mean in the long run the death of the Republican party. MT. Lake was introduced as potential governor of Connecticut.
 He referred to his recent experiences in the pursuit of political fortune, and said that the attitude of the Republi- can party toward him reminded him of the old lady who had a kitten which she loved so much that she warmed the l water before she drowned it.
 States Attorney Judson took occa- sion, in passing, to stick a trenchant lance into Rev. MT. Parkhurst, the fa- nous Presbyterian clergyman. who made an address upon civic evils to the Pastors Association, a few even ings since. MT. Judson declared that no man with red blood in his veins could have such pessimistic vision of the world as that announced by Dr. Parkhurst. MT. Judson said that law is organized conscience. He did not deny that in Connecticut it is a con- science that needs considerable further organizing.
 In his very eloquent eu1ogy Rev. MT. Crafts based his admiration of McKin- ley, not upon policies he had advocat- ed, not upon laws whose passage he had secured, but more than anything upon the moral grandeur he exhibited when wounded to the death by an as- sassin's bullet he interposed to save his slayer from the angry violence of the mob.
 Thus spoke MT. Crafts:
 But there is a portion of MT. Me- Kinley's history in which his moral greatness stands out in striking pow CT. It was his last moments. I know of nothing in all human history which surpasses it. Socrates died tAe death of sage, Jesus,i that of God, MT. Mo- Kinley that of a Christ-hlled man. In that time the highest qualities of hu- man nature were revealed in him. That love of law, that jealousy for it's hon. or, that regard for its sanctity, which caused him to stretch out his protect ing hand even in death, to save his as- sassin from unlawful n1rb vengeance. Truly gentlemen, in tha moment was MT. Mckinley great. e incarnation of justice and the majesty of law, AS the shadows deepened and he felt the night of life coming on, how firm and unshaken his confidence in the wisdom of the supreme power whose permit ting providence cut short his life With that sublime assurance did he wait for the fulfllnent of his triumphant des-
 
 night should break into golden glory at the morning dawn. AS the minister ing angel death brushed aside more and more the yelling mortality to free the soul for it's triumphant flight there was vouchsafed to us a vision of the glory and greatness of the human soul, the splendor of it's majesty, the linea- ments of the eternal God in whose inn age we are made and upon us and all men of all time fell the blessing and the inspiration of the assurance of our immortality, our inherent worth, our heritage.
 The association voted to meet next year at Norwich The following are the newly elected officers: President, Gen. N. s. Lippett. of Norwich; sec- retary, Col H. J. Steiner. of Norwich; treasurer, Charles W. Gale. of Nor wich executive committee, Charles I4> Hubbard, of New London county; An drew T. Gates, of Hartford county; J Henry Roraback of Litchfeld coun- ty; Simeon Pease of Fairfield county; Robert O. Eaton, of New Haven coun- ty; William H. Hall of Holland county; Harry Bach, of Windham county; An drew Shepherd, of Middlesex county. Lynch Made Will
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