St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-22
DOESN'T SUPPORT LOVELY.
Editor Van Leuven Gives His Rea-
sons for Opposing Lovely for Con-


sons for Opposing Lovely for Con-
| gress.
| To the Editor Of the Globe:
I am written to- and appealed to, by the
| friends Of John A. Lovely to support him for
congress in this district as he is the Repub-
lican candidate. Twas Union soldier, going
to the war before I was Is years old, and
| have sworn never to go back on it, if know
for any office under heaven. This pledge
have always kept and will keep,
come age, ache, penury or imprison-
ment, or all the ills that can on
nature he If can be satisfied that John A.
Lovely was loyal to the Union, would cheer
fully give him my vote and my papers sup
port. And l can be easily satisfed,-will be
satisfied with any reasonable proof. But Mr..
Lovely has appeared in court in his own de-
fense, and what is his defense against the
charge thvt he was Copperhead during the
war? AS Mr.. Lovely is good lawyer, it must
be conceded, l think, that he has made the
best possible defense, and it is my pur-
pose, to now seriously inquire into the char
acter of that defense. To refute the charge
that he was a copperhead, Mr.. Lovely sends
to the Pioneer Press and Winona Republican
a circular, said to have been written at
Watertown, Wis, on the occasion of Lin
coins assassination. Mr.. Lovely's name ap-
pears as the third siguer on that reputed
circular, showing almost concluSively that he
did not write it, but signed it by request. /
do not state this as fact, but as
most reasonable probability. Now admit
ting that Lovely did sign that circular, does
that fact prove that he was loyal to the Union?
Lincoln was assassinated April IA, 1865, and
the war closed April 9. 1855, by the Appo-
mattoX surrender. 1t therefore appears that
after the close of the war, and after the as
sassination of Lincoln, that John A. Lovely
signed circular
LAMENTING LINCoLN's DEATH,
and now offers that circular in evidence to
show his loyalty; in other words, to prove
that be was not copperhead. Better evil
dence would be an honorable discharge from
the Union army Seriously now, is not my
Lovely's attempted defense most grotesque?
Union soldiers ask this question: Where was
John A. Lovely from 1860 to 1865. during the
war? Where was he? young man. whole
and sound, where was he? 1t is the painful
truth that he was mere straggler
between Vermont and Wisconsin, lettering in
those states and places whose quotas were
full-a draft-dOdger, and worse, loud
mouthed advocate, that the ''war was fall
ure.' To come forward now and trump up
an old nasty circular written after the war
had closed, and palm that off as evidence.
that he was not copperhead, is an insult to
the intelligence of men and an afront to the
memory of the martyr, Lincoln. On par
with this gauzy circular business, is the pre-
tense by MIR. Lovely that he was ''too young"
to fight that he tried to enlist, but
they wouldn't take him. To prove
this, Mr.. Lovely writes a biographical
sketch Of himself for the Pioneer Press, after
his nomin alton at Kasson and after
TIE COPPERHEAD CHARGE
had been freely made against him, and in
that sketch he fixed bis age at AZ years, and
claimed that he was born in Burlington, VT,
in 1874. All this may be true, but
does it prove that Lovely was
s.too young" to go to the war?
Comparisons they say are odious, but if Mr..