| Show NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I HANNIBAL HAMLINS TOURNEY JOURNEY OF LOVE Uy lIy E Eo J Edwards daily series L or at anecdotes and anti incidents I 1 th that t throw new ne Interesting sad ard frequently K gu i dramatic light on event eventa and personalities of Ute Use past tut have been collected by Edwards dunn durta f g nearly forty years year of ot more oc cc less lu InU Inti mate with many reany man of ot th the co leaders leader since Ince th the Civil War Each Eath anecdote or Incident Is la fresh tresh from Mr Edward notebook and either In whole or In pert part It con constitute N Ne New iv New of ot Yesterday garnered from the men man who made mad th the history or r from squally equally authoritative sources As A Im tin of at th the In teresi teres sort to American history lator these articles have hay a distinctive value all 11 theIr own It If Vice President of the United States during Lincoln a II first term In tho White house Hr alive today todA ho hit undoubtedly would take u H 1 great deal of or satisfaction In the tho fact that fourteen of ot tho the states tiara have so alO o far fur made mad of ot birthday n a 1 legal holiday For Ol he ho It was wan who really started and the movement that thal has hall led to legal 1111 observance of or tho the day though I 1 believe you OU wont find this stated In any account of ot the establishment o of or the day ua ia a legal I al bolt holi holiday hollday day Air Mr Ir Hamlin who tho ho was aa tho the last survivor of those thoM who Were Mere of the lIe Im tin Immediate mediate administrative family of ot Mr r Lincoln died In im In Danger or Me Ale It HO ItO chanced that III In February l of that year I was IM a B passenger on the Hoston Boston express for tor New Nw York and after atter din dinIng dinIn ins Ing In I J went Into Inlo the smoking brooking t our oar A moment or two IIVO later a II sturdy old gen Ken gentleman entered threw himself easily upon one ono of the divans took from his lOCket n II a v very eI ry black cigar lighted It Ie stud and begun began smoking It was waa Hannibal looking not nt a day d old r than lie he did when on lila his retirement from front the Uie Sonata Senate In March of ot U I I had bade bado him goodbye In Washington Quite Qute naturally we renewed OUI our ac cc acquaintance and after a Il little iou I 1 ex pressed expressed ed Interest In the time self evident fact that he In the tha dead dMd of ot win tar tor at his lila age uge should be b making H a Hrather rather lengthy railroad trip Now No IV you are not going to Interview mo me declared the ilium old gentleman with witha a it 1 smile mUe I iH never v r have tx IJ been n Inter Interview Interviewed view viewed Hi and I dont doot purpose to now but I will tell tail you OU confidently con what ill UI oWed object ur of my m trip Is I Sometime It IMM to 10 1 14 said Mid when Mr Yr w tIt that lie Ig IE Ignored I nored m in but hat Is I nut not true M II My wRit with mio a alint I not nol only but hut intimate th the tims O knew little of ot them And t 1 tn It that to h hat hat what I lx be tt ev v to be U a rus understand Ing ng or of Although hi ii h wu was a greet t man y yet yetI t tI tI i I Udale th that t hi las ilia l ical l lay iy 18 In III I the moral grandeur of ut hl his character He lie unit a as morally moraU as aa greit grett aa as Washing ton That is I after all the tho only true greatness Now OT sometime ago us 1111 I was sit lit sitting littin ting lug tin In lu a 1 little club down in Bangor that tha t I 1 go to every overy diy do to play ClI da and sometimes to chat about men risen and nn politics of an aim earlier day lay It seemed scented tu to tume tome me thit that there thare ought to be some come format formal way of or recognizing permanently mid and by all the country and by future gen gon generations the moral character of ot thIs thu great leader After thinking the Idea over 01 it occurred o to mo rite that thu best belt wy tay oty Mould J bo be for every overy state eluto to Kit set apart Lincoln birthday as M e a 1 memorial day and w so o I decided to go 6 0 to New York and to Philadelphia and nor possibly to Washington uh ro I 1 could mec some Dome old l and make an earnest plea lea for tor tho the national establishment of ot birthday v as a memorial I l am am now snaking making this journey I Irate ble Pot nut much more mure time into left lett me be before before before fore I Join those thos who scram Hero we 1 d with lIh Mr Ir Lincoln anti who tho have ed on anti anil 1 want waist my lust last I tot service to bo a 1101 IJ for tor thus tha universal al establishment III lu luthe the United States State of ot Lincoln Memorial day dayA da A tow till months In the summer of time the same astute year Hannibal lay dead in hU his hI home In hunger Hut But th thu plea III for tor the memorial observance of birthday which ha ho mod madi modon on ull that day before the Iho New York Lin Lims Lincoln will coin club and aud hi his subsequent effort both In New Nell York and all J phia unquestionably led ld to and crystal iMd the Ilium several years r later caused IllinoIs Minnesota and New NEnI York to 10 be the first statue to 10 de declare clare the of ot the great war a legal holiday For Por until Mr II Hamlin the time Idea of ot n a ia l LIncoln Memorial day da and amid at AL y yeats wr of ot age oeo and In the deed of winter made his hIM Journey of love In itt Its It behalf timer had boon been no mio conc concerted rte l effort to 10 make the a 1 l legal Igal g l Y In any auy state mate and und It U Uw w was m only observed Q Informally at ban by ln and other organ |
