Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-02-08
Finds Local Application in Les
son of Life of Martyred
President.

1.-THE Lesson of Lincoln and Its Ap.
| plication to Our City was the SUBJ
iect of an address delivered by
Mayor Thomas L. Raymond last
night in Christ Reformed Church,
| Washington and Delavan avenues
Included in the large audience were
number of Civil War veterans in
| full uniform. The mayor spoke OF
| the futility of partisan politics in
/ city government and urged his hear
ers to do their own thinking, instead
| of letting a political boss do it for
| them.
Rev. PercIvaI II. Barker. pastor Of
| the church. introduced Mayor Ray
mond after the audience had finished
singing the national anthem. The
pulpit was decorated with q picture
of Lincoln, around which an Ameri-
can flag was draped. Mayor Ray
mond said in part:
THE mighty figure of Lincoln is in
our minds this week, and we may
we'll take a nrile time and spend q
| little thought on what that life of
Lincoln means to US and what we can
| get from his life that will help US In
the life Of our city. because it is our
| city that concerns me most.
"In the first place, there has been
! one great trouble. This trouble that
| is besetting us and all the larger and
smaller communities Of our country
to a greater or lesser extent started
with the idea that in order to carry
through great national policies it was
necessary to create parties. AS To
| their value in national affairs there
can be no doubt. For instance, il
| was the great Republican party that
elected Lincoln. In our own State
the party has done some good service
! But when 1t comes to our own city
/ the party has no place. Politics has
no part in the government of a city
! We are all too near to each other Ia
| need any political leadership to effect
work that will be to the benefit of our
community. The idea of the political
boss seems to be that political organ
izations must take the place of inde-
pendent thought. The political boss
| operates on the principle that the
average citizen cannot think FOR him
self and that the boss must do the
| thinking.
Now, If every man and woman
and we are bringing the women in as
| fast as posslble-should get better
acquainted with the city and study iti
needs and form conclusions and then
! when the time comes to exercise the
right of suffrage, vote accordingly
the problem that confronts ue ant
other municipalities today would b,
solved. Then there would be M
problem.
There Is only one true politica
success. and that Is the kind tha
Lincoln achieved. Lincoln through
all his life had one great adversary
and that was stephen w. Douglas
In order TO appreciate Lincoln on,
must know something about Douglas
Douglas was brilliant, charming AM
having winning ways, he was pre-
eminenly q politician. He never
J hesitated to distort the truth In or
der to carry a point. He surrounds
) everything with an air of mystery
beclouded issues and then drove hom
; some telling point in a debate. Whel
: he fought he fought to win an ofiic
and not cause.
. NOW we come to Lincoln He wa
gaunt figure, with none of the out
ward elegance of Douglas. Whe,
: the latter was known by everyon
: throughout the land Lincoln was 1
3 the Legislature. From the very frs
) he watched Douglas increasingly
When Douglas championed the Mis-
souri, compromise measure Lincol
;. went at him. and kept after him unit
. 1858, when Douglas ran for the thir