The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1910-02-13
UNCLE JOE ON
ABE LINCOLN
HOUSE SPEAKER PICTURES LIFE
OF LINCOLN TO LARGE Au-
DIENcE IN PiTTSBURG.
Republican Party of Today is Deelar.
ed to be the Republican Party
Abe Lincoln Made Great.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 12.-Abraham
Lincoln as Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
knew him--as the young lawyer tray-
cling a horseback through the frontier
Of Illinois. then the commanding CURE
in the memorable debates with Doug
lass, the presidential nominee OF the
new born republican party, and finally
leader OF the nation through four
years OF civil war and the starting of
feconstruction-was pictured on the
screen of memory tonight before the
Pittsburg Chamber OF Commerce, at
It's Lincoln memorial dinner
Speaker Cannons address was mere
" few leaves from his memoirs of
the martyred president, few glances
and side lights upon an association
which began~when both were young
lawyers practicing before the same
ber
Once the reference to politics en-.
tered the speakers words and that
was when lie declared the republican
party Of today was the party OF ALsa-
ham lincoln, and that Lincoln was
one OF the founders of the party and
its rst great leader
THE most ting monument to Lin
cola is the. party he helped 10 organ
ize and the achievements of the party
he helped develop for the lasting bene-
f1t OF the whole country, east and
west, north and south. white and black
bond and free" declared the speaker
THE principles embodied in the
first platform are still the principles
Of the party. Lincoln will always be
known as the first and foremost re-
publican. He was a party man bat
tling for principles which his party
represented and which he believed
TO 30 of vital interest to the Ameri-
can people. He led in the contest
when, for the first time, a majority Of
the electors endorsed the principles
and policies laid down in the RepuD-
lican platform. The young man who
read the Republican platform Of 1905
will find in it the platform OF Lincoln
in 1860 The majority of the people
have failed only twice in fifty years
to sustain this platform. And after
each OF these experiments they have
come back like the Prodical Son, chas-
tened by their experience and glad to
see the old home again.
When Lincoln returned from the
Black Hawk war and became a can
didate for the Illinois legislature,
though the state was overwhelming
Democratic. he published his plat
form:
81 am for national bank; | am
for high protective tariff and the
system OF internal Improvements.
These are my sentiments and my pol
itical principles !.
Those became the cardinal doc
trines of the republican party, and
Lincoln probably more tnan any other
one man, by his consistent battle III
the west, developed public sentiment
and qulckened the public conscience
that created the Republican party
twenty years later
Turning back the leaves Of his mem
DRY to 1883, the speaker recalled the
time when he moved 10 Indiana and
hecamesa resident of one OF the coun-
ties in which Lincoln practiced law.
young lawyer without business,
seeking acquaintance of members OF
the bar, lie met Abraham Lincoln and
found in him, the first lawyer on the
circuit, kindly man ready to make
helpful suggestion 10 any one of
the youn. lawyers, of which the
speaker was one
Again when the speaker was dele
gate to the Republican State conven-
tIon OF 1860 al Illinois al which Lin.
coin was made the presidential oandi-
date Of the state. The met met. Mr.
Cannon drove across the prairie from