Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-21


wanted them reprleved,
/ witnessed In these meetings tho
most pathetic scenes OF my life Mr..
Lincoln looked up one day In the crowd
and said
Hello, Depewl What do you want?'
| said, Nothing, Mr.. President, ex-
cept to pay my respects TO you, as
am going home"
Mr. Lincoln replied' 1T is such
luxury 10 see some one who does not
want anything, II you viii stay VIII
get rid Of these people, | want TO tax
with you
When the room was clear he threw
himself on the sofa, pulled up his long
legs, clasped his knees with his hands,
and leaning backward and forward Tor
a long time, freely discussed the war.
mensely effective In either Illustrating
with one exception these stories were
not parlor stories. but they were I'M
mensely effective I'm eitherl Illustrating
or clinchIng or striking home the point
he was making.
Mr.. Lincoln was the most direct and
lucid talker ! ever mot. lie had then
been president nearly four years ana
was more perfect master than any OF
the tried statesmen OF the country
Of the home and foreign situation, OF
the complications with other govern
ments, OF the dangers OF Intervention.
of the situation OF the army and OF
the treasury and OF the needs OF potn'
KNEW WHAT PEOPLE WANTED
have had more or less intimacy with
all the presidents since his time ana
most OF the cabinet members. NO pup.
lie man ever knew so instinctlvely ana
intimately Just what the people wanted
II they had not yet expressed II IN any
form he knew what would meet their
approval Mr.. Lincoln WAS the saddest
man / ever saw, because he was the
most tender hearted and sympathetic,
and yet he felt that 10 save his country
he had 10 sacrifice tens Of thousands OF
lives who would have to be recruited
or sent 10 the front to be sacrificed by
his order. II seemed to press upon MN
and to weigh upon him with load that
he could not shake of.
His one absorbin gthought reheYed
only by this story telling, was that ne
must save the Union, and that II coulu
only be saved by eliminating slavery
You ask me OF his method Of talking
lie had a peculiar cadence In his voice
which made his sentence rhythmic. one
who reads that gem OF American ora
lions, his speech at Gettysburg ut was
lmpr0yised) will get an Idea OF his
stye-that NJ an unconscious poem. MT
Lincoln was a man of marvellous genius
and singular power OF expression, lie
had upon him the weight Of the future
and rs possibilities to his country. lie
talked Of the criticisms on his story tell
ing which used TO amuse Seward and
offend the dignlfed Chase.
With this singular cadence ne said !
remember; "They say ! tell a great
many stories. | reckon do, but nave
found In the course OF long ana va
ried experience that the plain people,
then repeating with great emphasis,
THE plain people, take them as they
run, are more easily Influenced ny
broad and humorous Illustration than
in any other way What the hypercrlt-
zeal few may think ! do not care"
| think It generally admitted now
that the greatest misfortune which
happened to the south was his assassin
alton. He was the one man who had
the hold upon the country, and the
power to have accomplished what was
done " years afterward under Hayes.
He would have reconstructed the south
without carpetbagging government or
any of the horrors and mistakes OF the
period, because the north,
the Union army and the loyal people
would,have absolutely trusted his judy
ment as they did his patriotism and
the question Of the two sections would
have been settled by him, free from the
many difficulties which affect us stlll
DIFFERENCE IN CAMPAIGNS,
The methods of campaigning before
the war during the war and for several |
afterward were different |
from those we have now The press |
was not nearly 80 universal or power
full. The political speaker, though, was |
more universal and more powerful
There was no possibility OF organizing |
such complete campaigns as was done |
by Mr. Hanna. Money did not exist |
In the country TO create machinery |
of literature, OF speakers, OF colporteurs, |
)f military companies, or organizations |
Df every kind, which were the educa- |
ilonal processes Of the last three or four |
,anyasses.
The series Of speeches which Mr., Sew |
ard, after being defeated at Chicago, |
made for Lincoln, almost unequaled for |
heir versatility and frequency were the |
feature Of Llncoin's first campaign and
their influence waa incaloulable. There |
has been nothing In the canvasses Of |
the last twenty years when was one
mans oratory that could be so effective. |
The newspapers in the early cam
palgns had an idol and they made Of |
that idol fetch or god for their |
readers That was done for Henry |
Clay. II was done in conspicuous In |
stances for Daniel Webster, Mr.. Blu
ohanan and others In the last quar- |
ter Of century no newspaper com
national importance has had |
one man occupying the place OF honor
In It's columns every day Public men
In the last twenty-five years, like Gar
field, Mckinley, Cleveland or Roose-
welt. are subjects Of abuse. but not Of |
daily laudation and In
discriminate praise, aa was the case In |
the old canvasses,
Regarding the part being taken by |
women In the modern campaign, wo- |
men ought to be as much interested In |
politics as men and should be as well |
informed II the Democrats get to- |
gether, as they probably will, then |
those who left the Democratic party TO |
vote for Mckinley will be back support |
ing the candidate Of ST. Louis, Those |
who have arrived at n years OF age |
since the last presidential canvass will |
be more influenced by the Intelligent |
advice OF their mothers than by any |