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Show MEMORIAL TO "ABEUINCOIN PRESIDENT TAFT IS CHIEF SPEAKER Nation Accept Granite Monument for Civil War PresidentSenator, Bor-ah Bor-ah of Idaho Present Governor Folk Gives Address. Hodgenvllle, Ky., Nov. 9. Ensbrln-ing Ensbrln-ing the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born, an Imposing granite gran-ite memorial to him was dodlcatcd here today and accepted for the. nn-- nn-- Hon by President .Toft. The memorial stands In tho center of the farm on which Lincoln's) parents par-ents settlod after their long Journey from Virginia. Today's exercises wore, in a measure? meas-ure? a continuation of .thoso begun yeBterday at Frankfort 'when a. statu? sta-tu? to Lincoln was unvellod in the state capltol. The ceremony, however, howev-er, marked tho consummation of a nation-wide movement to convert the Llncol nblrthplace Into a 'national reserve. re-serve. Throngs riom all paits of' the United Un-ited Status witnessed tho acceptance of thii memorial and farm for tho na tlon by President Taft, Former Governor Gov-ernor Folk of Missouri, who Is presl-PYy) presl-PYy) ,,ont ot tho Lincoln Farm Association ttSr- hegan laudation of Lincoln, and to I this was added tribute by President I Taft, Gov. Wilson, Sonntor Iloiah and I Mojor-Goneral Ulack, forraor com- mnndor of tho Grand Army of tho Republic t "There Is nothing bo fascinating on the onu hand, and nothing so difficult on tho other, ns tho tracing by heredity here-dity ot tho development of genius and jeal grciUncss," said Prosldent Taft beginning his nddross. |