Show AFTER FTER THE BANQUET t- t Co Compliments and aDd cOD continue to come to the office ol or The Republican on the success of Lin Lin- I I coin day dar banquet last Wednesday It Is impossible to express express ss the feeling of gratification real zed by the v I promoters of the meeting In knowing that their friends were pleased And with one exception the e entire eire ire affair was a success the memory memory of i of which will linger pleasantly throughout through through- out the year ear The dinner inner was f r f far r from what It should have been for been for the tho price It cannot be sal said it wa was waa common It w was s uncommon uncommon uncommon-in in Its its' lack of quality The Thern price was two dollars There Thero was neither wine nor cigars The feast should have ha been twice as abundant and vastly more attractive in material and more prompt in hi ii service sen aj But ut there ere was more or than food at I l- l e banquet It was an nn occasion 4 J i. where heie th the pleasures of ot feasting were ere Jo j i not zot the most Important part of or a din diD ner ncr That was as a n company to be prou proud OL or There is no better manhood and womanhood anywhere No state c can a provide a hundred and fifty men and women more marc worthy Worth and more et excellent excellent excel excel- el lent than those assembled at the Lincoln Lin Lin- coIn coln day dar banquet banque in Salt Lake on the evening of February 12 12 1908 The program was excellent ent In Iu our judgment the very best thing of the evening e was the blessing of Reverend Rex Rev rend Mr Goshen It was missed totally totally to to- tally from the report of at utterances utterances- and nd maybe that thatis is laybe there I is a sacredness about an invocation att of at t that at sort which makes printed report of of It a sort of ot sacrilege ge But even en so i we we regret having haYing failed to print It it The words were few But they were vere so e framed so fitt fitted d so Infused with ith the tho spirit of at nobility and patriotism and worship It so express expressed d the best v hought of the best men and women it so ao O softened and blest the hearts of i all within sound of the preachers preacher's voice that it should have been preserved pre pro served served and and a wider circulation We join with all others in regretting regret regret- ting the enforced absence of at Mr Nephi Nephi Ne Ne- phi L. L Morris whose illness prevented y his attendance and forbade his ad- ad f dress We Ve regard him as ns one of the c very foremost public speakers of the state slate and we wo wanted to hear him on ona L. L a Lincoln theme To a majority of the company there l was a surprise in Mr lr Robinson and another in Mr Iverson The former has bas been a little more before the pub pub- lic lie The latter Is less n. Both are men of ability and of ot eloquence js Neither lacks s the tho gift of 4 speech 1 or r the faculty of sound ment Judge Murphy brought something of of ofa a an earH earlier r period into the atmosphere atmos atmos- phere o of a 3 twentieth century Lincoln nn anniversary for ho has personally I seen and met Abraham Lincoln And his bis address rings with with the the sound sentiment sen sen- 9 of a tuna nan who who received his politics with his christening In In a day dayo o of intense feeling ecUng Judge McCarty l Carty did himself honor with his bin appreciation of Lincoln the I- I lawyer and lost nothing of the high esteem in which he was held by the people who have havo looked upon him as a student and and anda a jurist There Is Is something fine flue in the recollection ree rec of Mr Allison the or er How thoroughly he be understood the details of at his hie place How Mow trained he is In the graceful management of at ofa ofa a 3 company How well he lie knew the necessity of or the alternating laugh with I sober sentiment and and how capable he het t was in directing them It was an exhibition ex ex- ex not easily easBy forgotten 2 And through it t all II like th the perle per- per le o Io roses I in hi as an hour hoc o of rest wet west tie the U sc C o th that t old oM q quarto tot They f r. r i 1 I. I i. 3 are not old in the sense of years and yet jet every ery man of them theta has been singing a long time But Dut they are arc old oldIn oldIn oldin In the sense that all men 3 men aril act all women women wo vo- men too too know know them and lore IOTO to hear bear their songs They ere rc very reIT good Wednesday night and the labor of love lo they brought to the memorial of Lincoln was one of f the happiest atthe of at the evenings evening's elements element We are glad the women were there The They belong there They Ther will never be absent again And so the Lincoln day banquet of 1908 passes into history with much to praise little to bo be forgiven I |