Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-25

Lincoln and said to the president: "You
may not remember this young man, but
he has been with our friend Governor
Johnson for long time. and will be in
Washington for the next three months,
during which time he will manage the
Chronicle" etc. And he added: "Mr.
, Truman will be my representative in
the use OF any news for or articles i'll my
paper, and vou may place the utmost
confidence in him."
Mr.. Lincoln then asked me number
of questions regarding Mr.. Johnson's
tactics, and while the president praised
the military governor to the skies, he
said 81 hope Mr.. johnson won't be too
severe" gave him to understand that
the governor was not SO severe as he
seemed, and that / thought the presi
dent would be more highly delighted
than ever with Mr.. Johnson before the
end of another year. During the three
months / was in Washington / visited
Mr.. Lincoln eight or ten Sundays, gen.
orally, in company with Judge Carter,
and he never permitted me to leave
without speaking highly of Andrew
johnson, his nobility of patriotism
and his methods of rehabilitating Ten
nessee. q
In November went back to Nashville
and reported to johnson, and also COM
menced duty as special correspondent OF
the New York Times.
Now, to make little skip over unin-
teresting incidents, came in from the
field just after the battle of Resaca, and
about the first person l met was Tom
Cook, correspondent Of the New York
Herald. 1 think l invited Tom to din
~, hA ~f xx,h oh har h..
was in Nashville, not only as a corre-
Sickles's staff; and he further informed
request of President Lincoln to see if
johnson would be an available candi-
date for vice-president in case there was
a movement in favor of war Democrat,
and that Sickles's visit was unknown to
any one except Mr.. Lincoln, the general,
and the speaker (Mr. Cook).
made haste after dinner to acquaint
Johnson with what had heard, and he
informed me that Maynard and Brown
low had already set the ball rolling, and
that undoubtedly the president preferred
some war Democrat to a northern Re-
publican. "Hamlin," he said, sis too
negative a man to please Lincoln. And,
while the former does not belong to the
'on to Richmond crowd, l think, with
out knowing ANYTHING at all about it,
that the president would prefer either
Mr.. Holt or myself"
Mr.. johnson then asked me to 60 to
Philadelphia or Washington and see
what Colonel Forney thought about it.
lost no time in doing this, and found,
to my own satisfaction, that Forney and
many others, including war Democrats,
generally were in favor OF johnson as
vice-president. then called ON Mr..
Lincoln and informed him that Tennes-
see would soon be perfectly reconstruct
ed, with not only its quota of congress-
men, but that it would send Mr.. Patter-
son, a son-in-law of Johnson, and Mr..
Fowler, controller OF the state, as sena-
tors; would have Brownlow for COVER
nor, and that the friends of Mr. johnson
were speaking of him for second place,
and that there was distinguished gen.
eral then in Nashville, looking into
Johnson's methods of reconstruction
and his vice-presidentia availability.
Mr.. Lincoln made no reply to this,
but asked me what / thought of Andrew
johnson generally, and / replied by say
ing that believed him to be the most
intensely and at the same time most iu-
diciously loyal man in the country, and
also told Mr.. Lincoln that 1 thought
Mr.. johnson would like to be candi-
date for vice-president on the ticket with
him, but that he would not permit his