The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-09
little be not MT. President not even William, but just plain Bill.


 Frankfort, Ky, November S.-A new light was thrown on the outstanding character figure of Abraham Lincoln today when President Taft, who came hero to witness the dedication of the monument to the emancipator said: "I don't think it is too much to say that Lincoln had the most judicial tenn perament of any man in history"
 MT. Taft paid his tributes with that of Kentucky as mark Of reverence for her greatest son in the new state capitol when monur.snt to the war President, given by the descendant of a long line of Kentucky pioneers was dedicated.
 Prior to these ceremonies MT. Tatt talked to a score of negroes who be- came free men under the Lincoln ad- ministration. Huddled in Governor Willson's public offices these negroes. who had never seen President before. listened to MT. Taft's explanation of things that went to make Lincoln $ eminence over other men.
 These attributes, Mir. Taft later de- scribed to the throng that witnessed the monument dedication. The Presl- dent said:
 With his (Lincoln's) love for truth. the supreme trait of his intellect, ac- conrpanied by conscience that insist ed on the right as he knew it, with a great heart full of tenderness, we have the combination that made Lin coin one of the two greatest Amer
 cans.'
 To the negroes. the former slaves. he told how Lincoln worked out the problem that preceded his emancipa- tior. proclamation.
 MT. Taft said: "He Gincoln hated slavery because he had reasoned out it's injuries and demoralizing effect upon county and community in which it was a legal institution. He did not hate the shareholders and there Is not the slightest evidence he had feel
 ing of bitterness toward them as a class"
 The aged negroes upon whom the President seemed to look with ju- dicial eye as mere relics Of former economical system that precipitated a tremendous interstate conflict. were tremendously impressed by Mir. Taft's talk.
 Immediately after the ceremonies MT. Taft and his party left for Louisville where tonight the President will bo the guest of honor at press club benefit and big public reception.
 While the President of the United States and a vast asseniblage of peo- pie, including many of those who wore the gray III tne CODLlCt DctWccII tle north and south looked on today, a heroic bronze statue of Ablaham Lin coin was unveiled in the capitol of the state in which the martyred President was born.
 Proof of a reunited country" said Governor Wilson of Kentucky in ac- cepting the statue on behalf of the state, lis made evident in the selection of Henry Watterson, a Confederate sol dier, to formally present this image of the great President to the people of his native state. The greatness and tho nobility and the sweetness of Abraham Lincoln are recognized as earnestly by those who wore the gray as by those who wore the blue."
 The unveiling of the Lincoln statue in the rotunda of the new Kentucky capitol precedes the dedication of the Lincoln memorial at Hodgenville by a day Many of those who came from distant states to Frankfort today to at tend the exercises here will continue their Journey tomorrow to Hodgenville. Near there is the Lincoln farm where the cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born is now preserved in . monu-