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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM, UTAH 3KeThree Men Who Made Lincoln President I : JlO SCOTT WATSON V 'i L the story of three ' . amed Jesse W. Fell, J Davis and Leonard you never hcafi f r i before- - But if it I been for them you might I heard of Abraham 4 L eitr. That 13 why V L hearing of them, here Tril &years ago Dr. William famous as an author. . L I r' ' ' ','.' - V V.W'-'- ' 3 ginning of a friendship which endured for 30 years and which was destined to be more im-portant to that young legislator than either man then realized. In 1836 Fell became interested in real estate and turned his law office over to a young lawyer named David Davis. Davi3 was born at "The Rounds," Sassa-fras Neck, in Cecil county, Mary-land, on March 9, 1815. Gradu-ated from Kenyon college in Ohio at the age of seventeen, he stud-ied 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 1835 he moved to Pekin, 111., 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 Fell's law practice which he was giving up for the real estate business. Davis ac-cepted 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. It was during this period in Lincoln's life that the youngest of the trio came on the scene. He was Leonard Swett, born near the village of Turner in Ox-ford county, Maine, on August 11, 1825. After three years at Waterville (now Colby) college, he began studying in the office of a law firm in Portland. He Lincoln in 18G0 Nj JESSE W. FELL 3 Lincoln, in an address be--'t the Illinois State historical ty declared: 4 regon could have made Lin-- l' a senator, but it is not cer- - that any other state than ils could have made him ;,iont. He needed essential- - Upon his return home, Fell presented the matter to Lincoln who rather pooh-poohe- d 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-moted the idea everywhere he went in Illinois. Furthermore he prevailed upon Lincoln to write an autobiographical sketch which he sent to a Republican leader in Pennsylvania who gave it wide circulation in the East. Back in Illinois Fell "had con-vinced David Davis and Leon-ard Swett of the feasibility of making Lincoln President, and Lincoln found himself backed by as loyal and efficient a trium-virate as he could well have." They formed a Lincoln club in Bloomington which, while pro-fessing 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, 18G0, 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- - t conditions which he found A linois to develop the quali-- which were inherent in him ; he needed a political situa- - such as exis.ed in Illinois to e him at the opportune time f President of the United comes another authority incoln who takes what Bar-sai- d of Illinois, and narrows iwn to an Illinois city. He 1 Sherman Day Wakefield, au-f-r of a new book, "HOW LIN- - N BECAME PRESIDENT nki I part piayed by Blooming- -' Illinois, and Certain of Its Pi :ens in Preparing Him for 4 s Presidency and Securing His m ination and Election," pub-J-d recently by Wilson-Erick- -I I Inc., of New York. In the I 1 chapter of his book Mr. 'Sky.- - i t t 'fsLiV t 1 iefield quotes the foregoing v J i$age from Barton's speech I I adds: did not become Presi-mere- ly through his own ity. To be sure this was the nate cause of his success, .i there were other factors in ' situation. One of these was i he became fitted for office j 'Jgh hard experience in asso-- f 'On with men of unusual ca-- 4 1 !'y; and another, that he won Lj I support of three influential k f in Bloomington who devoted Fselves with untiring energy jpis cause.' 5iose three men were Jesse Fell, David Davis and Leon-Swet- t. One of them was a er from Pennsylvania, one horn on the eastern shore of Wand and the third was a Pee from Maine. So those t F states can claim some !fe with Illinois, through their native sons, in giving Abra-- F Lincoln to the nation and pe world. : fesse Fell was the Quaker. He f born in New Garden town-- P. Chester county, Pennsylva- - November 10, 1808, just I I ! months before a son ar-- I !!, mJhe lo8 cabin home of J p and Nancy Hanks Lincoln DAVID DAVIS stayed there two years, traveled 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 Jef-ferson Barracks, Mo., before he had fully recovered, Swett 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 ad-mitted to the bar in June, 1849, and began the active practice of law in Bloomington. Through his acquaintance with Judge Da-vis he met Lincoln, who had just returned from his one term in congress to take up his work as a circuit-ridin- g lawyer again. "Lincoln spent over half of ev-ery year riding the circuit," writes Wakefield. "And the in-fluence of the Eighth Circuit upon the career of Lincoln can scarcely be overestimated. It 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- - make an issue of the bill and in August Douglas returned to his home state to justify his efforts in its behalf. On September 1 Douglas made a speech in Chi-cago, defending the Kansas-Nebrask- a bill and he was scheduled to address a Democratic meeting in Bloomington on the same sub-ject later in the month. In the meantime a German Anti-Nebras- state convention was held in Bloomington and on the evening of September 12, Lin-coln who was then in town to attend court, was invited to ad-dress the delegates. On that oc-casion he "for the first time in his life, publicly and in forth-right words denounced slavery and asserted that it was in-compatible with American insti-tutions." As a result of this speech Jesse Fell conceived the idea of having a discussion of the subject by Lincoln and Doug-las when the latter came to Bloomington for the Democratic meeting on September 26. So Fell arranged to have Lin-coln be in Bloomington on that date and when Douglas arrived he laid before the two men his plan for a series of joint debates. Lincoln was willing, but Doug-las declined. Although Fell's plan failed at the time, he did not give up the idea and for the next four years he continued to urge that the debates be held. In the meantime Lincoln, al-though defeated in his attempt to win a seat in the United States senate in an election held in Feb-ruary, 1855, had become increas-ingly prominent in the councils of the Anti-Nebras- party in Illinois. On May 29, 1856 this party held a state convention in Bloomington to choose candi-dates for state offices and elect delegates to a national conven-tion. At that time Lincoln de-livered in Major's hall in Bloom-ington his famous "Lost Speech," the climax of which was his declaration "We will say to the Southern disunionists, We won't go out of the Union, and you SHAN'T 1" But if 1856 was an important year in Lincoln's career, 1858 was even more important. He and Douglas were rivals in the election for United States sena-tor and they were opponents in the famous Lincoln-Dougla- s de-bates. Douglas won the election but popular opinion returned Lin-coln as the winner of the de-bates. Moreover, they made him "for the first time a nationally known figure. Until nationally known, his rise to the presidency was impossible." Just as Jesse W. Fell was the first to suggest the debates with Douglas, so was he "the first man seriously to think of Lin-coln as a Presidential possi-bility and to urge Lincoln to be-come a candidate." In giving the circumstances under which this came about, Wakefield quotes Fell's own words as follows: "In the fall of 1858, during the discussion between Senator Douglas and Mr. Lincoln, I had occasion to visit the Middle and Eastern states; and as the whole country was then agitated by the slavery question, and that discussion cut a prominent fig-ure in the agitation, I was fre-quently applied to for informa-tion in reference to Mr. Lincoln. I felt my state pride flattered by these inquiries, and still more to find the New York Tribune, and other papers, publishing co-pious extracts from these dis-cussions, taken from the Chicago press. I did what little I could to satisfy so laudable a curiosi-ty, not thinking, at first, that anything further would come of this discussion, in reference to Mr. Lincoln, than his election to the senate. At length, from the frequency of these inquiries and public notices of the Illinois con-test an impression began to form, that by judicious efforts he could be made the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1860." LEONARD SWETT mous 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 Swett, opened Lincoln headquarters in the Tremont ho-tel. There they planned their convention strategy and set to work to win delegates from oth-er states for their candidate. The story of that convention and its result is a familiar one to most Americans. Not so fa-miliar i3 the "behind-the-scene- s" 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 suc-cessful nomination and later election of Lincoln was beyond question chiefly the work of the three Bloomington men David Davis, Leonard Swett 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 immortal. Western Newipapar Union. j e Wigwan, In Chicago Where Lincoln Was Nominated est at entucky-- Migrating fea gh,A h ?6e of twenty-thre- e, ce law an attorney's o mvine' 0hi0-- for Wa then continued his Soneor rmS to the raw little K L age of Bloomington, offlif he opened first I The I" e spring of 1833 lok Fp!iX! year le8al business ate car,;? Vand-li-a, then the k vo, ial',and he met a Jamcfl cmL egislator from San-linco- in i!y named Abraham This marked the be- - ington, headed by Jesse W. Fell, Judge David Davis and Leonard Swett, who created his country-wid-e fame, conceived of him as President, and secured his nom-- TheVst step toward this goal taken by Jesse W. Fell in 55. On May 30 of that year bill, which the Kansas-Nebrask- a into con-gress had been introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas, became a law. Almost immediately the anti-slaver- y ele-ments in the North began to Keeping Up miene C Sclenc Serrlc. WNU garvlc. "Dried Up" Wells Made to Produce More Petroleum Chemist Patents Process for Raising Oil Field WASHINGTON. Spent or "dried up" oil wells would be made to ooze forth more black gold, according to a "process for increasing the productivity of wells" recently patented here (patent No. 2.038.720) by Mclvln De Groote of St. Louis. Such simple chemicals, as hydro-chloric acid and sodium fluoride, powerful roach killer, when prop-erly emulsified and injected into the well would do the trick, claims the Inventor. The "sick" oil well when given a dose of this medicine would again yield oil trapped in the earth be-yond the reach of man. Wells Not All Dry. Not all oil wells that stop pro-ducing are really dry, that is, their supply of oil is not completely ex-hausted. The stoppage of output may be caused by the building up of solid deposits of wax or of In-organic salts, such as cause water hardness, in the channels or pores of the rock. Naturally, when pores and chan-nels are clogged oil will not flow and the well's output eventually de-clines to the point where it is not practical to work the well, although there may still be much oil pres-ent The Inventor's mixture of hydro-chloric acid and sodium fluoride is Intended to regenerate the produc-tivity of such wells. It has the property of dissolving out the min-eral deposits which clog the pores and channels. Acids Make Opening. Not only that, but injected Into the well, the chemicals eat out new openings in the rock, making it more porous. The hydrochloric acid in the mix-nr- o Hlccnlvps nut the calcareous Bridal Veils Used in Ancient Times to Scare Demons Greeks of Old Followed Quaint Marriage Rites THE ancient custom of a bride was once a trick to mislead mischievous demons Thus Prof. Ludwig Dcubnct of the Berlin university ex-plains bridal veils, w hich in an-cient times were more envelop-ing and mysterious than the airy veil of a modern June bridt. Fear of demons, It appears, plagued the ancient Greeks In a fashion reminiscent of the fairy-tal- e fear of the wicked fairy who al-ways turned up for trouble at wed-dings and christenings. Brides' Disguises. Describing lengths to which wed-ding parties would go to foil de-mons, Prof. Dcubncr said that brides in Sparta were dressed in men's clothing. The Spartan maid, dressed like a man and with her hair shorn, was shut up in a dark room to await her bridegroom's arrival and a dramatic rescue. Other ancient peoples tried other confusing practices. On the island of Kos, near Asia Minor, it was the bridegroom who dressed up. He wore women's clothes. Prof. Deubner finds evidence that Greek marriage customs Bre relat-ed to customs of other peoples, and some can still be found surviving in parts of Greece. Parents Made Matches. Describing ancient Greek wed-dings, Trof. Deubner stated that as marriages were arranged by the parents, the couple-to-b- e were not consulted and often became ac-quainted only after they were wed. The popular month for weddings corresponded to late January and early February in our calendar. The bride sacrificed her hair, her girdle, and her toys at the altar of Artemis. Corresponding to a modern church wedding was a sacrifice rite to the goddess Hera. During the wedding banquet the bridegroom removed the bride's veil. Wedding gifts went by a name meaning un-veiling, because they were received after the removal of the veiL Guests accompanied the couple to their home and threw old shoes to ward olf evil. The groom lifted his bride from the cart in which they rode, and she like ancient German brides walked thrice or limestone-lik- e deposits. At the same time some of the acid reacts with the sodium fluoride to liberate the powerful hydrofluoric acid which dissolves away the clogging silica deposit most difficult to dis-solve clogging mineral. New Magnesium Pellets May Help Save Wild Ducks WASHINGTON. Magne-sium added to the lead used in duck shot may give wild ducks a chance for their lives if the hunter misses, the U. S. Biological Survey has announced. Paradoxi-cally, the widespread use of this new type of ammunition would re-sult In increasing the number of ducks. Lead pellets of the kind now used get two chances at the ducks, Sur-vey scientists explain. The first is the hunter's honest chance to knock down a bird when he fires. The second puts no ducks in anybody's pot, but only kills the poor fowl by slow lead poisoning. Havoc Is Wrought. Shotgun pellets falling thick into hunted-ove- r marshes where wild ducks feed are shoveled up as the ducks grub in the mud for food. They are retained in the gizzard like small pebbles, and as they are slowly rubbed down some of the lead dissolves and finds its way into the blood stream. Among these is a paralysis of legs and wings, so that if the poi-son does not kill the birds outright they either die of exposure or fall easy victims to predatory animals and birds. around the hearth-fir- e in token of her entrance to a new family. 21 American Cities Escaped Typhoid -- Deaths During 1935 CHICAGO. Twenty - four large cities have a place on the honor roll of the American Medical association, having had no deaths from typhoid fever dur-ing the year 1935. These cities are: Bridgeport, Conn.; Cambridge, Mass.; Eliza-beth, N. J.; Erie, Pa.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jack-sonville, Fla.; Jersey City, N. J.; Long Beach, Calif.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J.; New Bedford Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; Omaha, Neb.; Paterson, N. J.; Peoria, 111.; San Diego, Calif.; Scranton, Pa.; Somerville, Mass.; Springfield, Mass.; Tacoma, Wash.; Trenton, N. J.; Wichita, Kan., and Youngs-tow- n, Ohio. Eight of these cities five of them in New England had no deaths ei-ther from typhoid or diphtheria in 1935. They are: Bridgeport, Cam-bridge, Erie, New Bedford, New Haven, Scranton, Springfield and Tacoma. Death Rate Declines. The total of typhoid deaths for the 93 large cities annually sur-veyed by the American Medical as-sociation was notably less in 1935 than in 1934, 385 as against 470. At the other end of the scale are seven cities with high death rates from typhoid. In the order of high mortality from the disease, they are El Paso, Texas; New Or-leans, La.; Nashville, Tcnn.; Tam-pa, Fla.; Norfolk, Va.; Knoxville and Memphis, Tenn. Research in Soybeans Brings Federal Medal WASHINGTON. Expedi-tions bringing back to the United States over 2,000 dis-tinct varieties of soybeans, as well as numerous other useful and ornamental plants, won for P. H. Dorset, veteran scientist of the Department of Agriculture, the Meyer Medal for Distinguished Service in Plant Introduction. Presentation was made by Dr. David Fairchild, on behalf of the council of the American Genetic association, at the plant introduc-tion station of the Department of Agriculture at Bell, Md. Mr. Dorsett's expeditions have taken him to China, Brazil, and the West Indies. It was from his Chi-nese collections of over 6,000 seed samples that the 2,000 soybean va-rieties were isolated. Some of these are already in wide use, Steepest Railroad Is Located in Oregon RIPPLE, ORE. What is believed to be the world's steepest standard-gaug- e rail-road is located near here. It is 3,421 feet In length, starting up on a 28 per cent grade, continuing on a 79 per cent and cutting down to 60 per cent As it nears the top of the Incline. The railroad brings logs from a 300,000,000-foo- t stand of timber ly-ing on the high mountain ridges and delivers them at the foot of the canyon. The stand of Douglas fir and West Coast hemlock to be cut is very valuable, covering a great space, so the matter of its removal is an Important one, Involving as It did the lowering of logs 1,500 to 2,500 feet down the narrow and pre-cipitous side of the canyon of the Salmonberry river and 'getting them to the railroad at a con-venient point. F MEREST TO Place a glass pie plate over the top of the kettle when making a stew. The stew may then ba watched while cooking without lifting the cover or allowing steam to escape. Add a tablespoon of cream to roast beef or lamb gravy. It makes it a delicious brown. 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