The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-08

statesmanship and in his frailtes. Human In MS
love for story telling and relaxation and intense
ly filed with the humanity that Will not knowing
ly do unknd or unjust act
1t is not that he was perfection in any of the
walks of life in which fate turned his steps. for
there were better lawyers in his time; there were
even better story tellers than Lincoln surely 1t
would not be difficult to name better military OIL
than Lincoln was, or more learned men ana
greater orators than he. But Lincoln was man
of the people and Americans like that KIND OF man,
writes Joseph Jackson in the Philadelphia PuDlc
Ledger.
They hoard every scrap of writing that the
man ever wrote His walking sticks, his dilapi-
dated old law books. his broken-down bookcase,
everything that once belonged to him or in which
he had set his name. is treasured.
Not long ago in New York they sold at auction
n slip of paper on which he showed that, good
politician as he thought TO be, be was poor
hand ut guessing results of Il presidential eec-
ton Yet this slip OF paper brought $l,025 and
Lincoln had not signed it, but it was known
to have been written by him.
Ii might be mentioned here that Lincoln proved
himself To be a very poor prophet, ana oNereStl-
mated the strength of General Mcclellan. his po-
llticai opponent in the election of 1864. Accord
in. TO Lincon's estimate he felt suEt of the New
England states and few Others, totalins 100
votes in the electoral college. and he set down as
''the supposed Copperhead vote" the states of
New York, Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Delaware
MARYLAND Missouri, hentucKJ ana llllnOlS anu
their IA votes he believed would be cast for Gen
eral Mcclellan. As ii MATES. of fact however. only
New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky Went against
Kim and he carried the election by vote of
212 to %.
There were reasors for Lincon's belief that
the states he had set down as Comprehend"
would go against him. The drafts of had
been resisted in or less energetic form in
many of these commonweaths, notably New York
and illinois, and the large number of sympatlZ-
ers there might easily lead TO his conclusion. But,
what he had taken into the fullest account
was that the ma orty of men in the North We're
loyal to the Union. regardless of politics their
natural symp lthies. and they stood by Lincoln to
the end.
Was Real Self-Made Man.
If anyone asked to name the most Illus
trous example of what have called the self
the name of Lincoln. In country of sef-nade
men he stands in high relief. There is one to
take place beside him. for not only did he over
come every natural difficulty placed in his way in
his determination to achieve education, and
they we're numerous but along with II always
went that equally strong determination not IL
achieve success by any unfair means.
He admitted that his education was defective"
and that weak word for it, Many men
with a grent deal more have been failures. And
Lincoln had every opportunity of becoming IL fail
urc but he realized his educational weaknesses
and strove to remove them. That he did remove
them seems to be testified to by many writer's.
AT one tae--probaby it is TO he seen there vel
there exhibited in one of the colleges III