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Show COUNTY PROCRI f HmSi CASTLE DALE. UTAH " A : LITTLE BAND-WAGO- N JOURNEYS muim"UiU,,UitMBY L. T. MERRILLf?fei!i!4,iUui,,Uliliilia (, 1138, Westers Newspaper rUm.) Alliteration That Cost an Blaine's Vain Presidential Election and vainly cherished THE ambitions of James Q. Blaine, the Republican "plumed knight," came nearest to their reall-latlo- n Id 1SS4, when be secured the nomination of bis party, only to have the possibility of bis election shattered during the latter days of the canvass by an unfortunate roorback that bad nothing to do with the actual Issues or personalities of the campaign. Blaine In 1SS4 won bis nomination against a protest movement within the party, headed by such men as Henry Cabot Lodge, young Theodore Koosevelt, .Carl Scours and a number of the tatter's associates who bad figured In the Liberal Republicans' bolt of 1872 that carried Uorace Greeley long to defeat The New Tork Sun called this group "Mugwumps," pretending the name to be of Indian origin, meaning " opposition Mugwump was unavailing In depriving Blaine of the nomination, which he won on the fourth ballot tn the convention at Chicago, at which Blaine helmets and Blaine roosters were much In evidence Grovei Cleveland, New fork reform governor, was the Democratic choice. There was little difference In the availability of the two candidates, or In the two platforms. Lacking better issues, unscrupulous campalgu man agers descended to exploitation of personal scandals which made the canvass the most scurrilous In Amerl can history. A single Irregular episode In Cleve land's youth was exaggerated and dls torted to make him appear an habit ual profligate. When Cleveland's man agers first were confronted with this scandal and asked their candidate how they should treat It, he answered with characteristic stralghforward ness, "Tell the truth." In the dissemiBlaine nation of this scandal. Soon Cleve land had the opportunity to besmirch his opponent In much the same man ner. But when a brought him the evidence against Blaine. Cleveland paid the man off and de stroyed the papers. Then a less scrupulous Indiana edl tor got hold of the ugly report, which reflected unjustly on the family life of Mr. and Mrs. Blalue, and published the details. The affair soon became gossip of the stump, which could not be ended even by a frank explanation that Blaine felt constrained to Issue The "plumed knight" was ferocious ly carictured by Democratic cartoon Ists as the "tattooed man." covered with reminders of certain acts In his his opponents life which public deemed discreditable. These cartoons deeply stung the sensibilities of the nominee, hardened as he had become to criticism by political foemen dur Ing bis long career In congress. It was during the closing days of the campaign that the really decisive slip was made which probably cost the Republicans the election. A clergyman. Reverend Doctor Rurchnrd, mak ing a speech ln Blaine's presence on the same platform, referred to the Democrats as the party of "ruin. Romanism and rebellion." Probably no brief bit of alliteration was ever more disastrous politically The unhappy phrase slipped Rlalne's attention at the time so that he did not at once refute It Before he could Issue a condemnation It appeared Id print and the damage hud been done. The phrase was broadcast by the Democratic press throughout the nation, frequently being falsely put Into the lips of Blaine himself. The incident cost him practically the entire vote of the Irish, who previously had been his strong supportThe extreme closeness of the ers. vole, with Irish precincts in New York going for Cleveland, showed that this stupid and fanatical phrase probably was what turned the tide In the elec"swell-heads.- SCOTT WATSON By ELMO THANKSGIVING time approaches and our minds turn back to the origin that is, If Twentieth of that holiday century minds, accustomed to making g of bal !ood, u fr consuming roast turkey, sauce, pumpkin pie, cider and otlier eatables and drinkables to a painful degree, football games and other forms of celefor innumerable 'A; bration far removed from the original ft purpose of the day, can be easily of turned back for a consideration brie origins II wouiu oe uiieresung ior encii astomakea mental inventory ana try toueter- L If we know much more about the people Inpttus this holiday than we seem to know observing it In the spirit in which it was fej S1 it a diiy cranberry ft wivpil. cmrse, brings up a mental usually a reproduction of some lat'n; or cartoon that we nave seen) or a L of sillier-f- cod n.en and women walking vn$. the woods to a little log church. The sttndlRR fc.turcs of the sober costume of the of Jnianksjiivln?, thieves, and others who, like themselves, were dangerous to the community. Thus, the records of the Essex County Quarterly courts show that, during the session held at Ipswich In 1682, several such perilous females were dealt'wlth: "Warrant, dated April 14, 1682, for the appearance of those presented by the grand Jury on Mar. 28 for folding their hair, frizzling and knots, and for wearing silk scarfs, Martha Rogers, Mary Brownexx and Elizabeth Browne, the glazier's daughters, Abigalll Metcalfe, Elizabeth Perkirs, wife of Luke Perkins, Martha Watton, John Webster's daughter who lives with Mr. John Rogers and Pricilla Carrell, Capt. Appleton's maid." By 1713, disorderly night life In Boston seems to have been well started, to the extreme annoyance of the Rev. Cotton Mather, who comments on !t thus in his diary: "There are knotts of riotous Young Men ln the Town. On purpose to Insult Piety, they will come under my Window in the Middle of the Night, and sing profane and filthy Songs. The last Night they did so, and fell upon People with Clubs, taken off my Wood Pile. 'Tis higbtime to call in the Help of i ie Government of the Place, for the punishing and suppressing of these Disorders." Efforts of the early New England fathers to stop wickedness by means of strict laws met with Indifferent success. They were more ready to admit this than some of their modern descendants (which is a hats, the bis shoe guns, with their their shoulders; of the caps on their heads and l?rk mill's han.'.'ip.a from their shoulders. If Ihe fsrtnonist. rather than the painter, who b nt;r m:ntal picture of the Puritan letinrs of d:iy. we're refty sure a m::n Imhlinu a turkey by the neck hand imd his gun In the other while an Sfiarrw decorates the tall crown ol his hat. (fee arrow On Indian arrow is by now an wt fo.'rprris.' lih' symbol of Thanksgiving) r be n.v;r tlinm-- h the window of a log cabin .ml plnr.kins into the turkey on the fable, htn .he conpteni,:tion of the Puritan family, wly to ent the "noble bird" when the un-x!l piinifh lirrives Oi If we are asked to sworfee the Puritans In a frw words, those nre pretty like!,- to hi- or "noble" "stern" M.V or -- pious" or "well i in t!:e iln and the clumsy-lookin- g 'skappd muzzles, owi ben-the white Hutch 8 7!iaii!-:.--gli!- on- - wcll-nurlta- nlcal hnnw what l mean." fat aside from the Ideas, pt::l itr.d word pictures, know nhoi-- tliP t es rivm hv th, much do we how f.,n. I'lii-ttM- n ,i ''"'hey exist in onr llllmls ns "neon!'' rant bpirvs" or sis ln....,o . ... rv tvtm iia nw him ' '!. they all. ,;fl nlwava. nl,m" r ' HV or r( "str-r. w. "1S (. flien . t, ()!, - . . .' i...-i- i ., , . IliU-f- l thev were "wn,,l0" .... ..l sueli imli, i,lol s We Kllaw w t y """if ... ... ,,i.. nk ,.((.ontv l?!rVv !t',. ' .S . S?iltuiin in ,!"!,.","sti"n- The name which "titans." ..... ' of of m,. Hie WO. k t... ,,f n "' ":"r nnlv t ,.. - ' wtlliethin:. puhnhed , ii. !.,:f!,n, home of ,s- - In t In.,n..!.,. I,., rill. "n ,,fs,,,Pr f;m.nt ,,,r r" , ,. Americans. ie author of the hook Is Hnnrv 'iMTrenep, a native lfr .PW and a nf KtfH-.... i onneciinif only h, college, who v ",N "m'.v history to know flMf ;P , ;,T ,lls nstors . nti, e r,w,d-:- - in that thev '"feNintn ' iennH.... . '"'ens wniff) were "not. ln,r!('"c,," to his hook fMwre,'", illn.-,i,- i n,0:-i-' I'n-lan.- Cf-i- r K,Bs iv .1 lheCp,,mss.'b1" be uttered r.boat the .nu there Is still much to h a ,,aw"WninE e 8tuPefle5 their rev- - hparers J 'Tlue, ;re,,, fh'? tin,,., ""criminating praise of the h.he imae breakers of our own C"an f d'than,,",?!1'! reP'y' they haW of unhumnn It Is worshipers. ne t0 the humnnlty, the the fr W i ,ni .. S for 0l'yweof our formidable an. loyal New Enftlander ' 'ur Wl ' vouth un of fnlln. u.ii,.,.. . hdirraft .'8 '''Hussion of the "na-'- .' and ... operations of th. "- -' J ' '" freCly '"'ormed of how ''Mcaied Snd suit while ? . .'oftfa,na w lf: We shall not love them lf we 868 tnen1 .V rve- anV vlfi.al jthoiI.rre,,tur of a moralized and ? liter "n,y 8 H """re k. " K i :ri kb, nland i". n the SeVBn. 0inn triod ftk X bu . Ne" Enirin m, J" j sl vrybodv bv he n..: . ;u the "."t generiM ' n t Kre!" and gooa KOdlines. e rew buyers, though .i. .v lne vaat a very amRl1 majority, number, wer 8Plrtually akin r..r,,,'ther J, '? hPcrites; but most of "mount of true holiness ah,,. Ier' ,,tb? ours, but It on , rllef a, r ' J' V'ey ,a,ke1 about It more of .. human enntankerousnes " I"fti . ?.,0 ' eamni "f!d ln Pious phrases that I " .I ?'.i,ken 'or godliness. Probata. ha,. "10 be lived ;. ", rt:d " we are about how HfJ hftvWi,h f'"ly ,hey wer ""en dr,,;'''s toto reufate It, and ,hey n u. ik. m sh.ih.. k. have been. Puritans" revealed In Thus are the "not-cuit- e a book written by one of the descendaats In "which for oire, at least, they are presented to Americans oi today as "people" and "human beings." But in turning our thoughts back to them as the time for the holiday which they have given us approaches, we need not hold then, in any the less esteem or reverence because of these revelations about them. The concluding chapter of Professor Lawrence's book Is an illuminating exposition of that fact. He says: There is a belief, widely prevalent today, that history should be the cringing slave of public Acpolicv, rather than its trustworthy guide. cording to this belief the facts which history presents should be determined, not by the historians, hut by those who are supposed to understand better than they what the public welfare requires of the historic record. In paiticular, there are a great number of persons, grouped in powerful organizations, who are now insisting, even to the point of coercion, that no present-daexplorer of cur national or colonial history shall bring to no to and certainly light, widespread public notice, any facts which seem to discredit the traditional and popular view of our heroic and glorious past. The authenticity of the facts is rarely questioned. The propriety of presenting them to the public, or at least of giving them so much prominence, is often sharply challenged In anticipation of f.uch a challenge to the facts presented in this little book, a further word beyond what has been said in the preface seems appropriate. First, as to the belief that Clio should be a slave rather than a guide, and that her utterances should be determined, not by her faithful disciples, but by the guardians of public welfare. This willingness to substitute to and for cling fondly to that mythology history, which Is known to be untrue, is shared by so many admirable people today that the historians of this country have issue a formal, public protest and warning against it. This warning is In the fcrm of a set of resolutions adopted by the American Historical association, the national society which includes in Its membership practically all the leading writers and teachers of history in the United Puritans." That these "noHiuitc- - Puritans" were very much like the people c,f today in their faults and frailties, Professor Lawrence then proceeds to demonstrate in his book by quoting from contemporary records. Then, as now, the elders had the llaniiiiK ' youth-problem on their hands. For the hoys and iriiLs of Massachusetts I '.ay and otlier New Eng-hmnot-qui- o in for "new colonies IHI pet. they Immodest fashions" ami wicked apparell," t'e.ere H'F.ltK "flappers," or their equivalent, who bobbed th:ir hair, or the equivalent, the college students ot those day V'FUF addicted to riotous ni -- lit life and there WF.UF. hreach-o- f promise suits, family rows, back fence quarrels, fights, intoxication and any number of other offenses which brought them, .wing and old. into court. These are not merely opinions. They are facts taken from court ami other records and here Is fvldence of the truth of the above statements, In the order presented, as given in Professor Law rence'. book : Young men there were 'ortvtMen "to Inveigle ot draw Ihe affections o; any maid" without the prop, er permission, and the law enumerates the current it he by speech, writprohibited methods: "whether , unnecessary faing, messae.e, company-keepingsinful dalmiliarity, disordeily liance, gifts " In 1660 Jamb Minline and Parah Tuttle of New law Haven wre haled to court for violating the and the record shows that the purpose of then unlawful meetings had by no means been prayei and fasting. the testimony "They sat down together," says her arm "pon "his arm being aout her, and and or about his neck; and he kissed her con one another kissed or him. they kissed she half an hour" More-ove- r tinuing In this pos.ure about had "Inveigled he, Sarah denied that Jacob fined her instead affections." whereupon the court of him. and called her a "bould vlrg.n,' Immodest A. ar!v a 1634. "some new and in the authorities of Massachusetts . . no person, either man or womar. :d y night-meeting- 1 fash-ions- l,.5ht ,hre" sold. ' likewise laid on "slashed ","'w y.a " 1 a" compelled to attend the . i The Seventeenth century specialized in repression. Twentieth have a right to demand that history tell us the truth about how the repres-slonisof Puritan New England really worked among the masses of the people. It seems to have been no more than indifferently successful even in that age of lean adversity. A large fraction of the shared In, the population submitted to, rather than has made the religious and moral fervor which period notorious. They hardly qualified as belonging in the company of the sainls. They were "the We of the possessors the law allowed the present ro. mmodera,ey great sleeves arhedlppr-r.mmoder- ate great rails, Ion. wings. however, Tit ete7 f et'" ' States. Second, as to the damage. If any, done to the Puritan tradition by the facts presented in this book, or by the manner of their presentation, the author's own profound admiration for. many of the leaders In early New England has not been lessened ln the slightest degtee because of the facts he has discovered and related about them Rather, he has felt reassured to find that behind the myth? of Impossible, intolerable, unhumnn there really were men and women of heroie character and achievement, so abundantly equipped with noble qualities and noble deeds that laudasuperfluous tory lying about them was at best Their fame shines all the brighter when the darkmore is rounded them which sui ness adequately The policy of trying to conceal or to revealed. minimize their faults and limitations seems fin more likely to produce, in the mind of the present-daschoolbov or citizen a cautious but rynica goody-goodi-ne- patriotic' revetem-e- ant1 skepticism than the desired to deepen the suspicion of many that all nat op ..' more conducive u of history Is a set Jingoistic patriotism than o intellectual honesty. e Pur tans However distressing "he earl. may be to those who insist on regarding the a hnloe and fleshless a demigod New Englander as Ihe welcome a with fir.o follow) ascetic, it may son of New England, Oliver Wen of that eminent world-wis- e "w that remark In his dell Holmes, character t. must have a weak spot or two In fora wa can lova it much." , of the present day flapper The remote anceMrwa prescribe, the arm Wn." wherebv the nakedness of thereof." wparinit i " III J in may Dc uib."'1. .t...n.loa dj. l. har h r. or uihciw When a gin 0"" t seventeenth centurv mee. to it formed merely fatner s to expec fashion, she had " sQme pub,ic Lord's Uay, ard wrath and mother , "."li ! . 0the half-truth- s, Not-u:t- tale-bear- tion. Excitement ran hish as the returns came in. Mobs tilled the streets. Violence was threatened In a number ol cities. Bodies of excited men marched up and down as they had done at the beginning of the Civil war. A mob threatening to hang Jay Gould "de scended on his office In New York city, when they suspected thai through his 'control of the chief telegraph of the nation he was Jug returns In favor ot u'ling election Blaine. Fearing for his life, Gould then summoned policeprotection, from some Inner hiding place (lis patched a message to Cleveland ell ing him he had been elected and et fuslveiy congratulating him Blaine, with a composure that dl.t not hetruy his own disappointment announced the result to a crest fallen crowd o! bis friends and neighbor from the doot of his home at Angus company a. Maine. Quest I "TMIE Nemeeis of unsuccess pursued the Presidential asulrstlons ol Jumes G. Blaine as relentlessly as It dogged the ambitions of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, and la later years of William Jennings Bryan. Blaine eagerly desired the highest prize tn American political life, but it was bis misfortune to try to gain it only In the years when denial was Inevitable, while be thrust It aside (a the one year when the nomination could have been his for the asking and when election would have been assured. From Civil war reconstruction days to almost the end of the century, the period when he was easily the most brilliant and magnetic figure In bis party, Blaine was a perennial Presl- dentlal possibility. Robert Q. Ingercoll's eloquent nominating speech In 1876 made Blaine, to his devoted partisans, the "plumed knight" lor the rest of a political career that was filled with many a Joust tn congress, convention and cab- inet A feud between Bluine and Senator Koscoe Conkling, the political boss of New York, was almost as much responsible as any personal shortcom- ings of the "man from Maine," or the fortuities of politics, for his failure to receive the coveted nomination on a number of occasions. Blaine, In congress, bad bitterly offended the pompous Conkling by attacking blm ln bis most vulnerable spot, his vanity, when be compared him in a speech on one occasion to s strutting turkey gobbler. Conkling never foigave the "plumed night" for this thrust especially since the cartoonists ever afterward caricatured l him as a turkey cock with In his From usually position spread. command of New York convention delegations Conkling was able to deny Blaine powerful New York support such as ha made many a nomination. Blaine had his own revenge, when as President Garfield's secretary of state, he turned the President against Conkling and helped precipitate the famous patronage iuarrel of Garfield's administration In which Conkling resigned his sent in the Semite In a huff and was humiliated when the New York legislature refused to fan-tal- him. Conkling In turn showed his otier-ues- s when In 18S4. Hsked si his law office to support lilalne's candidacy, he replied: "I don't engage In crim-inu- l practice." The "Mulligan letttrs" incident, darkening Blaine's reputation with the shallow of congressional railroad scandal, killed his otherwise excellent chances for nomination In 1870 and 1880. as the party standard-bearer- , he lost the election through the unfortunate use of the phrase, "rum. Romanism and rebellion" by an unwise supporter. In 1888 the chances were better than they ever had been for Blalue's perennial hopes. President Cleveland practically hud doomed his party to defeat In that year by forcing the tariff In 1884, Issue to tlu front The Republicans panted Blaine to run. In repeated cablegrams from Europe, whither, he had gone for a vacation, he refused. Ills passionately tfevoted adherents would not accept thai answer. Even while the Republican national convention was In session at Chicago his friends cabled him in Scotland, where he was visiting Andrew Carnegie, to try to get him to change his plans and consent to be the standard-bearer- , but his determination was unalterable. Had be made the run he easily would have had the Presidency. The election went to Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, a much less prominent and less popular figure, by an ample margin. Blaine came home from Europe to be Harrison's secretary of state and, as such, was regarded as the big figure in the administration, the real power behind the throne. He was still to have one more trial for the prize. Disharmony between him and the President developed Friends urged Blaine to run In 1S12. hut he declined. Then, three days before the Republican national convention opened at Minneapolis, the country was amazed by news ot the sudden and unexplained resignation of Blaine from Harrison 8 cabinet. This action raised tils slock Immediately In the convention, but not enough to make him i winner. Againsi the 5,'W voles that Humiliated Harrison on the first ballot Blaine received 18. coin;;.-- ; ret, with an etpial number Jt voles for Wlllinm McKlnley of (ili'o. who v. as permanent chairman of the convention. With the 'illumed knight's' last Joiist for the Presidency ended his poll leal career. He retired to tils home In Maine unit, after a lingering illness, died in the following year, as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay had died shortly afier the Mow of their Inst failure In their long and trultless quesis for the highest political prize at tin- disposal of their touutrymen half-hearte- Political Situation d' Wl.ul ItUilliotl?' you think ol the political 'The political situation I am most itcrtsleil In." said Senator Sorghum is the one which happens to be af in inn me" a salary. And I see So se of jeopardizing It by volunteer on versa t in."- - Washington Star. . |