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Show MOAB, THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, DID CUSTER ASPIRE TO BE PRESIDENT? Jacket and Skirt For School Miss EVENTY-FOUR years Cleveland, Ohio, ago was the scene of a meet- ing unique in American poli: ? tics-the ‘‘Johnson Soldiers and Sailors' Convention" of 1866. Although a relatively minor incident they assert, stroyed both President in Andrew Johnson's historic struggle with Thaddeus Stevens and the other radical Re- publican leaders, vention one coninter- of its pro- outstanding and Was this particular has because moters a man is glamorous whose fig- name in our military annals. He was George Armstrong Custer, "The Boy General With the Golden Locks,'? ‘"‘The Murat of the American Army" and the Indian fighter par excellence until a Sioux bullet ended his spectacular career in what is commonly known as the ‘‘Custer Massacre."' Custer biographers are strangely silent concerning his part in the Cleveland convention. Yet it was an important milestone in his career. 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Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Ave. San Francisco Calif. Enclose 15 cents ee in coins cuwen Name United States! The story of that phase in the career of George Armstrong Custer is here told for the That Custer was moter of the and Sailors' dicated peared sue of Horace by an editorial which apin the August 24, 1866, isthe semi-weekly edition of Greeley's New York Trib- "Generals ‘‘The Johnson Soleditorial began: Custer, THE AWFUL PRICE YOU PAY FOR wc NERVOUS Read These Important Facts! Quivering nerves can make you old, haggard cranky-can make your life a nightmare of jealousy, self pity and "‘the blues.' ften such nervousness is due to female functional disorders. So take famous Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to help calm unstrung nerves and lessen functional "irregularities.'" For over 60 years reliefgiving Pinkham's Compound has helped tens of thousands of grandmothers, mothers and daughters "in time of need."' Try ii! 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His caliber is explained by the remark of an Ohio delegate, who said ‘‘Custar is a man with a deal of hair, but very little brains.'' Custar has been supporting the President vigorously since his evidence before the Reconstruction Committee and his reward was a promotion from Captain to LieutenantColonel . . . A Convention will be' permanently organized to-morrow morning. Gens. Granger and Custar are spoken of as permanent President. So also is Rousseau and Steedman. There are a number seeking the position in case of a quarrel. Mr. Doolittle (senator from Wisconsin) will settle matters. Custar is his man. : Red Necktie! But, as it turned out, ‘‘Custar'' wasn't. veteran well as Gen. John E. Wool, a of the War of 1812, as the Mexican and Civil wars and the oldest major-general in the United States army, was made temporary president. Then, according to the Tribune correspondent's 1000 one leading anti-administration organs. But, granting the bias of its editorial policy, Custer must have been unusually active in Johnson's behalf, else he would not have been singled out for special notice, as he was in the Tribune's coverage of the convention. That grant urge the late them in opened in a big tent on the lake front of the Ohio city on September 17. The first dispatch sent back to the Tribune by its special for i the world, etc. holding a convention in Cleveland to pave the way for a Rebel-Copperhead triumph in the approaching election."' correspondent from Dix fellow-soldiers in war to unite with The ; darkness first time. an active pro- ‘‘Johnson Soldiers' Convention'' is in- une. Headed diers,'"' this their Civil next dispatch, Gen. Wool-poor, foolish old man- called the Convention to order. On his right sat young, curly-haired Custer, who was easily distinguished by a bright red neck-tie he wore . i en. Gordon Granger was made permanent President of the Convention. ... Young Custer, too, was ambitious to have the honor conferred on him but gracefully yielded at the suggestion of Senator Doolittle. Custer felt hurt at this slight, and called it ingratitude. He felt that he was the chief spirit of the Convention, and the one who first originated the scheme, but Doolittle sleeked Georgie's flaxen curls, and told him it was the President's wish that an older man should be selected. So the quarrel was compromised by putting Custer on the Committee to present the proceedings of the Convention to his Excellency. This will give Georgie a chance to apply for the vacant Brigadier Generalship in the Regular Army. GEN. GEORGE A. CUSTER In this photograph, taken by Brady in 1865, Custer wears the picturesque costume of the ‘‘Boy General''-wide felt hat, blue flannel shirt and scarlet tie. according to the Tribune correspondent, ‘‘signed by the Rebel Gen. B. Forrest of guerilla and Fort Pillow fame, Gen. Chalmers of Hood's old army and Col. Galloway of that notorious Rebel sheet, The Memphis Avalanche-stating that the late Rebel soldiers-the same who massacred negro soldiers at Fort Pillow, and again, more recently, on the streets of Memphis,-in mass convention sent greeting to the Johnson soldiers here, and said they had their sympathy."' This waving of the bloody shirt by the Tribune correspondent was prophetic of the repercussions from this incident which were to come almost immediately. According to Lloyd Paul Stryker in his biography of Andrew Johnson: Nothing could have done the Johnson cause more harm than this well-intentioned message. The convention, upon receipt of this Southern message of good will, adopted a resolution thanking the Confederate soldiers for their words of "‘magnanimity and kindness.' This, in the minds of Thaddeus Stevens and his sycophants, was proof of treason. The Forrest telegram furnished Sumner and his followers with new ‘‘evidence'' that Johnson had gone over to the Confederacy. ‘‘All other circumstances united,'' wrote Blaine, ‘‘did not condemn the convention in Northern opinion so deeply as this incident."' ; In his ‘‘A Complete Life of General George A. Custer,'' Capt. Frederick Whittaker, Custer's earliest biographer and his chief apologist, without referring directly to this aftermath of the affair, admits that Custer's first venture into politics, via the Cleveland convention, was an illadvised one and he tries to excuse his hero for the error of judgment in this ingenious fash- Nothing hurt Custer's political and military future like the movements of this summer, all of which were due to his generous impulsive way of doing things. Honest to the backbone himself, he could not imagine that others were less so and he fell, as it were, into the midst of a den of hungry political wolves who would have picked his bones clean had he staid much longer . . . But he was saved from the consequences of his indiscreet utterances by being ordered to Fort Riley. It is no taker's doubt true, statement as Whit- implies, that Custer's activities during the summer and autumn of 1866 seriously impaired the prestige which he had gained as a_ successful cavalry leader during the Civil war. This should have warned him to keep away from civilian politics but, unfortunately for him, he failed to heed that warning. During the next 10 years the American public, which had once hailed George Armstrong Custer as the beau sabreur of the Union army, had good reason to applaud him in a new role-that of the foremost Indian fighter of his day. Why he, having added to his fame as a soldier, ventured again politics, should into which had the have field once of proved so sterile for him, is one of the paradoxes of a career that is filled with inconsistencies. For that is what he did when he became embroiled in the famous Belknap affair in the winter of 1875. He volunteered to testify before the congressional committee which was investigating charges of graft against Gen. W. W. Belknap, President Grant's secretary of war, thereby incurring the displeasure of Grant. As the result of these latest ‘‘indiscreet utterances,'' Custer was name mander, Gen. A. H. Terry, at the head of his regiment, the Seventh cavalry. Disaster overtook him when his regiment was detached from the main column to locate the hostiles. For, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, the Indians anni- correctly! They also men- tion frequently his red scarf, that bright oriflamme which had been the forefront of many a thun- dering cavalry charge during the Civil war. Apparently Custer was acting as a sort of secretary of the convention, for there is also fre- quent mention of his r&ceiving messages brought to the tent by "the Syndicate-WNU fact that when they spilled some it Service.) telegraph boy.'' One of these telegrams and the convention action which resulted from it created a furore later. It came from Memphis, Tenn., and it was, deprived of command of the expedition which he was to have led against the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes although mitted in he to hilated the enth which and the was spring eventually accompany five troops Custer inflicted of 1876 per- its com- of the Sev- led into battle heavy casualties upon the other six troops before they were rescued by Terry tke next day. Controversy Over Custer. For more than 60 years a they read in them of action an and a fierce warrior according to Red Star: He said he had made up his mind to go on this expedition to fight. He said he had been to Washington and had been given instructions to follow the Dakotas. Now that he was on the war-path, if he had a victory, he said, ‘‘When we return, I will go back to Washington and on my trip to Washington I shall take my brother here, Bloody Knife, with me. I shall remain at Washington and be the Great Father. But my brother, Bloody Knife, will return, and when he arrives home he shall have a fine house built for him, and those of you present will be the ones appointed to look after the work that will be placed in charge of Bloody Knife. You will have positions under him to help in what he is to do and you can, when you wish to speak with me or send me word, gather at Bloody Knife's house and decide what the message will be. Then he will send it to me. He will be given the whole tribe of Arikaras to be head of. I will have papers made out for each of you here and you will have plenty to eat for all time to come, and you and your children. In saying such things, was Custer merely "talking big'' (army officers who knew him well say that he was given to doing that) in his Indian scouts and, by making such promises, did he hope to hold them steadfast if they should show an inclination to desert him at a critical time in the coming campaign? Or was he truly ‘‘showing his heart'' to trusted Indian friends who would not likely betray his confidence. There is, of course, no way of knowing which of these two possibilities is the more believable. But they suggest other interesting speculations. More than once the American people had elected a _ military hero President. They had sent "Old Hickory'' Jackson, ‘Old Tippecanoe"' Harrison and ‘Old Rough and Ready"' send "Old Taylor to the Why shouldn't they Curley'' Custer, the conqueror of the Sioux, there-if he should win a great victory over the Indians? Were such thoughts as these in the mind of George Armstrong Custer when he told his Arikara the year hot 1876. loca *# | 8. ys git ger Big Three Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana a the "big three' of the liquor iy Vi dustry, producing three-fourths & ge all the whisky made in the Unitgil.: States. Of the total national out of 10,303,914 gallons in March, example, Kentucky produced 46 187 gallons, Illinois 1,422,195 I 1 po #0. Indiana 1,334,935. a] PIANO BARGAIN Sunday in June in SLIGHTLY USED BEAUTIFUL SPINETTE PIANO | : St Can be purchased at a Greatly Reduced Sa. In a worried time she was never at a loss for surprises, kindnesses, discoveries of the first spring flower, or a good book, or a new little dish for my tray. By KATHLEEN NORRIS OW near are you to H being a perfect wom- PERFECT Almost an? This is a fascinating question, and the answer to it may suggest to you a fascinating occupation. It may amuse you and keep you busy and happy for years trying to turn yourself into a perfect woman. A man's letter suggested this idea. He writes me that he has the perfect wife. They have been married seventeen years; they aren't rich or famous or young any more; they're both close to forty. But his letter makes thrilling reading, and I pass it on. A Tough Beginning. ‘"‘We had to wait seven years for our happiness,'' he writes. ‘‘They were long years, and sometimes discouraging years. Dee was taking care of her mother, a helpless invalid, and teaching school as well. There seemed to be no reason why she might not be so held for many years. I was in medical school, with the hope that a hospital appointment might some day pay me $75 a month, "When Dee was 28 and I 30, however, I was offered a position in a small country town, with $100 a month and free rent guaranteed. At the same time an aunt of Dee's was widowed, and came to live with her mother, and we persuaded the old folks to let us turn the upstairs floor of the home into a flat. The rent was $35 and we sent them another $35 and they managed easily. "We went at once to our own home, and I took up my clinic duties at once. My wife kept a wonderful table and we could entertain simply on her food allowance of $25 a month. Presently I began to get an outside case or two; every dollar counted, of course, but we never had any sense of anxiety or scrimping. Two boys came along, and their mother took care of us all; always gentle, sympathetic, understanding. "I think gentleness is Dee's outstanding characteristic. She is always neat and fresh, always merry and adequate and wise, but her outstanding characteristic is gentleness. If something comes up that troubles her, she is silent, thoughtful, gentle about it. Always Sees the Bright Side. "Dee never will have a bill ora standing debt. We may have to go on short rations for a while, but she must pay bills first. Her mother's final illness was a long one; we had doctors and nurses, but Dee managed to make us all feel that it was a privilege rather than a burden to do all we could. _ "She makes picnics, Parties, festivals of ordinary living. In a worried time-for I had a long, dull illness-she was never at a loss for surprises, kindnesses, discove ries of the first spring book, or a new flower, or little dish a good for my tray. Our little girl, coming when her brothers were 9 and 7, was born almost blind. Normal now, for her first two years her mother had to be we battle? Those questions must remain forever unanswered. The lips of the only man who could have an. swered them were sealed by death on a barren hillside in Mon. one to a! "quarantine." It was a plague D cautionary measure and is sti]] use today, although not for such lengthy time, under its mod name "quarantine." scouts that he was going to be their ‘‘Great Father'? Was he eyes for her. Dee never planning, in the event of victory, her bitter worry, never to enter the political arena once "Her home is a Place more and prove that he could } music and laughter win there as well as on the field meals and happy talks. of ¢f4 contest Sl Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, off Dalmatian coast, some 800 years built a special dock in the har where all incoming boats were interpreta- named Bloody Knife, had taken part in Custer's exploration of the Black Hills two years earlier. Before Terry's army left Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota territory, Custer held a council with the Arikara scouts. Years later Red Star, one of the Arikara scouts, during an interview with O. G. Libby of the North Dakota Historical society, recalling the council, disclosed that Custer told the Arikaras ‘"‘he had been to Washington and he had been informed that this would be his last campaign in the West among the Indians. He said that no matter how small a victory he could win, even though it was against only five tents of the Dakotas (Sioux) it would make him President, Great Father, and he must turn back as soon as he was victorious. In case of victory, he would take Bloody Knife back with him to Washington."' Later, during the march into the Indian country, Custer again talked with his Indian scouts. At White House. alcoholic fully justify Accompanying Custer on this expedition was a party of Arikara or Ree, Indian scouts, many of order to impress its Quarantine dethe House! including fire j pou his departure from the letter of those much-debated orders. In the heat of their dispute, they overlook an incident which may furnish a clue to one of the forces that motivated him. This incident suggests that, despite the unhappy results of his previous ventures into politics, he was contemplating still another and that his ultimate goal was Washington, D. C., and the White whom, the Lacrosse was originated by ¢p™ ‘ American Indians who played 4* ‘ og game with whole tribes on a sic' | and goals one mile apart, 7, tion which gave him considerable latitude tana con- he deliberately the letter and on caused it to burst into a blue flan Se spirit of Terry's explicit orders and by bringing on a battle 24 hours too soon he not only brought disaster upon himself but he broke up a plan which would have insured defeat of the Indians. Custer-defenders tell another story. They admit his desire for a victory but they deny that he disobeyed Terry's instructions for that time, ion: Even though Custer was denied the presidency of the convention, he continued to be one of its lead-« ing spirits during the two days' meeting. The Tribune dispatches repeatedly mention him-and by this time its correspondent had evidently learned to spell his in Really Exists! The Perfect Wife (Bell 1 J troversy has raged over this battle. Critics of Custer assert that he alone was responsible for the tragedy. They say that he was hungry for a victory which would regain for him some of the prestige he had lost in the Belknap affair and that he was determined to grab all the glory of such a victory for himself. So, WATSON SCOTT (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ures Kathleen Norris Says: nia By ELMO est ‘Firewater' Origin fle The word "firewater" fad origin among the Indians, Liqu K was thus called by them, not 00 cause it appeared to burn the thre as it was swallowed, but due to thd American Story of a Glamorous the in Chapter New A e |} UTAH In are te summer coziest Dee's showed me grew tired. of rest and and happy In winter family in town beloved garden has our supper table in it, under an oak. For vacations we have a three-room lake cottage; for hobbies-but we have them all! "The vivid, eager, loving woman who has done all this for a man and three children is. [| think, the finest | all and WIFE wives are very his wife, and how 74 So. 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