Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-13
Speakers S Address at PittSburg
Throws Interesting Sidelights
on Early Career Of Abraham
Lincoln,
REPUBLICAN, PARTY
LOYAL TO ITS FOUNDER
Principles Today Those LAID
Down by Great Emanclpatof'
Whose Most Fitting Monu-
ment is Party He Helped
Create,

fBy Morning Journal Special leased Wirei
Pittsburg. Pa, Fcb. i2-Ahraham
Lincoln as Speaker Joseph q. cannon
knew him-as the young lawyer tiaN-
cling on horseback thrnn4h the IRON
tier Of Illinois, then the commanding
figure in the memorable debates with
Douglass the presidential nominee OF
the new born republican party ana
finally leader OF the nation through
four years of civil war ana lhe start
ing of reconstruction-wa plctufeu
on the screen Of memory tonight pt-
fore the Pittsburg chamber OF con-
merce at it's Lincoln meinofiai pp's
ner.
merely n few leaves from his mem
oirs OF the martyred president lew
glances and side lights upon an asso-
citation which began when both Here
young lawyers practicing before uae
same bar.
once The reference to politics en-
tered the sneakers words and tnAl
was when he declared the republeth
marty OF today was the party OF Apfa-
ham Lincoln. and that llnfoih Was
one of the founders OF the party aho
its first great leader
.srhe most fittinl mo aun'ens 10 i-ii
coin is lie party he helped TO organ
ize and the achievements % the party
hn helped develop for The lasting
benefit OF the whole country cast ah9
vest north and south. white ana
black. bond and free declared lhe
speaker. ~
first platform arc still the principles
az the party Lincoln VIII always pe
known as The FIRST ana foremost re-
publican lie ~as a party man. nal =
Ting Tor principles when ms parry
represontcd and which he hcheNed /"
he Of vital interest to tho American
neople. lie led in the contest when
for the first time. a majority ~ IN.
electors endorsed the principles anu
policies laid down In the rcpuhHeal
platform. The yonng men VINO retu
The republican platform o. i9oe VIZ
find in it the platform oi Lincoln - -
1860. The majority of the people nav
failed only twice in fifty years to sls-
tain this platform. And aitrr eact
or these cxperimcnts they have. CONT
back like the Prodigal Son, ch"steilt'
BY their experience ANA glad 70 sV'
the old home again A
when Lincoln returned from IN
Black Hawk war and became a can
didate for the Illinois Legislature
though the state was overwhelming
ly democratic, ne published ms piae
form:
- am for a national bank. | an
for a high protective tarli ana IN
system OF internal improvements
These are my sentiments and my po
litical principles.
rrhose became the cardinal doc
trine more than any other one mar
bv his consistent battle IN the Wes'
developcd public sentiment ana qulek
ened the public conscience that Great
ed the republican party twenty Ne"'
later. e =;
Turning back the leaves Of HI
rncmorv 10 1858. the speaker recuHc
the time when he moved from inuidh
40 Illinois and became q ieSluth' ,
one OF the counties in which l-ihrol
practiced law \ young lawyer wiz
out business, seeking acquaintance
members of the bar, he met Anrahai
Lincoln and found in him. the Ilr'
lawyer on the circuit, kindly ma
ready to make helpful suggestion
any one of the young lawyers
which the speaker was one.
Again when the speaker was dc
egate to the republican state CONVEX
tion of 1850 at Illinois at which LII
coin was made the presidential cal
didate Of the state. the men met. NJ
Cannon drove across the prairie tro
where he lived. 10 the convention In
wagon-railroads were few and tn
only building.
.,rhe convention was held in wi
wan, said the speaker, erected b
tween two buildings, hut II was o
Of doors. covered with green boug
en- from a nearby forest and the en-
of the WigWam were open 10 perm
The crowd outside to hear.
"Dqfore the convention was &
ranized. Dick Oglesby. afterward Sc
ator and governor AMI John Han
brought upon the platform two W.
nut rails said to have been spht
lincoln and Hanks. There were gre
cheers for the famous rail- spllit
The crowd was so dense that WI
there was a call for Lincoln it eot
NOT be broken 20 let him through "a
he was lifted over the heads OF I
audience to the PLATFORM Someo
cried out. D,
ABE. did YOU snlit those rails .
queer look passed over llhc"i
face nn1 he replied.
John Hanks said We snli th'
rails. | do not know whether We
or not but l have spht many "''
ones. "
Il met Lincoln only once atter
election to the presidency. fe "aS
his way TO Charicstown, iil.- 10 hin
stepmother goodbye before GOING
Washington He WAS ir'Neih2 or
day train. riding In a Gay roash u =
surrounded ~ other passengers. 50
eongratulatine him. others adFisi
hut most 8f ihcm Simply crow
around to shake his hand. iheN