The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-16
OLD ZACHARN.
rhe Tweifth President to Have =
Monument.

! A Washington correspondent Of The
At'aata Consultations writes: 1t seems
probable that the bill providing for the
erection Of IN equestrian statue Of Gen.
Zachary Taylor, twelfth president
81 the United States. will pass
during the present session AT all
events it has had the start and advan-
sage of favorable recommendation
from the joint committee Of both
houses of congress on the library
The monument business has been
somewhat oyerdone, and Mr.. O'Neill,
of Pennsylvania, is authority for the
statement. as member of the joint
committee, that the monument to 1.-THE
hero of Buena Vista will be the last
to be recommended at the present ses-
sion. The sentiment in favor of an
enduring tribute to "Old Zach over
came even Senator Hoar, who had inti-
mated that he meant to do all in his
power to Gull a halt Oh the matter of
monuments, and in the committee he
Joined Senator Voorhees, and others
in favor of the proposed, monument to
President Taylor.
Gen. Floyd King, Of Louisiana,
Georgian by birth, and son OF Thom-
as Butler King. is an enthusiastic pat
ron of this bill. His father, along with
Mr.. Stephens and Gen. Toombs, adv0-
Gated Taylor's nomination instead of
Clay as the whig candidate in 1848.
Taylor's nomination was. in fact,
| Georgian movement Mr. Stephens had
more than any other man to do with it.
Gen. Toombs and Mr.. King went heart
and soul into the movement. They
were actively assisted by Abraham Lin
coin, then whig member from Illinois.
The bold conception of throwing aside
the idol of the whig party and putting
the old soldier to the front was worked
out mainly by five or six of the younger
| leaders of the party in the house, among
whom Stephens and Lincoln were espec-
| ially active. The nomination of Gen.
Taylor and his success after cam
paign which these young leaders push
ed with great vigor, gave them, OF
course, powerful influence with the i'm
| cip;ent administration. During the
! brief period from TayioT's iraagtra
| ton to his death the Georgia trio, Steph-
ems, Toombs and King. were among
/ the president
| President Taylor attended the cere-
monies at the laying of the corner
stone of the Washington monument,
and on that occasion, by exposure TO
the weather, contracted the illness
which terminated his career. He died
Just as his administration was shaping
its policy. A few years ago Mr.. Step
hens, in a newspaper controversy. with
Thurlow Weed, threw much light upon
the aim, and purposes of President
! Talyor, which no man understood BET
| ter than the Georgia statesman. About
the beginning of Taylor's administers
ton Georgia's influence in national
politics probably touched its highest
point
Howell Cobb became speaker Of the
house of representatives. He left con-
| gress to be elected governor Of Georgia
on the issue of the compromise meas
ure of Henry Clay. On the same issue
| Mr.. Toombs became senator and Mr..
| Stephens loomed up as candidate for
| the presidency. Stephen "A. Douglas,
| in his speech delivered at Atlanta in
1860, divulged the plan which had been
| cherished by the young wings Of
nominating Mr.. Stephens for president
George W. Crawford, Of Georgia, was
secretary OF war under both Taylor and
| Fillmore The close connection Of
Georgia with the Taylor admins
tration naturally awakens an interest
among Georgians in the proposed mon
ument. Gen. Marcus Wright of Ten
nessee, says that his state is in favor of
this tribute to the soldier president
Kentucky had too many gallant sons
under the old man in Mexico to feel in
| different to his monument. Morrison
and Logan, of Illinois, were both with
Taylor In Mexico. OF Georgians, now
in congress, Senator Colquitt Is the
| only one who served in the Mexican
war.
! Mr.. Theodore Mills, son Of the late
Clark Mills, has the only cast Of Gen.
| Taylor that has been preserved, and be
will probably be selected as the artikN
| of the statue.
| Gen. Floyd King IS an emiaently
proper patron of the bill to erect this
memorial. His father was one Of Gen.
Taylor's closest and most valued
I friends. Gen. King is native of
| Georgia, state to which Gen. Taylor
owed his nomination. and be represents
| in congress Louisiana, the state which
gave Taylor to the country as its
twelfth president.
/
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