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Show CMIIA TO BID j . TRUE UNCOLH j : HOMETRAIL j Governor Decides Against j Plan to Divert Proposed State Highway a " ; INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 11. Coventor Warren T. McCray promises that In- diana will build the. true Lincoln Home trait j This Is a victory for the countless J lovers of Lincoln throughout the nation ' who were aroused by the decision of the t state highway commission to route the i Improved road under construction be- tween Kreneh IJck and Kvansville, a mile . and a half from Mnrotn park. - firvwmrjiirr Mr y hm 'purr i pose to have the improved road routed Kat the Lincoln park to Dr. William K rton, Lincoln student and author of worka on Lincoln's life. lr. Barton interviewed the governor fter making a pereonal Inapectton of the true Lincoln Home trail route and the route favored by Grant Johnson, road superintendent, along which John eon haa two farm. "Im convinced,' aaid Dr. Barton, after thla survey, "that dlvenilon of thia highway high-way from the Nancv Hanks IJncoJn Me-tnort-U park t an affront to every admirer admir-er of Lincoln everywhere." PETITIONS STACKED HIGH. Governor MeOrmr told Ir. Barton he had arrived t the name conrluajon j Stacked high IrT hla'offlre T.r appeahr ' and petitions from people everywhere, protesting arainst the substltuta road and appealing for the true Linooin Home , After Dr. Barton spoke to th governor of the high motives that have actuated I readers of The Telegram and others who have sent In thla petition, the governor "Tour eloquent appeal makes me certain cer-tain that the state of Indiana would at and eternally disgraced If the road should be routed away from the tomb of Lincoln's sainted mother, which sLanUe hi Lincoln Dark. Tou may tell the IJncoln lover of America that the governor of Indiana will fight to the last ditch any attempt to deprive them" of their fight of easy aooaas to Indiana's moat sacred spot." EXPENSE AND DISTANCE. Dr. Barton expressed the opinion that the Lincoln route and the substitute route were practically tha same length and th cost of buflding would be about the ' tame. promise. It will lake patriotic plljrrlms dlrecUy to the old Lincoln farm where the martyred president spent hit boy hood. Here T0 the Unmln homeslte, the "lOmb Of iJncoln mother, Nancy Hanks IJncoln, the rrave of Unooln'e sister and l'lffeon church, which Uncoln attended. "Expense and dlstsnoe mean nothing to me," aaid the governor emphatically. "This Is a matter of national Importance and tha nation stands to rain by any extra expense Indiana mlcht have to bear. afrOray called Pr. Barton's attention to The ract that be had been In otTloe only a few weeks and had had many other natters to consider. "But now I have the facts and my mind la made up," said the governor. I will recommend to the atate highway commission Immediately that they route the highway over the Uncoln Home trail, and my recommendation wlU be enough. THANKFUL TO PKOPLI. I am glad that the people of the nation na-tion helped me to understand the Importance Import-ance of the matter. I don't know and don't care a whoop for what happened before I Became governor, but I do know this I have the power to route that road, and I wllL The road win follow the true Lin-' Lin-' oolm Home trail1 When the ImiT-oved highway la con rwf ed, afyvtrdlng to the governor's |