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to say or do anything even under great provocation that would create in his opponent a lasting feeling of resentment or ill-will. I recall a spontaneous gathering at Mr. Stevenson's home, twenty-nine years ago, on the eve of his departure for Washing- 64 ADLAI EWIKG STEVENSON ton to assume the duties of Assistant Post Master General under the first administration of President Cleveland, at which gather- ing practically all the members of the McLean County bar were present. At that time nine-tenths or more of the members of this bar were ardent and militant republicans, yet notwithstanding the then recent national defeat of their party ; notwithstanding the many political bufferings and bruises they had received at the hands of Mr. Stevenson in his triumphal campaigns for con- gressional honors, and the chastisements he had at times adminis- tered to many of them in the forum, every laudatory remark of the speaker who presented to Mr. Stevenson the gift of the bar in token of the high esteem in which he was held by its members, was cheered quite as lustily and heartily by every republican as by any democrat. And I well remember, too, that while respond- ing Mr. Stevenson's eyes were overflowing with tears and that his emotion was such that it was with the greatest difficulty that he could control his voice sufficiently to express his heartfelt thanks and appreciation. Between Mr. Stevenson and his brother-members of the Mc- Lean County bar the ties of friendship and high fraternal re- gard were never broken nay, not even strained.

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