| Show LINCOLN and DOUGLAS Incidents of or the Fatuous Campaign or of lU U nr UT cIlA v 1 Copyright 1902 by Hamilton Musk Tho The rival senatorial candidates Lin Lh Lincoln coIn coln and Douglas I did not travel In thus the I company but occasionally met on way bound for tor the tho same destination I Once each ench with a large largo following my myself myself I Iselt self among them in the Douglas crowd I Ithe they the steamed down the Mississippi on oa ona a 1 little stern wheeler belonging on White While river i As All WO we went down stream Mr Lin Un Lincoln coln took his Ide stand In the bow of ot the boat bont seeming to look Intently ahead 1 though from the tho speculation In his eye I 1 saw ho Ire was wan thinking deeply lIe He did not rouse until some come one called caUm out Say lay Mr Lincoln this remind you ou ot of old ohl times linen He lie smiled and nodded saying with a Q asly sly look at nt Judge JU Yen YeA es It H was on this river I learned how bow to keep from tram striking snags g ghe sr We eRo r understood that he meant the tho argumentative pitfalls Douglas had so often oCten set net for tor him him Tim flue jh debate Was wearing all nil allevia alleviations of at chance and change and anti per ver personal Jor encounters to the contrary not nol notwithstanding withstanding The felt I think than Ilan tiny any nn of ot their Immediate followers follower On one olle notable occasion when It II tell foil to Douglass 1 lot tot lotto to 10 close I J saw lillI Mr Lincoln during dug ng the thelast thelast last speech slip IIII almost unnoticed from the platform I J met him hum at nt the tho steps Douglas had load Just sold said something which caught the tho crowd and sot nut It U yell jell yelling jellIng yellIng ing Its 18 loudest This seems aromas to be he something of or a n Douglas crowd Mr Lincoln said mild as bo yo saw all w mo me Im Int going to steal oft on ice Tor n a little tittle rest as all I 1 Iam am far tar from fro III feeling Let me go with you out I answered So together we tramped at lens least four tour blocks and though the town ton seemed to bo be deserted It n truck struck ma tile as oe Some flome Somewhat somewhat what strange arrange that In all nil that distance tot not a t human being appeared to recognize nize my m champion although he hI was BO so marked a n figure and time the foremost man of ot hla his party part He lie J reached the ho hotel hotot tot tel utterly exhausted In jn an hour ht lit tho the outside the meeting would be lie over ova and crows crowl trooping to see sec him At 1 t tm my m au suggestion he asked for another room than the suit ull engaged en ed for tor him There Will was none lIone vacant but the clerk upon u On finding out who wanted It put pul hi his hll room at Mr Ir die dis disposal lOMI I helped 1 him to It II Then ne lie h got his hix boots oft off bound n wet towel lowel around hi huts hili head and stretched on an the bed d with n a 1 sigh ot teller After Atte thanking me warmly ht he h Midy Till Tel them not to disturb me ins I J will 11 be down dmn stairs as a soon noon as I J am m rested I 1 kiv knew however that that be futile tut II and lIfted on my 11 own nt Doing being outside hl I J locked the door donI then thep Rune II mil Ih the ky key bark back k over 01 th the transom In III himself hose close lOle to reappear re rr ell and nOll ready only the dark clerk and andus andU m us U non tuo III j ml new of ot his hili whereabouts al cl as al may ma be a 11 set net up liP wh when n people found lift his regular rooms wide whit open Ipen and himself eonni li absent At Al Alton lIon t H 15 th Iho great debate camp came io to i a I can l an make no even n to 14 the number of nf p ogle ho hl raw It They were pre there thereIn In ii r In n loud It seemed St Rt Lou ru but loul n 1 little WRY way off s sent nt teem teeming log ing thousands Every city 11 every con eon town even In ot of Illinois fur tur furnished nl hed of both Joth parties to 10 nHi 11 the Ihl swarm Tb There r wr were many Uk i c from the th Missouri towns town and from Indiana and ky Path loth Lincoln and Douglas were like hike schoolboys who have e finished to their non imn complete some tome extra task tuk They Th mt met wh when n the theIst i lut at ws we made at the home bent of ot iu teal l mend th the lion Hon Smith |
