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Show FLATTERY OK PUBLIC MEN. Lincoln Stands Almost Alone as Om Not Affected by Iu The London Spectator, In an interesting inter-esting discussion of the dangers of flattery to public men, cites Abraham Lincoln as an instance of a public man whom flattery could not affect. It is a fact that there has seldom been an instance in-stance of a public man who was less tempted In this way than was Lincoln. The people admired him and were loyally loy-ally true to him. They saw his greatness great-ness sooner than did those in public life. As regards the latter, Lincoln was continually criticised and troubled by them. There was never one of their number to tell him that he was greater than Washington, or even anywhere approaching to the plane of Washington. Washing-ton. He was continually found fault with by his own party associates at the capitol; not a few of them were Inclined to refuse him a second term in the presidency, and some of them intrigued to prevent his having this. The saintlike patience with which Lincoln Lin-coln bore up under this was a beautiful beauti-ful trait in his character. Something made him very strong. Perhaps It was not opposition, but certainly adulation had no part in it. Boston Herald. |