The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-14
HONOR TO LINCOLN
Speakers Pay Tribute to Mem
DRY of Great Leader.
Large Crowds Attend Three
Meetings Sunday.

Tributes to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln were paid by speakers at three
large meetings in Topeka Sunday af-
sernoon. At Memorial Hall. DIR. Ed
mund j. Kulp, pastor of the First
Methodist church, gave the principal
address to members of patriotic organ
lzations gathered there to observe
Lincoln's birthday. Henry M. Boards
icy, ex-mayor of Kansas City, Mo-,
Dpoke at the meeting of other patri-
oic organizations at the city audi
forum. DIR. Charles NJ. Sheldon. who
addressed the mems meeting at the
Orpheum theater, Sunday afternoon,
paid tribute to Lincoln in his talk on
The Value of a Human Life"
Lincoln Above All.
IF all the greatest men the world
ever knew could be gathered together
In one group, Abraham Lincoln
would stand head and shoulders above
them ALL" Doctor kulp said, in the
course of his address which sketched
the interesting points of the life OF
Lincoln.
Lincoln came up out of the bram-
bles of oblivion and became the man
of the age" Henry M. Beardsley de-
olared. The books which Lincoln read
and his great sincerity were two of the
big factors in making Lincoln the man
chat he was, Beardsley said.
Doctor Sheldon quoted from
speech made by Abraham Lincoln in
1897 to the effect that the danger OF
America came from within, that 1t was
suicide ana not the danger of beng
overpowered by some other nation.
Governor Allen Speaks.
Joseph Walters, department COM
mander of the Kansas G. A. r., was
master of ceremonies at the meeting
at Memorial hall. where the meeting
was under the auspices of W. r, c.,
No. "a. Theodore Gardner Of Law
renee. past department commander OF
the Kansas G.. A. r., read Lincoln S
Gettysburg address. Governor Allen
delivered a. short address and other
speakers were Mrs. Nellie Hardy, KAN
sas City, Kan; Margaret Fitzgerald.
of w. r. c.. No. "a, and Miss Susan
Lowell. civil war army nurse. Robert
Service, gifted young violinist, and the
quartet from the Boys Industrial
school furnished music. An attend
ance Of 1900 was present.
Large Crowd at Auditorium.
At the patriotic meeting at the au-
ditorium the attendance was so large
that many were not able to get thru
the doors. Lincoln Post No. /, G. A.
r., had charge of the auditorium
meeting. Members of the post at
tended in a body. Capt. p. H. Coney,
past department commander of the
@. A. r., was master of ceremonies.
Men and women of the choir of the
First Congregational church furnished
music. James E. Pennick, past post
commander. gave Lincoln's Gettysburg
address.
The meetings at the auditorium and
Memorial hall followed a parade at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon, from Sixth
street to Tenth street. Marshall'S
band and the Security Benefit associa-
ton band led the parade, composed of
all patriotic organizations of the city.
Veterans OF the civil war, the Spanish
American war and the world war
formed interesting sections of the
parade.
The gathering of men at the Or
pheum theater was not a Lincoln day
meeting. 1t was one of a series of
mems meetings being conducted under
the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A. of the
city. Similar meetings will be held.