07 Dec




















"Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon the records of the city council and that a copy thereof suitably engrossed be forwarded to Gen. Stevenson's family." RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF McLEAN COUNTY: "Whereas, during the last month, the final summons has called from earth our illustrious townsman, Adlai E. Stevenson, who closed a matchless career full of honor and rich in all of the attributes of exalted manhood a career notable alike for its purity, energy and statesmanlike ability; and "Whereas, he occupied many posts within the gift of his country, from prosecuting attorney, back in his young manhood at Metamora, to the office of vice-president of our great nation, ADLAI EWINQ STEVENSON 69 and discharged the duties of all these offices with that fidelity to the public welfare that is an essential to the perpetuation of the republic, and tho many differed with him politically, yet as a man in the best and widest sense he had the highest respect of all, and measured up to that high standard which we point to as an ideal ; and, "Whereas, in his death our city, county, state and nation has sustained the loss of one of its most loved and honored sons, and we, in McLean county, feel his departure in a closer and deeper sense for he was one of us in spirit and in truth ; there- fore, be it "Resolved, that as a mark of the esteem in which Adlai E. Stevenson was held by this honorable body, and the people of

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