New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-26
WAR GOVERNORS LAUDED
President Taft Tells Altoona
Audience of Their Work.
DAYS OF 81 CONTRASTED
Present Prosperity Used to H.
lustrate Crisis Faced by
Lincoln and Loyal Aids.

Altoona. Penn. Sept 25-President Taft
was the principal speaker to-day al Al
TOMAS celebration OF the flftieth anniver-
sary OF the meeting there OF the Loyal
War Governors who decided that Apra-
ham Lincoln and his war policy should be
upheld and his call for more troops suou'u
be met promptly with volunteers
Through that meeting and those Which
followed. the President declared therc
entered into the soul 81 Lincoln the con-
viction that the country was behind MIN
In his effort To end the war and hrlns tho
South back into the Union. The fourteeh
loyal Governors who supported Lincoln
in the dark days of go, the president
called heroes who did not advertise the
deeds they were about to do. who maze
no use Of butts and IFS out VINO
said wen see you through.
The Presidents speech dealt almost en-
,irely with the conference OF the war Cow
crnors, but he reserved sentence or two
for prosperity talk.
The President left late to-day for BeV-
crly lie expected Chairman Hilles OF the
Republican National Committee TO board
his private car at Harrisburg and make
the journey north 10 help him discuss
New England politics with Republican
leaders there
Large Crowd to Hear the President
The President spoke to-day within the
canvas walls OF n big tent. Although the
weather had been threatening all day the
crowd was large and applauded ire
quently. Mr.. Taft was introduced by
Governor Tener OF Pennsylvania. The
President said in part:
one hundred millions OF people-nine-
Is millions between the oceans ana ten
millions in our ocean dependencies-con
Sutute our population, and to-day llbht
in the harvest time we are sdrnerihs
crops that make possible the greatest
prosperity that ever faced this country.
ard we are to-day where every man ana
every woman can have work II they Will
when wages are the highest ana the IN
dividual happiness Of every one averages
higher than ever before.
| dwell on that fact to-day. borne IN
upon me by the procession or beautlfuI
children that hled by me this morning,
and moral teaching In tho schools and
In the homes. 1t il because TINS * the
fftieth anniversary OF a day a. different
IN respect OF the happiness Of our peo-
day ~ from night Fifty years ago to-
day We were IN the throcs Of rebellion.
the Ike Of which had never been seen
IN the world before. and I hope may
never be seen In the world again
Early in September. 1867, your great
war Governor. Andrew g. Curtin. con
clu1ed that. while the war Governors
had been working and helping along the
cause as we'll as they could, the time had
como when 10000 more troops were
aFsH To mi Nat fNH.. rg4 hat aF
the federal government. and so he suE-
gcstcd TO Mr.. Seward. whom he met In
New York, that n might be good thinG
10 call the loyal Governors aud have
them talk IL out and tell the President
how they sympathiIed with him and how
they were determined 10 uphold his
hands.
Welcomed by Lincoln.
And that IS what Andrew -. curtin
proposed o. do. lie told Seward so. and
Seward told Lincoln. and Lincoln said:
Let us hsve them, aud they had them
They came mere Some ot them could
not come and they sent representative
but most OF them came. Then when they
talked u SUut aud got into their minds
what they were going 90 do and say
they went down 70 Washington on the
Nth and through Governor Andrew OF
Massachusetts,. Northern hero. who oCCH-
pics a place IN tho halls OF fame with
YOUR own Governor Curtin. they drafted
an address 20 Mr. Lincoln. ] want you
TO read that address. There are 10 butts
or ifs" or "lnds" Ia u. There was one
suggestion that they would Ike 20 raise
10000 more troops. 10 have them I'm re-
serve. Then they did what was very dear
10 the heart Of Mr.. Lincoln, becnuse two
days before ne had issued his Emancipa-
ton Proclamation they SAID. we are
with YOU on that: we congratulate YOU on
IL. and we rejoice with YOU that YOU have
taken the step
There was no bad taste that followed
that meeting" said President Tart IN
conclusions There entered into The soul
OF that great patriot and President Abra-
ham Lincoln. the feeling you know II ana
I know it-that he had n nation behind
him and that the cause he was engaged
I'm was worthy their lives and their fort-
unes. and also the high resolve that he
proposed 10 fight ont the battle aud bring
back the errlng sisters into the Union.