Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-02-08

ity by the people here. "Those who
profess to have been familiar with
Mr.. Lincoln and speak of calling him
Abe are presuming on ignorance. The
people of Springfield knew him only
as Mr.. Lincoln He was young
lawyer when he came here in the
spring of 1887, but he had been a
terms and as the leader of the Long
Nine had done more than any other
man to bring about the removal of the
state capital from Vandalia to Spring
field. They may have called him Abe
in Indiana and out here in New Salem,
where he spent his boyhood and youth.
but not in Springfield. Naturally many
have wished to make it appear that
they We're intimate with Mr.. Lincoln,
so in their imaginary conversations
which they repeat they disprove, i'll
stead of prove, by telling how they
called him Abe and the like Mr. and
Mrs. Lincoln were both charming peo-
pie. 1t is outrageous the way they
have been maligned.'
Another friend of Lincoln's still liv
ing in Springfield, who met him first
in 1896 and who knew him intimately
after he became president, is Dr. VIII
liam Jayne. DR.. Jayne, by the way,
was territorial governor of Dakota
under Mr.. Lincoln during his first ad-
ministraton. The doctor said:
II first knew Mr.. Lincoln in 1896,
seventy-tive years ago. He was still
living in New Salem and was deputy
surveyor and postmaster of that vii
lage, had served one term in the legis-
lature and was a candidate for re
election. Even at that time there was
something about the ungainly and
poorly clothed young man that foretold
to an observing person bright future
in public life. My first sight of him
was at the dinner table In the common
dining room Of the Rutledge tavern,
where he always stopped when in
Springfield.
after dinner drove with my father
to Huron-a little town not far out
from Springfeld-where my father
owned store in partnership with N.
w. Edwards, afterward Mr.. Lincoln's
brother-in-law. In conversation with
Mr.. Edwards my father said to him,
I remember, That young man Lincoln
will some day be governor of Illinois,
~ was then boy of ten and thought
at : father must be testing, for had
ng IN in Springfield two governors of
nv nois-Ninian Edwards of Belleview
40 Joseph Duncan of Jacksonville
.. Suyere both well dressed men,
- i91 in tfeir own carriages. with fine
.as,rses and Solored coachmen. Mr.
Lincoln certainly did not hook much
ike these men, but fathers fore
sight was better than his>San.s, for in
a little over twenty years Mr.. EfAcoih
was president Of the United States.
81 was present at the marriage OF
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, and
a pretty wedding 1t seemed to me. then
a lad of sixteen. My sister was Mary
Todd's bridesmaids; they were 1nsep-
arabic friends. It was this same SIS
fer. Julia. and Miss Todd who wrote
the second letter signed 'Rebecca OF
the Lost Townships that so enrageo
Mr.. Shields that he challenged LIN
coin to fight that ridiculous duel about
which so much has been said and VIII
rem. Mr.. Lincoln had written the first
.Rebecca' letter, pOking fun at the
Democrats. bit Mary and Julia's letter
was too personal, ridicu!ing Shields
vanity and setting everybody laughing