Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06

get through. and great, tall. gaunt
man as he was. they literally picked
| him up and passed him over their
| heads. He did not talk much. Some
was proper for him to be there. as he
| was a candidate for the. presidency,
and a queer expression came over his
face as he said: The truth is. Arch
! it was Archibald Van Dooren to whom
, he was talking-1 am most too much
of candidate to be here. but hardly
enough to stay away
THE gathering went wild with en-
. thusiasm." Mr.. Cannon recalls; Lin
coin talked not to exceed five min
you make those ~,rails?' His reply
was: John Hanks says we made
| those rails. do not know whether
we did or not. but I have made many
| better ones than those The Seward
people in that convention were swept
mously chosen by that convention,
consisting of the personal and polit-
ical friends of Abraham Lincoln, went
to the convention held in the wigwam
a week or two later in Chicago. You
know the results
Then came the campaign. Abra-
Ram Lincoln penned his own plat
form. Lincoln behaved very we'll He
did not make speeches. He did not
make a campaign. He answered a
=.
Mr.. Cannon we'll remembers how
quickly after Lincoln's election came
the threat of secession. Lincoln re-
manned in Springfield and after the
campaign Cannon saw him when he
was on his way in a day coach with
out a companion on his. way to
Charlie ston. ILL.,, to meet for the last
time in this life the old stepmother
who called him my boy Abe up to
the time of his death, and she lived
a M ftN<lv
an illiterate. plain. homespun wom-
an. Mr.. Cannon recalls. but she was
good stun. She had been kind to Lin
coin and gloried in his success. She
died calling him my boy Abe"
me ., simplicity Of Lincoln riding
elected President at a time when
! threats Of secession had been made
is emphasized by Mr.. Cannon in an
tithesis Of the way a President-elect
IS now safeguarded from the day he
is the conventions choice.
To me there is no greater exam
pie In the history of the human race
OF magnificent leadership and pa
triotism than that of Abraham Lin
coin during that historic conflict"
positiveness. He gives a word pic
ture Of Lincoln's position in those
days: And all the while. with all
the abuse. with the quarrels in the
cabinet. with the premier suggesting
that the conduct of the war had
better be left to him: with the fall
ures OF generals. with the universal
criticism of generals. of colonies, and
! even OF captains; with the false re-
ports that were sent by wire and
correspondence with doubt and fear.
with the credit Of the republic dis
lappearing-thist tall. gaunt, sad faced
man. born of the children of toll. kept
his courage.
George William Curtis. in notify
ing Lincoln of his second nomina-
ltion. said: Amid the bitter taunts
Of eager friends and the fierce de-
! nunciation of enemies. now moving
too fast for some. now too slow for
others. they have seen you through
out this tremendous contest patient.
sagacious, faithful, just. leaning upon
1.-THE heart Of the great mass of the
people, and satisfied to be moved by
its mighty pulsations.' In that one
sentence" Mr. Cannon believes. "Mr
Curtis expressed the great qualities
cess as a leader of the America n
people"
Representative Cannon swings to a
coins policies have had upon the
nations growth. He points out
that "The territories which Lincoln
sought to save from slavery have
surpa ssed the widest speculation
and prophecy in 1860. The home
stead act. passed in Lincoln's admin
istration on his recommendation. has
converted the staked plains and the
great American desert into an agri-
cultural empire that has not a paral-
lei anywhere. with the most indie
pendent. the most prosperous and the
richest people per capita to be found
! in the world. The newer west has
multiplied the total wealth of the
United States at the time Lincoln
was elected.
TN personal recollections of Abraham
L Lincoln. Representative Isaac r
Sherwood begins just about where
Uncle joe stops. Sherwood is now
and has been for many, many years a
good democrat. but he was a repub-
lican when he was first elected to
Congress-. He and Uncle joe came
together to the Forty-third Congress
and are the only men in either branch
today who served in that Congress