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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THIS WAS THE I CIVIL WAR Air of Anxiety at White House By MERTON T. akfrs United Press Internationa There was an air of anxiety around the White House early in November 1863. Off-year elections were being held and President Lincoln, who never forgot that he was a politician as well as Chief Ex ecutive, was watching the re turns closely as straws in the wind blowing towards the big political battle to come in '64 when the country would choose a president. He was saying nothing but hoping the choice would fall to him. John Hay, the President's young secretary, caught some of the tension at the White House in his diary. "Passed the evening in the telegraph office reading the re turns," he wrote on Nov. 3. "Found on arriving there that (Secretary of War Edwin M.) Stanton and (Gustavus) Fox (assistant secretary of Naw) and (the) President were a lit tle dubious about the result...'! On Nov. 4 he wrote: "Very anxious all day about Maryland." On Nov. 5: "Maryland all right." The Maryland election was a sort of cross section of the year's voting. Administration candidates had won and Maryland remained safely in Union hands political ly, thanks to Federal bayonets. Soldiers patrolled the polls. Any voter suspected of being a Democrat was forced to take a loyalty oath and many Demo crats were arrested. Political Heat The Lincoln administration had turned on the political heat all year. (In those days elec tions were held at different times all during the year rather than all in November as now. In the spring of '63 Republi cans elected governors in New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island and won re-election for Gov. William A. Buckingham in Connecticut where a large amount of money was thrown into the campaign and muni tions makers were ordered by the War Department to force their workers to vote Republi can. Kentucky posed a tough prob lem for the administration. There was no Republican party, so the administration threw its support to a Union Democrat, Thomas E. Bramlette, who was unpopular with the people. His opponent, Charles A. Wyckliffe, a states rights man. ran on a "peace" platform. The army declared martial law, jailed some Wyckliffe voters and can didates and, in August, Bram lette was elected, 6,800 to 1,800. Rousing Campaign In Iowa the Republicans won in November without the aid of Federal troops but it was a rousing campaign with some violence. Republican Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood backed Col. William M. Stone, a judge who had quit the bench fur the army and who had been wounded at Shi loh. Gen. James M. Tuttle ran as a Democrat on a platform which denounced the war as "unconstitutional and oppres sive." Democrats wearing the Liber ty emblem of the Copperheads campaigned vigorously for him. In Keokuk County George C. Tally, a Baptist minister, was killed by a mob after he had re fused to remove his Copper head pin. His party friends swore ven geance. Kirkwood moved in with militia and quieted the sit uation. Colonel Stone won in Novem ber by about 65,000 votes, thanks to Kirkwood's vigorous action. . . The Republicans easily elect ed governors in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Big Ones The two big elections came In October in Ohio and Pennsylva nia. In Ohio Clement L. Vallandig ham, the Copperhead Lincoln had banished to the South, was nominated (or governor by the Democrats although by that time he was in Canada. The Republicans nominated John Brough, a railroad president and a former Democrat, after an intraparty fight. Brough won the governorship by 101,000 votes but not until the administration had thrown its weight into the fight, and furloughed Ohio government clerks to go back home to vote and Secretary of Treasury Sal mon P. Chase, an Ohioan, had gone back on a speaking tour and Stanton, also a native of Ohio had done what he could with the soldier vote. Lincoln watched the Ohio and Pennsylvania elections more closely and more anxiously than his own election in 1860, Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles recorded. Early on election night Lin coln called Brough to the tele graph wire. "Brough, what is your major ity now?," he asked. "Over 30,000," Brough an swered. At midnight he answered an other query from Lincoln: "Over 50,000." At 5 a.m. Brough messaged that his majority then was 'over 100,000." "Glory be to God in the high est," Lincoln messaged back. "Ohio has saved the nation." Administration Wins The same night Lincoln learned, too, that Gov. Andrew G. Curtin had been re-elected in Ml UN N K V I. V A S (( I IVl ill s OFF-YEAR ELECTIONS In October, 1863, President Lincoln was watching closely results of the off-year elections being held around the country. Never did the President forget that he was a politician as well as Chief Executive. In that year, states held elections at different times not all in November as now. The two big ones came in October in Pennsylvania and in Ohio. The Administration pulled out all stops to win those states. Government clerks from Ohio and Pennsylvania were given leave and free transportation to go home and vote Republican, of course. Men in high office stumped both states to convince the people to back the Republicans and the Administration. Both states went Republican and stayed safely in the fold. Lincoln, shown in this original drawing, was pleased with the results and looked to 1864 and his own second term elec tion. (UPI) Pennsylvania by 15,000 majori ty. The campaign there had been touch and go. Here also the administration took a hand, furloughing government clerks and soldiers to go home to vote. Railroads furnished free passes. Union League clubs Republican organizations got out the Repub lican vote all over the state. Curtain realised that Lincoln largely was responsible for his victory and journeyed to Wash ington to thank the President. Democrats also began to re alize that Gens, U.S. Grant and George G. Meade were better vote-getters with their victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg than political candidates de nouncing the war on constitu tional grounds. Maine elected Samuel Cory, a War Democrat running as a Republican for governor and Massachusetts re-elected Gov. John A. Andrews by 41,000, his largest majority, on a platform calling for renewed efforts to put down the rebellion and crush slavery. He needed no federal help. The Republicans also won some local victories in Indiana and New York where Democra tic Gov. Horatio Seymour was temporizing in supporting the War and faced a Republican legislature the next year as a result ol the election. While Lincoln was pleas with the results of the off-year elections he was not taking '64 for granted and that was the big prize now that the 63 poll was finished. Soon afterwards he added the indicated electoral vote for '64. He put down the states he fell he could carry in one column, the others in another with the electoral votes after each. His states added up to 117, the other to 114. The race would be close, he reckoned. CHARGED TO RELATIVES SYRACUSE, N.Y. (UPD-Po lice today sought an unknown suitor for charging 45 bAiquets of flowers to the relatives of the 19-ycar-old girl in nearby Solvay who received the flow, ers Sunday. A new Bank South Medford opens in tomorrow! i mil i SOUTH MEDFORD BRANCH I i We're so anxious to give Jblks in Soulh Medford even more convenient banking that we're not wait ing for our new building! Our temporary quarters have been remodeled to provide the many helpful services of a modern commercial bank. The paint may still be a little damp, but we hope you'll stop in and get acquainted over a cup of coffee. We'll be open for business at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Robert Cunningham, Manager 1 Tuesdayov SOUTH MEDFORD BRANCH 827 S. Central Ave. THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND Court Case Shows Status Of Law in Suit by Child Editor's Note: This column was written by a Willamette law school professor to pre sent a principle of law enun ciated by a particular court. It should not be taken as legal advice. Slight changes in the facts often change the out come of any particular case. Foreign Aid Debate Enters Second Week WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate moved into its second week of debate today on the foreign aid bill with a vote ex pected on a prosposal to chop $385 million from the delayed $4.2 billion measure. To forestall a Erowins de mand for further rpriiirtinns the Senate leadership has pro posed a single cut of $385 mil lion in authorization recom mended by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in its own bill. President Kennedy had asked for $4.5 billion for an other year of military and eco nomic aid overseas. The House trimmed this by $l billion. Democratic Leadpr M i It Mansfield, Mont., said he hoDed a vote on the prosposal would speed the Senate toward a final vote on the bill by the end of the week. However, more than iu amendments have been pro posed and some aid opponents have warned that they are pre- Fai ior a long debate. Norblad Pushes Columbia Ports WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep Walter Norblad. R-Ore.. has re- quested the Department of Com merce to use ports on the Co lumbia River in the routing of wheal bound for Russia. Norblad made the request in a letter to Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. The Oregon Re- puoiican stressed tne facilities available at river ports and the experience of longshoremen in the ftandlmg of grain shipments. "Wheat and wheat products account for a major Dortion of the Northwest s aencu tura out put," he said in the letter. "And it would be of advan tage to all concerned if a sub stantial portion of the wheat be ing sold to the Soviet Union is routed through the Columbia River ports of Astoria and Portland and Longview and Vancouver, Wash.," he wrote. Portland Liquor Hours Shortened PORTLAND (UPI) -The Ore gon Liquor Control Commission has blown the whistle on Port land outlets which have been staying open until midnight. OLCC Chairman Hunh R. Kirkpatrick said three state liq uor stores here will open at noon and close at 10 p.m. ef fective Dec. 2. The stoics are located at NE Union Avenue and Freemont Street, SW 10th Avenue and Sal mon Street and E. Burnside Street and 6th Avenue. Kirkpatrick said the reduction in hours of operation is an eco nomy measure. A father and his small son got into the family car and went for a pleasure drive. On the trip an accident happened, as a re sult of careless driving by the father. The little boy was ser iously injured. May the boy sue his father and recover dam ages? The Court Held: In most states an unmarried child who has not yet reached his major it,, A : :n i.:- .j aim ia aim living W1U1 ni5 parents cannot recover dam ages from either of his parents for an injury caused by the negligence of the parent. The courts which follow this rule reason that the rule is neces sary to keep family peace and to preserve both the family and parental authority. In more re cent years, and with liability insurance being more widely carried, it has heen argued that to allow an unemancipated child to recover damages from his parent for personal injuries caused by the parent would tempt families to defraud in surance companies. More and more writers and judges now argue, however, that it is unfair to prevent a child from recovering damages from his parent for Injuries caused by the parent. These writers and judges argue that the fact is that most people do carry insurance, and that where in surance is carried there is no disturbance of family peace, no undermining of parental author ity in allowing a child to recover damages which will be paid not by the parent but by an insur ance company. Some states have changed the rule to the extent of al lowing a child to sue the par ent if the parent caused the injury in a business capacity, as where the father injures the child through negligent oper ation of equipment used in his business. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 196a 1 n DIPLOMATS LEAVE NEW YORK (UPI) - Three Soviet diplomats, linked to an alleged espionage ring that tried to gather top secret de fense documents, left the coun try with their families Friday night. . . Some states have chanced the rule to allow the child to re cover from the parent for in juries intentionally inflicted on the child by the parent. Some states now allow the child to re cover where the parent has caused the injury by conduct which while not intended to in jure is characterized as wilful or wanton or malicious. Some courts have held that a child can recover for injuries in a suit brought against the executor or administrator of a deceased parent. In a recent case the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has flatly done away with the parental imm mity rule in that state and now allows a child to recovei damages from his parent for injuries negligently inflicted on the child by the parent. The court argued that since children are allowed to sue their parents in cases involving property and contract rights, that they should be allowed to do so for personal injuries negligently caused. The court also argued that since most people carry insurance that there would actually be lit tle disruption of family har mony and discipline. The Wisconsin court carefully stated that parents in that state would still be immune from suit by a child where the claimed negligent act involves an exer cise of parental authority over the child and where thj alleged negligent act involves an exercise of ordinary parental discretion with respect to the provision of food, clotlfing, hous ing, medical and dental serv ices, and other care. Goller v. White, Wis. , 122 N.W. 2d 193 (1963). BEEFEATER BEEFEATER the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure Unequalled since 1810 BEEFEATER GIN 94 P100F 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS K0BRAN0 CORPORATION NEW YORK 1, N. li Milk Shortage in Russia Indicated WASHINGTON (UPI) A re. port issued today by the Agri culture Department Indicates that the Soviet bloc is running into a milk shortage. The Soviets already have ad mitted a shortage of wheat and are trying to buy huge quanti ties of grain from the United slates to add to the large vol ume purchased from Canada. The apparent milk shortage in the bloc is more acute in Russia than in any of the East- tern European satellites. Milk production in the U.S.S.R. for 196.! has been forecast at 105 billion pounds, off 10 per cent irom tne 116.4 billion pounds produced in 1062. Average pro duction 01 milk in the Soviet Union for 1956-60 was 111.6 bil lion pounds. ANNOUNCES SUPPORT WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Robert Taft Jr., R-Ohio, says he will suppoort Gov. Nelson A. Rocketfeller or Sen. Barry Gold watcr for the 1964 Republican presidental nomination. Moderates Short of Majority in Greece ATHENS (UPI)-The moder ate Center Union party, which charged that Greece's last elec tions were fraudulent, defeated former Premier Constantino Caramanlis' comeback bid to day but apparently fell short of enough votes to govern alone. With more than four-fifths of the votes in, the Center Union had 1,844,475, or 42 per cent, and Caramanlis' National Radi cal Union had 1,170,008, or 39 per cent. 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