The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-02-20
Republicans Gather From all Parts
of Idaho to Honor the Martyr
BEST OF FEELING PREVAILS
Patriotic Songs and Music, ROusing
Talks and Laughable Skit
add to Pleasure
(Statesman)
with malice toward none.'

| with malice toward nOne.'
These we'll remembered words of
Abraham Lincoln might have been
adopted as the slogan of the republi-
can gathering in the banquet hall OF
the Owyhee, Thursday evening, when
200 of the faithful, representing prac-
tically every county in the state and
including many of the tried and true
party leaders, assembled to do honor
to the first republican president, the
lr"Great Emancipator," the martyr to
the cause of human fSeedom, the man
who in his words and deeds mace an
impress that will live as long as the
nation that gave him birth shall en-
dure.
1t was an inspiring gathering in
many ways. Although these republi-
cans met in the shadow of national
defeat there was nothing to indicate
a dampend ardor. On the contrary,
everything indicated a girding up of
the loins, a rallying of the clans for
battle, a getting together for the con-
est with the common enemy.
Brings Things on the Program
Lively music by an orchestra, old
time favorite songs by quartet COM
posed of E. F. Van Valkenberg, F. N.
Morris, L. G. Ensign and Lawrence
Madison, patriotic decorations, and
appetizing menu, short, crisp
speeches, a side splitting skit in
which Taft, Roosevelt, Wilson and
Bryan played the principal parts, and
above all genuine feeling of good
fellowship, marked the fourth an
nual meeting of the State Lincoln
Day Banquet association as an affair
long to be remembered by all who
participated.
There were gathered around the
banquet tables public officials from
Governor Haines and Justice Stewart
down; there were men from all sec
lions of the state from Bonner county
to Bannock; there were republicans
of all shades of opinion from the ar
dent admirer of William H. Taft to
the most radical progressive within
the party. No note of discord was
heard from any source during the
evening, and all drew inspiration
from the same source-Abraham
Lincoln.
Right to the Point
Among the speakers of the evening
were c. HI Lingenfelter, G. J. Lisle,
H. G. Baldridge, J. B. Eldridge, s. D.
Taylor, J M. Wise, Storey Buck and
John w. Hart. The talks were all
short and to the point, there was not
a dull moment during the program,
and the gridiron skit injected into the
program put everyone present in q
high good humor.
(Scene. A Sentinel's tent.)
Enter Corporal of the Guard, with
T. R. armed as sentinel.
/ Corporal-Guard halt! Post! Ct.
r. steps up on stage and faces audi
ence at position of "port arms. y
You are now on duty as president of
the United States. Do you know
your order, sir?
| T. R.-(with assurance) Know my
orders? Well, I guess. I can't i'm
agine who does know his job if I
don't know mine.
Corporal-Well, what are your or
ders?
T. RI am to run the country. |
must guard and protect the consti-
tuition, or so much of it as I think
worth protecting, enforce the laws,
club some sense into congress, lam
haste the trusts, reform the alphabet,
put stop to race suicide, and above
all let no one forget that I'm the
man that's doing it,
Corporal-Very good, sir, See that
you remember all these things.
Enter Bryan, glancing inquiringly
around and enviously regarding T. R.
T. Coming to port arms")
Halt! Who are you?
Bryan am the Great Commoner.
T. R.-(crisply) Well, don't make
yourself too common around here.
It won't do.
| Bryan-'Tis fine tin soldier you
are, dressed in my old clothes.
| and Rnnrncnnt tive Addicnn r Smith