The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-13
Urges Selection of Able Man
to Succeed the Late
Senator CullOm
TAKES SHARP HIT
AT u. S. HOUSE
Says He Would Rather Share Destiny
of Republic With Illinois Legisla
ture Than With United States
House of Representatives

Springfield, ILL.,, February t2.-Couni
Won Bernstein and former Senator
Joseph w Bailey of Texas adressed
the Illinois legislature, sitting in joint
assembly today. Former Senator Bal
ley said. in part:
you will not deem it inappropriate
for me to say that as a democrat, l
sincerely trust If you are able to
elect a senator to succeed Shelby M.
Cullom you will elect one worthy to
take his place, and as an American |
may be permitted to express the hope
that if the choice shall fall outside of
the party to which 1 belong, Illinois
will be fortunate indeed If cullom'
successor Is of Cullom's worth.
What l will venture to say to you,
although | will render myself I'M
mensely unpopular with the delegation
from Illinois in the United states house
of Representatives, and that Is, mat
in looking over this assembly, II
were compelled to trust my destiny or
my share of the destiny of this repub
lie to you or to them, | would trust
it to you.
Political Parties Needed
whether what you do shall make for
party soliditary or for party dinsinte-
grafton l cannot say. but this much
can say that the man who deceives
himselw into thinking that the great
government of the states in this union
or the great government of this union
itself can be conducted without the aid
of political parties is grossly and wide
ly mistaken.
I'VE have had parties, some people
sally, since Jefferson's first admins
tration / say we have had parties
since Washington's first administra-
ton and the party spirit of that time
ran so high that Thomas Jefferson
found it personally unpleasant to con-
time as the Secretary of State in
George Washingtons cabinet, but the
parties which were organized in that
time were organized according to the
great principles of the government and
not upon the narrow consideration of
personal hates and personal ambitions.
The party that will reconsecrate it,
self to the service of the country un-
der the guidance of great principles
will come again into the control of
this government supported and sus-
taned by a majority of the people, but If
we continue in the bad habit of the last
few years of feeling ourselves OF lib
erty to dissolve our Connection when
ever 1t pleases us to do so with the
knowledge that we will he permitted
TO renew our whenever IL
seemed to be to our interest to do so,
then parties must disappear and the
American people must be divided into
groups"
Moral Things Essential
"The essential qualities of national
greatness are moral and not material, -
said Count Won Bernstorff. Likewise,
in the government of the world, mere
Intellectual gifts are not all powerful
High character and reputation exercise
a more potent influence over mankind and
they make the really great men. The
combination of unusual intellectual gifts
with the highest moral qualities raised
Abraham Lincoln to the pinnacle of esti-
nation where he now stands before the
tribunal of history which judges men
without prejudice and uninfiuenced by the
fieeting passions of the day. That is why
we have come today to pay our tribute
of devotion to and gather inspiration and
guidance from the character of Abraham
Lincoln, shrine to which the states
men of all countries and, in all sue
ceeding ages, may safely come"
Tonight former Senator Bailey and
Count Won Bernstorff spoke at a Lincoln
day banquet given by the Lincoln Cen
tennial association. In paying tribute to
Lincoln, Count Won Bernstorf declared
that Lincolns courage and his 'big
heart whose every throb was for the