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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL!, PORTLAND. THURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 10, 1908. l ABE WAS HATED Between Copperheads and Savage Republican Itad- ' - icals He Almost 31issed Reelection It Was the - People AYlio Saved the Day By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. (Copyright. 1908. b Frederic J. Haskln.) Washington, Sept 10. -It is difficult - for this generation, acknowledging Ab raham Lincoln as . one of fn greatest of men and aa the greateat leader of the Republican party, to realise the fact that be iron hi renomtnatlon and reelection to the presidency In 1864 over the great let obstacles. Practically every leader In the Republican party waa oppoaed to Llncoln'a renominatlon. Nearly every prominent Republican In the country believed Lincoln could not defeat Gen eral McClellan if he were renominated. But the people of the whole north rose up in their might, ran rough-shod over -the politicians and Instructed their dele cat to vote for '."Old Abe." Months after the nomination waa made . ft seemed certain tht McClellan would be elected. The Republican campaign leaders gave up hope and Lincoln him self admitted defeat. Two months be-, fore the election the tide turned the other way, thanks to a Democratic blun der and a victory won by the union ar mies in the south.) The "Union" Party If Ton Plea. The Democratic party had been a wonderful political imwhine and had dominated the country for 80 years.. It had been more powerful in the north than. in the south forp goodly portion of that six decades. It waa too strong In the north to die in a brief four years. Bo greatly did the Republican organiza tion fear It. notwithstanding Its broken condition, that the Republican leaders deliberately abjured their party name Bllu uiviir'j a it" inmni uiu" viiiri iinuii to meet at Baltimore early in June. The Union" party it was that renominated Lincoln, not the- Republican. - War and Peaoa Democrats. The Democrats of the states remain ing In the union were divided into two camps war Democrats and peace Demo crats. Both fnetions were rather free with their criticism of Lincoln's admin istration, but neither could say the hard thlng that the radical Republicans were crnying. The -pace Democrats were those who believed in letting the. south ern staiJs go, 'or in anything to bring peace. They were all accused, and many- were guilty, of being in symnathy with the confederate. They were the "dough faces" who had supported Pierce and rtuchannn and Breckinridge in the nast. They were not the hated and despised "Copperheads." One of the more pleas ant Republican campaign songs of the period waa: rav him 18.000 majority In New York " XJacola. till KoClsllaa, il. Greet In the New York Tribune heartily supported Lincoln and de n ou need McClellan as a traitor. But at the inrni time ha aald that no one would oretund to think Mr. Lincoln a freat man; The New York Herald nought the choice between "Old Abe" and ''Little Mao" was a choice between evlla, not between excellencies. For a time during the heat of the campaign It appeared that a.. n coin had no friends mom me laaaera ana in newipu". Oirplng , critics dlaaected his every act. nut tna tr.li maaa fir ini modi wrrt for him. When the election waa over he had carried twenty-two of the twenty: flvei states which voted, receiving 111 electoral votes lb McClellan' 11. Clellan carried only New Jersey, Ken tucky ana unaware. , , Bavajrery of the JUdlcals. Tinn.bN.1 and lvmlalfina both held elections, and were carried - for Lincoln. Its wished to hivi thalr votes accepted and counted,- acting on the theory that uieywert never legally oui or in un ion. Hut the foroea of Btevana and Wade were too stronr for him. They controlled flnnirviii an1 rtassed a lolnt resolution exciuainr in votes vi m two states. Lincoln signed It with great reluctance,, but he could not af ford a break with congresa at tnai timt. All durlnr the ramnslan the enemies of Lincoln were circulating stories that the president would withdraw from the race If both Republicans and Democrats couia agree upon a -pence cinaiuiw. The absurdity of such a rumor dldn kill it, -strange aa It may seem, and many radical Republicans hated .Lin coln for that. Lincoln's firm opposi tion to any scheme for the punishment of the' South by confiscation, his ear nest desire to pay for the slaves eman cipated, ana Ms determination 10 meet the south half-way In a peace agree ment, Infuriated the radicals. KcClellan's Xantnokr XeaX Serious charges were made against McClellan during the campaign. He was attacked for rula Inactivity while at the head of the army, and bis war fare on tha "rebels" was characterise! aa "an srentle. ao considerate, so lan guid," that the south had been prais ing him ever since he waa relieved xrom commana. An auegea agreement u rarH intM Mm McClllan and Gen eral Simon Bolivar Buckner, now the nnl aurvl v tn o- llAiitnnant-Breneral of either army, waa the basis of severe at tacks on in uemocrauc nominee iu 1S61 Kentucky was attempting to main tain a position of armed neutrality. General Buckner was in command of the Kentucky state troops, and.lt was charged that McClellan agreed not to send unuea estates troops inw rv-n-tuckv. leaving Buckner to keep out the Confederates. Alter inai, wnen iwn tnnVv'a noaltlon became untenable, Buckner went Into the Confederate army. The bitterness or tnai poimcai mmnalan has operated to prevent a Just estimate of General McClellan's military career, peruana, uui iui ua moat part It Is forgotten. The aver age man reads nothing but military his tory ror tne perioa or i-. mo Republicans in the Danger .1. Pemocratlor governor. The Demoerata, on the other hand, ware united BO cloae- ly aa to force Johnson to accept another nomination, and every vote in wis siai convention waa given to him. - In Iowa such ouarrei aa never marked manv alate campaigns has broken Out umona- tha . Ileiiubllrana, Korty-nln HepublTcan members of the legislature have re rimed to caucua wun tha Cummins members on the choice of a senator. The party there la split wide open. In Indiana tha governor, a Republican, rwuca a special session or tne legists. Hire 10 consider a local option law Moat of the Republican politicians are against that law, and a fight of bltter ueas has developed. Also there. Is the lukewarmness of tha Fairbanks roroes. t car much whether or noi of Their Street JJillions Cannot Overcome ""iMagust With Do-Nothing Record. In the article By John R. Lathrop. Chicago, Sept. 10. "Hard win; apathy la chief trouble." These headlinea were printed Chicago -Record-Herald over an by Walter Wellman, who says: "There is nothing to be gained by trying to deceive ourselves by sticking our heads In the sand and saying that everything is all right" Mr. Wellman la. a Republican news paper correspondent of prominence; the Record-Herald la a Republican paper of distinction. I have traveled 11 states this summer, ana everywhere is seeming apathy. To day they seem to care, little about the I say "seem" not to care. As a mat ter of fact, they do care, care much; they are possessed of a spirit of unrest, dissatisfaction witn existing conditions. Judged by perfunctory standards brass Dana paraaes, meetings wnereat tne hitherto well-fooled voter yells his throat raw there Is apathy. But any one who can discern deeper than those superficial signs can see that there Is deep concern for the outcome of the campaign. When tne KepuDiican leaders call for the people to "holler for the grand old party, the response Is not flattering to tne prospects or mat grand old party. Wall Street Cola for O. O. P. Careful inoufry Into the conditions at both national headquarters shows that the reported ahortage of funds at the Republican committee's offices is un true; that is; compared with the supply at the Democratic headquarters, the Re publicans have plenty. ur course, mere isn i . iu,uuu,uuu in "Of all the factions men we've seen. Existing now or long since dead. No one was ever known so mean, As him we call a Copperhead, A draft-evading Copperhead, A rebel-aiding. Copperhead. A .scowling, slandering, howling, pan- ! dering. Vicious, states-rights Copperhead." Between Copperhead and Badlcal. If the Copperheads were hated, they were not so dangerous to Lincoln polit ioaUy as the "radicals' of his own parly. He knew where to place the Cop perheads, but it was hard for him to ngm tne raaicais line remont, mad Htevens, Bon Wade and others of that Ilk who were opposed to him because he wouiu not agree to tne confiscation of all private property In the south. It waa even more difficult for Lincoln to meet the determined opposition of men like Salmon P. Chase. William H. Sew ard and Edwin M. Stanton, who held mm in lu-conceaiea contempt. And It was painful to Lincoln to see men like Horace Gteeley and Charles Sumner openly oppose nis renominatlon on the ground that he could not possibly be elected. . The radical Republicans held a na tional mass convention at Cleveland a week in advance of the "Union" con vention at Baltimore. John C. Fremont was nominated for president and John Cochrane for vice-president, and the platform declared for the- confiscation of all property in the confederate states. There were comparatively few promi nent leaders in the convention, but It waa the purpose to Influence the Balti more convention to take a radical stand. Lincoln had -already been nominated. In fact, because more than two-thirds of the delegates t Baltimore had been in structed. However, the leaders might doubt Lincoln, the people believed in .rtonseji adc. Why Lincoln Chose Johnson. Assured of his own renominatlon, Lin etn aet about the task of getting a war democrat ana a southerner ror his run nlng mate. Andrew Johnson ,of Ten nessee was nominated because Lincoln personally conducted the campaign for ins selection, tie wanted to gel the sup port of the war Democrats and he wanted - to have a southerner- on the ucaet Dccause or its errect In Europe. Lincoln held to the belief that secession was unconstitutional and that the 11 states or tne conreaeracy were not lea-al ly out of the union. If it had not been for this belief at the beginning of the war tne nortn would have taken Horace Greeley's advice to "let the wayward aiBinra uepari in peace. The Baltimore convention held to Lin toin s iiii-w. xnaaaeus Htevens was mere xignung against every movement . to Indorse the Lincoln policy of recon struction, contending that the seceded statea were actually and legally. out of the union, and that when retaken they should be treated as conquered territory Stevens was defeated at every turn in the Baltimore convention. But his op position to Lincoln's policy and his ha tred of Andrew Johnson was not ended. One of Lincoln's Grimmest Jokes. Nearly three months after he w-ts nominated. Lincoln and his advisers reached the conclusion that McClellan, already agreed upon aa the Democratic i nominee, would win the election. On I August n ne wrote ana signed a paper, which ha sealed and delivered to the ecreisry or tne navy, uideon Welles, BUILD ROAD TO LEARN ITS COST Texas Experiment for Pur pose of Exposing Corpor ation. Jugglers. (Special Dispatch to Tb Journal.! San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 10. A prac tical experiment in railroad construc tion and operation hns been undertaken by the state of Texas. The state la building a lino of railway from Pales tine to the penitentiary, at Rusk. About 15 miles of the track has been com- nlatari. and work on the remaining 1 miles is beina- rapidly pushed. The state officials say they expect to learn by actual construction and operation the Immediate cost of railway building and running, and that public inrorma linn an ohtalned without lueglina book keeping will be a basis of argument for future railroad rates. The ract tnat the state operates iron works at Rusk gives a financial reason for this gov ernment ownership of a railroad. ENGLAND MAKES , PRELATES WELCOME (United Press Leaatd Wlra.t London, Sept. 10. The cardinals and other dignitaries of the church of Rome In attendance at the Eucharistlc con- fxess are being mads most welcome by he officials and by the members of the nobility. The opening or tne congress yesterday was successful and it is honed that the threats of disturbance on the part of radical Protestants will not be carried out. Utmost precautions have been taken by the police to pre vent any anti-clerical demonstration. SHAH HOCKS JEWELS TO RAISE WAR FUND (Kneels! Dispatch tn Tbe Journal. I 8t Petersburg, Sept. 10. Dispatches from Teheran announce that the Shah of Persia has succeeded in placing a loan of 60,000 with the Bank of Russia with 'which he has deposited the- crown lewels as security. The money Is to be employed against the revolutionists. the hands of the Republicans, as theru was in 1896: but the campaign plans al ready announced prove that the Repub lican committee has vastly more money than the democrats, and this condition will be permanent until November. Treasurer Miieidon or the itepuDiican national committee Is a wail street man; hla of flees are at No. 8 Wall street: he Is a member of the director ates of several Immense concerns. The Wall street Interests have accepted Judge. Tat as their choice of the two candidates. When Wall street wants anything of a political nature, Wall street proceeds to attempt to buy it. That's Wall street's conception of the proper method whereby to get political things. Agreeable to this theory. Wall street Is "pungllng up" its dollars, not with the nVodle-alitv of the 1898 camnaien. but.' cotnpared with the resources of the Democrats. Wall street is giving liber ally. xnen there is tne coterie or highly protected trusts; thoy are apxious that the "friends of protection" revise the tariff. And they are "coming through" quite nicely. They were not enamored of Judge Taft before the Chicago con vention; but they are now seeking to re establish the Republican party in power, on the theory that that organization permitted the tariff abuses (they, of course, refer to them as benefits) to grow to their existing magnitude, and they have a better prospect of retain ing an or a major part of those Dene fits (abuses) If the dominant party re tain the reins or government. -BepqbUoaa Camps Divided. Out of what seemed a prospect for division of forces, the Democrats have wrought a united organization, and that same union is really what Is frightening tne KepuDiican managers, uniy in a few localities the Democrats are spilt in many places the Republicans are torn into tatters. In New Tork the Republican organize firm is against Hughes, against him with force and argument The masses are for him, and some of the politicians who have not been persona grata at the headquarters of the organization. No seoret is made of this, and with the Democracy of that state united, the chances of New York going Republican are conceded to be rather bright, and this concession is by Republicans as well as Democrats. In Ohio the Taft-Foraker fued re mains unsettled, and the Republican situation is that if Taft really makes up with Foraker the reformer element of that state will knife him; if Taft con tinues ito stand on the ground that Foraker must be eliminated, the Foraker people will savagely cut the Republican candidate. In Illinois the Deneen and Tates forces fought a primary campaign marked with such bitterness as seldom has been witnessed. That bitterness remains, now that Deneen has bean nominated for governor. Illinois Demo crats are enthusiastically united, in both state and national campaigns. In Minnesota the Republicans have not got over the acrid differences which twice electedJohn A. Johnson as the ected T i.,.. 1 ' Li Wisconsin Senator Stephenson JjltCS 811 1 fought the. divided La Kollett forces ana won a primary nomination ror re election, two oandldates opposed mm each clnlmlnr La Folletta's auoDort. In Kansas Henator Long waa defeated by llrlstow in a contest which wrought tha Republican nartv there Into a state of unheaval, and, to cap the climax, tho Kepubllcan state convention tndoraea the guarantee of bank deposits a stag gering body blow at the national ticket of Taft and Sherman and objected to by tne nepupucan leaders most vigorously. "We had to. If we honed to be Iri the NQVflmhAr rann at all." wna tha Kanaafl fight to Republicans' answer to the strictures against them by the Republican leaders. Bryanlo Kcpnblioans to Blame. It. -la a confessed fart that National Chairman llltchcock has dona nothing so far but attempt to settle these quar rels. He has traveled from state- to state, sought to harmonise differences and has failed In practically all Instances. It Is recognised that the underlying cause for these quarrels Is not the usual political Jealousies It Is the spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction at the do-nothing record of the Republican majority which has entered on a cam paign of explanation, always a weak po sition upon which to be forced. The progressive Republicans are watching to see whether or not Judge Taft is sufficiently progressive, and the reactionaries are waiting to learn whether or not he will be ' safe" which In their vernacular means deaf to tha entreaties of the people for relief. The celerity with which the Wall street Interests came to the assistance of the national Republican committee gave the progressives pauae. They realize that the march must be forward, not backward., And they seem to be de termined not to be caught by any party catchword this year. In the language of the street. It's "the goods this time' wnicn tnose progres sive Republicans are demanding, and their seeming apathy In not rushing to tne can ror Drass Dana paraaing ana ear-splitting campaign yelling is really their attitude of waiting to see which way the cat will Jump toward the for ward march or the retreat. But the Democrats will have enough money to mine a legitimate campaign and they have not had more In past years. People of healthy conceptions here at the political headquarters are frlad less money Is to be used this year: t augurs well for the purification of American politics, so most of them say. fates to tha legislature to Insist that lie niembera comply with the wlahes of tha Demorratlo majority In thla. Im portant matter. i Horn of tha anti-Prohibition leaders are said to favor submitting the ques tion to a vote'Af the people, because In the-recent election lU.Osrt voted for prohibition submission, 1st, 000 voted against It ' and 17.000. refrained from voting. Prohibition submission there for won by about 1,000 votes, and It claimed that the Republicans are antl- Brohlliltlonlats and will vol with the emocrallo mlnnajty of IJl.OOO, and thus defeat tha measure In tha general election. . World's Scenic Route. Tha cento wonders of tha Canadian Paclflo rout ar bevoad daanriptton. Thla Is tha verdict of the traveling put. lie. Purohaaa ynor tickets via tn 'World s flcnnic Rout.". Th roa4 that has mora to offer than all other roads combined. , ----- i a . . ..i i- Will Build $40,000 Brick. The United States, Laundry have a! most completed plans for their $40,000 orit-K building, which is to be located at the corner of Grand avenue and East Yamhill. J. Dannells. the manager of tne company, states that the building win oe modern in every respect and will be one of the finest laundry buildings in the northwest. Kvery appliance or method known In Laundry work will he used In order to make the institution first class In every respect. BUTTERFLIES PUT CITY IN DARKNESS (Soeclul IHgnatrh tn Tha Jnnrnal t Florence. Sept. 10 A think clnu'd of butterflies composed of millions of these insects, has passed over this city. They ten in sucn a mass tnat the sun was hidden and It became necessary to light the street lamps, which failed to give light, since they were surrounded im mediately by thick masses of th rroftt- ures, making futile all efforts to get rid of them. One result of the darkness wn me collision or streetcars, which, luriunareiy, resulted in no serious In uries, because of their being forced by the condition to move slowly. Fin ally, after remaining four hours, the uvuu ti i n t. in. rnHA aa nv n n mnt nn and abandoned Florence, to the great cue mo iiuiHuitanis. a lew mln uteS later the cloud rilrsctaH itaoie n ards the south and disappeared at the TEXAS LIQUOR FIGHT UP TO LEGISLATURE (Special Dispatch t Tba Journal.) San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 10. Plans are being matured by both the Prohl bltion and anti-Prohibition forces In Texas that promise a most determined struggle at the next session of the leg islature, as a result or t he Democrat c primary election, held July 25. a plank calling for the submission of state-wide prohibition to the voters of this state was put into tile Democratic platform by the Democratic state convention held in mis city August 11. This SUDmiss on of nroh h tlon to a vote can only be secured by a Joint resolution passed bv both hrnnche. nf tne legislature calling for an amend ment to the state constitution. Thla amendment will have to have a two thirds majority In both houses, and It is sain tnat a majority of the state sen. ate Is Opposed to such a resnlntlnn Current report says the Prohibition or ganisation win send a thousand dele irUan. .w ll not be r-electad wWHIJ!JT .to co-operat "KfTPi Hie election. This paper read: inia morn nc, as ior some navi naat t seems exceedingly probable that this mtuivr- h ii i, r with the cresldent-el the union between the elect auguration. as he will, have secured his election on sucn grounaa that he can not possibly save It afterward." KoCTUIlaa'a ratal Blonder. Six daya later, on August 21, the Democratic Natloaal convention met at cnicago. it nominated ueneral Mc Clellan for president and Oeorge H. Pendleton of Ohio for vice-president. Then It made the fatal mist lea, the blunder that Republicans 'say they al ways expert from the Democrats, of adopting a platform. That platform de-' rlared the war to be a failure. Almot at the same time cam the news that Atlanta bad fallen and of t'nlon vic tories la Virginia. General McClellan hastened to repudiate that portion of the platform, bat it was in vain. Tha Confederacy was crumbling to Its fall and the popl turned to'Llncola. Still the campaign waxed hot The - October lectlnns In Pennsylvania hewed great Democratic gains and the administration was alarmed. Llnco'.n rot Generals Mead and Sheridan each te furlough Pennsylvania oldir to go horn to vota. H carried tha tat en th hnm vote by only a few vw ,M. and including the aoldw In th fleid. by only 19 H. Nw Tor h rarrir-d by only .f'Oa. Tam- -.tcany Hail supported McCleUaa aoJ W ?0t to L VJ t a"" Nil L-r- ftV QUfc. fllCiU- W - WW ---" Wlla mi - - M -AC WW m BVaT 7 "few . ' VrU 1. o MOVING This company is pleased to announce that it has leased the splendid quarters at the corner of Fourth and Oak streets in the new Board of Trade building. 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