The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-02-07

stotesmanssin md in his frailties. Human in his
love for story telling and relaxation, and intense
ly filed with the humanity that Will not Knowing
ly do an unknd or unjust act
1t is that he perfection in any of the
walks of life in which fate turned his steps, for
there were better lawyers In his time; there were
better story tellers than Lincoln; surely 1t
would not be difficult to name better military Off
than Lincoln was. or more learned men and
greater orators than he But Lincoln was a man
of the people and Americans like that kind of man,
writes Joseph jackson in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
They hoard every scrap of writing that the
man ever wrote. His walking sticks his dilapi-
dated old law books, his brokendown bookcase,
everything that belonged to him or in which
he had set his name, is treasured.
Not long ago in New York they sold at auction
a slip of paper which he showed that, good
politician he was thought to be. he was poor
hand guessing results of presidential cleo
ton. Yet this slip of paper brought S1,O25, and
Lincoln had not even signed ii. but it was known
to have been written by him.
1t might be mentioned here that Lincoln proved
himself to be very poor prophet, and overesti-
mated the strength of General Mcclellan, his Do
litical opponent in the election of 1864. Accord
ing to Lincon's estimate he felt sure of the New
England states and few others, totaling 100
in the electoral college and he set down as
1.-The supposed Copperhead vote the states of
New York Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware,
Maryland, Missouri, kentucky ana Illinois, and
their ia votes he believed would be cast for Gen
eral Mcclellan. AS a matter of fact, however only
New Jersey. Delaware and Kentucky went against
him, and he carried the election by Il vote of
212 TO %.
There were reasons for Lincoln's belief that
the states he had set down "Copperhead"
would go against him. The drafts of men had
been resisted in more or less energetic form in
many of these commemorative, notably New York
nnd Illinois, and the large number of sympathiz-
there might easily lead to his conclusion. But
what he had not taken into the fullest account
that the majority of men in the North were
loyal to the Union, regardless of politics or their
natural sympathes, and they stood by Lincoln to
the end.
Was Real Seif-Made Man. 1
If anyone asked to name the most illus-3
trious example of what have called the self
made man in America there would instantly occur
the name Of Lincoln In country of self-made
men he stands in high relief There Is no one to
take a 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 were numerous. but along with 1t always
went that equally strong determination not to
achieve success by any unfair means
He admitted that his education was defective"
and that was a weak word for it. Many men
with grezt deal more have been failures And
ure 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 unexpectedly 1t Is to be seen there yet
there was exhibited In one Of the colleges at