The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-13
KENTUCKY ORATOUY HEARD
HENRY cray THE TENT or
THE DINNER SPEAKERS.
OlIle james Talks Abous the supcrIative-
ness sS tire states whIskey. wsmcn
and HspseS Me'a Noticed Treasury
Waerlhdogs-sDen' DarM ~ Home Felix's

and HesseS He's Noticed Treasury
watchdsgs-sBsnI BarR ~ Home Felix's
The opinion was expressed at the Hotel
~ Regis last night that IL would take lees
timber 10 build a ladder from Kentucky
90 heaven than from any other state in
tho Union. The estimate was put forward
| by kentnckians They were dining there
IN celsbrate the birthday Of Henry Clay.
The Kentuslsians are a young society
and last nights was only their sixth annual
dinner. but they showed class. IL was
pleasant thing Ca at IN a corner and
look upon the Kentucky girl Il didn't
make a bit OF difference which direction
you looked the result was invariably
pleasing
In addition there was on hand a guam
titY Of Kentucky's best known oratoru.
among them United States Senator will
lam o Bradley. who got the job that }
&. " Beckham was fairly hoping for:
Gov. Augustus T.. Wilson Republican
Governor AZ that; the only Ollie James.
who isn't a Republican by . long shot
and ex-senator James B. McCreary
When they got up 20 talk you could hear
the brooks trickling through the hills
and the bluegrass meadows on their way
TO the Ohio and the Kentucky rivers: and
occasionally the nightingale sang over
lakes OF moonshine They talked about
the girls. the whiskey there 10 still some
Bourbon made in the State In spite Of the
I'rOhihitionistsl and the racehorses
But mostly they talked 81 Henry Clay
There were upward Of DO present. most
Of them Kentuckians by birth. some Of
them by marriage. The toastmaster was
John X. Dunlap. vice-prcsident Of the
society. With him az the gusst table were
senator Bradley. Gov Willson. ex-senator
McCreary. DR. Prince A. Morrow. the Rev
DIR Newell Dwight Kills. whose grand
father was a lieutenant Of Henry Clay's
and died on the platform while speaking
for Clay: Congressman Ollie NJ. James and
Walker ID. Hines.
At other tables were men whose names
ara well known in the stretch OF country
between Tennessee and the Ohio River
John c. Breckenridge. James Cameron.
James Y. Ely. Charles V. Drew. DIR. John
y. Gaines. Jr.: DIR. V. p. Gibney. J. x.
Gwynn. Thomas b. Hardin. Joseph NJ
HART field. :. W. Hoke. Claude NJ. johnson.
Frank X. kimbley, Augustus = Koun1ze
Jack Major, Frederic J. Mddelbrook.
Frank G. Morehead. Coleman Morgan.
". 7 Po~ey. DICK ); Ramsay. John r.
Sh"lby. Arthur. Terry Ed A Upton,
DIR. Charlton Wallace. T. D. Webb and
D. J.. Wilcox
The POSTMASTER presented Gov willaan
a. a man much thought OF AZ home by
Democrats a. well a. Republicans
The Governor had a good deal TO aav
abOdt kentucky scenery laying over Any
other kind IL Scenery anywhere on III,
face at the Earth hut he was shy about
going into politics. Then he turned IN a
eulogy ~ Clay. setting the pace for tho
speakers who came later AL Of them
wound up with a tribute To- the man who
laid 30 ~ ould rather be- right than Pre-i-
dent
SENATOR Bradley sad he knew from a
by that kentucky girls were the pref
tis-t gIr!- alive. hui that he had never Rad
th" fact brought ~ prominently 20 his
attention before
u thought tha; no people were 81
much attached - each other a. kenruCt-
ians. and none 40 proud Of their STATE
he thought they had more reason ~ b.
prouf than most folk Clay was reason
enough Il there had not been a lot more.
Ahout this time everybody fsl' -
pleasn' that a little AonR about kentickv
was Sung ltwASNrltten by poet named
Null Ran SONS. Of ~ ran.
while piaycrs are the k~cre.'
ards come OFT the rnranest
Iur pockct Cmutirs ciranr-J
In kenturky.
VAN gtfi- are We teWrrts
Naidens' eyrS the blurs'
Ttrtr uu- hearts uuc-f
In kcntuCky.
ltip 10 .rts are thr tAlrSs>l
~, 81 hands are shrk-st.
The Ntirder turns quickest.
IN hrutu,~y-
rFuUdcr Drs's the lp ldss.
Mountain toN~r pfoudr~'
Ths landssapr B. thu gFau.'.E
and ,sOil ;its the Gafnndc-'
in kentucky
Whlch mad, a grand Introduction Tor /