The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-03
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 vaCCeC ~ LINCOLN. GRANT. HAYEC GARFIELD. CLEVEl- LAND. HARRl~CON and lAHC kRN1 E~
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Ills one absorbing thought. relieved |
 only by this story telling. was that he must ssave the Union. and that 1t could | only be saved by eliminating slavery. | You ask me of his method of talk | ing He had a peculiar cadence in his | voice, which made his sentence rhyth- | mic One who reads that gem of Amer | ican orations, his speech at Gettysburg i it was improvised) will get an idea | of his style-that of an unconscious poem MT. Lincoln was man of mar | vellous genius and singular power of
 expression. He had upon, him the | weight of the future and It's possibili-
 ties to his country. He talked or the l criticisms on his story telling, which used to amuse Seward and offend the dignified Chase.
 With this singular cadence he said.
 remember: They say I tell great
 many stories. I reckon I do. but
 have found in the course of long and
 varied experience that the plain peo-
 pIe," then repeating with great em-
 phasis, the plain people, take them as they run, are more easily influenced by a broad and humorous illustration , than in any other way What the hyp- ercritical few may think l do not care."
 F think it generally admitted now I that the greatest misfortune which T II happened
 | sination. He was the one man who
 had the hold upon the country and the
 power to have accomplished what was e done twelve years afterward under : Hayes. He would have reconstructed . the South without a carpet-bagging , | government or any of the horrors and f mistakes of the reconstruction period Q because the North. the Union army and Q the loyal people would have absolutely
 trusted his Judgment as they did his l. patriotism, and the question of the two .- sections would have been settled by him, tree from many of the difficulties n which affect us still
 The methods of campaigning before n the war, during the war and for severa d canvasses afterward were different Is from those we have now. The press , was not nearly so universal or power ,f ful. The political speaker though d was more universal and more powerful r- There was no possibility of organiz If ing such complete campaigns as wa ,s done by MT Hanna. Money did not ex ,e tst in the country to create a machin " cry of literature. of speakers. of col ,d porteurs, of military companies. of or .d ganizations of every kind, which wer
 the educational processes of the las
 three or four canvasses.
 ,e The series of speeches which MT to Seward, after being defeated at Chica ia go, made TOT Llncoln' dlIhost u"Saue'ii ,d ed in their versatility and frequency ~. were the feature of Lincoln's first cam = paign. and their influence was incalcu t- iabIe There has been nothing In tn to canvasses of the last twenty year in which was one mans oratory that coul re be so effective.
 n The newspapers in the early cam paigns had an idol, and they made . ,, that idol a fetich or god Tor thei 'r. readers. That was done for Henr ,s Clay. It was done in conspicuous in te stances for Daniel Webster, MT. Buch
 O anan and others.
 In the last quarter of a century n
 newspaper commanding a national i'm n1 portance has had one man occupyln