Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-02-18
County Republicans
Meet and Banquet

cred in annual banquet to pay theiI
respects to the memory OF the Great
Emancipator at the Medford hotel
last night. The occasion was Incl
dentally the annual love feast of the
Great Unyanquished, and those pres
ent had no grounds of doubling, be-
fore the event adjourned, exactly
what the political complexion Is OF
the majority OF those present.
Tickets were limited to 800, but
the enthusiasm waxed great before
the end of the day, and the manage
ment could not disappoint those who
beseeched a seat at the banquet ta-
BILE of the favored ones, so all these
were graciously permitted place in
the ranks of the irreconcilibles, and
many prodigal was welcomed back
to the fold. To allow for this over
flow, tables were arranged in small
Ter dining rooms adjoining, where
the guests could enjoy the music of a
fine string band and the flow OF
spirits, mental and physical, that
pervaded the scene of gaiety.
Colonel r. C. Washburn served as
POSTMASTER, with the prominent
speakers at his table made a graceful
introduction as to the obejct of this
event and called hpon the speakers
in turn. No Lincoln banquet could
be complete without a recital of the
immortal Lincoln Gettysburg adj
dress, and this was read by Captain
II. A. Canady. A report of the COM
mittee on resolutions was given in
which a fitting tribute was paid to
member, Major Andrus, who had
answered the last call since the last
annual gathering of the Jackson
County Lincoln club.
Matt Hughes, bishop Of Oregon,
was assigned to give the Lincoln ad-
dress. With an eloquence rarely
heard but keenly appreciated by the
audience this eminent divine paid a
glowing tribute to Americas greatest
citizen, Abraham Lincoln. Compar-
ing him with those statesmen, au-
thors and poets Of other countries
who were born in the same distin-
guished year as Lincoln-Gladstone.
Darwin, Poe and others he named
Lincoln filled a peculiar niche in the
worlds history that made his record
go down through the ages and stand
out among the immortals through all
time.
Gladstone was considered great
statesman by his people, the speaker
declared, but who Of the present gen
GRAFTON can quote a pregnant utter
ance he made. Darwin evolved
theory that was written down in
books. Lincoln's life was refuta-
tion of that theory by his every act .
LinCons life, he stated, reads like
a great romance in the worlds
history. Born in a lowly condition,
under a cloud that was sufficient .
to daunt the bravest Of hearts in an
attempt to gain a position in the
walks Of man, after an unceasing
struggle to gain bit of education
to fit him to take his place among
the workers of the world, after an
political career in the leg
islative halls, OF Illinois, and very
ordinary term as representative of
his state, Lincoln burst upon the ma
tion as man risen to meet the great
est crisis the country had ever
reached. That he met it and carried
1t through to a glorious end history
relates to this day.
Another great American was hon
pred at this banquet, whose name is
50 closely allied with that of the
Great EmancipatOr that one can
scarcely be mentioned without the
other following-that of Theodore
Roosevelt. Prof. Irving E. Vining
1f this city was called upon to de-
liver the Roosevelt address. The
history of this great Ameri- ,
an is so familiar to the lives of the
most present at the event last night
hat the speaker found it was un- ,
necessary to touch only briefly upon
lis great career and therefore :
,Bought out in forceful light the !
nestimable benefits this unconquer- {
lble life had bestowed upon a nation |
10 loved. {
Prof. Vining dwelt upon the strug- {
lies Of the weakling as boy which {
reset the life of Theodore Roosevelt, {
which only the Titanic efforts of a
sreat will could and did overcome.
lie next carried his hearers to the {
ervices rendered by this statesman l
n his service and police commission |
His glorious record {
Turing the campaign in the Spanish {
american war was briefly touched t
Ipon, as was his return to civil life, c
nd the call Of his state to take the G
Ielm of governorship of New York S
Iater the expression of gratitude
rom a nation which called him to the t
Iext highest honor in their power
o bestow, that of vice-president, to \
e followed by his assuming the du- I
les of chief executive when the bull \
ct of the assassin laid low the presi- \
ent, William Mckinley.