Show it COME TO THE BANQUET I On the evening of February 12 the usual Lincoln day banquet will be f given under tho auspices of or The Republican Re Re- publican and every Republican In the tho state and nation is invited to attend S On the tho front page of or this paper will willbo ill be bo found the program for the tho evening The banquet marks the close of or the second year ear of or this papers paper's existence They Thoy have b ben been en very good years so far tar as The Tho Republican is concern concerned d 2 and those who have worked with the is paper are appreciative e of or their very large circle of friend But a more moro Important view of or the occasion is the fact that it marks a recurrence of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln There was the great Republican Re Re- S publican And the majesty o of his nature the tho breadth of or his policy are areS S proved b by the fact that every man In Inthe Inthe the nation now indorses his work This Is the great test of Republicanism It L must lend lead It must present great questions In the nature of things its progressiveness provokes warfare There Is a conflict before every reform re re- form There is a struggle before every ad advance vance The work that Lincoln began has T S gone sone gra grandly forward Those who I opposed him while ho he lived Jived saw In the later years rears what Lincoln saw all the time He was much of a prophet He could read the future That quality is the po possession es lon of ot all great men Tho degree In which they possess It ItIs ItIs itis Is the measure of or their greatness F Few w men in all the worlds world's history have been so justified by the events as has bas Lincoln What he be believed beHoved would be best for the nation tho the nation has found IS best besL And so long as lovers of oC the tho Republic live Lincoln can never die It Is with reverent bon honor or for such sucha a man with fervent love for him and keen thankfulness at the service he has rendered that the tho Republicans of or Utah will assemble the evening of February 12 And to that meeting they will be glad to wel welcome ome every everyman everyman everyman man of any political faith who is a lover Io of Lincoln and who wishes to see tho permanent triumph of or the principles for which Lincoln labored u |