St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
NATIONAL POLITICS.
:, s,isious WeekIies for Mckinley.

delicious WeekIies for Mckinley.
Ear many weeks the Springfield Re-
81 -.hIran has been scanning the political
tor;7ou anxiously looking for some sign
.ba+ might raise its hopes of Bryans
Lotion. But look where it might, the
",tineut seemed ablaze with the glow
,.,@ prospect of an overwhelming victory
~ Mckinley. Like the shipwrecked
la,4- looking for sail, no sail appeared
80 .rvard its watch and gladden. it's
- despair The Republican took to
I'll. ne the editorial pages of the re-
M hi, weekies, hoping from these to
.r-. some consolation for its antrim
rs-a,istic anguish. But to no purpose.
h At the end of weeks search it had to
Ne are impressed with the fact that so
ri far as they show political sympathies-
H and most of them do-practically all are
snnportng Mr.. Mckinley, Not single
outspoken Bryan sympathizer is found
among the UNCONVENTIONAL organs that
III And their way into this office.
Fl Now let The Republican turn in and
search the editorial pages Of the South
ers press tor anything approaching en-
n thusiastic support of Bry anism or anti.
imDerialsm.- Chicago Times Herald.
Lincoln TO SChurz.
While the Longs and Valandighams
were shouting imperialism and militar-
ism at Lincoln during the war, Carl
M Schurz was not far behind in backbiting
"a criticism. He was cock sure Lincoln was
K wrong, and the Schurz was the only
Va rigbt one. Intoerant himself he could i'll
"a appreciate the motives of the tolerant
81 lincoln, but he was never more neatly
III boxed up than when, after complaining
M to Lincoln Of the appointment of Dem.
ocrats to important posts in the army,
M he received from him the following reply
November oath, 1862
General Carl Schurz:
NV Dear Sir:-I have just received and
read your letter of the Goth. The pur-
n mort of is that we lost the late elections
and the Administration is failing because
the war is unsuccessful, and that | must
N not hatter myself that am not Justly to
blame for it. l certainly know that il
RI the war fails, the Administration fails,
M and that will be blamed for it, whether
pa deserve it or not. And l ought to be
n blamed if could do better You think
IA could do better; therefore you blame me
# already. think l could not do better
81 therefore blame you for blaming me.
# understand you now to be willing to ac
M cept the help of men who are not Re
# pubIicans, provided they have heart il
FL it," Agreed. | want no Others. But
BIZ who is to be the Judge of hearts, or o
heart in it" If l must discard
z my own judgment and take yours
HI must also take that of others; and by
81 the time should reject all | should b'
& advised to reject should have none left
M Republicans or others-not even your
# SELF For be assured, my dear sir, Their
M are men who have heart in it" thai
Il think YOU are performing your par
III poorly as you think | am performing
Nj mine. ! certainly have been dissatisfied
M with the slowness of Buell. and McClel
al Ian; but before | relieved them | hat
Hill great fears should not find successor
M to them who would do better and | an
III sorry to add that l have seen little sine
ia to releave those fears.
do not clearly see the prospect of an
ri more rapid movements. | fear we shaI
I'll at least find out that the difficulty is il
our case rather than in particular gener
s# ais. | wish to disparage no one-cer
M tainly not those who sympathize wit
III me; but | must say | need success NOR
than need sympathy, and that l hav
81 not seen the so much greater evidence c
# getting success from my sympatblzer
81 than from those who are denounced a
M the contrary. 1t does seem to me tina
in the field the two classes have bee
M very much alike in what they have don
# and what they have Jailed to do.
+ sealing their faith with their BLOOD
NH Baker and Lyon and Bohlen ant Ricl
I'll ardson, Republicans, did all that me
ri could do; but did they any more tina
d Kearny and Stevens and Mansfield, nor
| fwhom were Republicans, and some 4
least of whom have been bitterly and r.
peatedly denounced to me as secessio
ri sympathizers? | will not perform tt
BY ungrateful task OF comparing cases {
& failure.
In answer to your question, HAS
not been publicly stated in the new
papers, and apparently proved as fac
that from the commencement of the WE
the enemy was continually supplied wit
III information by some of the conhdentii
Subordinates of as important an Office
as Adjutant General Thomas ?" | mus
say No" as far as my knowledge e,
tends, And add that if you can civ
al any tangible evidence upon the subject,
M will thank you to come to this city an
M do so.
Very truly your friend,
A. LINCOLN.
ADay With Rryan.
William J. Bryan closed his Illino
tour last week Tuesday at Joliet. Du
ing the day he made 16 speeches.
The audiences were generally larg
# but those at Peoria, Quincy and Joli
were especially so
At Abingdon Mr.. Bryan addressed hit
self especially to the college boys, sayii
ia that he liked to talk to them, because,
class, they had high ideals and bu
their lives upon them. He went on
say that he believed that all young M
should form such early standards for Ii
But, ne said, it was not to college your
X men alone, but to all young men that
would appeal to form high ideals.
AIR, Bryan said that militarism won
8 mold up before the young men new idea
representing force and conquest rath
than the old ideals of peaceful progress
Celebrating this idea, he said: