| Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITH I ITHE THE TH STUBBORNNESS THAT DEFEATED A PARTY PATY By fly y J K E E This dally daily aorta rt r a of ot anecdotes and ad incidents Incident that throw new ne interesting and frequently dramatic light on en famous events enl and personalities of ot the past pst have been ben collected by Edwards during nearly forty years yer of ot more or leu lesi Inti InU Intimate mate acquaintance with many of ot the leaders leader since the Civil Civi war leach Mch anecdote or Incident Is Ie fr fresh h from Mr Ir Edwards E notebook and either In 10 whole ho or in part It constitutes New News New of ot Yesterday r garnered from the men who road made th Ih the nn history or from equally authoritative sources Hur A As Im ml Important contributions n of ot the Human sort ort of ot American Amerian history hilory these the articles have a distinctive value alu all al their own 01 One aM of ot the th dramatic Incidents In that party pry ot of many lany dramatic events the theold old Know Nothing which aimed to 10 have haye nil all al political om filled by native I born brn Americans Americana Arn only was the detent defeat of ot Its Is candidate for governor In the New Nw York state election of or ISM 18 the tho of oC the two tw years y when time the Ih party waa ww as at It It its height of oC Us Io It strength na nationally When the Know Nothings nominated Daniel Ullman Ulma a I prominent lawyer lawr for Cor governor they confidently expected e tl to elect lot him in a three cornered contest and this thin confidence was wan WI Increased by bythe bythe the evident fright of oC the Democrats and the Whig Temperance coalition at atthe atthe atthe the probability of oC Know Inow Nothing suc sue ce coel Rut Hut Just when It seemed eme us M though nothing could prevent a Know Nothing wave from fm sweeping we Ullman Ulman Into the gubernatorial chair from some unknown quarter theme thel arose are the declaration that the head of oC the native born brn American ticket wa was WI not nut a native American at all 01 but ono one n ot or parentage who had been ben born br In tn the Bust Indies At once one there arose aro the cry cr of ot Ullman It went vent all allover allover over oer the state checking the sweep to 10 towards wards wants the Know Nothings and tUtu ulti ultimately resulted In the Ih of oC both Ullman and nd Horatio Seymour the tho Democratic candidate who wlm later laler ran ra for president against Grant by Myron Myn Mynn H n Clark the candidate of lt the th Whig II and tem temperance rance element Ho R It came cam on about abolt that the rout rul of or the Know Nothings Nothing In New Ne York was wee set t down dawn to In the credit cit of a nickname ot of timely Invention Nevertheless I am amIn amIn amIn In 1011 of ot the Ih statement of oC one ono who knew Daniel Ullman Ulm from child childhood childhood hood ho up that hi his hla defeat wo WM duo due dU not no Co 1 much to tu the th applied to 10 him a as to 10 hi hl his stubbornness In to tn let the lh real rAl facts fact Ct regarding his hil birth b b placed before bloe th the voter When Shen the charge wait waa brought against him that he wets was WS an Gl In Indian Indi Indian dian di said Id the late Stephen F P Taylor Talor at one ono time president of oc Madison 1 cal col college 01 loge lege Ie now Colgate ets university Mr Ull Ullman Ullman man loan declared dela that he would woul not dignify dignify fy Cy the by b answering It he h would rest post It on the thi IJU declaration that he was wa an Amer by Inherit Inheritance ance anco nee and birthright To tills this attitude he stuck all through trough the even when all manner of or fun Cun was waa W being bing poked pd at him hima foreigner for daring to 10 run as a native American candidate and when he ho must mUt have seen Been that by b refusing to let t the truth come out re ye regarding garding the circumstances ns surrounding his hla hil birth he was W d defeating hU his hi party And yet YI It was W such IO a simple situation to 10 eln and ami I 1 am sure nure that It had haI he hi allowed allow me to do eo so I could have ex explained explained 1110 It to 10 the li satisfaction ot or the groat Int mass mavi t of oC voters You ace soe some sonio 30 3 years earlier erler when I 1 wn was W the young yung of ot a school II In N Y I received a 1 letter from Irom a 1 man In India Indi who stated that IMI he was W sending on to 10 my school sol for their elementary education hi hi his two Iwo sans and and he ha h went weil on to 10 add ad that though he ho waa was an American citizen fUzen for to years rs he hail had boon engaged In business In the east P and hi ha his boys bys had hal been born br there and brought up In charge of oC a nurse Now however they were w of ot school hol age and following the te custom of ot officers officer In India bills India he ht wo was sending Mending his hi children buck beok b home to 10 be b educated The buys baye followed fathers father let letter ter ler In dot dUe timo One was about aut G C y years ars old the Ih othor S One Oni On ts named ne Isaac 1 Ulman the Ulm Both Iloth remained at Uw the u school until they were old enough to 14 enter preparatory school In tho years that ensued Daniel Dl Ull man nn became bm a a brilliant lawyer er and candidate for tor governor of o the Know Nothing party Then came the tho th that lie he h was not of ot American bIrth which h he vw we v of oc then his hla d dIM de defeat feat fent IM And he would U not no let lit m me explain I was wa to stand d by and behold him practically pr laughed oft off or th the political stage of or the Umpire I |
