Milford chronicle., 1925-02-06
ON DECIDED BY ONE YOTEY
(By A. G. Staples, in Lewiston. Me-,
JournaD


|, (By A. G. Staples, in Lewiston. Me-.
5 JournaD
r One vote once kept Hannibal Ham
lin from being U. S. Senator from
= Maine. heard Mr.. Hamlin tell this
story himself, with all of his happy
gift Of reminiscence at the famous
reunion of the legislators of Maine.
one mid-winter session, between leg-
lsIatures, when Maine really had a
spOrtive time.
o! The tales told around the OLD
Augusta House that reunion time.
and the sessions of the old legisla-
tive bodies and the ball that closed
the fun of the week. l want to look
up this story and revive the custom
if possible.
Mr. Hamlin said that when he was
presiding officer of one of the legis- |
lative houses, he was moved BY a |
spirit of fun one morning and he |
called to the chair a member who
had very bald head and who vet
combed the few wisps of hair into
place with meticulous care every
day. Said he to this eager member /.
in a whisper: MY dear sir. 1 want
ed to call your attention to the fact
that one hair is slightly out of place
on your head"
The legislator did not see the Joke
as well as Mr. Hamlin expected. The
next session Mr.. Hamlin was a can
didate for U. S. Senator. The legis- I
lator whom he had called to his desk 1
voted relentlessly against him. Sena-
tor Hamlin lost the election by one =
vote-"by hair" as he said. .
Richard I. Greener writes in his p
Political observations" as follows: c.
In 1911 a Rhode Island farmer II
iallied to release his pig from
,ence and arrived at the polls too
ate to cast his vote. The Federal
SITS lost that precinct by one vote:
IS a result, a representative who IA W
'ored war with Great Britain was W.
lected to the legislature, which in an
urn by majority of one elected a re-
Jnited states Senator who favored
'ar. Then the Congress, by a major on
y OIL one, declared the war. general IA.
7 known as the War of 1872" wi
One vote elected Charles Sumner pa
enator from Massachusetts, in 1854. IL
That would have happened had he
OF been a Senator from Massachus-
It's in those days that led to the nv
lyil War? No one can tell what r0i
light have happened had that sing M
lar commingling Of restlessness: tor
and conscience not err
'oken for New England in those ed
lys. ers
If you real Won Holst's Constitu- eve
onal History Of the United States ton
~ will see that in 1884, Jenerson's 90,
dinance, which prohibited slavery me
ON Tennessee, Alabama and Nissi- Inot
ippi, was defeated by only one
tie. Had that been passed and sla-
ry wiped out Of these three great
uthen empires, there would have
en- no Civil War. .
Mrs. Jennie Flood Kregar, who
oke in the Maine campaign. told Snu
B story OF the man who voted al t, I'a
last moment under great Difficult ue
His voted carried his town By a ~ ~,
ljority of one and elected a repre- uay
NATIVE. That representative cleo ~,
by a majority OF one a United ~"
ites Senator. That Senator cast "uJ'
.e that changed an history for 30"
better.
suppose that one might dig out III
~, very many cases of singular Gal
'nts flowing from a single vote: of ~
rather from maiOrities Of one "t
q, which may ho attributed tO any Quir
Of those On the majority But had "i
Z ONE of these voters failed the "l
ult might have heon different rom
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of Massachusetts On 1880 by only
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'lan to do away with slavery m Ir
9 state and colonilo the noWo.
'assed ln the House hy "a good ma
iyi % lost in tho Senate by one
b. flad thal been passed o. might
% changed the history ol ha
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