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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
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UN N K V I. V A S
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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.
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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
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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).
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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. The United Demo
cratic Left had 627,568, 14 per
cent and the other votes were
spread among splinter groups.
Both leading parties are
strongly pro-Western and what
ever the composition of the
next government, Greece's
links with NATO and its pres
ent foreign policy alignment
were expected to continue.
Only the Communist - front
United Democratic Left cam
paigned on an anti-American
platform.
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