The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-02-20
Big PARTY FEAST
ON LINCOLN'S DAY.
Loyalty and Harmony the Spirit
of the Banquet.
Watson and Hadley Stand Side by Side
for the Party Of Lincoln MaSteTfuI
Speeches and Splendid Feast.

Kansas City, February lS.-It any
misguided prophet Of evil has been
disposed 10 believe that the militant
spirit OF Missouri republicans has sub
sided and to predict the dissolution OF
the party he should have attended The
annual banquet of the Association Of
Young Republicans at the Baltimore
Hotel in this city on Lincoln's birth
day. From the arrival OF the first
comers in the early morning to the
closing moments OF the great banquet,
at the stroke Of midnight, it was day
Of harmony, good will and hopelulness
on the part ofrepresentative republicans
from every section Of the state. II
there remains any iactional feeling
it was not manifested, though men
thought apt to manifest it we're here
and had opportunity TO speak their
minds or to show the factional spirit.
There were no contentious, no bicker-
ings, no unfriendly or antagonistic
remarks. Genuine harmony harmony
with a big H-prevailed.
The fourteenth annual banquet Of
the Association of Young Republicans
Of Missouri was spread at 1880 in the
evening. Abont $50 loyal, true re-
publicans sat down at the feast, after
having paid $3.50 each for the priv
iIege. When republican will travel
two or three hundred miles and pay
$3.50 for banquet seat you may know
he is interested. AS POSTMASTER, Hon.
VIM. c. Irwin, Of Jefferson City, re-
marked in opening the intellectual
program OF the occasion, that the men
before him were men who have for
many years fought the battles and sus-
tanned the cause OF the republican
party in Missouri. Their very pres
ence at that banquet and the exuberant
spirit they manifested showed that they
still wear the republican armour and
flourish the swoid OF protection. Hall
of them were Roosevelt men when
Roosevelt and TAFT were seeking the
party nomination for president, but at
that banquet board they were all earn
est, determined republicans, loyal to
their party and ready TO do battle with
any force or forces that may oppose it.
The Baltimore Hotel certainly sup
piled an elegant and satisfactory menu,
while Toastmaster Irwin, former Gov
ernor Hadley, Governor Eberhard Of
Minnesota, former Congressman James
E. Watson Of Indiana, Judge Henry S.
Caulfeld Of St. Louis, Hon. Polite
Elvins, chairman Of the republican
state committee, and Hon. Homer B.
Mann, the inimitable and popular re-
publican leader Of Kansas City, sup
piled an intellectual political feast such
as Missouri republicans have seldom
enjoyed.
OF course it was Lincoln occasion
Every speaker paid his own peculiar
tribute to the first great republican
president Mr.. Watson's tribute wa
at once the most eloquent, the mos
touching and the most practical. HI
showed conclusively that Abraham
Lincoln believed the republican part!
had sprung up as an instrument for ac
complishing great things coveted b,
the American people; that he clearl.
outlined, in his early political addresse
and papers, the very achievement
which have since made the republican
party glorious. Mr.. Watson showe'
that Lincoln believed firmly in stronI
political organization; that he stood a
a public man, as a candidate, and a
president on the platform Of his party
that he believed political party shoul
be an instrument for good government
not political machine. The eloquer
Indiana orator paid a glowing tribut
to the republican party and declare
his faith in its early triumph over a