The Coolidge examiner., 1932-04-22

Grant who was sitting in the Office of his
friend ROwley when the news brought to
him that the Republican convention had denied
him the nomination and given it to Garfield, had
just lighted one of his famous cigars Walking
out to the sidewalk he stood for a moment in
thought, then tossed the cigar in the street,
turned and went back into the office. Il can't
say that l regret my own defeat" he said quietly.
by it l shall escape four years of hard work
and four years of abuse And, gentlemen, we
can all support the candidate
Across the street was a jewelry store. When
the son Of the proprietor Grant throw away
his cigar he sent clerk to retrieve it. That
cigar the symbol of the end of Grants public
career, is one of the Grant relics which is pre-
served in Galena to this day. But it is only
one of the many which you find on every hand
A modern paved highway leads you into
Galena, but the moment you enter the town, you
realize the aptness Of someone's description of
Galena as "a town where time stands still" The
crooked narrow streets which wind in and out
among the old stone and brick houses are the
same streets along which walked the nOtabes of
century ago. But the booming river town of
those days is no more. The river itself that
$50 feet wide in 1914, is but thin trickle now,
barely kneedeep The levee where once scores
of packet boats tied up is gone. For once you
realize that the much Overworked words Of
| sleepy ana QUAINT as dppHeu 10 d HILle
town" true because Galena is both.
| There are innumerabe landmarks which stand
unchanged by the years TO take you back to
another century. They suggest innumerable in
teresting stories of frontier times in Ilinos-of
the days of the voyageur and the trader, of the
Indian wars of the old steamboat river days
But dominating them all is the memory of one
mana late conner in the history of Galena TO
whom G0lena clings as giving it now its only
! claim TO fame. 1t is The memory Of Grant.
Galena viii SHOW you the store in which
Grant clerke6 and the First Methodist Episcopal
church III which Grant and his family woTshined
They will take you up along "The Street of the
| Generals" and point out to you the homes Of
Rawlins and Rowley, who were generals on
Grants staff during the war, and that of his
friend Doctor Kittoe, who became medical d-
rector of the Army of the Tennessee with the
rank of lieutenant colonel.
They will take you out to the cemetery and
! show you where rests 'the only Grant who
stayed in Galena"-Samue Simpson Grant,
Ulysses brother, who died in September, 1861,
and is buried there. Through the principal park
! in the town, named for the general and dom
mated by a bronze statue of him, they will lead
you up the hill the brick house which Galena
once gave to her distinguished citizen and which
his son. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, gave back to
Galena to be preserved as a Grant memorial.
There you may look upon innumerable relics OF
the citizen the soldier and the President and his
family for it is furnished and kept as it was
when the Grants occupied it.
In fact there is scarcely place in the town
but that has its memento of him 7Qn con-
tribute some incident to the story of his career.
Grant and GaIena, Galena and Grant-the words
have become inseparable. His ashes may rest
in the magnificent tomb on Riverside Drive in
New York city. but the living memory of him can
be found only III a little Illinois town where
| time stands still"
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