Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-12 | Page 1 | Emancipator's Home Pays Him Tribute in Song, Oratory, Verse

Emancipators Emancipator's Home Pays Him Tribute in Song Oratory Verse Springfield Wealthy in Memories Pauses for Sacred Day Chicago Too Throngs to Shrines to Revere Splitter Rail SPRINGFIELD III Feb 12 AP Today they observe the anniversary of hi his birth Particularly here where he 51 sleeps epa ps and In Chicago o where he was nomInated nominated nominated nomi nomI- to the presidency But also everywhere o In America banquet America banquet halls auditoriums churches and I from Crom tho the rostra of or little mUe country schools fast vanishing as are most of or the Institutions of or his da day Banks close dose honoring his memory mem mem- or ory ory-he ory he he who never had much mone money to worry about Trade drags Tho The air ail fills with the oratory o of the tho glib of ot tongue and of or the stammering stammer stammer- II ing school child Much speechmaking here Allan l Ne ork newspaper per man nian a. a and d- d member merrih r of or tho the Columbia I faculty stands in the Sangamon Sangamon Sanga- Sanga I mon county courtroom rich in I memories of or the man yuan he ho eulogizes and states that there might have been no tragic erl era had the Emancipator Emancipator Eman Eman- lived through the reconstruction recon period PROBABLE IDEALS What his reconstruction re plan nan would hayo have been en we wo can only conjecture conjecture con con- jecture declares Allan Kevins Nevins We may be certain however he lie would have opposed all confiscation of or southern property all harsh sli treatment treatment treat treat- ment of or former Confederates that he lie would have opposed undue prolongation pro pro- of or military government go for the south and that he lie would have o been against the Immediate grant of or the ballot to all aU negroes Dr B. B C. C Bean Dean former Cormer assistant state director of or labor noted rioted that today Is the thc centenary of or the rail rail- Continued on pago page 5 I Emancipators Emancipator's Home Pays Him Tribute in Song Oratory Verse I Continued from page so 1 coming of or R age C. C Uc lie antho an- an iJ tho th Incorporation of ot an or- or I which will wilt seek seck to make nn n e Mull StUdY ot of hi his hla various 1 I ventures In business to note noto tho I methods he hc used tho results and to mako these results a available 11 bl for the thc I h us i ell as the experienced business man mall WOMANS WOMAN'S ODE READ Then there wan Wall tho reading of oC MIsa 3 13 Mice AlIce Clarks Clark's ode this years year's first prize winner In ill tho annual contest t. t It drew an analogy of oC a It martyred marl president arid and a a. martyred Christ concluding Two TtO r 0 beings whoso whose beaul beauty and purpose pur pur- Po pose peO In iii life liCe Was the curing of oC wrong wrens without pain gain aln I I Who ho I lived cd as 19 they died and aid died as astrue tru true men menh h Who ho could honor and md glory disclaim die dis claim Wires light If-ht I shines s afar atar down n the thet t path of or the thc years eal ask Were cro they two to or orthe orthe the thc s I Up Tip in Chicago a a. handful of or men yi ho ho went through th tile years Gl 65 th Union blue met in memory of or the tho man mart who was wn their commander In chief There Then are arc not many 1111 moro more years left for tor this tribute t RELICS EXHIBITED I Out at nt the time Chicago Historical so society so- so cIet they UtCY brought out the familiar fall tall hat and the cotton umbrella umbrella- the oM cli harouche In which he lie rode rode rode- thi the bed on which he ho died In tho Chicago parks as 11 In years past ast hundreds paused f for r a moment moment mo mo- ment In front of o the famous figures In stone ston tone th standing statue that bears bear his imis rises In the park that 5 mime the sitting statu In Grant park tuk framed on nn one side b by the time lake hake and on th the other b by a bookard book boulc- ard ard of or skyscrapers s Who Wh vas W this timis man n Be there an any who do rho not know