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Iis== o Five Minute Chats f\ on Our Presidents ; 'By JAMES MORGAN Q Q (Copyright. 1920, by James Morgan.) ' SLUGS AND ARROWS ^ o ? =0 1877-0??Grant's tour of the world. i 1880?June, defeated for nomination for third term in Republican national convention. Entered the firm ' of Grant & Ward, bankers in New York. |HL 1884?Failure of Grant & Ward. Grant beaan to write his r "Personal Memoirs." Afflicted with cancer of the throat 1885?March 4, Congress revived the rank of Genera! for him. July 23, died at Mt. McGregor, N. Y., aged sixty-three. O ^rrHEN Grant left the White House, jr: W freed from public care for tfco rrv first time in 15 years, his uppermost ^jvistfi was to visit his daughter, Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, in England,, where lie was surprised by the public welcome that greeted his arrival. He was "puz \ zled- to find himself a personage,'' said James Russell Lowell. But fcis i>olitical friends were quick to see in his triumphs abroad a chance to restore their own prestige at home, and they urged him on until he had completed a tour of the world, which remains, , perhaps, unequaled in .brilliance. As he went his way from London to Tokyo, emperors and kings honored him. Coming home after a three years' k X. absence, lie weakly yielded to the politicians who were using his name in a desperate adventure to regain power for the "Stalwart" faction of the Republican party. But the unwritL ten law against a third term was vin dicated in his defeat in the Republican convention of 18S0. Failing the. White House, he was B^fctempted by a "young Napoleon of flRpinance" into the whirlpool of New ^^ York and to become a partner in a Mr Wall street bank. Into that blind r r^BWMlS^WtP^S^SHP^iBrn / ' Ulysses S. Grant. venture he put what little money he had and most of all . . . his name. / After three years he was rudely / awakened from his dream of wealth V by the "young Napoleon's" request that he go borrowing from William H. Vanderbilt to save the bank from -..crashing. He was lame from a fall 2on an icy street when the truth was . broken to him, but he limped into the Fifth avenue palace of the multimillionaire and came out with $150,000. As lie entered the bank, two.days ^later, he was met with the crushing news that the firm of Grant & Ward had gone down in a shameful failure. Hours afterward a clerk found the broken man still sitting at his desk in silent despair, his head dropped forward, his hands gripping the arms of his chair. Out of bad came good. Grant opens his "Personal Memoirs" .with a frank admission that he consented to write . ' tnat great narrative only because he * was living on borrowed nioney when ka publisher proposed the undertaking. As he pursued his theme he was gratified to discover an unsuspected sift unfolding a moving tale of his adVentures and achievements in the field. He wrote on. until he had finished a story as imposing in it"? directness and simplicity as his own nature. And the first sales of it: brought his wife, when he was gone, more money t^an all the earnings of his lifetime. ^ One day, in the midst of his writwjk ing. as he was eating a poach, he ^ felt a stabbing pain in his throat. A /kdeadly cancer had him in its clutch. / %|'ith grim heroism, he fought it until he had completed the two volumes of his "Memoirs,'' although he was reduced to the necessity of whispering his dictation in the ear of a stenographer. Finally he was left speechless and had to write out the Hosing -Xontors nrt n n.Tfl in his Inn. tuaj/ivio v.. ? i ? ?4 . - At the coming of smnmef. he was k taken up state to a cottage on Mt. Mcr' Gresror. There he silently welcomed, ag he sat on the piazza, tin4 visitors who came to see him. amonjr them (Tenera! Simon Bolivar l>ucknei\ To that plassmate at West Point and foeman L f fccprt Dtnaldsou. Grant rave his last E mSsii^C of rejoicing that his sufferings had united North and South in H^a common sympathy. | v~ ? * | Five Minute ChaSs || on Our Presidents j f; | * Ey JAMES MORGAN ?? ? i (Copyright, 10-0, by James Morgan.X JAMES A. GARFIELD o- =:=j? ? 1S31?Nov. 19, James Abrarr. ij Garfield, born at Crangs, |j Ohio. 1896-61?President cf Hiram CoJIcge. : 1858?MarrtecJ Lucretia Rudolph, 1860?Member of Ohio Senate. 1861?Colonel in Ohto Volunteers. 1362?Brigadier Genera!. 1863?Major General. 1853-80?In Congress, i 1880?Elected to the United States Senate. 1880?June 7, nominated for < ? President by Republican Convention at Chicago. * November, elected Presi! dent., ' l 5 ,Cr , r~Q i JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD was the ( latest and. it is fairly safo to say, ( the last of the presidents born and ( bred in log cabins. Notwithstanding ' thnf humhlo sfnfe. ho was one of the * half-dozen scholarly men who have sat 1 k in the presidential chair. 1 1 Garfield is the only president who ^ was present at his own nomination. * The presidential lightning struck him 1 as he sat in his seat in that most ex- ' traordinary and exciting national con- 1 * vention which met at Chicago in 3SS0. ' AH the "Stalwart" clans, believing with \ a St. Louis editor that there was "one * 1 more president in tiie bloody shirt'," * seized upon the groat name of Granf, * and under tire banner' of the "Hero of 1 k Appomattox" they rallied against the 1 "Half Breeds" who followed "the ( Plumed Knight," James G. Blaine of Maine. * ( < The rival champions in that remark- J able tournament at Chicago were Ros- ' soe Conkling, chieftain cf the "Sral- f wart?," and James A. Garfield of Ohio, * the spokesman of the "Half Breeds," ; A i ? I James A. Garfieid. although he was restrained from di- 1 reetly supporting Blaine by thejlnstruc-| j tions of his state in fator of the nomi- J nation of John Sherman. Conkling, a - i handsome fop, carefully studied the i right moment to make his theatrical ' ?ntry upon the stage the first day, J drawing the applause as he advanced { down the aisle with his "grandiloquent , swell, his majestic cupereminent, over- j powering, turkey gobbler strut," which , Blaine had held up to the laughter of * congress years before in a never-to-be- t forgiven speed*. The next day Garfield took his revenge by entering while ^ .Conkling was speaking, and the welcoming cheers drowned the voice of ^ the indignant speaker. On the third ^ day the two came to grips in a debate and the Ohioan scored on the New ' Yorker. While the gallery still was cheer- * ing me victor 111 ur.ti ruuiiu, vuuMuiij wrote on the margin of a newspaper 1 and sent to Garfield a'mocking sugges- , tion that he was playing to the gal lory in his own interest: "I congrat- . ulate you on being a dark horse!" T In truth Garfield could not rise in the convention without helping himself more than he helped Sherman, . who never had a chance to win. As ' ballot after ballot was taken, it became plain that neither the "immortal 1 30G" who followed Grant nor the deaf- ( ening cheers which his name evoked could overcome the prejudice against ; a third term in the White House, a;id it j was made equrlly plain that this "Old Guard'' never wotiid surrender to Blaine. ' . A new candidate was necessary if the convention was not ro fall to pieces in factions. One solitary vote for Garfieid on most !?f the ballots had ] rnntimuMl to neint tlie finirer of des liny :it him. Wisconsin pointed all her fingers in his direction v.-lion her delegation broke to him 'on the thirtyfourth ballot. ; (t:ir!te!?l rose with pallid face and dry lips t<? a point of order. P.ut Senator Hoar of Massa 'husvits. who was in ilk' chair, rapped him down. In Two more ballots lie was nominated by a combination of the I?laine and Slier-' man nnm. ' In the midst nf the uproar the nominee sat li;np and perspiring in his s;\nt. ' ! "Gei rse out of hers," he faintly whis* . pered to his seatmate, Ex-(iovernoi { Foster of Ohio. . j i | Five hlnmte Clicks jj on Got Presidents ;By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright. 10-l\ by James Morgan) A NEW EPOCH ? " c"3 1877?April, President Hayes withdrew Federal troops from Southern State capitals. Banished alcoholic liquors from the White House. June and July, ordered out Federal troops in the great railway strike. 1878?Vetoed Silver bill, which was passed over his veto. 1879?Specic payments resumed. | ,1323?Jan. 17, death of Hayes at Fremont, 0., aged 70. > r> ;6~p"TI> serves his party best whir il serves his country best.*' . With these watchwords Hayes hail sacrificed himself and his adininistra:ion to reunite North and South, to ileanse the civil service and to regenerate the Republican party. So qulitly, so coldly, so undramatiealiy did le go about ail those great objects f rw In a/1 1 a f\-P 1 ^ 1**1 L JUT 1 \JllltX II IK \? 11# 11IU *ZLaU V/L JiJ.? erin ono of the most misunderstood Host underestimated presid'-nts, tft<* Republican leaders hating ]:l:n as an ipnstate and the Democrats despisng him as a fraud. lie selected one of the most disiinguished cabinets in history. J?ut le did it without consulting party eaders or considering the claims of 'actions, and . tl?e offended senate hreatened and muttered for nearly i week before it confirmed the nomilations. To the disgust of "practical itiV.idnc'' lio "fhrrnv nwnv'' n lliflV /VII JL1V liik v * %% " UJ t% lass foreign mission on :i man like Fames Russell Lowell, "a (hissed lit?rary feller," as Senator Cameron ;aid, and he enraged Roscoe Conking by fiioging the political machine >t' the imperious senator out of the ederal offices in New York city. II" vould also have made a start toward Wmm ':?^JR Lucy Webb Hayes. :he removal of the civil service from ->olifics and spoils-mongering had not )oth parties combined in congress to hwart his every effort in that direc:ion. Hayes' boldest challenge to the Republican politicians was his abanlonment of their 22-year struggle to econstruct the Southern states from Washington. Ever since congress lad seized from Lincoln's lifeless land the control of reconstruction, he entire proceeding had been a ragic failure. Hayes came to the presidency in :he depths of an industrial prostration when wandering hands of tramps thronged the highways of tho and, and soon the first great railway strike paralyzed transportation between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. In response to tho popular cry for "more money" both parties in congress were for repealing or modifying the resumption act and for indating the currency with greenbacks >n silver coinage. The president firmly resisted such, a surrender. Had lot his veto of the silver bill been overridden he would have saved the country from taking the first step on the) road that led it to the brink of free silver in 3S0G. All this independence cost Hayes [he support of The political time servers and the applause of the partisan press. These united in denouncing :md ridiculing him as a renegade in "loiities and as a sniveling hypocrite in private life. The White House "went dry" for the firs; time under the Hayes', and i lie president was held un to contempt as a man too stliisry to stand treat and too weak to resist a domileerinjc wife. Hayes found the Xorth and South divided and he left tin m moro nearly reunited than they had been in a generation. He found the national currency paper and he left it and silver. He fouMl the prosperity of the country at dead low tide and he left it at hii.ii tide. It fell to Hayes to ring down th> euriain on the epo ii 01 the Civil war ami to usher in ane.iher epoch. The voles of th;' past crie.1 ont against him, hut in his complete retirement from polities he lived to hear the voA:es of the new time give a more favorable and a more just verdict on his administration. t . ^????St% j | Five 'Miimie Chats j cn Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN il I* 1 ; 1 ~ (Copyright, ]3.'0, by Jair.cn riorsan.) j ONLY DISPUTED ELECTION C ===g j 1822?Oct. 2, birth of Rutherford j B. Hayes at Delaware, O. I 'ICSO. R'T n 1 M.^V \f*JT\rC? Wch5"L i 1851?Major in Ohio Volunteers, j 185-^5?Brigadier General. 1865-67?Member of Ccnrrecc. j 1857-71?Governor of Ohio. 1376?June 15, nominated for President by Republican National Convention at j Cincinnati. 1877?-Jrr. 30, electoral commission appointed March 2, Hayes declared elected. March 5, inaugurated 19th President, aged 54. 0 . , - -O i THE tifl.il wave which swept down th'e Republicans in the congressional elections of 1S74 still was running so strongly in the campaign of !S7G that Rutherford B. Hayes himself never was confident of his sueee.'s. Nor was the country surprised to read in the headlines tiie morning after election that Tiklen, the Democratic candi; date, had won the race. I The Republican national fceadquar; ters in N'ew York city shut up shop : early election night, and the Republican campaign managers went to Led resigned to defeat. Tilden was elected on the face of the returns, with. 20:> electoral votes +ry "1 Afi TTor-isc? orirl 51 plurality of 2.10.000 in the popular vote. His election indeed rested on rhe snnie basis as Cleveland's in 1SS4 and Wilson's in 191G. But in 1S7C the Ilepu'olicians had not yet acquiesced in the ' suppression of the negro vore in the i South. And if tl;e'negroes, had not ! been "persuaded" by various means j from going to the polls, Til uGn could not have been elected. Both the Republicans and the Demj ocrats claimed to have carried Louisi: sSSk:*': V , 'v ..jtj&y Rutherford B, Hayes. j ana, South Carolina and Florida, rnd ; from tnose states two set^ 01 returns | were sent to Washington. Who should ; decide between them? The Constituj tion provides merely that the president : of the senate shall, in the presence of ! the senate and house, open the certii ficater, "and the totes shall then be ; counted." But when there are two sets of votes, who shall say which shall be count*#!? "The* president of the senate," answered the Republicans bccause the president of the senate was a Republican. "The two houses^' said the Democrats, because one of the houses was Democratic. Compromise \\ .is necessary to save the government from chaos ana tne country from another Civil war. The bitter dispute was loft to 15 men, onethird of whom wore senators and .'inother third were representatives, equally divided between the parties. To guarantee a calm, judicial decision the remaining third were justices c? tlie* Supreme court". Nevertheless, the commission proceeds! to decide every essential question in favor of Hayes by a strict party vote of \S to 7. Alas. the partisan z:-a! of that feverish hour burned ju.-'t n? fiercely beneath the gowns oil the justices as under the frock coats of the legislators. The judgment cf the commission wns without force in law until ;n]opt?jd by the two opposing houses, and some * T ' J - r >/* disappomieu i.'enioerais :n k- uou^balkcd ar ratifying the drv'sioir n;Tn!n-f Tilden. }?ut roprc- 'ntativ"? <?f I!ay?s whispered to cerniin : 1:rn Democrat ir. a se'r"t epi.fr;v:K-.' a i 'Vorraley's hotel tii-;! if they voulu let the Republicans nave .!:< pv* -iden-y. i;:i; ]JcpviMl?nn president v><?-.-,ld lot ljirm have iheir own s:ai~- .eovc-.-rr.ient.^. Tk? l>arjr:HD havinrr hem -'im<-k. ] w.>: kept. After a furhuhmt niirht cf tho h?>n>e :!-t' rc.-uli cf ihr oieciiM-j vas riw" ar four nYiock. in 'f'v. morning of Ma; '1 11. 1S77. j-'.si "C huu:\ Lvfnr? 1 !: "? For liiiv;* !;io!ii?is 11;!y n i .'- : I::,.. l.iM-n t?!?tni:rin*: from <:.;y i" <iny lieiv.i'fii ??x|N?iT:iiIon f- : .< <1^ lV-ar. Kvt-:i v/hm i:." <i .'listen fii h 1 ]. > w.i > sii!! * > nr.: certain {hat ho r>.v.:.kly t< >? In* people of CcJtiiulju? :n ;ii^ purlin;: spG?c'r thai rv? ho hsek i 1- thent an<? , in the governor's chair it^aia in iesf i than a week. 4 J M 7-jo T*/T? - fit , i ra7e ihsrsuee Cnats j on Our Presidents j 4- ?7 JAMES MORGAN *' ?"' " " "~ " - r ':? j (Copyright. 15-3. by Jirnes Morsan.) ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD i ! 1831?March 4, James A. Gar. field, inaugurated 20th i president, aged fifty. Mar. 23, sent to senate the nomination of federal officers in New York City. ; fv'ay 1G, the senate con- | firmed the nominations. i May 17, Senators Conkling and Piatt resigned. July 2, Garfiei^ shot by Charles J. Guiteau at I Washington. Sept. 6. Removed to i Elberon Nr J., Sept. 19, died, aged fifty. ' 1882?June 30, Guiteau hanged. J j 0 Q | v AMES A. GARFIELD fell a sacri- i ! -0 +n tha cmirS<- n-f fnr*finri nnri of the .spoils system. Although this jren- ; tie, kindly man was not of the heroic > stuf> that martyrs are made of, his ! blood became the seed of better things in our politics. , Rarely if ever has a president taken ; up the burden of the ofiice with a larg er measure of good will frorti the peo-, pi a, regardless of party ar.d of fac- , tion, than flowed cut to Garfield as he j stood on the steps of the capiiol in ; the sunshine of his inaugural day, the picture of robust American manhood in its prime. His first kiss, after kissing the Bible in the presence of a j multitude of witnesses, was for the aged mother, who, in a forest hut, had started him on his way to the White 1 House and who held a place of honor beside the schoolmate sweetheart who had boon his faithful' companion all along the road. ; " 'One thing though lackest vet,' and , that is a slight ossification of the: h^art." John Hay had. written to the president-elect. This lack was fatal. Had his heart been harder,- Garfield i : 1^" .jj 5 :.;>r i ?' : I KAMItiln O ^SO'-TiaIH L-UstiCLia. i*. WHI * j would have made his administration ; wholly his own, lifting it above fac-., tions, and he might have lived through : a prosperous term. Instead, ho re-; ; mained his few months in the White House what ho had been in congress, ;a lieutenant of Blaine, whom he appointed to the secretaryship of state? i "with the love of a comradeship o? 1 eighteen years"?and who became at ' once the power behind the throne. ; The only president to step directly from the capitol to the White House, he was without executive experience or tastes. His whole training had been ' to debate and compromise, not' to act ; or decide on his sele responsibility. | Garfield himself was rather indiffcr! ent to factions, liking to get alofig with : nil men. lie appreciated Oonklir.^s 1 reluctant hut timely support in the < campaign and invited him out to Men- | I tor in the winter to talk over the New : York patronage. He thought of iuvit-: iiig him into the cabinet: itself, until ; Blaine whispered no. \ j Less than three weeks after he took ills Vai'TK'iU [!:.(! Ulv.' M'iJUlUi uit'.l. he was not yet ready to consider the j question of liilincc the New York of' fi'*eS. Only 4S hoars afterward. lie Sfl; (!:1 ihem. nominating for Pie highest of ! i th>>se ohices Blaine's best friend and j Oonkling's worst enemy in New #York. j j With CJarfield's band, Biaine bad ! thrown down the gauntlet to the j haughty chieftain of tiie "Stalwart" : clan and a duel of factions was cm in j Mind fury. Tiia adaiinh traiion sac-! ceeded in boa tin? Conkiir.jj in t ho sen: ate. where be opposed the confirmai tion of the offensive nrmmee. But the ! vvnator and his eolh'asrae. -Thomas C. I'!:;tt, resigned the!" s^ats und apneal! ed to the New York iou'islaiure io re ' elect tb.em as a vindication of t!:eir j coarse. ' When the eonfiiet w.is hilt -rest and \\ li.-n the '"Si.dv,'arts" were losing at . Albany, a disappoint! place hunter at j Washington, Charles J. <initeau. con-j 1 ? :'-or 1*"0 <!< r?'XVHi t;:;- ii:m. 4 ?-i . . , . .* 1 t!u!i.' : with a >hv;t. !;e Tutted j !:iiiisi'!f at'the railway nation. where j his victim was lo take a tn:.in for jJas- j j sachuxrtl-'. The ]>ro> M -ia was going ] j back to Yvi!iiams college. the .coal of 1 I his struggling voulh, and w&t smiling ( ! like a boy off for a vacation as he j : en tend iho waiting room at the raii-1 ! way station with Blaine at his side. J In two flashes 0? a revolver be fell, i I n?fi i .MMfc?? TEACHERS WANTED. Two teachers for the Hartford school, principal $H0; assistant $70. Term 7 months. Board $20. Apply IJ. P. Hawkins, Xe wherry, S. C., Route 7. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT i will make a final settlement of th" c.-*at-' of Geo. \V. Hairst ,:i in the iM'obnte Court for Xovberry County. 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