Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-29
All Sober Men Realised
That Lincoln's Election
Meant War.
DEMOCRATS SPLIT
IN TWO FACTIONS
Douglas Could Probably Have Won u
Ne Had Not Had Opposition in MS
Own Party-First Big Stories OF
Corruption Funds Made Their AP'
pearancs in This Campaign.
BY Frederic J. Haskin. !

The election of 1872 stands out as
the only one In the century anu
quarter OF the eXistenct OF the Demo-
cratic party that it went into cam
paign without a candidat: OF Its own.
The experiment was such fiasco that
there never has been any temptation
to try 1t again. 1t was like many an
election that has come since-the Re-
publicans seemingly We're beaten In
August and September, only to be
caught up on the returning tide or
public sentiment in october and borne
to victory in November.
zSuccessful as General Grant had been
as soldier, he was disappointment
to a great many of those who had first
nominated and elected him president.
Both in his judgment of men and
measures he succeeded In arousing
bitter antagonisms whiting his own
party, and presently he found That
two thirds of those who had been
delegates to the Republican conven-
lions of 1855 and 1860 had broken with
him He wanted to annex Santo Do
mingo to the United States and
pressed the matter so hard that he
was soon at political daggers' points
with Charles Sumner and Horace
Greedy.
Then there was graft rampant in the
public service. His secretary OF war,
william w. Belknap, and his secretary
of the navy, George N. Robson, were
accused of all sorts Of graft. Charles
: A. Dana in the New York sun thun-
dered every day against the Robbers
at Washington" and Horace Greedy
Joined the revolt with his Tribune.
Manipulation of political jobs for
private purposes was openly INDUCED
in by men in whom Grant unfortunate
~ placed mis- confidence, and the
"bloody shirt" issue was getting tire
some to many voters.
Began in Missouri.
The beginning OF the coalition h"-
tween the disaffected Republicans ard
the Democrats began In Missouri. -he
issue was amnesty for the southern
soldiers of Missouri and their restora-
ton to citizenship, and the fusionwon
The following year, 1871, the opposi-
ton to Grant confined 10 grow anG
\ meetings were held against his re.
election. Finally Clement Vallandig-
ham, the arch -copperhead of the north
who in the sixties had been exiled tt
the south from his home in Ohio as {
result Of his opposition to the war
drew up a series Of resolutions which
were adopted in a Dayton, Ohio, con
vention They declared for the unfit
cation of all the elements opposed t
the reelection of General Grant, OIL
the basis of complete acceptance o
the results of the war. the reconstruc
ton policy, the amendments to tn
constitution, etc. This Ohio idea W;
christened 1.-THE New Departure" ant
1t called hundreds Of party leaders t.
its uplifted standard. The Democrats
Dress, headed bxswhat is now the 81
Louis Republic and by the Louisville
Courier journal. hailed the new ide;
and directly the Liberal Republican
took 1t up and soon state convention
in Missouri called a national conven
ton of all Liberal Republicans to con
vene in Cincinnati.
But before this convention met TIL