Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-01

and hesitating where vigorous action
is required: and the objection in
general was that in capacity and
temperament he was inadequate to
the responsibilities of the head Of
the nation at such a momentous
period.
In June, 1854, Lincoln was renomi-
mated at Baltimore for rejection.
Mcclellan on platform declaring
among other things, the war a fail
ure. Gov. Seymour Of New York and
Vallendingham of Ohio were in ac-
cord on this.
On Aug. IA there was a meeting at
the. house Of David Dudley Field in
New York at which Horace Greeley.
Park Goodwin, Henry Winter Davis
and 20 or more others were present.
and as a result OF the meeting a
committee was appointed to request
Mr.. Lincoln to withdraw as a candf-
date and 1t is said Charles Sumner
shared in the opinion of the limita-
tions of Mr.. Lincoln and thought a
change of candidate desirable. but
only with Mr.. Lincoln's free and
voluntary withdrawal" The same
position was taken by Senator Cola
mer and others.
week later Thurlow Weed. a po-
litical leader, addressed letter to
Mr.. Seward. in which he used these
words: when, 10 days since, l
wrote to Mr.. Lincoln that his re-
election was an impossibility. l also
told him that the information would
soon come to him through other
channels. 1t has doubtless ere this
reached him. At any rate nobody
here doubts it, nor do / see anybody
from other states who authorize the
slightest hope of success. Mr.. Ray
mond, who has just left me. says
that unless some sADrompt and bold
step be now taken all Is lost. The
people are wild for peace"
On the day Mr.. Weed wrote to Mr..
Seward the President penned the
following memorandum: This morn
Ing. as for several days past, II seems
exceedingly probable that this ad-
ministration will not be reelected.
Then it will be my duty to so CO.
operate with the President elect as
to save the Union between the cleo
ton and the Inauguration; as he will
have secured his election on such
ground that he cannot possibly save
1t afterwards"
Upon the back OF this memoran-
dunn. which was so folded that 1t
could not be read, Mr.. Lincoln ask
ed the members of his cabinet to
write their names. Withholding from
them even a hint Of the memoran-
dunn. Not till after the recollection
OF Mr.. Lincoln did the contents Of
this memorandum become known.
Then followed victory after VIC
tory to the Union armies, Mobile
captured, Atlanta captured Sheridan
victorious over Early in the Shena-
doah valley, and later at Fishers
Hills. and later still. at Cedar Creek.
turning defeat into victory.
4. b. Washburne of Illinois, Mr..
Lincoln's friend and supporter, in
October wrote: 1T Is no use TO de-
celve ourselves; there Is imminent
danger OF our losing the state
Lincoln had vision. He knew bet
ter. He wrote across Washburne's
envelope. "Stampeded." and laid the
letter aside.
November came and "the boys in
blue" shouted we are coming,
Father Abraham. a hundred thousand
strong; then the great heart OF "the
common people" the bone and sinew
OF a country. the people whose hearts
respond to an honest and simple
heart. God fearing. God trusting,
American people, rose in their might
and swept like torrent to victory.
overturnfng Copper Heads. pacifists,
traitors. tntrenched politicians and
everyone who declared the war a
failure and the ideals and the cause
TO which Abraham Lincoln had died.
icated his life were not to endure:
that there was TO be no United States
OF America forever more.
The people had not been deceived
by clamor, by detractien; they had
not been swerved by demagogues any
more than by open enemies; they
would have a country, Ind they
would follow Honest Old Abe"
whose Godlike patience had BEEN.
tried beyond human endurance by
those who felt they knew everything,
and who. as fact. had no vision.
Calvin Coolidge Is not Abraham
Lincoln, but. like Abraham Lincoln.
he has vision. He sees into the fu-
ture. for God has endowed him with !
a pure mind and a simple heart, and
the people trust him. Like Lincoln,
he Is incarnate patriotism, incarnate
Americanism.
His running mate comes by way
OF the commander of the Bird brigade
Of Wisconsin, which, like Cromwell's
Ironsides. knew nothing but devotion
to the God for which they fought
and the nag which was the symbol
OF their country. Read the history
OF that brigade and glow with pride
that you have In the candidate 81
the Republican party one who has