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Upon his return home, Fell
presented the matter to Lincoln
who rather pooh-poohed the idea.
He admitted that he would like
to be President but that he was
also aware of the many practical
difficulties which would prevent
its coming to pass. Fell, how
ever, was firm in his conviction
that it could be brought about
and, as corresponding secretary
of the Republican state central
committee, he industriously pro-
NOTED the idea everywhere he
went in Illinois. Furthermore
he prevailed upon Lincoln to
write an photographed sketch
which he sent to a Republican
leader in Pennsylvania who gave
it wide circulation in the East.
Back in Illinois Fell "had con-
WINGED David Davis and Leon
ard SWEET of the feasibility of
making Lincoln President, and
Lincoln found himself backed by
as loyal and efficient a triurn-
virate as he could well have"
They formed a Lincoln club in
Bloomington which, while pro-
Tossing to promote the interests
of the Republican party, in real
ity was to boost Lincoln's candi-
dacy. They engineered an en-
dorsement of him for President
at a Republican mass meeting,
held in Bloomington on April 2,
1860, to choose delegates to the
state convention in Decatur on
May 9.
At this convention Lincoln's
cousin, John Hanks, appeared
with his famous fence rails. and
Lincoln was hailed as the Rail
Candidate for President. De-
spite some sentiment for William
H. Seward of New York and Ed
ward Bates of St. Louis as Re-
publican nominees, Lincoln's
friends brought about a unani-
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nous endorsement of his candi-
dacy and a pledge that the Illi-
nois delegates to the national
convention in Chicago would
vote as a unit for him.
A week before the convention
opened in the Wigwam, a build
ing which 'had been especially
built for the meeting, the Illinois
delegation, headed by David
Davis, who was ably assisted by
Leonard SWEET, opened Lincoln
headquarters in the fremont ho-
tel. There they planned their
convention strategy and set to
work to win delegates from 9TH
er states for their candidate.
The story of that convention
and it's result is a familiar one
to most Americans. Not so IA
miliar is the acknowledgements"
story and that is the one which
Mr.. Wakefield has told in his
new book. The evidence which
he produces in it lends strength
to his declaration that '"The sue
cessful nomination and later
election of Lincoln was beyond
question chiefly the work of the
three Bloomington men-David
Davis, Leonard SWEET and Jesse
w. Fell" That is why they
should be written down as the
men who gave to their nation
one of its greatest men and to
history one of its immortals.
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ity on Lincoln, in an address be-
fore the Illinois State historical
society declared:
Oregon could have made Lin
coin a senator, but it is not GER
tain that any other state than
Illinois could have made him
President. He needed essential
~ the conditions which he found
in Illinois to develop the quail
ties which were inherent in him;
and he needed a political situa-
ton such as existed in Illinois to
make him at the opportune time
the President of the United
States. :"
Now comes another authority
on Lincoln who takes what Bar
ton said of Illinois, and narrows
it down to an Illinois city. He
is Sherman Day Wakefield, au-
thor of a new book, ''HOW LIN
COLIN BECAME PRESIDENT
The Part Played by Blooming
ton, Illinois, and Certain of Its
Citizens in Preparing Him for
the Presidency and Securing His
Nomination and Election" pub
lished recently by Wilson-Erick-
son, Inc, of New York. In the
first chapter of his book Mr..
Wakefield quotes the foregoing
passage from Barton's speech
and adds:
Lincoln did not become Presi-
dent merely through his own
ability. To be sure this was the
ultimate cause of his success,
but there were other factors in
the situation. One of these was
that he became fitted for Office
through hard experience in asso-
citation with men of unusual ca
pacity; and another, that he won
the support of three influential
men in Bloomington who devoted
themselves with untiring energy
to his cause"
Those three men were Jesse
w. Fell, David Davis and Leon
ard SWEET. One of them was a
Quaker from Pennsylvania, one
was born on the eastern shore of
Maryland and the third was a
Yankee from Maine. So those
three states can claim some
share with Illinois, through their
three native sons, in giving Abra-
ham Lincoln to the nation and
to the world.
Jesse Fell was the Quaker. He
was born in New Garden town.
ship, Chester county, Pennsylva-
MIA, November 10, 1908, just
three months before a son ar
rived in the log cabin home of
Tom and Nancy Hanks Lincoln
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stayed there two years, travelled
for a year in the South and final
ly volunteered to serve in the
Mexican war, during which
time he contracted a disease
which nearly proved fatal. Dis
charged from the service at JEFF
ferson Barracks, Mo-, before he
had fully recovered, SWEET start
ed for home. En- route east he
arrived in Bloomington where he
settled down to teaching school
and reading law while regain
ing his health. He was adj
mitted to the bar in June, 1849,
and began the active practice of
law in Bloomington. Through
his acquaintance with Judge Da-
Wis he met Lincoln, who had just
returned from his one term in
congress to take up his work as
a circuit-riding lawyer again.
Lincoln spent over half of ev-
cry year riding the circuit"
writes Wakefield. "And the in
fiuence of the Eighth Circuit
upon the career of Lincoln can
scarcely be overestimated. 1t
was on this circuit that Lincoln
made the friendship of all
sorts of people, and here he
first became famous. But it was
principally his friends in Bloom
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The Three Men Who Made Lincoln President

ginning of a friendship which
endured for 80 years and which
was destined to be more inn
portant to that young legislator
than either man then realized.
In 1886 Fell became interested
in real estate and turned his law
Office over to young lawyer
named David Davis. Davis was
born at "The Rounds, Sassa-
fras Neck, in Cecil county, Mary
land, on March 9, 1915. Gradu-
ated from Kenyon college in Ohio
at the age of seventeen, he stud
led law for two years in an office
in Lenox, Mass, and then at
tended law school in New Ha-
ven, Conn, for a year. In 1885
he moved to Pekin, ILL.,, and was
admitted to the Illinois bar the
following year. Evidently the
young Marylander wasn't any
too successful in Pekin for he
was about to return to his native
state when Jesse Fell suggested
that he move to Bloomington and
take over FelPs law practice
which he was giving up for the
real estate business. Davis &C
copied the offer, which also in
cluded financial aid. About this
time he first became acquaint-
ed with Lincoln. But their clos
est association came some
twelve years later when Davis,
as a judge, and Lincoln, as a
lawyer, were making the rounds
of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of
Illinois.
1t was during this period in
Lincoln's life that the youngest
of the trio came on the scene.
He was Leonard SWEET, born
near the village of Turner in Ok
ford county, Maine, on August
II, 1925. After three years at
Waterville (now Colby college,
he began studying in the office
of law firm in Portland. He
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13

ington, headed by Jesse w. Fell,
Judge David Davis and Leonard
SWEET, who created his country
wide fame. conceived of him as
President, and secured his NOM
nation"
The first step toward this goal
was taken by Jesse w. Fell in
1854. On May 80 of that year
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, which
had been introduced into con-
gress by Senator Stephen A.
Douglas, became law. Almost
Immediately the anti-slavery ele-
r1ents in the North began to
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down in Kentucky. Migrating
West at the age of twenty-three,
Fell studied law in an attorneys
office in Steubenville, Ohio, for
two years, then continued his
westward-faring to the raw little
pioneer village of Bloomington,
ILL.,, where he opened its first
law office in the spring of 1888.
The next year legal business
took Fell to Vandalia, then the
state capital, and there he met a
lanky young legislator from San
canon county named Abraham
Lincoln. This marked the be-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13
By
ELMO SCOTT WATSON

THIS is the story of three
l. men named Jesse w. Fell,
David Davis and Leonard
SWEET.
Perhaps you never heard of
those men before. But if it
hadn't been for them you might
never have heard of Abraham
Lincoln, either. That is why
you are hearing of them, here
and now.
Several years ago DR.. William
E. Barton, famous as an author
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13
The Mind
Meter O
The Four-W ord Test
BY
LOWELL
HENDERSON
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In this test there are four words
given in each problem. Three OF
the four in each case bear a def
mite relationship to one another;
Cross out the one word that does
not belong in each problem.
/. Holy, sacred, profane, divine.
2. Tall, squat, lofty, high.
8. Lob, double-play, net ball,
ace.
4. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Boston, Connecticut.
5. Vain, humble, modest, sub
missive.
6. Shot put, javelin throw, 100
yard dash, discus throw.
7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent.
8. Harvard, Princeton, Vassar,
Yale.
9. Tallahassee, Sacramento,
Chicago, Baton Rouge.
10. Running, swimming, walking,
trotting.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Democracy.

a glorious death a victory against superior
numbers
III is rebound was quick, however. He had
about 5000 men in camp of whom 1000
away Burgoyne was rapidly assembling an
healthy and ready to fight. This made no differ
to Sullivan. With his customary opera
bouffe grandiloquence he proclaimed his inten-
the bitter end. I am determined he wrote, to
hold the most important post, so long as one
stone is left upon another
1.-The retort of the officers stunned him. More
than forty of them Immediately turned in their
designations to him. But he refused to be moved
from his stand. He also refused to accept any of
the designations and compelled the troops to
strengthen the hopeless camps defenses. For six
days after the Three Rivers tragedy, he MAIN
tanned his mulish attitude, six days during which
an orderly and safe retirement could have been
made with minimum of hardship for the dis
heartened and physically weakened troops, six
days of anxious peering to the northeast by Off
GERS and men alike. Then the morning of
June IA, the word swept through the camp that
a vast British fleet was in sight.
$50 he waited all through the long June day
waited while the British ships drew nearer and
nearer-wated until late in the afternoon, the
fleet suddenly Veered from its westerly course and
made directly for Sorel, waited until the soops
in the van were less than two hours sail from the
camp. Then, his flord face shade paer Sulli-
van leaped down from his perch on the breast
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

In all its history, the United States has
never lost war. 1t is a matchless record.
But, as a nation, we have been blinded to all
except the fact of ultimate victory which in
variably has crowned our arms. We justly
honor our heroic dead. We ring the weIkin
with their praise. We place little flags and
wreaths of flowers upon their graves. But we
are not permitted to stop and think how
vastly too many graves there are. While the
paeans of triumph are sounding, we must
forget that those whose lives actually helped
pave the road to victory are pitfuI minority
that all the rest were wasted wantony.
From their countless graves these do not
shout to high heaven the magnificence of the
United States record in war; They know that
record is ehastly, hideous travesty of ever
repeated useless butchery under the in
competent commanders with which they have
been cursed, a dance macabre whose ceaseess
encores nothing has ever been done to prevent
:. it began even before the Declaration of
independence was signed to create the nation
and it has gone on, unchecked, ever since.
II may be that this is so because the darker
phase of our history has been hidden so care
fully. The dishonesty of half truths and deIib-
crate omissions on the part of our analysts
has reared a gided screen which conceals
the rafting skeletons. = It Is parade of
skeletons everyone has the right to see
E. Y. Westrate
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
By Thekla Glenn
E. V. Westrate

EDUCATION, pointing to the shadows of dead
z men who have been inspired to march in
historic battles, is about to silence the martial
music the tramp of soldiers feet and the drums
of war it seems. Young America wants no COM
bat-young America in short, is demanding
peace by diplomacy And older America is CO.
operating, while historians are showing the muir
derous cruelties of past conflicts. If there must
be war they want wars that fought with in
telligence instead of politics.
Now there comes to the rescue the Junior
Statesmen of America, an organization of senior
high school students devoted to the high goal of
finding a method for discovering and training
statesmen in order to save, develop and perpetu-
ate American democracy and to raise the pro-
fession of politics to the same high ethical plane
as the professions of medicine, law, engineering
and teaching. This is done in order that the
masses may not be duped by corrupt leaders
seeking self-glorifcation
The first Junior Statesmen of America Asso-
citation was organized at Montezuma Mountain
School at Los Gatos, California under it's pres-
dent Professor E, A. Rogers. Now the movement
has spread to 10 senior high schools of the west
with youths from all over the United States
writing for information on how to proceed with
it.
Hand in hand with this has gone the resolution
adopted by the convention of the Daughters of
the American Revolution held in Los Angeles
Gently, asking that the United States give spe
cial diplomatic training to youths much as they
give military training at West Point and Annap-
oils It is their belief that the United States
should train men so that they may keep us out
of war as we'll as enable us to fight the wars
which lack of international harmony has
brought about.
In the state of Washington university students
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

are holding peace demonstrations indicating that
the youths will no longer be tolerant concerning
the killing of great masses.
One of the most emphatic and direct attacks
upon the needless cruelties of war is that
launched by E. V. Westrate, whose story Those
Fatal Generals has just been brought out by
the knight Publications. Inc
Mr.. Westrate writes with dubious humor
which has about it the grimness and pathos of
death he describes the vanity of General
Sullivan during the Battle of Three Rivers 1t is
calculated to rip the glamour from the sacrifices
of war in most effective manner. He says, ION
the day of the battle General Sullivan wrote
fantastic letter to Washington. Inspired by the
sound of the firing which could be clearly heard,
although forty-fve miles distant he enthus-
iastcally described the certain victory his troops
were Winning-as he visioned it. Four days later,
he was writing Washington again, very differ
ent sort of letter, one which fairly eXuded tears
and heartbreak. 1t contained not a word of
regret over the criminal waste of so many
good men, of which the colonies had
enough, nor of the suffering and death to which
he had subjected them He only bemoaned their
failure to do the impossible and walled over the
stunning surprise of discovering that Burgoyne
had stationed more than 5000 men at Three
Rivers without telling him about it. Although
he admitted he did not know what had happened
to Wayne and his men, he brazenly offered the
estimate of his losses at about 150.' But he
slipped concerning his real knowledge of the dis
aster when he went off into a mood of high
tragedy and wrote grandly 7 now think only of
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

dt OHee. ne oHdPPed
works and gave the command to abandon camp.
He was days too late to make the retreat by
land He was hours to late to retire safely by the
Richelieu. Now there was only gmmer of
hope-compe the half-starved sickly men to
take to the boats and row for their very lives.
In sheer criminal stubbornness, General Sulli-
van had wantonly risked the complete destruc-
ton of the northern army
Again pointing to the diabolical ambition of
leaders he says of General Horatio Gates, that
"he was savagely ambitious to supplant Wash
ington he had supplanted Schuyler he trait
orously sacrificed the country in the hope of
causing a complete Washington disaster. He
partially succeeded BY the time he was COM
PEELED to send part of the northern force to
Washingtons aid, the Delaware forts already
had been stormed, the British retained Phila-
delphia, the war went on and Washington's army
was condemned to the horrors of Valley Forge.
IN fALLEY FORGE is name to thrill every
Y loyal American-with horror because of
the terrible privations and sufferngs of the army
in winter quarters there, with pride because of
the matchess fortitude with which Washingtons
loyal soldiers endured their trials. On Decem-
ber %, Washington reported to Congress that he
had in camp 1898 men unfit for duty because
they are barefoot ana OtherWlSe naked Because
they had blankets, many sat up all night by
the fires instead of taking comfortable rest in
a natural and common way This takes
count of the hundreds of men who died of ex-
posure and disease.
1.-The tragic picture has been offered a por-
trayal of the acme of heroism-which 1t was
caused by the poverty of the country-which it
was not. The country was anything but poverty
stricken. The summer of 1777 had been un-
usually fruitful in the fields and the looms of the
patriotic women had never been busy to
meet the army's needs
mot one moment of the suffering endured at
Valley Forge was necessary"
u A S THE denuded soldiers marched to their
~ winter quarters on December II, their
route was traced easily in the snow by the
blood which oozed from their bare frost bitten
feet. Yet, at that hour, hundreds of hogsheads
of shoes, stockings and other clothing, blankets
food and complete winter equipment were lying
along the roads and in the woods waiting only
for the transportation and clearance which the
Congress- controlled commissariat failed to pro-
vide Washington begged for relief the relief
that was almost within his grasp but Congress
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cap committee with the advice Of
Curley Veasey, club professional.
Handicaps in later events will be
fixed according to scores turned
in by the players. Cards for the
first Is holes, TO DC played either
Saturday or Sunday according to
the convenience of the player,
must be turned in to VeaSey, who
will manage the Secretary's Cup
event The second round may be
played either Saturday or Sunday
Of the following weekend NO
vember 21-22) and the third and
final round the weekend of No
vember 1929.
Ground rules will be drawn by
Veasey who will act as referee and
decide all questions of rule in
fractions. His decisions will be fl
nal.
In addition to the regular tour
nament schedule, team matches
will be played from week to week
with the Del Rio club, the La Mesa
club and possibly others. Negoti-
ations are under way to arrange
games with Balboa club and other
teams in the San Diego area.