. Sayings and doings of the sixth general meeting : held at Eagle Lake, Warsaw, Ind., July 6 to 10, 1891 . n McGovern, 3 Uncle Williams Photo., . James Whitcomb Riley, 4 To an Old Apple Tree, . Coates Kinney, 5 Realm of Reverie, . . Louise V. Boyd, 6 Trust, Meredith Nicholson, 237239241242245247249250 252253254 255256 257 PART —BANQUET—MEMORIALS-NOTES. Circular Letter, 261 Program, 263 Proceedings, 266 Resolutions on the Worlds Columbian Exposition, . 269 Election of Officers, 270 Personal Mention, 272 10 CONTRIBUTIONS AND WRITERS. PAGE. Annual Banquet, 277 Toasts, 278 Memorial Sess
. Sayings and doings of the sixth general meeting : held at Eagle Lake, Warsaw, Ind., July 6 to 10, 1891 . n McGovern, 3 Uncle Williams Photo., . James Whitcomb Riley, 4 To an Old Apple Tree, . Coates Kinney, 5 Realm of Reverie, . . Louise V. Boyd, 6 Trust, Meredith Nicholson, 237239241242245247249250 252253254 255256 257 PART —BANQUET—MEMORIALS-NOTES. Circular Letter, 261 Program, 263 Proceedings, 266 Resolutions on the Worlds Columbian Exposition, . 269 Election of Officers, 270 Personal Mention, 272 10 CONTRIBUTIONS AND WRITERS. PAGE. Annual Banquet, 277 Toasts, 278 Memorial Session, 287 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Marie L. Andrews, ......... 289 L. May Wheeler, 292 Theophilus Van Deren, 295 Col. John Lee, 296 Alonzo Hilton Davis, 298 John J. Piatt, 298 Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, 299 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. General Lew Wallace, John Clark Ridpath, . Benj. S. Parker, Mary E. Cardwill, Richard Lew Dawson, Dr. James Newton Matthews, W. D. Gallagher, E. F. Ware, . W. W. Pfrimmer, James Whitcomb Riley, Birdie Blye, Frontispiece,opposite page 114298 135146 197202 237254273 ,JI«#:. JOHN CLARK RIDPATH. THE DEMOCRACY OF LETTERS. (PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.) BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH. Ladies and Gentlemen : To establish a democracy was one of the earliestdreams of the human race. Doubtless there was a timewhen the cave-men, the lake-men and the cliff-dwellersdid not dream at all, or dreamed only in the fashion ofour shepherd or pointer, who imagines himself activelyvigilant between the flock and the wolf or holding hisinstinctive nose in the direction of the game. But thetime came when the conscious man, the man of will andpurpose and plan and hope, began to see visions anddream dreams; and one of the first of these was thevision of a democracy—a social gathering into one of likespirits made perfect under the law of equality, of truth, oftrust, of mutual interest and mutual devotion. But the vision receded far and danced in waveringlines along a distant and seemingly unattaina
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