Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-06

~ lS pun ~ HUuCiotuHu
wig such glddneSS fTs The land
when the time Of Spring Is here
For its Summer right nert door
But t1hen Fan qUinds start to roar
You must nearly iCdit a gear.
StiH the patient Christian child
AltCdyS faithful meek and mild
Praises God lCith grateful song
LoUing al His seasons 1oeH
Just as much tChen Fail has feH
As tChen Spring has sprung.
IF YOU were crouching in a first line
trench in France this m"rning, waiting
for the signal to go over the top, and
suddenly felt a hand upon your shoulder
and heard a voice say, mot so fast! Have
you voted this morning?" wouldn't you
jump with surprise?
OF course you would, but that's how the
States look after their voters on election
day, and that's how long the arm of the
Election Commissioner is. Governor
Brumbaugh has been busy for some
months getting transportation for his
election officers to Somewhere" in vari-
Gus parts of France and the high seas, as
well as to the camps throughout our own
country, where qualified Pennsylvania
voters happen to be-
The American citizen may rashly risk
his life wherever he pleases, but he is not
to be allowed to throw awas his valuable
vote, If the State knows it.
1t was so in Civil War times, too al
though one of the most interesting chap
ters in the late Colonel A. X. McClure's
"Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania" is the
one dealing with the story of how the
Keystone State was made to give Lincoln,
in 1854, a majority of 5000 on the home
vote by the furloughing of 10000 voters
Virginia.
A still more interesting tale, and one
not so well known, has to do with the
casting of General Phil Sheridans first
and last vote, in that same trying cam
paign of 1864.
1 have before me, as l write an old
newspaper clipping describing the Incl
dent The narrator is General Ruther.
ford B. Hayes, one-time President of these
United States, and the story was after
ward sent to General Hayes by some
careful person for the stamp of his ap-
proval. The General appears to have cut
the clipping into sections and pasted it
upon sheet of paper to permit of inter
lineations. These last are given in italics,
within brackets, in the tory, which fol-
lows:
81 was present" says ex-Presdent
Hayes, when General Sheridan cast the
first vote and last OF his life. Mcclellan
was the candidate on the one side and
Lincoln on the other. Sheridan had never
voted, as he was an army officer, but he
understood that under the laws of Ohio
an Ohio soldier could vote, and that
there was to be somewhere in camp
among the Ohio soldiers a polling place.
He soon learned 1t was at my bead
quarters tmy only memorandum made at
the time t1ds Generals Sheridan aud
Crook aud Colonel Forsythe came over to
my command to Vote at the polls in the
Thirty-toHrth Regiment, o. v. I. Gen.
erdl Sheriddn's "mdiden cote" This at
Cedar Greek IN the Shenandoah VALLEY,
Vir0inid.'l So he came over the day
before and talked about 1t. I never cast
a vote before in my life,' said General
Sheridan, and l don't understand how to
do IT.
General Forsythe, of Toledo, and General
Crook. who also wanted to vote. / passed
the word around that Sheridan and Crook
would vote about o'clock and [perhapsl.
1000 soldiers and two brass bands we're on
hand. The polling place was a wagon, and
three noncommissioned officers were
judges and two young fellows clerks
said I'D vote first. so as to show Crook
and Sheridan how 1t was done was an
old voter; they were greenhorns. 1
stepped up and said to the judges, NY
name is Rutherford b. Hayes l vote
in Hamilton County. Ohio, in the Fif-
teenth Ward, Cincinnati All this was
put down.
Then Sheridan stepped up He was
a little embarrassed, for all the men were
looking at him. II was a new part for
him to play. He looked at the Judge and
the Judge stared at him. Your name. sir
said the Judge, with infinite dignity.
Sheridan spoke up, Philip II. Sheridan
In what state do you vote?' asked the
Judge impressively Tn Ohio sheridan
replied In what countyy Perry Coun-
ty' In what ward or township, sirY
my father lives in Reading township
Sheridan replied In an embarrassed way
[JOr Il tods all net0 to himl
Then General Crook stepped forward,
pulling his mustache nervously, as was
his habit [tOhen he tDas slightly perpIered
or eBbDTdssedl. He gave his name and
said he lived I'm Dayton. MONTGOMERY
County. What ward. sirT Numbered the
Judge 4 don't know, General Crook said
Il always stopped at the Philips House.
though oh. call II the First Ward /
[nO, not T.; someone eIssl said and down
IL went that way. In speaking with
sheridan afterward. he said with feel
ing: This Is my first vote l don't ever
expect to vote again, but did want 10
vote for Old Abe'H'
lThis Is sabstanfialIy correct. 80 No.
vember, 1888. Rutherford D. Hayes
THIS THING OF higher cost o. manu-
facture is running amuek Yesterday
Giuseppe. da Barber. announeed an nd.