The Republican journal., 1916-06-15

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said of the Crimean war: "Delaae, dur
ing the months preceding the outbreak
of hostilities, had shown himself to be
of the old opinion-which has sometimes
been the cloak of provocative aggression
and sometimes a counsel of true pru-
dence-that if you wish for peace, you
must be ready for war;" "He was
much abused, as we shall hear presently,
for his exposure of the lack of adequate
preparedness for the war; he had the
justification, among others, that he had
done everything in his power to rouse
England the Unready beforehand. 1t
is then told how the Times itself was
prepared, the outbreak of war finding it
''well equipped with staff of c"rrespon-
dents," of whom the best known was
William Howard Russell, who came to
this country at the time of the Civil War
ard was at the first battle of Bull Run.
He was made much fun of by our pa
pers because of the alacrity with which
he left the field, and was given the
soubriquet of "Bull Run" Russell. Our
impression is that his stay in this coun-
try was short.
! There was no censorship at the time
of the Crimean war and Russell found
the commssariat and medical depart
ments terribly inadequate, and 50 stated
in his correspondence. 1t is said of him:
His fearless exposure of sufferings
and Encouragement saved the remnant
of an army, inspired the mission of Flor
ence Nightingale and overthrow the
ministry of Lord Aberdeen.
Delane's bographer is Sir Edward
Cook, the present British Censor in
Chief, and what he says of war CORE
spondents, past and present, is of inter-
est. Of the days of Russell and other
noted journalists it is said: "The special
war-correspondent was a new invention,
and the check of censorship had not
kept pace with it. The Crimean war
was the first in which newspaper corre-
spondents-called by Lord Wolseley the
curse of modern armies were in the
field.' And of present conditions:
"Since the days of the Crimean war we
have seen the business of war correspon-
dence run its full course and sink per-
haps into comparative insignificance.
"a Leaf from the Hatch History"
recently published in The Journal, was
read with interest by many outside of
that family. Williamson's History OF
Belfast (vol. l. p. 1907 has this refer
ence to the log cabin campaign:
1910. The Wings of Waldo county
held a large celebration. There was
large procession, escorted by the Thom-
aston Band, and containing log cabin,
smoke curling from it's chimney, which
was hauled on wheels from Searsmont,
An Grafton was delivered in the grove at
what is now the corner of Congress and
Bradbury streets, by Lucius H. Chan
dler, ESQ.,, of Thomaston. lizard cider"
was freely used as a beverage on the
occasion.
We are under the impression that
Crosby s Annals gives fuller report OF
this celebration, but they are not at
hand to refer to. The Democrats had
ell ected Martin Van Buren, of New York
President for the term ending in l84l,
but there was great commercial distress
during his administration, and in 1910
the Wings nominated for President Gen.
William Henry Harrison Of Ohio, who
had fought Tecumseh and his Indians
bravely thirty years before. AS ne
ca me from what was then the Far West,
ONE one gave him the name of "The
Log Cabin Candidate" and all over the
country log cabins were soon built for
political meetings; and there were pollt-
ical celebrations, at which cider was the
only beverage, this being favorite
drink among farmers. There were many
songs composed and sung at these gath
erings-songs about 1.-THE Hero of Tip
pecanoe, and about "Tippecanoe and
T yler, too;" John Tyler being the candi-
date for vice president. 1t was the live
Hest political campaign the country had
. known up TO tnal Time anu Tesulteu III
the election of Gen. Harrison by an over
whelming vote. He was inaugurated
president in 1S41, but lived less than a
m onth after his Inauguration and Vice
President j ohm Tyler of Virginia became
President for the remainder of the four
years (1S411845.) While the writer has
no personal recollection of this campaign
he recalls seeing in the garden of Obed
Hill in Machias, when small boy, a
miniature log cabin. which seemed to
him then a wonderful piece of work, and
which was built by Mr.. Hills sons in the
exciting days of 1910,
Montana is infused with the spirit of
Preparedness, and it is proposed to form
a cavalry company of the students at
the State College in Bozeman. Captain
Tenne Ross of the general staff of the
United States army, who has just been
in Bozeman in connection with his duties
as inspector of military drill in the COL
leges of that part of the country, said
that the federal government would fur