A NEW LINCOLN STORY Senator Teller Relates Anecdote of First Campaign for the Presidency. Senator Teller of Colorado tells a Lincoln story which he says has never Deen printed and which In many ways Is unique In its Interest. None of the students of Lincolnlana about Washington Wash-ington remembered the story, and the fact that It could have escaped publication pub-lication all these years Is regarded as remarkable, says the New York Herald's Her-ald's Washington correspondent. It Is going the rounds of the capital and causing many laughs. Henry M. Teller was a young man in the year 1800, when Lincoln was nominated for president, lie lived In Illinois and had been drawn Into rather rath-er close relation with Lincoln. So when the presidential campaign came on this young man was selected to go up to Chicago and assist In the business busi-ness of receiving delegates, talking Lincoln to them and generally managing man-aging the game. Young Toller got on handsomely and the prospect for Lincoln began to look better to him. The candidates. of course, were till decorously keeping away from the convention city It would be exceedingly bad form for one of them to appear near the convention. con-vention. What was tbe consternation, then, in the Lincoln camp when it was reported one afternoon that "Old Abe" had been seen in town and that he was calling on his Chicago friends and swapping stories about everything except the presidency. Lincoln fnust be hustled out of town. It would be ruinous to have it known that he had been in Chicago. Teller was sent to eject him. He found the presidential candidate at a hotel, enjoying en-joying himself watching the crowds. Mr. Teller explained his mission, delicately deli-cately as possible, but very llrmly. Mr. Lincoln protested that he didn't hnve any chance worth bothering about. Mr. Teller Insisted that there was an excellent chance, and that the proprieties would have to be observed ob-served in these little matters. The New England people were punctilious about such affairs of form. At last Mr. Lincoln yielded. "I'll go," be said. "I'll do It because be-cause I believe you follows are ritjli t. Any convention that got a fiord looli at. me couldn't l:e cxpiCtrd to nominate nom-inate mo, (rou Id it? I'll have a better chance If they don't even lincl out what I look like." And at midnight, without half a dozen of the politician knowing he had been in town, aslcl? from his Illinois Il-linois friends, he was put on the tnlin and started back to Springfield. Three days later tie was the nominee ol the iU'ptiltlican party for thc presidency. Mr. Lincoln regarded htnjell as the homeliest man in the cotVlitry and once told a friend that it vs getting (lie votes of the people wiao were thankful for not being homely that elected him.