The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
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Eloquent Address of Speaker
Joseph G.. Cannon at the
Memorial Dinner of the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce.

Pittsburg, Feb. 12.-Abraham Lin
coin as Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
knew him-as the young lawyer
travelling on horseback through the
frontier of Illinois, then the COM
handing figure in the memorable de-
bates with Douglas, 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 reconstruction-was
pictured on the screen of memory TO-
night before the Pittsburg Chamber
OF Commerce, at its Lincoln memorial
dinner.
Speaker Cannon's address was merely
a few leaves from his memoirs Of the
maftyred President, few glances and
sldellghts upon an association which
| began when both were young lawyers
practicing before the same bar.
once the reference TO politics entered
| the speakers words, and that was when
/ he declared he Republican party Of
To-Day was the pJrt yOf Abraham Lin
I coin, and that Lincoln was one of the
founders of the party and its first
great leader.
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
or the while country, east and west
north and south, white and black. bond
and free declared the speaker.
Lincoln the First Republican.
The principles embodied in the first
platform are still the principles Of the
party. Lincoln will always be known
as the first and foremost Republican.
/ He was a party man, battling for prin-
/ clples which his party represented and
/ which he believed TO be of vital inter
/ est to the American people He led
/ in the contest when, for the first time
/ majority of the electors endorsed the
/ principles and policies laid down in the
Republican platform. The young men
I who read the Republican platform of
| 1908 VIII find in it the platform of Lin
coin In 1860. The ma jOTity of the DeO-
/ pie have failed only twice I'm fifty
/ years to sustain this platform. And
after each of these experiments they
/ have come back. like the prOdigal son
chastened by their experience and glad
/ 70 see the old home again.
when Lincoln returned from the
/ Black Hawk war and became a candi-
date for the Illinois legislature. though
/ the state was overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic, he published his platform.
LincoIn's Political Principles.
- am for a national bank. 1 am
I for a high protective tariff and the
system of internal improvements.
+ These are my sentiments and my
political principles
Those became the cardinal doctrine
of tie Republican party, and Lincoln
prOba bly, more than aDy other one man
by his consistent battle in the west,
developed public sentiment and quick
ened the public conscience that Great
ed the Republican party twenty-fOur
years later
Turning back the leaves of his men,
DRY to 1858 the speaker recalled the
I time when he moved from Indiana TO
Illinois and became resident Of one
of the counties in which Lincoln prac-
ticed law. A young lawyer without
business, seeking acquaintance Of
members Of the bar, he met Abraham
Lincoln, and found in him, the first
I lawyer on the circuit. a kindly man
ready to make a helpful suggestion to
/ any one of the young lawyers, of
which the speaker was one.
Again, when the speaker was a dele
gate to the Republican state cOnven-
ton of 1860 at Illinois, at which Lin
coin was made the presidential can
dldate Of the state, the men met. Mr..
Cannon drove across the prairie from
where he lived to the convention in
a wagOn-railrOads were few, and then
only building.
Chicago Convention in 1860.
"The convention was held in wig
wam," said the spea ker, erected be
tween two buildings. but it was out
of doors, covered with green bOughs
cut from nearby forest, and the ends
of the wig wan were open to permit
the crowd outside to hear.
Before the convention was fully
organized Dick OgleSby, afteTwaTd
senator and governor. and john Hanks
brought upon the platform two wal
nut rails. said to have been split by
Lincoln and Hanks. There We're great
cheers for the famous rail splitter.
The crowd was 50 dense that when
there was call for Lincoln IT could
not be broken to let him through, and
he was lifted over the heads of the
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