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MOWD '(, WOVTMBgH T, 11)0 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. A 7 Politician To Give Silent Treatment Battle Creek, Mich. - HIPD -The Ray Turner for State Sen ate committee believes the I public has had its fill of po litical advertising by now. So the committee has pur- ' chased 10-second spot com mercials on Battle Creek ra dio station WBCK. The com mercials provide 10 seconds of silence. Brainchild Only the amazing new Bohn Contex Calculator adds, subtracts, multi plies and divides ,..for only $125. ttt rex Walt Young's MEDFORD STATIONERY 210 E. Main SP 3-3668 Dry Weather Seen For Election Day Washington (UPU Ths Wethr Bureau predicts gen erally dry and cold weather i meat of the nation Tues day. .n a special election day forecast, the bureau said it will be unusually cold in the north central part of the coun try. Temperatures will dip below normal for this time of the year. Scattered light rain mixed with snow is predicted for the east Central plains, mid Mississippi valley and Mon . tana while snow flurries are predicted in the Great Lakes region and in the northern and central Appalachian area. A few showers are likely In the northern sections of Arizona and New Mexico as well as in the central plateau region of the West. Partly cloudy skies will dominate the rest of the country. -jpd-j-fiti' . fil 1 Hill 1" Efr .1111. g WAS I2SU1 v J. J r SCIVIL WAR IV-f ffcjU. "rJ J Cti Vthi: rxioN A BITTER CAMPAIGN It was near mid night on Nov. 6, 1860, when Abraham Lincoln learned that he had taken New York state and was assured election as presi dent. The campaign had been bitter, with four candidates in the race. The Democrats were split, with Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois leading the moderates, and Vice President John C. Breckingridge of Ken tucky leading the Southern wing of the party. The Constitutional-Union Party nomi President John C. Breckinridge of Ken and Edward Everett for vice president. Lincoln had been nominated by the Re publicans in Chicago. While others stumped the country, Lincoln never left Springfield. Below are campaign ribbons used by sup porters of the candidates, from left, Breck inridge, Lincoln, Bell and Everett, and Douglas. (UPI Telephoto) Civil War Became Inevitable On Night Lincoln Was Elected By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent Election news filtered into Springfield, 111., slowly on the night of Nov. 6, 1860. In the early evening, Abra ham Lincoln, the Republican presidential candidate reading the telegraphic dispatches with political friends, first learned he had lost his own county, Sangamon. Other early news was belter - he had won his home district. Around midnight the party broke up on a jubilant note with receipt of this telegram: "Hon. A. Lincoln: Pennsyl vania 70,000 for you. New York safe. Glory enough. S. Cameron." Lincoln then walked through celebrating party workers in the streets to his white clapboard house on Eighth St., and told a beam ing Mary Todd Lincoln: "Mary, we're elected." That night, 100 years ago this week, the American Civil War became inevitable. But no one, not even Lincoln, was conscious of this. The "S, Cameron" who sign ed the telegram was Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, an ex-Democrat, now a Republi can, who would be Lincoln s first secretary of war until quietly removed and sent to Russia as U. S. ambassador. Campaign Was Bitter The presidential campaign ending that November night was the bitterest in memory. Four candidates made the race. The Democratic party, which had held the presiden cy except for a few intervals since Thomas Jefferson, split two ways. The wedge which shattered the party was the extension of slavery. U. S. Sen. Stephen A. Doug las, "Little Giant" of Illinois, led the moderate Democrats. Nominated in Baltimore June 23 by the northern wing of the party, Douglas under- .look to reweld the Democrats and stave off strife by run ning on the platform of Pop ular Sovereignty, which would leave any extension of slavery to voters in the terri tories which were clamoring to join the Union. Popular Sovereignty had been blood ed in Kansas in the middle '50s. Five days later in Balti more the southern wing of the party - the fire eaters who sensed the South was SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CO.. N. Y. C. BLENDED WHISKY, 86 PROOF, 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS I torrnl - (hi v start enjoying I ' i ot Wl Ml : Schenley the only whisky with extra smoothness whipped in ... an exclusive Schenley discovery. $460 $-500 Pint losing its grip on the govern ment - nominated Vice Presi dent John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. His platform in es sence was that slavery was legal anywhere in the nation. Earlier - on May 9, also in Baltimore - the Constitution al Union party, a hodgepodge of splinter groups, nominat ed John Bell of Tennessee, a former Whig, on a platform that evaded the slavery issue. Bell's running male was Ed ward Everett, the eloquent orator who would precede Lincoln at Gettysburg three years after the election. Douglaj Senses Crisis Lincoln was nominated by the new Republican party on May 18 in Chicago. He went into the convention running second to William H, Seward a former governor of New York and a favorite of the party which was entering only its second presidentia campaign. Astute Lincoln floor managers, who bargain ed right and left, won his nomination on the third bal lot. Douglas sensed the crisis and went to work early. Until 1860 no presidential candidate ever had stumped the country, following the precedent set by George Washington. But by July Douglas was on the hustings on the pretense that he was going to visit his mother in New York state. Breckinridge and Bell fol lowed Douglas to the stump. Lincoln never stirred from Springfield. He issued no statements. Questioners were referred to his previous ut terances. Douglas stumped New Eng land, the East coast into the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana - at least a speech a day, sometimes more. But it was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in early October that he fated the political realities. There he learned the Repub licans had elected a governor in Pennsylvania. A little later came word from Indiana that the Republicans were victori ous there, too. The Pennsyl vania victory was impressive, a majority of 32,000. That day Douglas told his secretary: "Mr. Lincoln is the next president. We must try to save the Union. I will go South." Crowds Art Hostile He did, by way of St. Lou is, Memphis, and on into the Deep South where the news papers breathed editorial fire and the crowds were hostile but willing to listen. Election night found the Little Giant in Mobile, Ala. He sat with an editor reading election dispatches. By mid night he, loo, knew the result. As George Fort Milton put it in The Eve of Conflict, "that night secession was born." When all the returns were in the result read like this: Lincoln 17 Rtates, 180 clec torial votes, 1,866,352 popu lar votes; Breckinridge 11, 72, 845,763; Douglas 2, 12, 1, 375,157; Bell 3, 39, 589,581. Lincoln had won a clear majority of the electoral vole, the figure which elects, but in popular vole he would be a minority president by near ly a million. Republican vic tories in many states were by slim margins. Lincoln's own state, Illinois, gave him a mar gin of only 12.000 over Doug las, California only a few more than 500. Bell carried Tennessee, his home slate; Kentucky, Breckinridge's home stale, and Virginia. Douglas carried Missouri and New Jersey. Breckinridge carried the South, Lincoln the rest. Faces Divided Country Politically, Lincoln faced a divided country. The Repub licans carried neither the Sen ate nor the House. But what Lincoln could not know then was that by the time the Con gress elected with him met on July 4, 1861, in special ses sion, enough states, all Demo cratic, would have seceded and that the Republicans would control both houses. No president, before or since, faced anything similar. South Carolina was ready ing the action which would lead into civil war five months hence. The day before election, William H. Gist, Southe Caro lina governor, recommended leaving the Union. Before the week was out a committee of the South Carolina legislature had recommended a bill for convention to consider se cession; the state's two U. S. senators had resigned, a fed eral grand jury had refused to act, a federal district judge had closed his court and quit. The secession parade was gathering in the side streets. Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL London British astronomer Patric Moore, discounting the possibility of increased danger to astronauts because of suspected gas pocket activity on the moon: "The first men on the moon will have faced lo many dangers, I don't think one more will make much difference." Dallas, Tex. - (UNI - Ward Bond, 55, husky, white-haired star of motion pictures and the television show "Wagon Train," collapsed in a motel bathroom Saturday and died of a heart attack. Cameron, Tex. - IUPI - John, ny Horton, 35. the Western style singer who made tha song "Battle of New Orlcu. . ' popular, was killed Saturday in a grinding headon collision on a railroad overpass. Paris Congo President Joseph Kasavubu, on the nature of his forthcoming visit to the United Nations in New York: "I am going to New York to speak before the United Nationi General Assembly and lo make known the true problems facing the Congo," Hollywood Movie executive Howard Sliickling, giving one good reason why he expects his good friend and ex pectant father Clark Gable to recuperate from a heart attack: "He certainly plans to be around when thet baby arrives." Moscow Defense Minister Rodion Malinvosky, saber rattling on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the Bol shevik revolution: "If the leaders of imperialism lose their senses and violate lhe peaceful labor of the Soviot people they will be dealt a crushing retaliatory blow such as no other aggressor had ever experienced." ASKS WRONG QUESTION Woodford, England - 0JPU -A high school girl was repri manded last week because she asked her teacher, "read any good books lately?" The unap prcciative teacher was among the jurors who had just de cided "Lady Challerlcy's Lov er" was not obscene. It would start marching little more than a mouth. 'Election figures from "Bat tles and Leaders of the Civil War." Popular vole figures from other sources show only minor differences without af fecting the electoral count. - South Caro lhe secession (Next week lina turns on machinery.) NEW CAR FAILS Brighton, England - (UPU -A total of 223 cars, each more than 50 years old, Sunday successfully completed the an nual 50-mile London-to-Brigh-ton vintage car run. The brand new escort car didn't. VOTE 123-X PAUL B. RYNNING County Commissioner He's Experienced! Pd. Pol. Act by L. C. Taylor, Chmn., P.O. Box 624, Medford (.all us Today and Discover Security 6 INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY Withdraw principal and all accrued interest whenever you choose. Any multiple of $10.00 accepted. 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