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Lincoln's Fan Mail
One George S. Wright wrote President Abra
ham Lincoln in 1860 that he had:
"Stude in the streets and hurade for you and
bet 50 dollars that you would be elected" only
1 to find when he went to collect the bet that
;5 "one word brot on another tel at last I Nocked
the gentleman -down and so you see he tuk the
, law on me and it cost me 50 dollars so Mr.
Lincoln I have don my part for you I think
you ar in debt to me for my Cindness to you.
Please ancer this letter." I
This post-election gem is part of the Lincoln
papers, a collection of 18,000 items which was
made public at the Library of Congress in July,
1947, and many of which appear in the latest
contribution tp the Lincoln legend, "The Lin
coln Papers" edited by David C. Mearns. , ?
These papers were deposited in the national
library by the president's son, Robert Todd Lin
coln, with the proviso that they were to remain
secret until 21 years after his (Robert's) death.
Historians have been immensely curious- about
the collection, only to find that it contains few
important documentsl
The bulk of -the papers is letters; not letters
by Lincoln or by men in high office, but mes
sages and requests from the public to the pres
ident, lake any other fan mail or like letters
to editors of newspapers, this collection does
not reveal much that is new about the subject
(Lincoln) but it does throw light on the minds
of the American people of his time.
And, judging from these letters, the people
"have not changed much during the past centu
ry. Self-interest appears to have been the com
pelling motive, then as now.
sa. Mothers wrote to ask Lincoln to give their
soldier sons "a higher place than private." Office-seekers
flattered and cajoled. Cranks and
crack-pots offered their advice and vitupera
tions. And one republican who said he had hurt
his arm shooting off a cannon at a party rally
suggested Lincoln might forward "a little of the
needful" to make" him feel better.
The New York Times book reviewer suggests
jthat it seems characteristic of Lincoln to have
saved these humble petitions and subliterate
I epistles along with important documents and
political information. For the president, facing
perilous decisions and a civil war, these letters
may have served as "a little of the needful":
the comio, relief he craved.
A Democrat for Treasurer
Oregon has not escaped its share of election
day upsets.
! The neck-to-neck race between republican
Howard Beltoii and democrat Walter J. Pearson
for, the state treasureship shows that, here as
nationally, the cohesion of the democrats was
underrated and that, here as nationally, repub
U.S. Voters
By Joseph and Stewart Alsep
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5
( There is only one question on
' which professional politicians.
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tical reporters
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acres -and prog- '
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much author-
ity. That is
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their crow
cooked. These
particular re-,
PKrtera -P5fi Joseph Also
their crow LJ-J, s
With this preface, It is Inter
esting to speculate on the tri
umphant reelection of President
Marry S. Truman in the face
""" of the univer
sal belief that
. . he was beaten
i ' before the bal-
loting started.
, 1 An explanation
is at least
strongly sug
gested by the
vote for the
four presiden
tial candidates,
. olus the votes
jfor candidates
-Jfor congress.
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The people of the United States
are considerably further to the
left than had been supposed.
The facts to support this con
clusion can be summarized very
easily.
First, anyone who paid much
attention to what Truman said
must have been astonished to
observe that his campaign
speeches were consistently more
aggressive and more radical
than any Franklin Delano Roose
velt ever uttered. At his hot
test and angriest, Roosevelt
never laid Into big business as
Truman did. Nor did Roosevelt
ever promise specific reforms,
well beyond any currently pop
ular with other politicians, as
Truman did.
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' Second, the record of the 80th
congress was beyond doubt
Truman's greatest strength. In
the farm states he could and
did point to such phenomena as
the republican senators and rep
resentatives 'undercutting the
rural electrification administra
tion at the behest of the power
i4obby. In the great urban areas
. he could and did point to the
licans can no longer afford to depend on past
victories or yesterday's public opinion polls,
j Young (44) Walter J. Pearson, if the final
:i count gives him victory, would become the first
democrat elected to the office of state treasurer
since 1886 when G. W, Webb was voted to the
I post and served until 1891. The last democrat
to hold the position was Walter R. Pearson,
father of the treasurer-elect, who was appoint
ed by Governor Martin in 1938 to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Rufus C.
i Holman, republican appointee of Governor Mei
7 er. Jefferson Myers, another democratic ap
pointee, was named statetreasurer by Governor
Pierce in 1924 to replace O. P. Hoff, elected re
publican who died in office.
The new treasurer will also be the first dem
ocrat to sit on the state board of control since
his father was replaced by Leslie M. Scott in
1941. Only five democrats (Governor .West,
Pierce and Martin and Treasurers Myers and
Pearson) have served on that board since it was
created by legislative act in 1913.
But statistics like those, interesting as they
are, are quite irrelevant today. Oregon simply
is nOt as solidly republican as it once was and
"Pearson's election should not come as a com
plete surprise.
Eighteen years ago, when republican Hoover
was president and republican AW. Norblad
was; governor of Oregon, every county in the
state had a republican majority in the numbers
of voters registered. Such unanimity is no long
er part of the state political scene.? By 1936,
democrats were in the lead in nine counties;
in lf)38, 13 counties were predominantly demo
cratic ;this year, as in 1940, 14 (including heav
ily populated Multnomah) out of 36 counties
had higher democratic than republican voter
registrations. This year, the statewide margin
between democratic and GOP registrations was
about 12,000.
It is only fair that nearly 335,000 democrat
voters in Oregon should be adequately repre
sented in their state government. Whether their
choice for treasurer and their choice of demo
crats for the legislature insures adequate rep
resentation remains to be seen.
Individual candidates aside, if Pearson's elec
tion;: indicates a rennaissance of the two-party
system in Oregon, then that is a good thing . . ,
good for the democrats because it may inspire
them to become better competition, good for the
republicans because it will make them look to
their laurels, and consequently, good for the
state.
I Jantzen Knitting Mills, Portland swim suit
martufacturers, report record sales and earn
ings; More and more out of less and less, it
seems.
Consistent in
Taft-Hartley act. His huge audi
ences did not seem to listen
very carefully at the time. But
these points of Truman's meant
pork chops to the farmers and
workers; the farmers; and work
ers evidently went :. home and
thought about It and decided'
that a vote for: Truman would
be the best safeguard of their
interests. " i
Third, the republican conser
vatism of the great mid-western
farming area, which has been
, an accepted fact In all recent
American , political calculation,
is a fact no longer. Truman had
to carry several states , in this
area to counter-balance his loss
of New York and the Dixiecrat
territory. He carried them hand
ily. No one can any longer talk
with pompous certainty about
"isolationist, stand-pat Iowa."
The voters in these states were
not going to the polls in the
mood of the sheriff - chasing
mortgage - burning farmers of
the '30s, A good maijy of them
could, if they chosel jiave flown
in to cast their ; ballots in their
private airplanes. Yet they voted
for the democrats just the same.
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There may be something to
their argument that the prevail
ing prosperity was a great help
to the Ins and an obstacle to
the Outs. But it is outrageously
patronizing to assume that the
electorate did not understand
the issues involved in this elec
tion. ?
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Furthermore, Jthere; is ample
proof that the voters,' knew ex
actly what they wanted. With
out, exception, ; the t senatorial
candidates of true 80th congress
flavor the brassy ; Brooks of
Illinois, Ball of Minnesota. Wil
son of Iowa, Robertson of Wyo
ming and Neanderthal Rever
comb of West Virginia ran
badly behind Governor Thomas
E. Dewey. In these states Dewey
was undoubtedly preferred, as
being relatively: modern-minded.
On the other hand Dewey
trailed the more progressive
Cooper of Kentucky & who was
unfortunately beaten by a small
margin, and Saltonstall of Mas
sachusetts, who ' won. All these
returns, together with the ridic
ulously small vote for the pa
thetic Henry A. Wallace, make
a perfectly clear picture of the
voters' political viewpoint.
only one or two of the re
publican isolationist reaction-
Swing Left
aries sensed the voters view
point before the balloting. One
such was the great tax-cutter,-Harold
Knutson of Minnesota,
who listened to the wind in the
grass roots of his supposedly
rock-ribbed isolationist republi-
can district, and loudly announ-
ced his last-minute conversion
to the Marshall plan a few days
before November 2. Those who
could not grasp what the voters
wanted: before November 2,
however, must at least be able
to do so now. The brand of
domestic policy peddled by the
National Association of Manu
facturers, and the brand of for
eign policy offered by CoL Rob
ert R. McCormick, may now be
officially considered to have
about is much political appeal
as red-hot vegetarianism.
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This Is the answer, of course,
to .those blind extremists in the
republican party who are now
muttering that the whole busi
ness was the fault of Thomas
E. Dewey and his "high level"
campaign. Governor Dewey could
only have come to hard grips
with President Truman by talk
ing like Senators Brooks, Rever
comb and Cox. In that case, the'
figures say that he would have
been far worse beaten than he
was. Dewey took the best line
he could have taken to escape
the onus of the 80th congress
record. The 80th congress rec
ord, which was Truman's cen
tral campaign issue, was a han
dicap Dewey could not over
come. ,
As to what will now ensue,
these reporters, feeling some
what replete after one heavy
meal of crow, are not prepared
to make forecasts. President
Truman returns to the White
House owing no individual any
thing except grudges. He owes
much to the American people
collectively. But the labor lead
ers did not want him, the polit
ical leaders tried to get rid of
him, the democratic contributors
almost unanimously dried up on
him, and the press patronized
and discounted him. Even with
in his own administration there
are those whose support he must
regard as having been strikingly
lukewarm. The question is
whether he will now proceed to
pay off the unfaithfuls, or will
concentrate on the vast respon
sibility he has courageously
won again.
(Copyright. 1948. New York Herald
Tribune. Inc.)
The Good Earth?'
Literary
Guidepost
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO
LONDON AND THE CONTI
NENT BY HERMAN MEL
VILLE. 1849-1850. edited by
Eleanor Melville Metcalf
(Harvard; $3 75)
When Melville took this trip,
which was partly to sell a book
of his and partly to humor a
persistent wanderlust which was
not stilled even by the pain of
separation from his family, he
was a 30-year-old author about
to write "Moby Dick."
Published for the first time,
this journal consists of incom
plete sentences, broken phrases,
and memos that would serve to
prompt him when, back home,
he told his wife what a time
he had had.
Despite its sketchlness, it is
delightful; only a master can
interest us in these slight ma
terials. But I enjoy with him
his frequent glass of stout, his
gallery tours, his greeting to the
Queen, his pride at seeing a
copy of one of his books in a
stranger's hands, his long walks
in London, Paris, Brussels,
Cologne.
There are moments of excite
ment, such as a suicide and, in
London, a double hanging: "A
most wonderful, horrible and
unspeakable scene." But it is
usually more trivial, about the
shape of a leg, or the girl who
shortchanged him yet wasn't,
alas, pretty, or the beggar who
"tormented me home to the
hotel." However Inconsequential
the matter, this "pondering man"
was nevertheless astute, as when
he admires the Madeleine's "su
perb exterior and remains dis
creetly silent about the interior.
PIAZZA TALES, by Herman
Melville, edited by Egbert S,
Oliver (Hendr icks-Farrar,
Straus; $3.50)
The six stories In this collec
tion are "The Piazza," "Bartle
by," "Benito Cereno," "The
Lightnin - Rod Man," "The En
cantadas" and The Bell-Tower."
Only one, "The Lightning
Rod Man," and the one you
might expect, betrays in its topic
and quaint handling the marks
GRIN AND BEAR
'If I have to listen tothat cheerful breakfast couple on the radio
again, itll Just start another fight..."
Stamps in Today's News
By SYD KRONISH
Associated Press Writer
The descriptions of the last
two stamps officially scheduled
on the U. S. commemorative
stamp list for 1948 have been
announced by the post N office
department.
The 3 cent stamp honoring
the 100th anniversary of the
Turners Society will be placed
on first day sale Nov. 20 at Cin
cinnati. The stamp will be blue
and depict a torch throwing
light on the history of the Amer
ican Turners. On the left and
right sides of the torch are a
pair of gymnastic hanging rings.
Below in a circle is the Ameri
can Turners national emblem.
The 3 -center commemorating
the centenary of the birth of
Joel Chandler Harris will . be
placed en first day sale Dec. 9
at Eatonton, Ga. Harris created
the immortal "Uncle Remus."
This new adhesive will be pur
ple and will show a portrait ft
Harris in an oval frame against
a background of colonial de
sign. At the base of the por
trait will be a closed book,
scroll, quill pen and an inkwell.
Stamp collectors desiring first
day cancellations of these adhe
sives .may send up to 10 ad
dressed envelopes with remit
tances addressed to the Post
masters at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Eatonton, Ga. respectively.
Australia will issue three spe
cial postage stamps, during the
Royal visit next year. The 24
pence, for empire mail, will fea
ture a portrait of the King,
Queen and Princess Margaret
Rose. The, 34 pence, for for
eign mail, -will show a portrait
of the Princess. The 18 pence,
for overseas air mail, will bear
a portrait of the King and
Queen.
Russia has issued a special 40
kopeck blue stamp honoring the
of its advanced age. The others
are as fresh as when they were
written In the 1850s, and the
second and third belong in any
anthology of great American
short stories.
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By Lichty
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late Andrei A. Zhdanov, secre
tary general of the communist
party central committee. Zhdan
ov, one of the closest associates
of Stalin, was a member of
the powerful politburo, a found
er of the Cominiorm and a lead
er in the Cominform's recent
attacks on Premier Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia. He died of
a heart attack last Aug. 31.
Spain celebrates the 100th an
niversary of its railroads with
three new stamps, reports Leon
Monosson. The 50 ' centimos
brown pictures. Marquis de Sala
manca, who was instrumental
in establishing, building and fi
nancing the railroads in Spain.
The 2 pesetas airmail red shows
a streamlined train above which
flies an airplane. The 5 pesetas
green depicts a train en route
over a high stone bridge.
Ecuador has issued a beauti
ful set of 5 postage and 5 air
mail stamps honoring the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the "Four Freedoms," re
ports the Penny Black Stamp Co.
The 10 centavos pink and 20
eentavos olive are for "Freedom
From Fear." These two picture
a bell and scales of justice.
The 30 centavos olive green,
40 centavos orchid and 1 Sucre
brown are for "Freedom of
Worship.' This group illustrates
a man and boy kneeling in
prayer.
The 60 centavos green and
brown and 1 sucre pink and
grey, both airmails, are for
'"Freedom of Speech. They
show a man speaking from a
platform.
The 1.50 sucre green, 2 sucres
red and 5 sucres blue, also air
mails, are for "Freedom From
Want." Depicted is a man sow
ing seeds of grain.
Each stamp bears a side view
portrait of Roosevelt in the up
per left corner.
Uruguay pays tribute to its
Industrial and Agricultural Ex
position held Oct. 9-Nov. 9 at
Paysandu with two new stamps.
The 3 cents green shows a wa
terfront scene. The 7 cents blue
depicts agricultural scenes.
Engineer to
Open Office
Warren W. Clark, Salem civil
engineer, announced Friday he
has opened engineering offices in
the Pacific building.
A veteran of four years of army
service in the South Pacific dur
ing the late war, Clark moved to
Salem with his family in 1946 and
was associated with the G. B.
Boatwright firm until November 1.
Clark is a graduate of Iowa
State college in 1936 and was em
ployed with- the Natural Gas com
pany from Chicago to Texas for
six years before entering the ser
vice. He will engage in all types
Of civil engineering, but will spe
cialize in structural work, ;
17 Firemen to
Be -Added to Staff
The firemen's work hour changes
dictated by voters at this week's
general election will require about
-17 additional city firemen, it was
reiterated Friday by the commit
tee which sponsored the bill.
Under the proposal as adopted
at the polls, work hours are de
creased from 84 to 63 per week
for all city firemen and a tax levy
of up to 3 mills will finance add
ed firemen necessary. The States
man's election report yesterday in
advertently said 25 men would be
added and work hours now are
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reception in liss Bergman's honor after she was swarded the)
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Farmer Voices
Opposition to
Road Extension
Hearinff on a petition to extend
couhty road 530 to meet the Wood
burn - Hubbard road north of
Woodburn has been continued to
December 17 the Marion county
court reported Friday.
The court set Friday for a hear
ing date but only Irving Halter,
who lives near the roads in ques
tion, appeared in opposition to the
proposal. No one was present to
favor the petition.
As the proposed extension would
cross the Southern Pacific tracks.
the court said Friday it is awaiting
the railroad's reaction to the pe
tition before holding a final bear
ing.
The move would extend a 60-
foot road about 200 feet to meet
with the Woodburn - Hubbard
road. Nearby residents told the
court that the road would provide
an access to the Woodburn-Hub
bard road.
Halter, who owns the land over
which the proposed road would be
built, said such a move would re
move almost three - quarters of
an acre of berry and orchard land
from his five-acre tract. He said
it also would necessitate the mov
ing of his barn and house and
would reduce the value of his pro
perty. Municipal Engineering, Struc
tural Analysis i and Design.
Streets, Sewers. ; Sewage Dis
posal. Surveys
Warren W. Clark
Consulting Engineer
Registered Professional
Civil Engineer
Phone 3-7123
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