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r 56 14 A MONDAY. DECEMBER 31), 19S3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON IPTTTP CIVIL WAR Grant Boomed for Presidency By MERTON T. AKKI1S United Press International To those looking for signs and portents it seemed symbolic when on a keenly cold day in December 1803 the bronze head and shoulders of Armed Liberty were placed on its metallic body atop the dome of the Capitol in Washington. The 19'k foot goddess had lain in pieces on the Capitol grounds (or years while the dome was being built. Rain, snow, sleet and the summer sun had beaten against the prostrate goddess. President Lincoln was criti cized for continuing work on I the Capitol. Extravagance in I wartime, many said. But Lincoln thought not. I He told John Eaton of Toledo, I Ohio, that "if people see the Capitol going up, it is a sign j we intend the Union shall go j on." i Crowd Cheered I So when the massive head ' and shoulders were hoisted into place liy a sUnder cable that day and the goddess stood com plete looking down on Washing ton the crowd cheered and a "UP , battery of artillery fired a sa lute of 35 guns one for every state in the Union. Thirty-five guns in the Capitol's defending forts answered. It required no mystic to note a gayer President when on New Year's Day 1864 doors of the White House swung open to ad- j mit the usual crowd of well l wishers. "Mr. Lincoln was in excellent spirits," Ben Policy Poorc, a newspaperman wrote, "giving each passerby a cordial greet ing and a warm shake of the hand, while for others there was a quiet joke." Poore noted that for the first lime in 20 months since Willie Lincoln had died Mrs. Lincoln had laid aside mourning dress. Wears Lace Necktie Mrs. Lincoln wore "purple silk, trimmed with black velvet and lace, a lace necktie fas tened with a pearl pin, a white plume topping her headdress," Poore reported. j The President had some rea-1 son for being in excellent spir- j its. I he just-over year of 1863 had been the best of the war for Union arms and his admin-, istration. He could count three big mili tary victories against two de feats. fiettysburg had been fairly won and Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia driv en back into its home stale Vicksburg and Port Hudson ! had fallen and the Mississippi ! River now was a Union stream. The federal defeat at Chan ccllorsville had been canceled by Gettysburg and the sting of Chickamauga salved away by Missionary Ridge. One editor, J. T. Fields of At- lantic Monthly, saw the dawn of j '64 as "the beginning of the j end." I "Our improved condition jshould be attributed to the true case," he wrote. "We have been saved by 'the mighty hand j of God.' Whether we had the right to expect Heaven's aid, iwe cannot undertake to say; j but we know we should have i not deserved it had we . . . J shed blood and expended gold : in order to store the system of slavery and the sway of slave , holders." j Then too, Republican and Un ion candidates had won decisive ly in the '63 elections. The poli tical front seemed safe, until the '64 elections at least. Worried About Reelection But Lincoln was worried about reelection in '64. Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase seemed to be the front runner. He attended the Mew Year's reception and seemed "perplexed, balancing chances, for the next presiden cy," Poore wrote. Another name which had giv en Lincoln pause was that of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, conaueror of Vicksburg Immediately after the fall of Vicksburg politicians began to pepper Grant with requests to let his name be used in the '64 conventions. Grant was as sumed to be a Democrat, his only known presidential vote having been cast for James Bu chanan in 1856. Grant brushed aside all of fers. The Ohio Democratic Central ' Committee Chairman, B. Burns wrote to Grant Dec. 7 that the general was "the man to whom the affairs of this great nation should be committed at the close of the present incumbent's term of office." Grant replied Dec. 17: "... I am not a candidate for any office nor for any fa vors of any party ... To a friend in St. Louis the general repeated that he was not a candidate and added "but I would like to be mayor of Ga lena (Galena, 111., his home town) long enough to fix the sidewalks, especially the one leading to my house." Grant for President Anti-administration newspa pers took up the Grant-for-Pres-ident cry, especially the New York Herald. By New Year's Grant copy was appearing ev ery day. The question of Giant's can didacy was giving Lincoln no trouble. He already had run it down. In the summer he had sum- 225,000 Rural Phones Added moned J. Russel Jones, a Ga lena man and then United States marshal in Chicago. Jones was a close friend of Grant and kept in touch with him. Jones saw Lincoln one night at the White House. Jones was carrying a letter from Grant saying he was busy suppressing the rebellion and had no time for politics. Jones handed the letter to Lincoln. "He read it with evident in terest," Jones wrote. "When he came to the part where Grant said that it was impos sible for him to think of the presidency as long as there was a possibility of retaining Mr. Lincoln in the office he read no further, hut arose, and, ap proaching me, put his hand on my shoulder and said: "My son, you will never know how gratifying that is to me. No man knows, when the presi dential grub gets to gnawing at him, just how deep it will get until he has tried it: and I didn't know but what there was one gnawing at Grant.' " Talked About in Richmond Grant was being talked about in Richmond, too. The impressionable Mary Boykin (Mrs. James) Chestnut wrote in her diary Jan. 1: "... (Grant) is their right man, a bull-headed Suwarrow. (She referred to the Russian General Alexander Vasilievich Suwarrow or Suvarvo, who showed no mercy and ate black WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agriculture Deoarment s a v s that $331.1 million in new Rural Electrification Adminis tration (REA) loans in the first 11 months of 106.1 maHp nnscihln modern electric and telephone facilities in the homes of an additional 225,000 rural persons. The department said the new loans brought to more than $6 billion the cumulative total of loans i n both programs. The cumulative loans enabled rural electric systems to serve an es timated 5.7 million consumers, and help telephone systems pro vide all-dial service to 1.8 mil lion subscribers. REA electric loans during the first 11 months of 1963 totaled $254.5 million. Telephone loans amounted to $76.6 million. The electric loans were designed to finance construction of 19.500 miles of line and related facil ities. Of the electric loans made during the first 11 months, 54.7 per cent were for generation and transmission purposes. Dis tribution loans amount to 44.9 ner cent. Consumer facility loans accounted for less than 1 per cent. bread with his troops.) He don't care a snap if men fall like the leaves fall; he fights to win, that chap docs. He is not dis tracted by a thousand side is sues; he does not see them. He's narrow and sure sees only in a straight line . . . Yes, as with Lincoln, they have ceased to carp at him as a rough clown, no gentleman, etc. You never hear now of Lin coln's nasty fun, only of his wisdom. Doesn't take much to wash the hands that the rod of empire sway . . . Now since Vicksburg they have not a word to say against Grant's habits. He has the disagreeable habit of not retreating before irresis tible veterans ..." Englishman Fails To See the Joke BROMLEY, England (UPD Firemen worked for an hour Sunday to free Charles Ashby, 71, after he caught his hand in a neighbor's chimney while try ing to improve the draft. "Dad didn't think it was very funny," Ashby's daughter, Mar jorie, said. AIR TAXIS GAIN NEW YORK (UPI)-Air taxi traffic in the United States in 1963 ran 10 to 15 per cent ahead of last year when the country's 180 air taxi operators carried 56,499 passengers to and from airports, the National Air Taxi Conference reports. News About Servicemen I PROMOTED David R. Spangler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Spangier,; Route 1, Talent, has been pro moted to first lieutenant in Ko; rea where his is serving with the 13th Enginaer Batallion. . Lieutenant Spangler, com mander of the battalion's Cam: pany C at Camp Casey, entet cd the Army in June, 1962 He is a 1958 graduate of Tal ent High School and a 1962 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. 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Chase was the front-runner for the nomination should it not go to Lincoln. Yet another name which gave Lincoln pause was Gen. U. S. Gi ant, conqueror of ; Vicksburg. Several limes during the month, Grant had said in the press that he was not a candidate for the Presidency. The nnti-Adminislrntion newspapers took up I hp Grant-for-Prcsidenl I cry, and Lincoln had to listen. This photo, bum the Library of j Congress collection, is ol Grunt, made several years later. (UPI) ! Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Crif M, Hill SrnOlciit, Inr. IMPACT OK ENGLAND'S TAX CUTS Now thai passage of I he $11 billion tax reduction bill is a vir tual certainly in the next 60 to 90 days, Ihe urgent question many j of you are asking is: will this massive effort lo expand spending bv us and U.S. businessmen really slimulale our economy as pie dicled? For villi! clues In what we can expect, I submit the experi ence of England which this year put through n tux cut roughly equivalent to what we're planning under economic-financial cir-: cumslances strikingly similar to ours. To be specific: j The United Kingdom budget of April, 13, reduced luxes in England by around $1.7 billion on a full-year basis, equal to an $11.7 billion tux cut here. This Is almost the lolnl of our annual tax cut when Ihe reductions become fully effective in 1965. Bulb individual and corporation income taxes were cut lo boost con sumer spending and In ive businessmen direct incentives to I Invest more in plants and equipment. This Is what we are going i to do. Some oi Hie cuts went into effect immediately, some went into effect July 1, others became effeclive slill laler. This slep-by-slop approach is ours loo. At the same time, the t'nitrri Kingdom IhicIrH Inn-raved spending for her fiscal year 1961 bv 7'i per cent. The Increase in frdrrnl government spending here will he much smaller hut the trend is the same. Britain's budget dellrit for her fiscal year lt Is eslimiiletl at annul $1.9 billion, which Is almost SI t hlllinn In U.S. lei ins. Our budget delieit will be nowhere near tills hill we're also in the red. Finally, she nil laves in spile of Hie fuel Dial she was spend ing far more abroad than she was earning abroad in short, running a precarious deficit in her balance of payments just as we are running a deficit in our balance of payments. The parallel is close indeed and (his goes for Ihe size and the type of Ihe tax reductions. Ihe conditions under which the move was made and Ihe objectives. What, then, has happened in Kngland since April? Whnl has happened is thai her economy has been gaining strength almost from the day the lax cuts were annouiued. Once more, to be specif ir: Industrial pioduction in Kngland has climbed. Her oulpul ol sleel is 11 per cent above the level of a year ago. Her index ol industrial production i l!i."8 equals UHli is up lo 1215 against an index sticking at 115 during all of vnxi. Her industrial plains are now nperaluig at around 81 per cent of capacity, up limn 70 per cent a year ago Her unemployment rale has dropped from 2 7 per cent in April lo 2.1 per cent now. Rclwrcn June and November, Ihe number of wholly unemployed in Kngland fell 10 per cent, from 493,000 lo 44.1,000. Meanwhile, job vacancies in Kngland have risen from 162.000 to 217.000. Retail sales have increased afler a year of stagnation. Her index of retail salrs (IWI equals mil) is up In toil com pared will) an airraijc of luti during Ihe first six months of litis year. Musi Impm-tHiil. leading Ihe rise are sales f durable goods. Britain Is in a spectacular automobile boom of hrr nun. with sales ol cars in September 18 per renl above sales of a year ago. Building has tinned up anil Ihe signs aie that British compa nies arc about to respond to the direct invcsimcn! incentives nv hiking their spending on new planls and modern equipment This is no class-room, theoretical analysis of the impact of lax cuts for individuals and corporations on a nation's economy This is real-life stuff, what has actually been happening in England. On Wednesday, our economy enters its 35th month of sustained advance, making this expansion the second longest nracelimr up turn in the 110 years we have been recording business cycles in the Unilcd Stales. If this advance is to continue and is to be powerful enough lo cre.ile Ihe jobs needed by our rapidly rising labor force, wo must give it new stimulants, and tax cuts on Hie gicalesl scale in our history lire what we're going In try. Will Ihey achieve what we hope? England's experience gives us Ihe impressive answer "Ihev will." 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