Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-22
PAYNE FOR PRESIDENT.
A GOODLY SIZED BOOM STARTED IN
HIS BEHALF.
He is to be Elected Senator In Place of
Pendleton. and Nominated for President
if"The Old Ticket" Fails to Materialize-
His Distinguished Services for His Coun-
try and Party.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 21.-In a modern,
handsome but not magnificent residence
on Euclid avenue, the pride of Cleveland
and by some travellers pronounced the
! finest street in the world, lives 81. B.
Payne. This gentleman is held in high
esteem by the people of Ohio, o,especially by
the Democratic party of which he has
been member all his life, and is now the
most likely man to be elected United
States senator from Ohio to succeed
Geo. II. Pendleton. He is also a
presidential possibility, and at this
time the probabilities favor him as much
as any other man talked of for the place,
with perpaps two exceptions. Mr.. Payne
has always been Democrat, conservative,
and at times Independent IN thought, but
always unfalteringly patty man. He
started with the same general ideas of
democracy and government as those en-
tertained by Stephen A. Douglas, the little
giant. Douglas and Pay,,e were warm
friends in the days of thei; youth, in the
morning of their career, and the
friendship continued during the life
of the former. 1t wasi at Canaan
daigua, N. Y, about 1881, that
the two met, both as students of the law.
In the spring of 1888 Doullas desired to
only by loan of 800 from his young
friend Payne. 1t was this sum that had
worn away until only 371s cents remained
when the future statesman arrived at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, and earned his first
dollar by clerking for en- auctioneer at $26
per month.
When Douglas and Payne met again
both were successful lawyers and promi-
nent members of their party. Mr.. Payne
was a presidential elector on the Lewis
Cass ticket in 184o, and the next
year was elected to the Ohio senate. Here
he at once took such prominent position
that in 1851 he was the Democratic caucus
nominee for United States senator. This
was the famous and protracted senatorial
contest in which Benjamin F. Wade fiual-
ly carried off the prize by majority of
one. In 1857 Mr.. Payne was the Demo
cratic candidate for governor against
Salmon P. Chase. Mr.. Payne himself has
no political ambition. Although he is as
the word is, a candidate for
the United States senatorship
it is not from a desire of his
own. He has not as much az turned
his hand over to promote his senatorial
interests. He regards the senatorship as
a place not to be sought or declined with
out good reasons, and while he is willing
to be CALLED to the positlen, all move
ments on his behalf emanate not from
himself, but from his friends.
There are many influences at work to
make Henry B. Payne senator, The op-
position to Senator Pendieton, which is
large and in some instances fierce, is con-
centrating on Payne as the one man able
to defeat the Cincinnatian. The McLeans,
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, are now
for Payne, and three-fourths of the
members of the assembly from that city
will vote for him in caucus. The Bookwal
ter faction though small is valuable, and
as the recult of an understanding only re-
Gently arrived at is for Payne. The cam
paign that occurred in 1867 between Chase
and Payne wes exciting and brilliant.
Payne took up the prevailing Kansas
question, and opposed the Lecom ption
constitution on the ground that it was not
the act of the people of Kansas, and did
not embody their will. Payne
was defeated for governor but
the plurality against him was
only 1903, in strong contrast to Chase's
majority of $4,000 over his opponent two
years before. The next year at Douglas
request Payne visited illinois to join in
the campaign there. 1t is interesting to
note how Douglas and Payne, the intimate
law students, stood toa ether in the Demo
cratic party. Payne was a Douglas man
at the Cincinnati conve ntion in 1856 and
again at Charleston in 1860 when the mem
orable split In the Democratic
party made IL possible for
Abraham Lincoln to be president.
In that convention Mr.. Payne occupied
the responsible poiitson of chairman of
the committee on platform, and was also
the managing representative of Mr.. Doug
las. As the leader and champion of the
northern wing of the party, Mr.. Payne
was put forward as spokesman. The po-
sition was most difficult one, requiring
tact, self possession and courage. The
south was not modest in its demands, and
her men scarcely realized that the Dem
ocratic party of the north,
over which they had so long
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efforts to continue in control in behalf OF
slavery. Many of the northern delegates
were indeed in favor of submission 10 the
south, but few, acting upon the most
firm conviction, could not submit and
bravely held their Own. When the repori
of his committee adverse to slavery exten-
sion and protection by the government
was read in the convention, AIR. Payne
made speech defending It amid great ex-
citeineDt in the hall. HIS effort
was remarkable for its perspi-
Guilty, brillisncy and power, coudemning
secession ard warning the south against
undertaking it. Thsspeech had a remark
able effect, though s did not prevent the
southern wing earring cut their extreme
programme. Neither of the candidates o1
the TIVE conventions into which the Charles
ton gathering split was elected, but Abra
ham Lincoln was, and secession followed
Sumter was no sooner fred or than M T
Payne, with the great Douglas, was found
. zealous in upholdIng the federal govern
ment. He encouraged erlistm ents, Joined
in all the patriotic movements OF
the times, and his voice and influence were
, ever on the side of the Union. He Joined
with the other wealthy citizens in 1862 il
guaranteeing the treasurer of Oayahogs