New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-13
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lesque Of Lincoln"
Henry Birrell, chairman Of the com
mittee, said the lawyer with whom the
impostor had shaken hands recollected
that he vas a client Of his, but he could
not remember his name.
State Above the Party.
This 10 q commonwealth" said the
Governor. mot a dominion 10 be ruled
by any minor number Of men or any
collection or group Of men. however
benefit Of any organization or party OF
which they may he members"
Bearing IN mind. perhaps, the grum-
Bile that has already gone up from the
city because of the impending burden
Of state tax, Mr.. Whitman, whose text
was The State OF New York" said:
The burden OF taxation, constantly
increasing and apparently indefinitely
70 increase, seems TO fall heaviest upon
the great cities. But let IL be remem-
bered that there wealth is sccumulat-
ed. though il may have been acquired
elsewhere, and there property values
have increased out Of all possible com
parison with the sections remote from
great cities"
There is apparently greater inde-
pendent political thought even among
the members OF the political organizs-
tions themselves in the smaller com
munities. the Governor said, than
there is in the cities.
Fess Attacks Administration.
The Governor spplsudsd heartily
when Representative Simeon D. Fess,
Of Ohio, delivering the Lincoln grafton,
and referring 70 the federal sdministrs-
ton. said there was difference between
the exercise OF legislative and execu-
tive power and Lincoln would never
have tried TO exercise both.
"lf Lincoln were here to-day" he con-
tinued. "he would make a sharp distinc-
ton between Republican prosperity and
Democratic psychology. National pros
perity means the Democrats out Of
business, Democratic prosperity means
the nation out of business. | have in
mind the example OF man who knows
too much theory and too little business.
Lincoln would never have taken the
position that he had no prejudice
against business because he had never
been in business
James ". Wadsvorth. who takes his
seat in the Senate as the successor OF
Senator Root on March 4, spoke OF tho
responsibility Of the Republican mi
nority in Congress. He attacked the
ship purchase bill. Speaking Of the
attack Of President Wilson on the Re-
pubicans in his indianapolis speech
Mr.. Wsdsvorth said:
81 think We arc fully justified in
thanking Heaven that the country has
during most of the thirty years during
which the President said the Republi-
can party had not had a new idea
escaped the imposition Of Democratic
ideas and in praying that the present
infection may terminate at the earliest
possible date permissible under the
Constitution"
Predicts 1916 Victory.
There was great applause when Mr..
Sheffield said he believed that in 1915
the country would turn to the Republi-
can party mot as partissns, but as
patriots, for national honor and inter-
national respect"
Representative J. Adam Bede, OF
Minnesota, also spoke. Others at tho
guest table were John ". Griggs, former
United States Attorney General; Will
lam Barnes, Representative William NJ.
Calder. Samuel s. Koenig, and Rev. DR..
Howard Duffeld. Among those at other
tables were Edward A. Thurston, chair
man Of the Republican State Commit
tee Of Massachusetts,; Charles 7. Ia
tLm and William +. Garcelon.
More than $50 women dined in the
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