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Show TIIE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH NSj Sto ace. y. 72 me i Ane on., whendone; move, favor of Operand tagesofJ greased H allow i ci4o.es ca kind : vmegar, t L ' u "us soij cooking. Injuries to cause in' where j ;reat an i if he w .-Sir He: ill Night CI Hi cnt e put h w jiplcF: ora i r i. '-I ID CUSTER ASPIRE TO BE PRESIDENT? New Chapter in the Story of a Glamorous American & SCOTT WATSON EL' ,.tern Newspaper Union.t NTY-FOUR years PVClOl"! 3Lp scene of a meet L in American poli- K -jehnwa Soldiers hnueh a relatively f incident in President I-'" ... mL.JJntiis Croir, ;nd the other radical Re- c3n leaders, uua in has particular unci- raiise one ui w yiv- and outstanding fig' Vzs a man whose name porous in our military i George Armstrong Cu ... innV " "ine iVIUiai VI Army" and the In W car excellence until l a bullet ended his spectacu- toeer in wnai is tuumiuinj luasuie vuv- -r biograpners are strangely i concerning his part in the IhnA convention. Yet it was tnnrtant milestone in his ca , For it was nis nrst vcu.iub .1 L.'U ViatA IS Tj O KlMinWIUWl, U1CJ.C M VW w " . -i ; i- a. n believe, he nopea mignc him to the presidency or. tne i States! le story of that phase in the t: of George Armstrong- Cus- s here told for tne nrsi tune. i Custer was an active pro- fer of the ' Johnson boldiers Sailors' Convention" is m-sd m-sd by an editorial which an ted in the August 24, 1866, is- af the semi-weekly edition oi ace Greeley's New York Tnb- Headed "The Johnson faol-" faol-" this editorial began: mis Custer, Dix etc. urge fellow-soldiers in the late war to unite with them in a convention in Cleveland ave the way for a Rebel-Cop- lead triumph in the approach- lection. Tribune was one of the anti-administration or- But, granting the bias of I editorial policy, Custer must le been unusually active in pon's behalf, else he would I have been singled out for spell spe-ll notice, as he was in the Tribe's Trib-e's coverage of the convention. he Cleveland convention bed in a big tent on the lake Et oi the Ohio city on Septem- 17. The first dispatch sent tk to the Tribune by its special respondent refers to Custer -dentally, misspelling his -e) thus: looking around on the members of uravention, as they assembled for 'CSS, I saw manv urhnsa hiatnrioa isSed me of their object in being here. mm prominent and conspicuous Qatar. His caliber is explained by remark of an nwn ifoieao uhn f "Custar is a man with a deal of f, but very litUe brains." Custar has Piupporting the President vigorously p tu evidence before the Reconstruc w Committee anri hi rpusrri .a o Ntloa from Captain to Lieutenant- . . a convention will be per-entiy per-entiy oreaniied in fA Granger and Custar are spoken - wuiuivm resident. So also Is -sseau and SMm.. t . W seetong the posiUon in case of i T- "oounle .(senator from mo) wul settle matters. Custar is That Red Necktie! !t, as it turned out. "friiHtar" 't Gen. John v. - mi STVU&k CI eraa of the War nf iqi Lii " v an as the Mexican and Civil " ma me oldest major-gen- a the United States army, made temporary president. accordins tn tha TriKi a!. Patch, Wia rmT J old man f- me Convention tn m r ui. .AnvS6 ,Pt?anent President 'theonor S,'8 ambitious to :"r Doom it? r ' .Umi. suggesUon of lid cinS Vster felt hurt a this WdS "le Chief Cniril t EjwSie to? S "iginated N'i VooUm sleeked a th. V wls. and tolil hm ( ikwifSiS L sl that an older 15 S?to pu'tin8 Custer on !o(th. .."..Present the nrntwrt. ! "B ii rlL".11 to W ExceUency. f ncant rirt e c"ance to apply A,Siiiet Generalship to ;i!?0ueh Custer was mM eS7the convention, h.oneofitsleadl days' ,51rs,mdet tad fluently hiR rf "--"c": f -sat Oriflarrm, . . '-Lri. uiai un. for tk. " Vl con- brousht toll, refeivmS .. teleKraIglt0.the tent by .teW- One of action whirl, cnven-W cnven-W !! from it -W;. wier- It came 'Phis,Tenn. i and it was, ; .ftM II v.; ; GEN. GEORGE A. CUSTER in this photograph, taken by Brady in 1865, Custer wears the picturesque costume of the "Boy uenerai" wide felt hat, blue flan nel shirt and scarlet tie. according to the Tribune corre spondent, "signed by the Rebel Gen. N. 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 Ava lanche stating that the late Rebel Reb-el soldiers the same who mas sacred 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 Ac-cording to Lloyd Paul Stryker in his biography of Andrew Johnson: Nothing could, have done the Johnson cause more harm than this well-inten tioned 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 Confed eracy. "All other circumstances united," unit-ed," wrote Blaine, "did not condemn the convention in Northern opinion so deeply as this incident." In his "A Complete Life of Gen eral George A. - Custer," Capt. Frederick Whittaker, Custer's earliest biographer and his chief apologist, without referring directly di-rectly to this aftermath of the affair, admits that Custer's first venture into politics, via the Cleveland convention, was an ill- advised one and he tries to ex cuse his hero ior tne error oi judgment in this ingenious fashion: Nothing hurt Custer's political and mil itary 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 den of hungry political wolves who would have picked his bones clean had he staid much longer . . . But he was saved from the conseauences of his In discreet utterances by being ordered to Fort Riley. It is no doubt true, as wnit- taker's statement implies, that Custer's activities during the summer and autumn of 1866 seri ously 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. warn-ing. 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, snouia nave ventured again into the field of politics, which had once proved so sterile for him, is one oi tne paradoxes of a career that is filled with inconsistencies. For that is what he did when he became embroiled in tne fa mous Belknap affair in the winter win-ter of ' 1875. He volunteered to testify before the congressional committee which was investigat ing charges of graft against Gen. W. W. Belknap, President uranrs secretary of war, thereby incurr ing the displeasure of orant. As the result of these latest -in discreet utterances,"-Custer was deprived of command of the expedition ex-pedition which he was to have led against the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes in the spring of 1876 although he was eventually permitted per-mitted to accompany its commander, com-mander, Gen. A. H. Terry, at the head of his regiment, the bev-enth bev-enth cavalry. Disaster overtook him when his regiment was detached de-tached from the main column to locate the hostiles. For, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, the Indians annihilated anni-hilated the five troops of the Seventh Sev-enth which Custer led into battle and inflicted heavy casualties urxin the other six troops before they were rescued by Terry tke next day. Controversy Over Custer. For more than 60 years a con- Sinews for America's Air Defense troversy has raged over this bat tle. 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 pres tige he had lost in the Belknap aii air ana mat ne was deter mined to grab all the glory of such a victory for himself. So. they assert, he deliberately de stroyed both the letter and the spirit of Terry's explicit orders and by bringing on a battle 24 nours too soon he not only brought disaster upon himself but he broke up a plan which would have insured defeat of the In dians. Ulster-defenders tell another story. They admit his desire for a victory but they deny that he disobeyed Terry's instructions for tney read in them an interpreta tion which gave him considerable latitude of action and fullv iustifv 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 me unnappy results of his pre vious ventures into politics, he was contemplating still another and that his ultimate goal was Washington, D. C, and the White House! Accompanying Custer on this expedition was a party of Arikara or Kee, Indian scouts, many of whom, including a fierce' warrior 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, terri-tory, Custer held a council with the Arikara scouts. Years later Red Star, one of the Arikara scouts, during an interview in-terview 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, Fa-ther, 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 that time, 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 eiven 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 broth-er 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 be 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 wiU have plenty to eat for all time to come, and you and your children. In saying such things, was Cus ter merely "talking big" (army officers who knew him well say that he was given to doing that) in order to impress his Indian scouts and. by making such "promises, did he hope to hold them steadfast stead-fast if they should show an inclination in-clination to desert him at a critical crit-ical time in the coming campaign? cam-paign? Or was he truly "showing "show-ing his heart" to trusted Indian friends who would not likely betray be-tray his confidence. There is, of course, no way of knowing which of these two possibilities pos-sibilities is the more believable. believ-able. But they suggest other interesting in-teresting speculations. More than once the American Deople had elected a military hero President. They had sent Old Hickory" Jackson, "Uia Tippecanoe" Harrison ana uia Rough and Keaay xayior w me White House. Why shouldn t they send "Old 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 oi ueorge Armstrong Custer when he told his Arikara scouts that he was going to be their "Great Father"? Was he planning, in the event of victery, to enter the political arena once more and prove that he could win there as well as on the field of battle? Those questions must remain forever unanswered. The lips oi the only man who could have answered an-swered them were sealed by death on a barren hillside in Mon tana one hot bunaay mjune m the year 1876. t. J '""""mw 1 1 iiiJpWtJ11, ii -fniiiiii. ..lun I, zt -v W " ? n mm An inspector browsing; In a field of omnhti ovUnor. .t th i.. ni.:... ..-.,-.. Sf 5nnrftfty" S'.?r,?y 6shting craft ro bc,D turned out- Thl company was recently given con-tracts con-tracts for f27.000.000 worth of motors. Inset: Nltrhl view r .Arii t i.- " "7. of building airplane engines for national defense continues, ninht and day, without a hitch. Scotch Children Seeking Refuge Here (u yA:i Hi v4. W ' U, vV Ko , If . V "vl A large group of some of the more than 300 Scotch children pictured on the S. S. Cameronia. when they arrived in the safety of the United States recently. The children, many of them accompanied, are destined for homes all over the United States. Germany has "washed its hands" of responsibility for the safety of ships bear ing: child refugees to America. Scion of Rockefeller Clan Wed W':-! r: "'lA' ') J 'i A H U:r j . U fV'j ill - - -l 1 ' i f ' i il I 3 'j I David Rockefeller, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller Jr., and his bride, the former Margaret McGrath, of Mt. Kisco, N. T., leaving St. Matthews church In Bedford, N. Y., after taking their vows. Right: John D. Rockefeller Jr. Seattle Salmon Derby Winners All 11 if k ytrifn Hold That Tiger! ': 4 - ; J 4 ! ; Roby Mercer, fearless soprano star of "Gay New Orleans" at th New York fair, who spends much of her spare time playing with Frank Buck's "cats" when she Isn't singing. As Maine Goes? 4t Automobiles were offered as prizes in Seattle's famous salmon derby. These anglers all won cars. Lilly Torkelson (center) with 27-lb. 5-oz. saimon that made her the winner. L to E. Roy Meister, 26-Ib. 11-ot. salmon for winner men's division; Mrs. E. Carlson, 234b. 4-oz. fish, J. E. Webb, 26-Ib. 8-01. and Frank Markham, 25-lb. ll-oi. ( 'VI I A i i ' 1 r 1 1 I "- 1 '0 I J Ralph O. Brewster, Republican, elected U. S. senator for Maine in first general election in the nation, defeating former Got. Loui3 J. Brann, Democrat, by more than i3r 000 votes. A Book Shelf for The Study Corner By RUTH WYETII SrEARS CCHOOL again, and this sketch 0 shows a quiet study corner for' one girl. It is all very gay in' tones of golden yellow and green and was made almost entirely of things already on hand even down to the hooked rug. The hanging book shelf doesn't really hang at all. It is made of a box screwed to the wall, and if you never thought of slip-covering til 1 -j7-lt' teRttN AND YELLOW COTTON PRINT SlOt CURTAINS IXTEMQ I OVER FRONT YELLOW CM PIHDIN6 PAINTED WITH GRRN "watpo mi no .1 4 UO WALL AND THEN IUNETj I WITH TEUOV oil Cloth- cover to FIT Mill .lira. a book shelf, here Is proof of how smart one will look, especially if it is matched with a chair covered In the same material. The legs of the chair are painted green and so is the old kitchen table which has now become a desk. The yellow yel-low tone is repeated in the blotter and an old brass lamp and other desk things carry out the green and yellow color scheme. A shelf tike this one would be attractive in eilmost any room, even the bathroom bath-room or the kitchen. This box was so rough that the oil cloth lining was necessary. A box of smooth wood could be painted inside. NOTE: One hundred sixty of these homemaklng articles by Mrs. Spears have been printed In Ave booklets, each 32 pages. The stocking cat and doll on the shelf are in Book 3; directions for the hook rug are In No. 8; also descriptions of the other booklets. Booklets are 10a postpaid and should be requested direct trom Mrs. Spears. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETII SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford mils New York Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name ,. Address Speech of the Soul Utterance Is not confined to words. Our souls sneak as riit. aificantly by looks, tones, or ges tures the subtle vehicles of our more delicate emotions, as they do by set words and phrases. Indeed. the soul has a thousand wavs of communicating itself. Turnbull. r PERSONALS EVERT WOMAN'S FRIEND OT. 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