Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1927, Page 3

/ 11 the trek from L 2 v A Ve MEMOIRS OF UNCLE JOE CANNON As Told to L. WHITE BUSBEY, His Coniidential Secretary for Many Years. R N A %X e CHAPTER XXIX. E had been talking about campaign slogans, and it moved Uncle Joe to sa: ““Tippecance and Tyle Too' is the first political battle cry can remember. the tongue and even a child could shout it without knowing its meaning. I heard and sang it as our covered wagon passed along the highways on | rolina to Indi ena when I was four vears old. As| * we emigrants traveled slowly over prairies we came in contact with the most remarkable political demonstr tions that have ever been seen in this country. “It was the famous campaign 1840, which took its place in history as the Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign. The Whig candidate, Gen Harrison, was the idol of the West,| especially of Ohio and Indiana, where he had been Governor of Indiana ter ritory, Representative and Senato from Ohio, and where he had defex the British Indians in 1811 at the bat- tle of Tippecanoe. He was the commoner of the people of that sec- tion, while President Van Buren ap peared to them as the representative of aristocracy. Those Western Wh believed that President Van Buren was In league with Europe and dr only French champ. and lived in | luxury typical of the Ea nd foreign to the necessitles and ideals of the| ‘West, where log cabins were the houses of the people and hard cider ing, and it had almo: as the President’s cha Hard Cider Classed As W | “Oh, ves, they had whisky which ! was made from their corn, but hard | { cider was the ‘wine | mpagne of the country’| and as closely associated with the los | cabin as corn pone and wild game | for food. As our little emigration | train moved into the We met this | Whig enthusiasm for Gen. Harrison, which took new and strange shape | with procession of log cabins on ! wagons surrounded with all the trap- | pings of the frontier, rifles and coon skins at the doors, and clder barrels with young women serving hard cider to old and young without a prophe of the eighteenth amendment or the Volstead law. Quaker that I was, I learned and was permitted to sing: Should plan log cabins he despised, | And ne'er regarded more? Should plain iob cabins be despised, Our fathers built of yore? Come, ye, whatever betide her, To freedom have sworn to be true, Prime up with a cup of hard cider, And drink to Old Tippecanoe. Quakers Join in Song. “Strict temperance people as those | Quakers were and very serious in | their views of life, they caught the| * fnfection of this Western political en- thusiasm and soon became a part of it as they emerged from the South into the Northwest across the Ohio | River at Marietta. “For many vears this was the first | Jandmark of my recollections. Tt ap- peared to me that I had my beginning ion the old National Pike in the hurly burly of the log cabin and hard cider campaign. When our emigrant train . left Greensboro it was made up of 15 Quaker families from Guilford County, but as it moved north into Virginia other Quaker families joined until we had quite a respectable number. With a few State roads and none of them macadamized the natural movement was to the North to some point on the National road. It was the great connecting link between the East and the West, projected to hoid the Mis- sissippi Valley and the country beyond in the Union. There were no railroads in the West, not even to Pittsburgh, and the National Pike was the great highway along which the emigrant traveled as did Government agents, the mails and the stage coaches. “That National Pike in 1840 was at that time the most crowded thorough- fare in the country, with more life as compared to the country than the great White Way in New York now, and more typical Americanism than any place I know of at the present time. There was brought together the East and the West, the North and the SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTI The Glenwood Cemetery. To avoid aceidents and prevent conge the gates of the Glenwood C closed to all_vchicular traflic_ol and MONDAY. May 29 and 30, 1 . By Order Board of Tristees. CHARLES W. MORRIS. President. WILLIAM_E. WISE, etion 1 he il | WANTED—A RETURN LOAD OF FURNI ture from New York. Philadeiphia or Balti- |more. SMITH'S TRANSFER AND STOR- | AGE COMPANY 1100 MIMEOGRAPHFD LETTERS, $1: MUL- Ugraphipg, "addressing, gtc. "ACE "LETTER . 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Del.. has filed apnli iminary permit_for a hycro-elec project on the Potomae River and its butaries in the District bi | way of the | Conastoga 1 Tt tripped lightly on | He was the great commoner { THE 5 3 Gk RIS Il \ o the people of that section. | South, and they all recognized that the National Pike was the common high- tion, the common meet- | ing place of the people re ss of | section, class or condition. Coaches Gayly Painted. “There were Senators and Repres atives, governors and judges, promi- nent business men and lawyers, travel- ing in gayly painted coaches drawn by fine he with handsome trappi as for a country fair, and they trav- cled rapidly over the smooth highway with the drivers cracking whips and blowing horns as they approached the stage stations. There were also big freight wagons with six horses driven with the single rein on the leaders, the driver astride the near wheel horse. There were mail coaches and di patch riders of the Pony Expres The express riders excited my env as they rode at full gallop and at the stage stations sprang from the saddle of one horse to that of another and continued their galloping. The news of the world was carried hy those hoy: and then and there I determined t 1 would be a dispatch rider of the Pony Express and ride from St. Louis with dispatches for the President of the United States. Such was my fi dream of going to Washington. But few boyish dreams are realized, and years later I entered the Capital as a mere Congressmen and came by the railroad which had superceded the oid National Pike as the highway of travel. ses Surpasses Appain Way. “In after years I read about the glories of the Appian Way along which the Roman Emperors traveled in state, but that most celebrated high- way of history seemed to me insig- nificant as compared with the National Pike as it appeared to a boy in 1840. The Appian Way was 20 feet wide, but the National Pike was 60 feet; wide enough to permit eight coaches to move abreast, to let the private coach of Senator Thomas H. Benton going home to St. Louis, the regular passenger coach filled with travelers from England and New England tour- ing the West, the mail coach, the Conastoga freighter, the ‘movers’ in their covered wagons and the dispatch Flowers Strewn on P Blossoms strewn on' the Potomac River from Mount Vernon to Wz ington. vesterday symbolized the mem- of ‘the sailors, soldiers and Ma- . who lost their lives at sea. “asting of the flowers on the waters was the principal event of memorial exercises conducted aboard the U. S. S. Porpoise by the Department of the District of Columbia Auxiliaries of the United Spanish-American War Vet- erans. In token that the scars of war have | long since been healed, Senor Don Cayetano de Quesada, attache at the Cuban embassy, delivered a memorial ddress and cast a blue flower on the | er, after Senator Rice W. Means, | commander-in-chief U. 8. A. W. V.| | inns or hotel Tribute to U. S. Patriots Who Died at Sea| |SPEECHES RECOVEREd riders travel side by side, and still leave room for the emigrant trains nd droves of cattle or even slaves without anybody being compelled to turn out to give the more aristocrati or faster travelers the right of way. There was room for all, there was good cheer, hospitality, true democracy a free life, Henry W. Grady of Geor- ia lon adterward su ed | that the marriage of the Puritan and | the Cavalier took place in Illinois. | lhat may be true, but the courtship | ainly began the old Nationa vears on | ment | mental, principles Many Taverns Dot Highway. There were 1 —but bi the old pike for the accommodation | of man and heast. They were loc; not more than 10 or 12 miles and they were ¢ from the big stable yard at night filled with stages freighters, their | horses and drivers, to the cheerful tap room, the most popular place in the and tavern, where whisky was sold for 3| ., hibition | didz without an of drunkenne: for wh ¥y was common as cider in the West in those | days and many of the taverns wv:v; | | cents a gla as required by their licenses to keep whisky as a necessary part of the ac commodations for the traveling public A Volstead law in 1840 would have pro- duced another whisky rebellion. “Just beyond where our Quaker col- ony halted in Indiana lay the big praivies of Tllinois, with millions of | acres ready for the plow, hut the set- | tlers sought the timber, even those|mnate a avot Catholic who went on into the frontier follow | Yorl ing the timber line into southern I nois and Missouri. It is when Thomas Jefferson stood on the | border of the prairies he gravely pre- | dicted they would not be settled in a thousand vears. The carly settlers of | the West held to that view, and sought homes in the timber, slaved for yvears clearing the land to make room to plant corn, while the prairies looked like a great sea on which no one dare venture except to hunt prair k- ens. They were land hungry, perhaps an instinct handed down from our pro- genitors who lived in trees, Mr. Br to the contrary notwithstanding." (Covyright. 1 otomac River Pay had put a red rose on the waves and Mrs. Edna R. Summerfield, depart-| ment president A. U. 8. W. V., had cast a white flower in the river As the three flowers, red, white and | blue, floated down the current other blooms were strewn over the wate More than a truckload of flowers was used in_the course of the cruise from Mount Vernon to the navy yard. Commander-in-chief Means, deliver- ed the principal address and Rev L. Paul Rennolds, department chap. lain, gave the invocation. E. J. Nolan, department commander introduced the speakers. The Navy Band pls and vocal solos were given by Mrs Elvina Rowe and Miss Jeanelte Mc. Caffery. G. A. R. Post’s Last Take Part in Memo The last two surviving comrades of George H. Thomas Post, No. 15, | G. A. R., participated in memorial | services at Glenwood, Prospect Hill |and St. Mary's cemeteries vesterday, which were conducted largely by school children. W. ¥. Dorscy, commander of the Jefferson Ha ‘in nd_Rock ed project « & o S pon at Brocks Broadway. power Fa #iuch Thereon, objection for u hearin briefs. reports or Executive apphic together with any which se for the Summer ahout_the roc rains come us up! Befors cloging bave You'll fe Don't take chances KOONS &0y Those Ma TKLEEBLATT MADE IS QUALITY MADE Call us today about making new screens and ‘shades. Factory br 11 & B St NE KLEEBLATT ‘.2 e Window Shades and Sereens. A MILLION DOLLAR —printing plant eauipped to handle every ¥ind of vrintmg job. Capit. = 1St S W al Press ‘The National z'!“‘-]'.’l':_i_ "T ;J‘\"[ . BYRON S. ADAMS PRINTING IN A HURRY igh gTade. but not hish priced. b e IR B XA was in ck of the exerc ndthe other member of the post | Thomas B. Crisp, joined with him in | | paying homage to their departed com- | | rades ngley, Emory and Ickin { ton pupils participated in Surviving Members rial Day Ceremonies lengthy program of patriotic songs and aided in decorating the graves in the three cemeteries. Stressing the need of upholding the Constitution and obeying the laws of the land, Stanley T. Cameron delivered the memorial addre iting that it rests with the pr neration to and firm against tendencies and strengthen the Nation the men of sterday fought to preserve. H. W. Gray, principal of Junior High School, del address, and Rev, R. Y. Nicholson gave the benediction and invocation. /NUNS ARE HONORED | FOR CIVIL WAR WORK| | | Services Held at Monument aU‘ | Rhode Island Avenue and M Street. Honor to the nuns who served on | the battlefields of the Civil War was paid at afternoon before the monument erected to them at Rhode Isl d avenue and M street. fty sisters from the 12 ord cesented on the monument participated ser yesterd i s rep- from the Soldiers’ from Fort Myer. Following the ceremonybenediction was held in St. Matthew’s Church, Brig. Gen. Lutz Wahl in an addre eulogized the heroic sisters of th Civil War battlefields, and former Representative Michacl Donohue, sident of the Ancient Order of i delphia, who was poke. Patrick J. Hal- ding clerk of the House of | ives, who presided, read a poem ¢ ited to the nuns by Ver Rev. Charles L. O'Connell of Notre Dame University. Rev. Vincent Fitzgeral tor of St the invocation and rvice was arra Auxiliary of the Hibernians, and district presiden acting p: the benediction. the in the services. Many wreaths, including one from Mrs. Coolidge, were ed on the monument. The sisters with the May procession from St. Matthew's Church encircled the mc nd san: hymns while childry weed flowe on the memorial. ers were ftended by a special guard of honor composed of velesans of the Civll War ¢ W 1% in_ charge. 1 Pittsburgh, national y | dent of the auxiliary, and Mrs, E | n Joily, who organzed thi | paign for the memorial, were gues Horan at first was a jargon delib- dopted as a kind of secret EVENING STAR IWHEELER CALLS | tion law, | counsel | today called on de | ninth Generat | Presbyte | sembly voted to hold the next Ge 1 | reg: { tion” of law enforcement, Mr. | tion has been of short duration, and | | w0t | which along | ¢ha | tor Os said that | estant. | aserted,” will suit the liquor crowd.” Home and troops | PRESI[TEHTT.EADS tephen's Church, delivered | upen us an obligation to take a (ne | to have ux- | tor Mrs. Mary |clared that it should never be forgot- | pointed to the grave dotted hills be- | yond FOR DRY REVIVAL Addresses United Presbyte- rians, Assailing Opponents of Prohibition. Assailing opponents of the prohibi- Wayne B. Wheeler, general Anti League, tos to the Sixty- | Assembly of the United | Church to combat the in- | fMue he charged at- tempting to tear down enforcement. Prior to Wheeler's speech, the As. of the on nees which are Assembly at St. Louls, held the report of the judiciary com- | mittee on the question’ of admitting | the singing of hymns in the church de. votional service, which re snded | the dismissal of petitions declaring the | | Mo., and up- tion of the General Assembly with d to the preparation of a psalm hymnal void A spirited debate preceded the vote Speaking at the Wallace Memorial Church as the assembly went into its second week, Mr. Wheeler declared: The church made prohibition po ble and it must now recall to the fight | o0se members who demobilized them- | lves too “It must revive its teaching on the evils of alcohol. insist on law’ enforce ment, expose the propaganda of the brewers and organize its constituency for the defense of sobriety and pros i drunkenness and mis , which would be consequent under alternative to prohibition,” he | added. | For Greater Consistency. | Turning to the “transcendent ques- | Wheel- | necessity for er consi in the conduct of public officials in “the fight to main- tain and enforce national prohibition.” He deplored the questionable sincerity of officials charged with enforcement whose belief in the cause of prohibi- stat- “it is not heartening to friends of good government to have public offi Is state as they take of- fice that they have been violating the law themselves, but during their tenure of office expect to support i The civil service act,” he rries with it a cost that will ute the law violator from prohibition service. A fixed said, “which along er, ed the ney empha ing that policy is ne will guide the govern-| certain, simple, funda- | and rules with ref- to prohibition _enforcement,” | he declares should not be| ed with every incoming admin- ion or set of officials. Wheeler paid high nd ability of enfo is ry,” he er istr tribute to f those at cement. mith Is Assailed. Gov. Smith of New York was vigor- ously assailed by the Anti-Saloon | P who denounced him “Tammany corruptionists” in manner, attributing his can. to the “desire of the nullifica id the Tammany corruption- a President in the ite House.” This,” he stated, “and not a ques- tion of whether a Catholic or Protest- ant is to be elected, will be the issue of the next election Continuing, he de w.3 more than amply demonstrated at the Madison Square Garden con- vention, when those insisting on the religious issue did not throw their votes to a dry Catholic, whose name was suggested after failing to nomi- overnor of New ast their votes for Sena Underwood, a wet Prot- by tionist W red that “this . but Visitors Preach Here. Any friend of liquor,” Mr. Wheeler Many ministers eral pits afternoon and attending the Gen- v preached in local pul- v morning, while in the more than 300 delegates others fi Wallace Memorial i to capacity at the annual v communion service, The sacra- rites were conducted by Rev. Dr. W. D. Trons of McDonald, Pa. Delcgates to the mbly adjourn- ed over the week end to visit scenes of interest in the city and nearby places, including Mount Vernon, Completion of the first half of the seven-day conference was marked by the adoption of a policy of financial retrenchment with regard to foreign missior FOUR OF LINCOLN'S Addresses Heretofore in Obscurity Show Development as Speaker From 1859 to 1861. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 30.—Four public addresses mace Abraham Lincoln between 1852 and 1861, which had been in obscurity and which do | not appear in printed collections of his speeches, have been recovered by Prof. Earl Wiley of the department of public speaking, Ohio State Uni versity. Announcement of their re- cover) m esterday. The addre: own as the “Scott Club, ianapolis.” “Leaven- worth” and “Apple of Gold” speeches. The four addresses, in the opinion of Prof. Wiley, are important in that they show the growth and develop- ment of Lincoln as a public speaker. The Indianapolis address was made September 19, 1839, The Leavenworth speech was delivered in December, 1859, on a visit to Kansas. The “Scott Club” speech, which Lincoln made at his own request, was in behalf of the candidacy of Gen. Scott for the presidency and shows Jincoln_as a_partisan, Prof. Wiley says. The “Apple of Gold” speech, on the other hand, he said, reveals the hizh mindedness of the second in- augural. TRIBUTE WITH PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE of the amphitheater, and contines cannot contemplate these nnot “recall the history . without a deep they have placed firm v resolution that their sacrifices are n influence on our conduct.” ent added that the place e herole figures hold in his- evermore secure, and de- We sraves, which the consciousness that The Pr which the is for that it was out of the spirit of such Americans, supported by such sacrifices, that this republic was es- tablished, its Constitution adopted and supported, its institutions formed and its progress and prosperity created, with all that these have meant to the success and happiness of our own te WASHINGTON, D. C. TEXT OF ADDRESS DELIVERED | BY PRESIDENT AT ARLINGTON soon.” | o | thing of the just by certain class often people and to the advancement of human welfare all over the world, a The President’s Memorial day speech at Arlington Cemetery today follows in full: “Fellow Countrymen: ““In accordance with long-established custom we gather here on this rgturn- ing Decoration day to pay the tribute of respect and reverence due from their Government to those who have | borne arms in defense of the flag of our Republic. In no other country could the people feel, in performing a | like ceremony, that they were engaged | in 2 more worthy purpose. When this Nation has been compelled to resert to war, it has always been for a just fiable cause. The pages of its history | are mot stained with the blood of | unprovoked confliet. No treachery has | ever exposed our nations to | unwarrant attack for con quest, 1o craving for power, no greed | for territo no desire for revenge | has ever caused us to violate the cove- | nants of international peace and | tranquillity. “We have robbed no people of their independence, we have laid on no| country the hand of oppression. When | our military forces have taken the field it has been to enlarge the area of self government. to extend the scope of froedom and to defend the principles | of liberty. We have established our independence, resisted encroachjnent upon our sovereignty, maintained our national union, rescued afflicted peo ple from their oppression and brought victory to the cause of liberty in a world_convulsion. To all of our de parted dead who on land and on sea | have offered their blood in the support this holy and triumphant cause America today brings its affectionate garlands of honor and acclaim. Heroes' Place Secure. “We cannot contemplate these | graves which are all about us, we| cannot recall the history which they symbolize, without a deep conscious ness that they have placed upon us an obligation to take a firmer resolu- tion that their sacrifi are to have an influence on our conduct. The | place which these heroic figures hold in history is forevermore secure. They did not hesitate, they did not yield, | they met their duty squarely. For its fulfillment they were prepared to give their fortunes and their lives. It ought never to be forgotten that it was out of this spirit, supported by these sacrifices, that our country was estab- lished, its Constitution adopted and upported, its institutions formed and its progress and prosperity ed, with all that these have meant to the success and happiness of our own peo- ple and to the advancement of human welfare all over the world “Reverence for the dead should not be divorced from respect for the liv- ing. If we hold those who have gone before in high estimation, it will be re- | flected in our copduct toward those | who are still with us. It would be idle to pl a wreath on the grave of the dead and leave ungarlanded the brow of the living. Our devotion to the memory of those who have served their country in the past is but a ymbol of our devotion to those who re serving their country at present. Although fortunate circumstances have placed us in the position where we do not need to maintain large and burdensome military forces, although we are a people peculiarly devoted to o arts of peace, yet these are no ons why we should withhold any- appreciation that is due to those who are devoting their lives to the profession of arms. These men stand ready to respond at any moment to the order of our Govern- ment to proceed to any point within our own countr ; portion of the globe where disorder and violence threaten the peaceful rights of our people. Their post is always the post of danger and their lives are spent in service and sacrifice to promote the welfare of their country. America has a just right to satisfaction and pride in’ the personnel and purpose of its Army and Navy., We cannot be loyal to the flag if we fail in our admira- tion for the uniform. Still Evil Forces. “However much we wish to pursue the paths of peace, however much we are determined to live on terms of g00d will beth at home and abroad, We cannot escape the fact that there are still evil forces in the world which all past expericnce warns us will break out from time to time and do serious damage to lawful rights and the progress of civilization unless we are prepared to meet such situations with armed intervention. We could no more dispense with our military forces than we could dispense with our police forces. While we are firmly convinced that it is altogether prac- and possible by international covenants to limit them in , 1o consent to their abolition would be to expose ourselves first to aggression and finally struction. “If we are sincere in our expi detrtmination to maintain tranquillit at home and peace abroad, we must not neglect to lay our course in ac- cordance with the ascertained facts of life. We know that we have come into possession of great wealth and high place in the world. There is scarcely a zed nation which is not our debtor. We are sufficiently acquainted with human nature to real- ize that we are oftentimes the object of envy. Unless we maintain suffi- cient forces to be placed at points of peril when they arise, thereby avoid- ing for the most part serious attack, there would be grave danger that we should suffer from violent outbrea 0 destroying our rights and compro- mising our honor that war would be come inevitable. It is to protect our- selves from such danger that we main- tain our national defense. Under this policy it is perfectly apparent that our forces are dedicated solely to the preservation of peace. Basis of Good Will. “Although we are well aware that in the immediate past and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the pres. ence of our military forces, neverthe- less, it is the settled policy of our Gov- ernment to deal with other nations not on the basis of force and compul- sion, but on the basis of understand- ing and good will. While we wish for peace everywhere, it is our desire that it should be not a peace imposed by America, but a peace established by each nation for itself. We want our relationship with other nations based not on a meeting of bayonets, but on a meeting of minds. We want our in rse with them to rest on justice r dealing and the mutual ob- servance of all rightful oblizations in accordance with international custom and law. We have sufficient reserve resources that we need mnot he hasty in asserting our rights. We can fford to let our patience be commen- urate with our power. ““As Americans we are always justi fled in glorying in our own count While offensive boastfulness may be ied to the point of repr it is much less to be criticized than an at- titude of apologetic inferiority., Not to know and appreciate the many ex- cellent qualities of our own country constitutes an intellectual poverty which instead of being displayed with pride ought to be acknowledged with shame. While pride in our country ought to be the American attitude, it should not include any spirit of arro- gance or contempt toward other na- tions. All people have points of ex- cellence and are justly entitled to the honorable consideration of othe® na- tions. While this land was still a d | with | by wilderness there were other lands sup- porting a high state of civilization and enlightenment. On the foundation which they had already laid we have erected our own structure of society. Their ways may not always our ways and their thoughts may not al ways be our thoughts, but in accord ance with their own methods they are MONDAY, MAY 30, 1927. attempting to maintain their position in the world and discharge their obli- gations to humanity. We shall best fulfill our mission by extending to them all the hand of helpfulness, con- sideration and friendship. Our own| eatness will be measured by the jus- | tice and forbearance which we mani fest toward othe Reason and Law. “It is becaise of our belief in these principles that we wish to see all the world relieved from strife and brought under the human fluence of a reign of law. Qur conduct will be dictated, not in accordance with the will of the strongest but in ordance with the judgments of vighteousness. It is in_accordance with this policy that we have sought to discontinue the old practice of com petition in armaments and cast our influence on the side of reasonable limitations. We wish to discard the clement of force and compulsion in in ternational reements and conduct and rely on reason and law. We recognize that in the present state of the world this is not a vision which | will he immediately realized, vet lit‘de by little, step by step, in ev oA 1 way. we should show our deier mination to press on toward this mark of our high calling | one “Our Government has recently been attempting to proce accordance with these princi n its relations China, 1 and Mexico nd in inviting n and t Brit- 5 in a threepower naval limitation conference. i “While the foreign relations of this country are becoming more and more important and constitute a field to which it will be necessary for our Government and our people to give much more attention than is now realized, vet it is our domestic af irs that must always assume the first rank. Nations which are torn dissension and discord, which are weak and inefficient at home, h littla standing or influence abre Even the blind do blind to lead them. rtainly going to seek from those who have demon- strated their capacity to maintain their own affairs efficiently. If we desire to be an influence in order and w, tranquillity and good will in the world, we must be determined to make sufficient sacrifices to live by these cepts at home. We can be a moral e in the world only to thé extent that we establish morality in our own country. Debt of Gratitude. “This day had its inception in the | desire to do honor to those who had followed the flag in our great domestic | struggle for the pr tion of the Union and the supremacy of the Con- stitution. Like all principles expres sive of a great truth, it has gradually broadened in its aspects to include within its sacred domain ail of those who have followed our flaz. But we should never permit this 30th day of May to go by without some expression of our peculiar debt of gratitude to those who offered their lives to their country under the leadership of Abra- ham Lincoln. When that great con- flict was ended, when it was apparent that our Federal Union was to be per- petual, that our Constitution was to be supreme, that all our people were to be free, America spoke with a new authority in the affairs of the world. The questions at issue in those days were decided with all the finality which can attach to human affairs. Those who had taken a leading part in their decision were the prominent exponents of a policy of reconcilia- tion. Gen. Grant pled for ‘harmony and good feeling between the sec- tions,” while Gen. Lee declared, Restor- ation of peace should be the sole object of all.” "The people of our generation have seen these admonitions heeded and these hopes realized. “The advocates of secession were not confined in our history to any one section. They had appeared in the hills of Pennsylvania, they had met in convention in New England, they had adopted resolutions in Kentucky, they 1d taken up arms in South Carolina. That issue has been decided. It has no advocat But it has left its irs and su ors in all the differ- nds of sectionalism, with their pleaders, who are oftentimes remely Ve In the eyes of our ional Government all parts of our country are equally important and en- titled to equal consideration. They are all parts of one common whole, which must succeed or fail together. All efforts to set one part against an. other part, to advance one section at the expense of another section, are a species of disloyalty to the spirit of the Union. It is only a small nature that wishes to divorce himself and his locality from the rest of the nation The true American contemplates the hore, the moun‘:in and the plain, and instead of desiring to withdraw himself from any of them rejoices in his realization that they are all his country. Constitution and Union. “The integrity of the Union rests on the Constitution. Unless that great instrument is to be the supreme law of the land, we could have no Union worthy of our consideration. In its original inception it was the product of prayerful consideration by the best endowed minds that were ever turned to political deliberation. Although it was drafted in convention, it repre- sented the mature thought of the country. Into it went the zenius of Adams and Jefferson, of Franklin and Madison, of Hamilton and Washing- ton. It has been expounded by Webster and other statesmen in the Congress, and judicated by Marshall and other magistrates on the bench. With its three independent depart- ments, the executive, legislative and Jjudicial, it established a Republican form of Government incomparable in the guaranties of order and liberty with which it has endowed the Amer- ican people. As a charter of freedgm and self-government it is unsurpassed by any political document which ever guided the destinies of a people. “We have made our place in the world through the Union and the Con- stitution. We have flourished as a people because of our success in estab- lishing self-government. But all of these results are predicated upon a law-abiding people. If our own coun- try should be given over to violence and crime, it would be necessary to diminish the bounds of our freedom to secure ordet and self-preservation. In FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS ' Destrably Goerative Balding'® Built by TI-THIRD-TERM LEAGUE IS FORMED, OPPOSING COOLIDGE (Continued from First Page.) -y AN third term argument, could find a candidate against Mr. Coolidge. The list follows: Senators William E. Borah of Idaho, Hiram W. Johnson of California, George H. Moses of New Hampshire, George W. Norris of Nebraska, Reed Smoot of Utah and James E. Wat- son of Indiana, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presidént of Columbia Uni- versity; Secretary of War Dwight Davis of Missouri, Go ¥ chusetts, Secre Commerce Herbert Hoover of fornia. former Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes of New York, Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, former ( Lowden Hlinoi the Treasury Andrew W and former former Gov. former S of New In part, the letter read as follows “The Republican party situation. Should it nominate a can didate for President for a third con secutive term it would violate a cred tradition of the country and place itself in the attitude of 1 f its fundamental princ rty has ever so strongly ainst a_third cons has the Republican the matter of : term it has in li- of N Miller n and han L. . Whitma of the league sles. N i declared Even in 1-consecutive taken the part third n the past | strongest stand possible by refusing to give such Roosevelt, an honor to two of its gre ant. and st heroes | and most popular Presidents. Refers to History. “Every Republican President nt who was called on for pression has declared hims a_third consecutive term—Grant, M Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft. »' Republican statesman of dis tinction v secutive term and many have declared that it would be suicidal for the part ever to urge such an innovation might lead the party to pass out of existence as did the Federalist party in 1815 “If the Republican party nominate a candidate fo; secutive term all other i be lost sight of in the campaign and the party would be accused of not only disregarding the example of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, of Monroe, of Jackson, of Grant, of McKinley, of Theodore Roosevelt and of Taft, but the party would be ac- cused of trying to set up a dictator- ship. an ex € agains should third con- sues would Predicts Defeat. “Its defeat would be inevitabl, the party would probably be put out of power for a generation. f the party were suffering from a lack of presidential material one might, understand the willingness on the part of some Republicans to risk breaking this unwritten rule of the Republic. As a matter of fact, however, the Repub- lican party is not suffering from a dearth of presidential material; it has | a plethora. We are herewith a number who have at cussed by various groups in different sections of the country for the Repub- lican nomination in 1928. The list is all inclusive. “We ask ment to save the Republican p and we also suggest that you indj to us which of the submitted names you favor or add to the list any name of an able Republican whom you be- lieve might be fitted for the office.” submitting to you f names of those _—mmm————— whatever direction we may go we are always confronted with the inesc: able conclusion that unless w the law we cannot be free. are an industrious, orderly Unless we tion, we quirements or be an effective influence for good in the werld. All of thes things come from the hearts of th people. So long as they have the w to do right and the determinat: make sacrifices, our institutions stand secure at home and respected abroad. It is to those who had that will, who showed that determination, we today do honor. We cannot leave this hallowed ground, decorated as it is today with all the flowers which lovi memor has brought, without realizing anew that it the spirit of these who rest here which gave us our indepen- dence, our Constitution. our Union and our freedom. They have be- queathed to us the rarest, richest her; tage which was ever bestowed upon any people. Their memory speaks to us always, reminding us of what we have received from them and of our duty to dedicate ourselves to its preservation and perfection. of | Alvin T. | Special D v of | Mellon of Pennsylvania | we | pudiating | itive term as | since | avored a third con- | and | arious times been dis- | you to join us in a move- | observe | | can neither minister to our own re-| WARDEAD HONORED AT BLADENSBURG Prince Georges County Folk Hold Services at Cross at Road Intersection. h to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 30 The principal Memorial day exercises of Prince Georges County were con- ducted today at the Memorial Cross at the intersection of Baltimore boule- vard and Defense Highway, at Bladensburg. A parade, forming at the N wrd Armory in - Hyattsville, ceded the ceremonies. The foliowing order was maintained farshal, Chief of Police Robert agher; T Comdr. Orion Farmer Post, Bu der- American Legion: the mayors and councils of Hyatts: ville and Edmorston and the. town commissioners of Bladen urg, drum and b s of Victory Post, No, 4. Wask on; veterans of the World War, Compar - land ‘Natioral Scouts, school childry the National Train 0dd_Fellows’ auxiliary Ameri of th Wars a Prince At the given by R School 1o onic rmer n, L P American ments from corges communities cross the invocation was v. Henry L. Durrant, of St. Matthew's parish A de by Post Comdr. Butle Naticnal Training School for nd plaved “America Brief dresses were given by Mavor H Willis of Hyattsville and Arthur P. Owens, chairman of th Bladensburg commissioners, The principal speech was made by J. C. Mattingly, associate justice of the seventh judicial district of Mary- land. T} adjutant then_called the roll of the Prince Georges Cot men who gave their lives for their » and the serg. nt-at-arms an- d as each name was called. The nd bugle corps played “Semper and “Taps” was sounded. The benediction was given by Rev. B. P, Robertson, pastor of the Hyattsville Baptist Church. DUCHESS AIDS GAIIIDES. BELFAST, Ireland, May 30 (#) The Duchess of Abercorn, wife of the C _vernor of Northern Ireland, heads the Git' Guide movement in Ulster. 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