Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-19

tween Millard Fillmore and Thurlow
W eed Fillmore was one of Weeds
political discoveries, and when they
met for the first time had just gradu-
ated from the wool carders loom to
the dignity of law office In Buffalo.
Fillmore, at Weeds suggestion, was
sent 10 the legislature William IL.
Seward was there, serving his first
term as Senator, and upon the day
that the legislature met these three
men, one of whom was to become
President. another the idol of his par
ty and Secretary OF State. and the
third Il maker of Governors, Senators
and Presidents. began an intimacy
that lasted for more than twenty
years. Fillmore, by Weeds help, was
sent to Congress. where he speedily
became one of the leaders of the
Wings, and also by Weeds direction
Seward was elected Governor of and
then Senator from New York, Weed
brought about the nomination Of Fill
more for Governor in 1914, two years
later made him Controller of the State,
and i'll 1S4S helped him to second place
on the ticket with Taylor.
Taylor and Fillmore were elected:
but no sooner was the latter seated
IN office than the ambition for the sue
cession seized him, and desiring 10
break Weeds power which he feared,
and Stewards prestige. of which he
was Jealous, he codly turned his back
upon his old friends. He set out to
create machine of his own in New
York, and when Of sudden he be-
came President, through the death of
Taylor, he filled the chief offices in the
State with men who were loyal to him,
turning out others who had borne the
brunt of the Whig party's battles.
Thus he struck at the very vitals of
the organization of which. Weed and
Seward were the master spirits At
the same time he cultivated the South
ern Wings and signed the Fugitive
Slave law. We must match strength
with him." said Weed to Seward, "and
show to the country that, although he
is President, he does not control the
Wings of New York" The test came
in 1852 in the State convention which
preceded the national convention of
the Wings. Weed controlled the con
vention; but Fillmore's friends bolted
and formed an organiza ton Of their
own. The party was thus split in
twain in the pivotal State of New
York, and though Scott defeated Fill
more for the nomination in the Whig
national convention, it was only to be
beaten at the polls Though Fillmore
survived for two-and-twenty years his
term as President, but once did he
emerge from the retirement to which
vaulting ambition had consigned him.
That was in 1856, when he was nomi-
mated for the Presidency by the rump
OF the Wing party, Fremont being the
Republican candidate Both were de-
feated by Buchanan.
Another longtime associate of Weed
and Seward was Horace Greeley. For
years the three men labored together
In behalf of the Whig cause, but in
1854 Greeley withdrew from the alli-
ance. charging that his partners had
sacrificed him To their lust of power.
Weed and Seward, on the other hand,
maintained that Greeley had seeded
because he was disappointed as an
ofiiceseeker But. whatever its cause,
the great editor nursed his grievance
and in due time took full and ample
revenge for it, Like his whiom part
ners he went into the newly formed
Republican party and speedily won an
important and influential place in its
councils. Weed and Seward however
obtained control of the party machin-
cry in New York. and though Greeley
desired to go as Il delegate to the ma
tional Republican convention in 1860,
this honor through their opposition,
was denied him. Greeley was opposed
to the candidacy of Seward, but there
is little doubt that he would have
contented himself with registering his
vote against the New York Senator if
he had been permitted to attend as
Il representative of his own State. An
gered at the treatment accorded him,
he went to Chicago and was substi-
tuted for an absent Oregon delegate.
His newspaper had given him nation
al fame, and as proxy for this West
ern absentee he undermined the works
thrown up by Weed in behalf of Sew
ard, and did more than any other one
man to secure the nomination of Lin
coin. Thus was he revenged upon
his former partners.
Tilden Defeats Chase.
When the Democratic national con-
vention assembled in 1868 it was the
purpose of Horatio Seymour and other
leaders that Chief Justice Chase, who
had become estranged from the Re-
publican party. should be nominated
for President, and save for one mans
craft and cunning this plan would have