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ID A MONDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Election Setback for Lincoln By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent Rep. Edward McPhcrson, republican of the Gettysburg, Pa., district, dropped in to ee President Lincoln soon after the off-year elections in the fall of 1862. Gettysburg was considered a "safe" Republican district but McPhcrson had been soundly beaten by a Demo crat. Why, Lincoln asked him? "Well, Mr. President," Mc Phcrson replied, "1 will tell you frankly what our friends say. They charge the defeat to the general tardiness in military movements, which result, as they believe, from (Maj. Gen. George B.) McClel lan's unfitness for command. The enforcement of the draft occurred during the campaign, and of course ou- political enemies made a great deal of it; but in my judgment, not enough to change the com plexion of thi. district." 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Hennepin county canvassing in Minneapolis rernoved 200 votes from Andersen's previously-reported total and eras ed a 61-vote lead which An dersen had held previously. The switch put Rolvaag ahead by 139 voles. Hatfield To Urge Limited Changes Salem - IUHI) - Gov. Mark Hatfield says he is not going to submit a government re organization plan to the 1963 legislature. He submitted one for a cab inet form of government to the 1961 legislature and it was beaten in its entirety. Instead of an overall plan, Hatfield said this time he will recommend changes In some areas to streamline Oregon government. He declined to name them. He noted that the 1963 legislature will have before it a new Oregon constitution -that would have the governor the only elected state offi cial, running a government of not more than 20 depart ments. He said that while dis agreeing with some parts of the new constitution, he sup ports it. Estacada -WPH- Vernon Hill of Estacada was killed Friday in a logging accident. He was 39. He was working in the Lolo Pass area in Clackamas county when he suffered fatal head injuries. Stuart's Confederate cavalry had ridden through his dis trict a few days before elec tion, camped overnight in Chambersburg, burned the railroad shops and stripped the community of horses. McPhcrson's defeat was typical of what happened to the Republicans in the elec tion. The only interpretation that could be placed on the results was an out and out defeat of the Lincoln admin istration. Party lines, not distinct at best, melted at the polls in much of the North, Broadly speakir j, the Re publicans were split into Radical and Conservative wings. The Radicals advocat ed a tough policy against the South - abolition of slavery, vigorous prosecution of the war, use of Negro troops and punishment of Confederates once the rebellious states were subdued. The Conserva tives favored a milder course let slavery alone for the moment and conduct the war solely to bring the South back into the Union. The Republican party in 1862 still was a coalition of splinter groups, former Whigs, rebellious Democrats and various disidents who rallied in the late 1850s around the issue of extension Inter-Community Council To Meet The regular monthly meet ing of the Jackson County Inter-Community council will be held Tuesday, Nov. 13, at noon at the Red Cross build ing in Mcdford. Speakers will be Mrs. Rich ard Porto and Dr. H. L. Boehnke. The subject to be discussed will be the care of crippled children at the ortho pedic clinic including informa tion on eligibility of young sters and how tiey are re ferred for these services. The public is invited to at tend these meetings. Those attending should take a sack lunch. kmitiimmxituM miitiiUimtHimuK ireeiM? SERIES OF DEFEATS The off-year elections of 1862 were a series of defeats for President Lincoln. For several reasons, the Republicans, a coalition party, took a pounding at the polls. Lincoln himself suggested three reasons for the defeats, which cost his party 31 House seats. First, the war had not been going well. Second, administration supporters had been removed from the political scene to take part in the war, leaving a great number of anti-Republicans in key spots. Third, the Cabinet was divided and pulling the administra tion apart. Despite the stunning setback, Lincoln was to stand pat, make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality, his firing of Gen. McClellan stick, and show the Cabinet who was really boss. This photograph, from the Archives collection, shows Lincoln. of slavery into t he territories. It ran its first presidential candidate in 1856 and lost. But by I860 it was strong enough to elect Lincoln as a sectional candidate -when the Democrats split hopelessly over North-South issues. Democrats Divided The Democrats in the North were divided into War and Peace wings. The War wing corresponded roughly to the Conservative Republican wing. The Peace faction want ed the war settled immediate ly, many of them at any price. After the I860 election, when Southern Democrats ran John C. Breckenridge and the Northern Democrats put up Stephen A. Douglas, the northern pari of the party was leaderlcss and issueless. By 1862 the party slowly was AT fa- r - WASTES, :vilwar 1 (UPI) forming Into the War and Peace wings but carefully avoiding any common inter est with the Southern party, which was the only party in the Confederacy. Other issues besides the military also muddied the re sults of the election. Prices were high, w' ich caused fear of inflation. Taxes also were high and eating up money Northerners had been using for personal purposes. Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, only a couple of months old, won votes in the abolition belts of New England, North ern Ohio and Michigan but lost votes in the border areas. Political Unrest Suspension of the writ of , habeas corpus arbitrary ar- j rests, fear of abolition flood-1 ing the labor market with cheap help, all added to the general political unrest so likely to occur In off years. When all the returns were in from the election held in those days in October and November rather than on a common date - the adminis tration had lost 31 seats in the House. New Yorkers elect ed Horatio Seymour, a War Democrat, as governor in a hard fight. New Jersey went Democratic for governor and legislature and the Democrats took four of five House scats. Illinois. Lincoln's home state, went Democratic, too, the op position taking 9 of 14 seats. Lincoln's close friend, Leon ard Swctt, was defeated in a district which had been Re publican for two elections, and by John T. Stuart, Lin coln's first law partner. In Ohio the Democrats took 14 seats to the Republican's 5; in Indiana 7 of 11. The parties split the Pennsylvania dele gation. The administration saved its House majority by win ning in Michigan, Iowa, Min nesota, Kansas, Oregon, Cali fornia and New England. The Border states of Ken tucky and Delaware went Democratic and Missouri Re publican, probably because the army supervised the polls. The final House count was 101 administration members to 77 anti-administration men. Lincoln came up with three reasons for his parly's defeat. "Certainly the ill success of the war had much to do with this," he wrote to Carl Schurz, a German-born briga dier who had been minister to work against slavery. Lincoln's other reasons were that administration sup porters had gone to war, leav ing Democratic voters in the majority and their leaders had made the most of it. The cabinet also came un der fire after the elections. It was split wide open over slavery. Secretary of Treas ury. Salmon P. Chase, a radi cal Republican, was fighting with Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, an ex Democrat and lukewarm on slavery. Caleb B. Smith, sec retary of interior, complained that the cabinet had no voice in big questions. Secretary of State William H. Seward was a target for both Radical and Conservative R e p u b licans. Both factions thought he was manipulating Lincoln. Chase suspected that Lincoln was wavering on emancipation and n.ight not make the proc lamation permanent on Jan. 1, 1863, as the first draft promised. Chase already was maneuvering for the presi dential nomination in 1864 and pressed his case at every opportunity. Out of this cabinet fight and the bad showing in the elections, two issues were shaping up as the congress ional session of December grew nearer. Would Lincoln remain firm on the Emancipation Procla mation? Would the cabinet with all its dissidents be retained? 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