Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1904-11-25
Men Who Bear Defeat Calmly
STO1czsM or CANDIDATES.
Fortune Has Follozved II tie Wake
of Failure at tie Polls. - -

LOtVCU W IIte ~ axe
Polls. - -
returned to Washington when he was
GA years old to achieve fame as the "Old
Man Eloquent. Age has come to
much renown in the House Of Repre-
sentatives Thaddeus Stevens, the
most eminent of all parliamentary
leaders, the man who said that Thomas
Corwin Of Ohio looked upon slavery
''as benevolent institution which
saves the DOOR mans COW 10 furnish
milk for his children by selling the
father instead Of the cow"-this mighty
commoner, fierce. witty and courage.
ous. was SO when he began the career
that has written his name into the bis.
tory Of his country.
Beaten by John Quincy Adams in
1924. William Harris Crawford, secre.
tary Of The treasury, went back to
Georgia stricken by poverty and grief.
His friends elected him probate judge
and in obscurity he died. Lewis Cass
continued in public life after Gen.
Taylor had been elected and sat in
Buchansn's cabinet AZ secretary Of
state. The South preparing to rebel.
Cass urged that the harbor at Charles.
ton be made secure. Buchanan. ''the
slave Of slavery" as he was known,
put him off Those forts must be
strengthened I demand it," Cass
thundered into the face Of his timid
chief. The demand, 20 dramatically
made. was ignored. Cass quit the cab
met, went to his home In Detroit and
lived there until he died. In his auto.
biography Gen. Winfield Scott thanked
God that he was not elected President
against Franklin Pierce in 1859. After
the campaign of 1910 Martin Van
Buren, bought farm on the Hudson
river and went to live in house that
had been in the ownership Of Washing.
ton Irving. He had not drawn any
part of his salary while he was Presi-
dent. and with 800, 900 in hand and
considerable other property was pre-
pared to meet political disaster. He
cultivated hie farm At . profit. lived
in refined style. entertained many
notable men and made two further
efforts to gain the presidency.
FREMONT AND NC CLELLEN.
Nothing could subdue the extrava-
CANT hopes and impractical spirit of
John G Fremont. He removed to
New York after the election Of 1856
with visions of wealth before him
there were millions in the mines Of tho
west, and railroad ought to be built
to the Pacific coast. He was . daring
man. but his Imagination was always
in advance of public interest and opin.
ion., A General In the civil war, he
proclaimed the freedom of all the slaves
within his military jurisdiction.
Again he was premature. and Lincoln
HIM. After the rebellion,
little and wrinkled he became fam.
tliar figure In Wall street He fought
on with no one to listen to his day
dreams; always hopeful, active and
George B. McClellen, .
soldier on q platform explicitly de.
clared" the war to be failure, not
succeeding Abraham Lincoln In 1854,
travelled In Europe There a son was
born to him; the son who is now mayor
of New York. Returned from his
journey, he went to live in his comfort.
able home at Orange in New Jersey,
Elected governor Of his state. he after
wrote his memoirs. cherished the be.
lief that his military reputation had
been injured by his enemies in Wash.
ington, lived we'll and at last died sud.
denly. a
Less than two weeks after the cleo.
tion in 1872 the statement was printed
that Horace Greeley had become In.
sane. 1t was so Mrs. Greeley died
during the campaign Her husband
had watched by her bed by night and
electioneered during the day Sorrow
toll and humiliation paralyzed his
brain. and death was swift. A nation
that had ridiculed his aspirations
mourned III sincerity when he was
gone. Throughout the dangerous days
that followed the election of 1875, the
Democratic candidate, Samuel J. TIL
den, took personal direction of his own
interests. Al the same time he was
engaged in one of the largest specula.
.ions that had ever originated in Wall
street. Cyrus w. Field had bought an
elevated railway that had been un.
profitable, Tilden had Joined him in
the enterprise. Field went to London
to sell the road to an English syndicate.
While he was there Tilden threw his
shares into the market and Jay Gould
bought them. Shouting traitor Field
sailed for home In midocean he pas.
sed Tilden going to Eurape for a
change Of scene and situation. Field
was crowded out of his own company.
Tilden's profits were said to have been
two and y half millions.
Weary to the point Of collapse Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock went TO bed at
! o'clock on the evening of the election
In 1880. At 5 the next morning he
asked his wife if she had heard definite
news of the result She answered: 1T
is Waterloo for you" To this he re-
piled, 'All right" Thereupon be fell