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Vol. 55

THE

GRANITE

MONTHLY

No. 12.

DECEMBER 1923

THE MONTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Politics Once More In Bloom
JOVEMBER is the month of politics

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in New Hampshire, even in an "off" year, and a great deal of interest was felt in the municipal election of 1923 in Granite State cities, especially that at Manchester, where Mayor George E. Trudel, Republican, was re-elected. The Republican campaign had as its slogan, "One good term deserves another," and was based largely upon Mayor Trudel's fine record in office. In the strong Republican wards a surprisingly large vote was polled and in the wards where citizens of French descent are in the majority their racial loyalty to the Mayor was in evidence.

Without waiting, as had been expected, for the result of the Manchester election, Major Frank Knox of that city on the Saturday before election day made a brief announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1924, promising a longer statement and outline of his platform at a later date. This first announcement emphasized the tax legislation program which he has favored personally and in his papers, the Union and Leader. Major Knox was a Rough Rider with Roosevelt and also saw active service over seas in the World War. Before coming to New Hampshire from Michigan a dozen years ago he was chairman of the Republican state committee in the latter state.

A part of the press of the state and

some leaders of the "Old Guard" division of the Republican party are not satisfied with either Major Knox or the previously announced candidate, Captain John G. Winant, as their standard bearer and are calling for a third candidate to enter the field, naming in that connection former Councilors Albert Hislop of Portsmouth and George W. Barnes of Lyme, Councilor Arthur P. Morrill of Concord and Chairman Huntley N. Spaulding of the state board of education.

Mrs. Alice Hamlin Glessner of Bethlehem, recently appointed by Fred W. Estabrook of Nashua, member of the Republican national committee from New Hampshire, as his woman colleague upon that committee, and Mrs. Jessie E. Donahue of Manchester, vice-chairman of the Republican state committee, conferred recently with Chairman Dwight Hall of the state committee and Executive Secretary Olin H. Chase of the Republican League upon the organization of the Republican women of the state in next year's campaign.

There was comparatively little activity in Democratic politics during the month although Concord's "non-partisan" city election displaced Republican Mayor Chamberlain with Willis H. Flint, Democrat.

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much attention as yet to 1924 politics. As a sample week in November, he spoke on Armistice Day, Sunday, the 11th, at the dedication of a soldiers' memorial in Peterborough. Monday night he attended the American Legion Armistice Ball at the the state capital. Tuesday he got in a day at his Somersworth Law office, but was back at the capitol Wednesday for a meeting of the governor and council, leaving that night for Berlin where on Thursday he started the press to print the first copy of the Berlin Daily Mail and attended the annual banquet of the Nibroc Athletic Club. Friday found him in Concord again, issuing his proclamation for Thanksgiving Day and declaring that "the spirit of New Hampshire is still reverent and thankful."

A Granite State Hero

AN interesting connection of this state

with Armistice Day in the nation. was the belated recognition given by the authorities at Washington to the fact that George Dilboy, one of the heroes of the war, whose body was buried at Arlington on the 12th, enlisted from Keene, New Hampshire, and was a part of the Granite State quota, although credited in previous announcements to Massachusetts. Governor Brown sent as his representative to the exercises

at Washington Lieutenant Wilbur Mayou of Keene, commander of the squad in which Dilboy served.

An important gathering of the month. in New Hampshire was that of the New Hampshire Civic Association at Manchester to hear Judge John H. Clarke, formerly of the United States Supreme Court, advocate the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations.

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with his customary lack of restraint, particularly attacking Mayor Frederick E. Small because of the latter's refusal to allow the meetings to be held in the theater owned by the city.

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State Departments

HE announced decision of the state highway department that it would not assist in keeping the main highways clear of snow this winter occasioned some dissent in southern New Hampshire, but was welcomed generally on the ground that it probably would result in an unusually mild season; this view being taken because, last year, when the department proposed to keep the roads open the snow came early and deep and stayed late.

The splendid showing of New Hampshire in the national fruit show at New York City during the month was a subject of pride and congratulation and will assist in providing a profitable market for all the Granite State fruit which is properly prepared there for.

Farewell Football

THANKSGIVING Day brought an

end to what on the whole has been a satisfactory season for New Hampshire lovers of football. Although the formal dedication of the Memorial Field at Dartmouth was marked by an overwhelming victory for the visiting Cornell eleven, Dartmouth previously had won from Harvard and in the minds of many graduates and undergraduates that is glory enough for one season. While New Hampshire University did not put so strong an eleven in the field as in some previous years, the good record of its freshman team gave much promise for the future. Phillips Exeter Academy did all that was expected of it in holding Phillips Andover Academy to a tie. Almost all the academies and high schools of the state had well coached elevens, the members of which played. a clean game and showed good sportsmanship. -H. C. P.

New Hampshire's Tribute to the Greatest American

BY ELMER E. WOODBURY

The school children of New Hampshire have united to do honor to the greatest American. Their tribute to him has taken the form of a painting to be placed in the Hall of Representatives. A copy of this painting appears as the frontispiece of the magazine and below the Hon. Elmer E. Woodbury, one of the Legislative Committee directing this movement tells the story.

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N February 12, 1809, in Hodgdensville, Kentucky, a man of destiny was born. In poverty and ignorance, in a most humble hut, environed by a scrub farm, one of the most unique characters, one of the world's greatest statesmen, and a nation's most beloved president, first breathed the breath of life-Abraham Lincoln. His only cradle was his mother's arms. He had no toys, for toys cost money which was a commodity unknown in this frontier home. His only playground was the lonely forest. Here he remained until he was seven years old without schooling or books save what his mother provided in a humble way. From here he trudged behind his father and mother to the trackless wilds of southern Indiana where a new home, a mere “leanto" hut with no windows or floor was built in the primeval forest of Little Pigeon Creek. Here later this boy of destiny knelt sobbing beside his dying mother while she laid her hand on his young head and gave him her blessing, telling him to be good to his father and sister, to love their kin and to worship his God. He watched the body of his sainted mother lowered into a shallow grave on the hillside without a spoken prayer. Tradition tells us that later this boy induced a travelling preacher to deliver a sermon and say a prayer above his mother's grave.

Such was the beginning of that remarkable career of a man whose only schooling was that in which he himself

was the tutor. In a wild and desolate region among the primeval works of nature's God, Abraham Lincoln grew to manhood. A master mind was developed that in later years "with malice toward none, with charity for all," was to preserve intact the nation that he loved.

To Little Pigeon Creek in the wilds. of southern Indiana belongs the honor of raising the first monument to Abraham Lincoln. When he followed his parents to the banks of the Sangamon in Illinois, a boyhood companion planted a cedar in memory of him, and that little tree was the first memorial raised in honor to this great man of destiny. His name stands linked with that of Washington in the eyes of the world and will endure longer than bronze or granite. Washington came down from the height of wealth and fame and builded a nation for a poor people, Lincoln came up from the lowest environment of ignorance and poverty and preserved that nation at a time when enemies were trying to destroy it.

From that day when the little cedar was planted in Indiana down to the present memorials in granite, in bronze, in oil, and in many other forms have been raised and will continue to be raised in his honor as long as democracy lives. In the stirring days of '61, when the great leader was indeed "despised and rejected of men," undergoing the sneers of political enemies of the North and in hourly danger from the secret agents of his military enemies of the South, no

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