The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-03

he was honestly elected. We were close | to the civil war and tho participants on | both sides were still vigorous enough l to make a revolution easy upon ques- | tion like that of the deprivation. by | any process of a candidate who was | believed to be elected to his office. Of | course it is a mooted question because | it was decided by the tribunal by only a majority of one. l But it is due to MT. Tilden to say that all his power and influence were used to prevent his followers from do- ing what many of the ablest and strongest advocated-seiZing the Pres idency or attempting it. It was main ly through MT Tilden that the tribu- nal was selected and its Judgment ac- Quiesced in.
 Battling for Grant
 In the canvass of 1880 Grant was , brought before the convention as a candidate, and the whole question of the third term became exigent. In the tactical management the nomination , of General Grant depended on wheth- , | CT the unit rule was to prevail. There : was a majority for him in enough s States to nominate him if the unit rule f carried both the majority and the mi
 nority, but there were enough dele gates to defeat him. The contest over this one question lasted for several days. When the unit rule Was peateh n the Convention was at sea-
 = John sherman was the most promi-
 nent and promising of the candidates. a and his campaign was led by James . Garfield, Garfield's speech for Sher- il man captured the convention and nom l. mated the speaker for the Presidency. e Arthur was put on as Vice-President ]. to placate MT. Conkling and satisfy the e New York delegation, he being the
 leadar of the Grant forces.
 f In the campaign of 1884 Blaine easi- V ly carried the convention against Ar f thur. Against his own wish and ad-
 vice, he was brought to New York to e meet a thousand Protestant clergymen' k The Rev Dr. Burchard's unfortunate if use of a phrase that had done good m service with him in hundred sermons m in his own church on political occa- c sion naturally offended large body of Id religionists who otherwise sympathizeo n warmly with MT. Blaine. That unfor' , tunate phrase alienated thousands of Ia their votes He lost New York by less n than 2.O0O, and except for those three
 words of the Rev. Dr. Burchard Inc at would have carried it by 10000 and ,t have been President of the United IS States.
 aft First View of Lincoln.
 first saw MT. Lincoln when h' = passed through Peekskill on his way t'
 Washington to be inaugurated. Hi
 speech was so short that it conveyed
 no Idea of the mana very hpmely
 very awkward man-he having time t'
 utter but a few sentences. l was elect N ed Secretary of State in 1863. Horati'
 Seymour had been elected Governor il y 1882. In the gathering of the soldier
 for 1864, Mir. Lincoln's second election
 in every State but New York the ma
 chinery was given to the Governor n The Legislature, however, of 1864 wa u overwhelmingly Republican, and |
 would not give it to the Democrat
 Governor.
 Tn the effort to get the machinery
 snent the winter in Washington an
 saw Mir Lincoln very often. He ha
 the habit at a certain hour of leaving
 the door open for anybody to come IT
 Then he would be overwhelmed by tn
 mothers, wives and sisters of soldier
 who were in hospitals and they want
 ed to reach them, or those who ha
 been condemned as deserters and the
 wanted them reprieved
 I witnessed in these meetings tn of most pathetic scenes of my life. MI Ul Lincoln looked up one day in tn
 crowd and said:
 "Hel1o. Depew! What do you want?
 I said, Nothing. Mir. President eX
 cent to pay my respects to you, as no am going home"
 ,ns luxury 10 see some one who ooes nc , want anything If you will stay wi ,I9 get rid of these people; l want to tai ev with you"
 air when the r''ii "oo ,,, = Lt ,~ az legs. clasred his knees with his hand q, and leaning backward and forward t' he long time. freely discussed the wa sr He told me eleven stories illustratin cS his ideas. With one exception the' io, stories were not parlor stories. b' 'n thev were immensely effective in eitl 'd CT Illustrating or clinching or strikir ds home the point he was making. es Mir Lincoln was the most direct aT or lucid talker I ever met. He had tho tod been President nearly four years ai 'ti was more perfect master than any as, the tried statesmen of the country nr~ the home and foreign situation, of tI
 complications with other government ,,, of the dangers of intervention, of t
 l situation of the army and the treasu t, and of the needs of both.
 ant Knew What the People Wanted. s have had more or less intima ou' with all the Presidents since his tir .n .i and most of the cabinet members. @ @lilo public man ever knew SO instinctive ns' and intimately just what the peoI las. wAnted If they had not yet expres to ed 1t in any form he knew what wou
 meet their approval Mir Lincoln W t u, the saddest man ever saw. because nt vas the most tender hearted and syn lon, pathetic. and yet he felt that to sa de his country he had to sacrifice tens i've. thousands of lives who would have 'ro- ha racrnf+a5 or sent +o the front to IT,, sacrificed hy his order. It seemed ifI,l press upon him and to weigh upon b
 with a load that he could not shake (