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Show BURTON THE ORATOR. Kansas Senator Was the Chief Speaker Speak-er at Brooklyn Dlnnei. New York, Apill !0. nnint'a birthday birth-day was celebrated In llrooltlyn to-nlKlit to-nlKlit with u dinner clven by tho Grunt post, O. A. It , and tho Union I.easuo i lub. Hetmtor llurton of Knnsaa nas tho chief speaker, responding to tbe toast Giant As n friend " He said, unions other thltiBS. "Grants cumpalBns nnd bis work ns President will never sroiv dim. Men of marllal spirit will ever think of him nt Tort Dund-mn anil nt VleksbuiB. Grant, with a nation weeping weep-ing nt bin tomb, Is n Kronder picture than Napoleon djInK In exile .Nor la It the least of tho ilirfiicnies In tho lives of these Blent moil that the ono vv aa truo to his friends and the other thouBbt only (if himself The Miopia faith intl conlldeneo of Grant in mankind man-kind enshtlned him In the hearts of millions no less than did his great denls." |