Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — REPUBLICAN CONVENTION GAVEL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION GAVEL

When the great Republican national convention convenA in St Louin on June 16 one of its early acts will be to cheer the name and memory of the great commoner and American martyr, Abraham Lincoln. Before the convention proceeds to routine work its chairman-elect will be presented with a beautiful gavel fashioned (torn a log taken from the cabin built by Mr. Lincoln at New Salem, 111., is 1832. The gavel will be presented by

State Senator O. F. Berry, a nephew of the Jonathan Berry who was in partnership with Mr. Lincoln while conducting a store at New Salem. Both ends will be mounted. One end will be capped with gold and the following inscription will be engraved thereon: “National Republican Convention held at St Louis June 16, 1896, nominating for President,” the name of the nominee to be inserted.