THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY. MAY 31, 3008. ADDRESS OF SECRETARY TAFT (Continued from page 1) foundation and maintenance of this nation's life will always be associated with those of Washington and Lm join. The character of Grant as develop ed by the war and as necessary to the result was as remarkable in its way, rnniderinr his nrevious history as was that of Lincoln. It is true that Grant received an education at West Point, but certainly nothing was developed there in him to indicate his fitness and ability to meet great responsibilities. He did well in the Mexican War as did other lieutenants. He manifested as reel mental quartermaster energy and fa niiliaritv with his duties. Hut in 1854 . he resigned from the army because he iad to. He has viewed to the weaK ness of a taste for strong drink and rather than be court-martialed he left the army. He returned from Van couver on the Pacific Coast to his family at St. Louis without money, without propertva disheartened man. He accepted from his father-in-law a loan of 75 acres of land upon which he constructed a house for his famly to live and there he carried on fanning operations. His chief business seemed to be that of selling wood, of ft I to Cards of Candidates in the Coming Election REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET For United States Senator H. M. Cake For Congressman W.R. Ellis Justice Supreme Court Robert S. Bean Oregon Food & Dairy Commissioner J. W. Bailey Commissioner of Railroads Clyde B. lAitchi son Prosecuting Attorney E. B. Tongue For Representatives C. A. Leinen weber John C. McCue 'Jor County Commissioner (Four-year term) John Frye For County Commissioner (Two-year term) Fred H. Moore For County Clerk J. C. Clinton For County Sheriff M. R. Pomeroy For County Assessor T. S. Cornelius For County Treasurer W. A. Sherman For County Surveyor G. F. Parker For County Coroner J. A. Gilbaugh For Justice of the Peace P. J. Goodman For Constable JohnSayer VOTE FOR John Sayer "LIVERPOOL JACK" Republican Nominee for Constable cuttinii it and piling it in the bac vards of the well-to-do people of St Louis. Alter six years of this lit' he gave up farming because of ill health and went to the real eslat business for a year, lie failed in this. His associate dissolved th Dartnershii). Then at last his fathe offered him $600 a year as a clerk in his leather store at Galena, 111,, and thence he moved from St, Louis. H worked there for a year also. Dur inn these seven years, though every thing looked dark, he overcame in a great measure his weakness for strong drink. Hut he was so constituted mat it seemed impossible for him to earn a livlihood even when he had given hostages to fortune in the shape of a we and four children. Then the Civil War came on. Grant had never been a dreamer ot possible military glory. He had gone to West Point because it offered him an opportunity tor advancement; of fered him an opportunity tor an euu cation. He did not like the lite at West Point and while he seemed in the Mexican War to be well adapted to the command of men, to be well adapted to the duty of quartermaster he never hau ttiat vanning military ambition that present in the character of Napoleon and other military lead ers. He tendered his services at the beffinninir of the war merely front a sense of duty and obligation for his education, rus naving oecn a siu dent at West Point and a regular army officer necessarily brought him to the front when military training and experience were m such great de mand. He modestly suggested in his letter to the adjutant-general at Wash ington that he believed he -was fitted to command a regiment, fie never gave evidence of military ambition He visited Cincinnati seekiiv to be come the start omcer ot .Mccieiian, but in vain. And then by great luck he was made the colonel of the 21st 1 111 nois by Gov. Yates. From that time he took command of that regiment until the surrender of Appomattox his life was one well directed, well planned eftort to sup press the rebellion, irotn time on his constant quest to tind and tight the enemy. Beginning with the bat tle of Belmont he was always in the held and always seeking the Confed erate forces, though in the West he suffered as did the western generals from the interference of the war de partment and the paper stragetist like Halleck and the freedom of his move ments were curtailed and his constant activity restrained by timidity and jealousy of his superior officers. But in spite of all of this he pressed on and by victories he won he compelled the war department to give him a freer hand. Fort Henry, Fort Donel son and Shiloh were victories that shone like stars in the darkness of the defeats of other Union commanders, and although in disgrace for a short period he finally was put in command of the army charged with the duty taking Mick5burg and he took it Then followed the great battle of Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, alter which he was called to Washing ton, made lieutenant-general and com mander of the entire army of the United States. Then for the first time, he came against Lee and for a year he measured swords with that great military leader of the South who ultimately succumbed and sur rendered to him the Army of North ern Virginia at Appomattox. It is not to be questioned that Grant's abilities to command devel oped with his increased experience. It is not to be questioned that his suc cess depended too upon the resources of the North that furnished him men and equipment, but in war as in other things in life as in all hi.itory merit is determined by the event, and it was Oram who lea the armies and in fused his life into their leadership. It was Grant that finally subdued the Rebellion. At one time it was cus tomary to criticise Grant's campaign ing and to intimate that his knowledge of military strategy was not such as to jurtify a comparison of . him with Lee and other generals. Grant had a very broad conception ot t!ie work which the North had before it in sub duing the South. He had an oppor tunity in his life to know the South ern people and discriminate in respect to them so as to understand that while they talked a great deal they could also do a great deal. He believed the only way of subduing the rebellion was by lighting the armies ot the re bellion and that after all the contests between the two parts of this nation was a contest of resources of men and of wealth. In the end it proved to be so. His judgment was vindi cated. Jt is said that Grant was not a man ot military genius. It is diffi cult to define what genius is. Some describe it as the capacity for taking infinite pains. If so Grant was a genius. Halleck was a great authority of military science and grand strategy and he never planned a campaign un less, like a lawyer with his precedents, he could turn to the page of the mili tary text book and justify his plan by a reference to a battle of Caesar, Na poleon or Frederick. Had he been able to participate in Grant's plan for the taking of Vieksburg he would cer tainly have prevented it, and yet, in comparing the strategic ability of Grant with that of other generals it can truly be said that there is no campaign in the Civil War that show ed more originality, greater celerity of movement, better calculation of op posing forces and more effective re sults than the one beginning with the capture of Grand Gulf, continued by the battles of Jacksonville, Cham pions Hill and th Big Hlack, and end ing with the surrender of Vieksburg. Equally well wrought out, though not so difficult of execution were the bat tles of Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. We are told by those who know that Grant was exceedingly familiar with all the cam paigns of great military leaders; that his memory was retentive and his in terest in the science was great. But he had sufficient common sense, he had a sufficient real irrasp of military problems, ' he had sufficient under standing of the conditions under which previous campaigns had been fought and which he had to fiaht to exercise original free thought, and to free himself from the bonds of mili tary precedent Grant was a man of such a sensitive nature that he could not even bear to see animals subjected to pain. And yet his conception of war and its necessities was so clear that the dreadful losses sustained by him in the Wilderness, at Spottsyl vania and at Cold Harbor ami in the other campaigns against Lee did not turn hint from his purpose or lead him to change his plan which he had deliberately formed of wearing Lee out and by constant hammering of ending the army of Northern Vir ginia, His purpose was at the cost which the Northern Army was able to stand, to indict losses upon the Southern army which in the end meant its de struction. A calculation of the losses which the army of the Potomac sus tained during the first three years of the war showed them to have been far greater than those sustained by Grant during his eanmaiens of '64 and '65 against Lee and it is cer tainly not loo much to say that' had Grant's military career as a general begun in the east as it began in the west the war would have been length ened out to a full four years. The tenactity with which Grant conduct ed his caninaigus, the speed with which he executed his plank and the promptness with which he was on hand next morning with a force able to fight alter a drawn battle, if put in practice the army of the I'otonuc during the first three years of the war would certainly have brought about an earlier termination. Grant s idea of a war was a tight and a series of battles and his t theory of winning vic tories was that the side which was first ready the nturning after the bat tle to resume it would win in the end. The greatness of the man was seen in his willingness to assume responsi bilities and Iiis power of standing the strain when defeat and disaster seem ed to threaten the success of his dans and to indicate their weakness. It was then having determined on what his -dan .should be. he stuck to it and pushed it through in the face of all opposition and vindicated his judgment by ultimate success, lie was etirely willing to receive advice but his decision was his own. Another quality he had as a ereat military commander was the nower to select competent subordinates and of instilling into them confidence in him and his purposes, which almost insured success. The men he esnec- ially selected were Sheridan, Sherman, McPherson, Rawlins and Logan and how well they justified his choice. When he came east he suffered from in absence ot that mutual understand ing between commander-in-chief and subordinate commanders that had been of such value to him in his earlier campaigns. The history of Grant's relation those of his subordinates to whom he gave confidence and whom he ha himsell selected is a fascinating on me relations wnicn existed betwee him and Sherman, it is pleasant to dwell upon, i he utter absence jealousy between him and the pleas tire wnicn each took in the successe of the other are as delightful as the are rare. V..OUK1 anything be more uniciuc , , ... man tne history ot bherman s writin long protest to the War Depart ment against the wisdom of the cam paign east of Vieksburg, which easily tne greatest strategic success of the war and brant s pigeon-holing am returning to Sherman the protest af er the campaign was won. Then Sherman's letter to Grant when Grant was appointed to command of th army, his expressions of admiration and confidence, all make us think more of our human kind, because we encounter so frequently the small jealousies between the great which sometimes are permitted to interfere with the succssfu progress of event in the crises of our national life. 'I he love that existed between (rant and Sheridan is another enobl ing relation that it is pleasant to con template. 1 he mutual confidence which each reposed in the other and was so abundantly justified, furnishes another instance of the course of true friendship between the great in which no yellow spot of jealousy touches the eye. One characteristic of Grant is shown in a letter which Lincoln wrote concerning him in which he says with respect to previous genera s. his ex perieiice had been such that he always expected after a general had been ao pointed to hear from him that a great many things were needed in the army which he knew that Lincoln was not able to give him and that this was followed by the .statement that if he had those things, then he could win the victory. He said Grant differed from the other generals in this re sped, that he took what he had and went ahead and with those things he did what he could and what was to be done, lie gave an instance: he said he had 15,1)1X1 cavalrymen at Har pers 1'erry without horses. He had attempted to t horses and could not secure them. Previously generals had said to him that if they could have had that la 01)0 cavalry they could accomplish great thinars and win a victory. -What Grant said was With your authority I will arm these men and make them infantrymen or i win sen tnein home. The magnificent mausoleum on the 'rand site upon the beautiful river furnishes such'a hero a fit' ing resting place. May it forever remain to in spire his countrymen to oalriotir thoughts and ertorts. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hairs Always Booghl Signature of C'TS rM acq r rn AnwrDT mmml-m I I I Umm HELP WANTED WANTED GOOD MAN IN EVERY locality; good pay; experience un necessary to represent large real estate organization, write today. R. F, Loos Co,, Des Moines, Iowa. GIRL WANTED FOR GENERAL housework in small family. Apply 420 Exchange Street. 5-26-tf, MISCELLANEOUS. WA NT ED B ET WE EN JUNE 1ST and 15th, a furnished house for the summer; good, careful tenant. Ad dress II. G. 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