Show LiNCOLN I II IS ISI I I LAUDED lAU BY SPEAKERS fRS Emancipator Favored FairChance Fair FairChance FairChance Chance for All Citizens I A Avers rs Harding Hardin V Wood an and andi i Hays Talk of St Statesman I I p PORTLAND Me e. e Feb 12 President dent Lincoln was as a 1 believer in opportunity unity as the highest offering of ot free America Senator Warren G. G Harding herding of Ohio a 1 candidate for tho the thoI I Republican nomination President for said in an address tonight at aL a n banquet banquet ban ban- of 01 the tim Lincoln club It It was Lincoln's Lincoln 8 belief t said Senator Harding that that every Amer American jean ican should have a f fair ix- ix start tart and an unfettered led chance chanco i in tJi for fors life s a f Jef- Jef That That-ivas n in iu his proclaimed equal rights that was the policy of Hamilton who demanded a n government t strong enough to guarantee them was the the square of Theodore Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt that was the Golden Rule Hue of tho the Man an of Nazareth It Is Americas America's supreme offering to today to- to I day equal day equal opportunity to all men an anti and I reward as the they merit It I rs I In Lincoln was was neither opportunist nor norI ad advocate cate of or expediency ler c lie Ic was mighty might I in conviction an and clung to the tile constitution and the supremacy of or law as I sole sale assurances of maintained tion lion an and national lifer life Lincoln tho the liberator Lincoln tho I sympathetic Lincoln LIncon the thc divine divinely forI forgiving for for- giving held that liberty abides In its I ver very restraints all and made mado tho the su suI supremacy su- su I of or law Jaw the highest g guaranty nt of freedom Lincoln the nationalist t could never neer t have been an Internationalist Through four years of an Imperiled republic lie he maintained the th foreign relations In Inspired Inspired Inspired In- In b by the father tather Super eminent t OI IK N MI MII I r do not believe c Lincoln would have ha this expanded an and enriched republic of or more than hold aloof from Crom the worl world or avoid a single duty In furthering world civilization civilisation His Ills heart would woul have rejoiced at U our part partIn In halting the mill military tar autocracy of or orG G Germany in its ruthless pursuit of or world domination I 1 am ani certain he never would surrender surrender sur sur- ren render cr the nationality for tor which he lie sacrificed an and fought to an any super- super government o of or the world word no matter Continued on page pac 2 I HARDING WOOD HAYS HONOR EMANCIPATOR Continued from Frige ig-e ig 1 1 what or Its purposes s might beHe be II He lIe would woul cling to the American conscience conscience cons cons- I as aa the guiding guiding- light of a confident dent republic Finish Great Mans Man's Work T ork Says General Genera to Aliance Cleveland eland 0 O. Fob 12 Observance of or orthe the one hundred and eleventh birthday of or Abraham Lincoln toda today b by the conference con con- ference of or the Lincoln American alliance alli nIh- ance ended toni tonight ht with a banquet at atI which MaJ Gen Leonard Leonar Wood Woo was I the principal sl speaker eal er Various labor Jabor business s and university leaders disI dis- dis laI la- la j I cusse cussed reconstruction problems at toJ to to- J I days day's We ar arc ard especially interested today toda I I II not only to Ia pay our our small tribute of oC honor to the memory of or Lincoln GenI General Gen Gen- eral Wood roo said but also in asking I ourselves es what we are to do o in iii preserving ing Ing- Ingan an and strengthening tho the government which h Lincoln maintained tho nation II which Lincoln saved There arc are man many grave ro c questions confronting us Vc Ye I must build up and strengthen tho Ito spirit of national solidarity We V must do what we can to give o I I American labor American leadership The great bulk bulle of oC tho the disturbances I which arise in labor troubles come from Crom alien We Ve must take vigorous vigorous vigor vigor- ous steps to deport the red clement Ho HI ur urged cd that more attention bo be paid to publics education and agriculture as which has been altogether ether too much ne neglected Other l' l speakers In included Henry Henr Lane nc I Wilson former amba ambassador to Mexico I Dr J. J Wesley Hill and Dr George president of ot Lincoln Memorial U university It I v e rs I 3 Lincoln Still Leads Declares Will ViII H. H Hays Hays' St. St Louis Fob Feb 12 Will l Will JT it Ha Hays s 's chairman of oC the tho I Republican national committee in an address here tonight eulogized Abraham Lincoln and called calle for fin the thc eradication of oC radical doc doc- t trines ri n es all all- Hays s 's reiterated his plea for Cor patriotism patriotism patriotism pa IIi In peace and ur urged cd ever every one ono oneto oneto onoto to take tako an active part in politics Anarchy An An- archy fice flees nees b before Corp patriotism he asserted as asserted asserted as as- and annd declared the people would continue to work for tor the tho country coun tr try In p peace acc time as tho they thoy dl did in war warline line limo the lie government would not have to concern itself with radicalism truo true greatness continued tho the speaker has grown s-rown steadily since ho ha died ICU a i I to the tine great cause There Them goes goe the tine spirit of Lincoln at the thie head head ejaculated the premier of fling fling- land when he lie saw sax Iho advance guard of American n soldiers sweeping forward forward for for- orward or- or ward over o Flanders fields And when vinen the tine awful carnage ceased the t toC of oC living lI philosophers rf gazing ga Into tine troubled future murmured despairing I 13 ly What Thal Europe needs now is a Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin Chairman lIa Hays H r declared for drastic regulation of or industries but not for government Io ownership He lie emphasized that the tine Republican part party muot work for an efficient business s of or the tue count reduction countis I affairs a 11 in taxes better hetter relations relation between la labor la- la her bor and capital extension of oC the inc war debt over O a eaten gm number of ur years curs I and for Cor law and amid order In all aU instances |