St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
BAD WAR RECORD.
He Was CoppeTheGd i'm Wisconsin
And the Soldiers Dcnst Like IL.

He Was Copper i'm WISCONSIN
And the Soldiers Dent Like 1t.
| The charge that Lovely was a CopperheaC
during the war is working him great in
| jury. His friends and newspaper organs
notably the Albert Lea Enterprise-havt
made lame attempts to disprove this charge
but the records are against them, and they
find themselves at bay. His organ at AL
bert Lea publishes the statement tina
Lovely enlisted twice, but Lovely himself
is quoted as saying that he tried to enlist,
but he was too young and they would moi
take him. DR.. Ames is two years younger
than Lovely. and yet he was old enough to
do his country three years service during
| the war. A competent man has investi-
gated the matter carefully. and has this to
| say of the record of Lovely in Wisconsin
and the charge of CopperheadiSm laid
against him:
WHO WILL DENY IT?
| John A. Lovely was a Copperhead all dur
| ing the war. The case is proven against him,
| and the bogus circular that ae pretenas he
wrote ut the time OF Linc0ln's assassination,
shows the desperation of his case Evidence
from Waterfowl, Wis, is not wanting to show
that John A. Lovely fed from Vermont in
him, and that at Watertown he was an un-
blushing and blatant Copperhead When
John A. Lovely was elected county attorney
of Ereeboru county be said that he was born
in Burlington, VT. in 1910, and in his
biographical sketch, which no wrote for the
Pioneer Press after his fraudulent nomina-
ton at Kasson. Mr.. Lovely claimed that he
was born in 1874. The charge of the dates
of his reputed birth is noteworthy. Let it
be understood that the charge Of bis being
COpperhead had been stoutly made and freely
circulated before the Kasson convention, and
LOvely'S claim that le WAS born in 1874
instead of 1910 is dodge and fraud to try
and make people believe that he wss too
young to go to the war. This conduct on the
part Of Mr., Lovely has filled the hearts of all
Union soldier with Indignation. Admitting
that John A..Loyely was torn in 1874, he
would be AZ years old, and OF the 5000 soldiers
in this district there are probably 500 soldiers
younger than Mr.. Lovely, so that his pretense
that he was too young to enlist Is simply pre-
pOSterOuS.
HE WAS COPpEgHEAD
at Watertown, and the bogus circular he sent
to the Pioneer Press for publication is laughed
at by Union soldiers all over this district as a
Copperhead cheat and lie. Let US see: Ac-
cording to his biography he was born in 1874;
the war broke out in 1861. Then he was II
years DID, one year too young. Still, good
many boys were enlisted at the age OF II
years. Say Mr.. Lovely would not lie about
his age; that he offered himself twice in
the first year of the war. Had he changed
his mind after the first year? The war con-
tinued four years, and there was great call
for men during those long years Of trial. If
he had offered himself in 1882, '83, '64 or '65
he would not have been refused ION account
of his youth" and those best acquainted with
him know tsere Is no physical disability that
would exempt him from doing military duty.
Why was it necessary to refer to his offer to
enlist and his rejection, unless his biography
was hedging against charge of Copperhead-
ism, which had not been made at that time
against him as the nominee OF the party.
The hedge is too thin! IF Mr. Lovely WAS SO
anxious to enlist at II. what came over the
spirit of his dreams thar withheld him enlist
ing the day he was Is years Of age, or during
those long years. afte- he was Is years Old,
when all loyal citizens were volunteering to
fight to save the uniOll
CLINcHINa THE NAIL.
A lit of evidence in snbstantiation of
Lovely's record ~ a Coppernead as Water
town. Wis, during the war is given by A.
r. Foster, of Albert Lea. Just previous to
the Kasson convention Foster, who was
Union soldier. and whose veracity Lovely
will not try to impeach. was standing in
the door of the postofice Lovely was
talking with W. W. Williams few steps
away, and Foster could hear very plainly
what they were talking about.
The subject of Lovely's political stand
ing while at Watertown was under
discussion. 1t appeared that Williams had
asked him about it. the charge that Lovely
had been Copperhead there having been
made. Lovely explained to Williams that,
during the early days Of the war, there
were two kinds of Democrats in Wisconsin
the Sam Carpenter, or war Democrats, and
the anti-war Democrats. He affiliated with
the latter, which faction was designated by
a good many people as Copperheads. Foster
afterwards met Lovely and asked him if he
was a Copperhead at that time. Lovely
did not stop to make reply. He simply
laughed loudly and remarked, as he passed
on: 20, we hear lots Of things talked of
And that's all the satisfaction
Foster ever got out OF Lovely as to his Wis
consin Copperhead record.