The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-02-13
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LINCOLN DAY BANQUET
Addressed by Speaker on "Re-
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| Plttsburg, Feb. 12.v-sOn 10 Cairo
read the button pinned. tbscannon's
coat lapel when he GlsirSsaea the
| Chamber Of. ConmerSSs III -shs Lincoln
Day banquet tonight. When thn
storm Of cheers and table pounding
ceased, 1t was explained to the sleak-
,er that it was the slogan OF the Ohio
River Improvement society, which
looks TO the river and harbor bill to
Provide a nine foot stage from Fits
burg to Cairo
Il am for that said the speaker,
and the applause wfS renewed, which
was not equalled when he concluded
ihis "reminiscences OF Lincoln"
| Representative Mccall, OF Massa-
ichusetts. Governor Stuart and Bishop
Smith, of the Methodist church or
| Alaska. also paid tribute to Lin
coin.
Pittsburg Pa. Feb. H.. Abraham
Lincoln as speaker Joseph q. Cannon
knew himas the young Iaweyr
Itraveling a.horseback through the
frontier of Illinois, then the command
ing figure in the memorable debates
with Douglass, and finally the leader
of the nation through four yems o.
civil war and the starting of rccoa-
1struction~ pictured on the screen
of memory tonight before the Pitts
burg chamber Of commerce at its
| Lincoln memorial dinner.
Speaker Chnnon's address was mere
liy d few leaves from his memoirs os
the martsred president, few gances
Iaud side lights upon an association
which bean when both were Young
lawyers practicing before the same
lhaF.
Once the reference to politics en-.
Itefed the Speakers words. anl that
was when he declared the Republican
Iparty III today was the party OF Abra-
ham Lincoln. and that Lincoln was
3oneaf the founders OF the party and
it3 HfBt great IeaIeF.
/ Was Party Man.
| THE most fitting monument TO Lin
coin Is the party he helped to organize
and the achievements OF the party he
helped develop for the lasting benefit
Of the whole country, east and west,
north and south. white and black
| bond and free" declared the Speaker
| For Banks and Tariffs.
| "Wben Lincoln returned from the
Black Hawk war, and became b can
|didate for the Illinois legislature,
thorgh the state was Overwhelming
Ily Democratic, he published hfs mat
Iform:
/ ~ am for 9 national bank am
for high protective tariff and the
system OF internal improvements.
EThese are m.' sentiments and my 20
lticaI principles
"Theso became tie cardinal doe
lbtne OF the Republican party, and
ELincoln probably more than any other
lone man hy his consistent battle in
the west, deyelored public sentiment
and quiekened the public conscience
THAT created the Republican party
twenty years later"
Nominated for president.
When the Speaker was delegate
to the Republican state convention OF
1860 at Illinois at which Lincoln was
tmade the presidential candidate o.
the state. the men met. Mr. Cannon
Idroye across the prairie from where
he lived, to the convention in d wagon
railroads were few and then only
building.
"The convention was held In wig
IVAN, said the Speaker ''erecte. be-
tween two buildings. but IL was o,t
iof doors. and, covered with green
boughs CIT from a nearby forest AMI
the ends OF the wigwam were open to
permit the crowd outside to hear.
Before the convention was fully
organized. Dick 0glesby. afterwafd
senator and governor, and John Hanks
/, brought upon the platform two walnut
rails said to have been split by Lin
coin and Hanks, There were great
cheers for the famous rail splitter.
The crowd was so dense that when
there was call for Lincoln ii could
not be broken to let Lincoln through,
and he was lifted over the heads OF
the audience to the platform. Some.
one cried out:
| ABE. did you split those rails?'"
i A queer look passed over Lineoin's
face and he replied:
John Hanks said we split those
trails, do not know whether we did
or not but have split many Setter
ones"
| Il met Lincoln only once after his
ELECTION to the presidency. He was
On his way to Charlestown, H.. 10
bid his stepmother goodbye before ro-
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