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Show HOSTILITY TO LINCOLN DYING IN THE SOUTH Washington. Feb. 13. Speaker Cannon Can-non spoke yesterday to several thousand thous-and pooplo who crowded Masonic Temple Tem-ple to participate In the exercises in honor of Lincoln's ono hundredth birth-day birth-day anniversary. Ambassador Joaquin Nabuco of Brazil, Justice W. P. Stafford Staf-ford of tho supreme court of the District Dis-trict of Columbia: Thomaa Kelson Pago and former Senator John B. Hen-, derson of Missouri also delivered addresses. ad-dresses. "The hundredth anniversary of his birth and almost fifty years after af-ter his death," said Speaker Cannon, "Wo aro talking about building monuments monu-ments in memory of Lincoln's deeds. That's good. But monuments will not bo any good to Mr. Lincoln. So far as tho perpetuation of his memory Is concerned, con-cerned, you might cover the entire country with IJncoln monuments and they would add nothing to his fame." Thomas Nelson Page, speaking of Lincoln as the people of the south regard re-gard him, said: "In my boyhood days he was the best hated man throughout the South, but that condition also existed In the North, even in hl6 own official household. house-hold. While the South had some cause for bitterness and hated him as the titular representative of the government govern-ment whose troops had despoiled her, the men of Lincoln's party had no such cause. A few may still hold this prejuJlcc in the South among the ignorant ig-norant and untutored. But this hostility hostil-ity is dying out." |