Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-28

He has represented the Firs,
 illinois district in the House for
 eight terms, ana now announces
 that. if illness prevents James R
 Mann. also of Illinois, from ac
 :epting the speakershlp. he (Mad
 en) will be candidate.
 thur Walsh, Master of the Ceremonies: Sir Harry Verney; Lieutenant Colonel Clyde Wigram; Major Reginald Sey- mour, Henry J. Stonor; the Duchess of Sutherland; the Dowager Countess of Airlie; The Earl of Shaftesbury; Lord Chamberlain to the Queen; Colonel Frank Dugdale, the Queens equerry.
 London, Dec. 27.-In his speech at the state banquet to President Wilson. at Buckingham Palace tonight, King George said: ,.
 This is an historic moment and your visit marks an historic epoch. Nearly 150 years have passed since your republic began it's. independent life and now, for the first time, a President of the Unietd States is ol guest ill England. *..'
 We welcomed you to the country whence came your ancestors and where stands the homes of those from whom sprang Wa, .ington and Lincoln. We welcome you for your self, as one whose insight, calmness and dignity in the discharge of his high duties we have watched with admiration. We see in you the happy Uniop of the gifts of q scholar with these of statesman You came from a studious, academic quiet into the full stream of an arduous public life, and your deliveranceS have combined breadth of view and grasp of world problems with the mastery of lofty diction recalling that of your great orators of the past and of our own.
 You come as the official head and spokesman of a mighty commonwealth, bound to us by the closest ties. It's peo- pie speak the tongue of Shakespeare and Milton. Our literature is yours, as yours is also ours and men of letters ill both countries have joined in and maintained it's incomparable glories.
 ITO you no less than to us belong the memories of our National heroes from King Alfred down to the days of Phillip Sidney and Drake, of Raleigh and Blake and Hampden and the days when the political life of the English stock in America was just beginning You share with us the traditions of free elf-government as old as the Magma Charta.
 "We recognize the bond of still deep CT significance in the common ideals which our people cherish. First among those ideals you value, and we value, freedom and peace. Privileged as we have been to be the eXponents and the examples ill national life of the principles of popular self government based upon equal laws. it now falls to both of us alike to sec how these prip- ciples can be applied beyond our ow n borders for the good of the world. "lt was love of Liberty, respect for law. good faith and the sacred rights of humanity that brought you to the Old World to help in saving it from the dangers that were threatening around and that arrayed those soldiers citizens of yours. whose gallantry we have admired, side by side with ours in the war
 You have now come to help in building up new states amid the ruins of those that the war has shattered aud ill laying the solid foundations of settlement that may stand firm be- cause it will rest upon the consent Of the emancipated nationalities. You have eloqucntly expressed the hope of the American people, as it is our hope. that some plan may be devised to at tain the end you have done so much to promote by which the risk of future wars may, if possible, be averted, re- lieving the nations of the intOelrable burden which fear of war has laid upon them.
 The British nation wishes al lsuc- cess to the deliberations on which you and we and the great free nations allied with us are now to enter, moved by disinterested good will and d sense of duty commensurate with the power which We hold as solemn trust.
 The American and British publics have been brothers in arms and their arms have been crowned with victory. We thank with all our hearts your valiant soldiers and sailors for their splendid part in that victory. as we thank the American people for their noble response to the call of ciyiliza- tion and humanity. May the same brothedly spirit inspire and gudc our United efforts to secure for tue world the blessings of an ordered freedom and an ensuing peace.
 "ln asking you to join with me in drinking to the health of the President l wish to say with what pleasure we welcome Mrs. Wilson to this country.
 "I drink to the health of the Presi dent of the United States and Mrs. Wilson and to tue happiness and pros perity to the great American nation Dinner at Buckingham Palace to
 night was quiet private function covers being laid only for King Geors
 and Queen Mary and President an
 Mrs. Wilson. After dinner the presi dent had long talk alone with tn king. The president is desirous of be coming personally acquainted wit
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