Show THE GARLAND TIMESrGAlOJAMJ UTAH y Insane Asylum Bums 'fM Hofi Thirteen Missing Vl5 U ' P Administration building of the Central Hospital for the Insane at Nashville More than a thousand Inmates were released swept through the Institution ' thirteen were missing to after the them from Tenn save recent the fire that flames and Youths Touring Europe by Sea and Land By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ECAUSE of the radio It will be possible for millions of Americans during the next two and one half months to listen to Herbert 0 Horner and Alfred K Smith discuss the Issues In the 1928 Presidential campaign But It Is doubtful If the contest this year for all the millions who will hear Its various Issues debated will excite the Intense Interest and hare the results In our history that a senatorial campaign in Illinois did just 70 years ago this summer For It was during that campaign that there took place the now famous gerles of “Lincoln Pmlglas Debates” held In seven Illinois Cities In August September and October ISIS one of the most picand Impoitant Incidents In turesque all AmerMan political history The opponents for the oflke of United States senator from Illinois were Stephen A Douglas and Abraham Lint oln Douglas was the Demosi eking crat e Inuimhent re election At the age of forlv five he was a national tiguie having served three terms in the house of representatives and 12 years in the senate Only five feet two Inches tall he was known as the “I Ittle tiiant” a m m of great personal chirm with his clarion voice of tossing bis iv his dominating mare of curlv black hair his Nupo leonlc frown and his gift of oratorv fiom the si hool of Daniel Inherited Webster and llinry (lay He line! been a poor bov on a New England farm his way up by bis own working of effort to a position domitable wealth and great Influence lie was the author of the Kans is Nt brnsku bill vvlibh had reopi nod the old slavHfter It hud apparently ery dispute hv the Compromises n si tiled of is'n and 1S30 and this measure which bail an appeal to both northern and soul ei n femec rals he fondly hoped woiill make him the Democnts next cnridkhite for the Presidency Abraham Ills Republican opponent Lincoln apparently lacked everv thing which Douglas had to make him a popular and appealing public figure At the age if forty nlne'lie was'Ni tall giiint awkward appearing country who hud been a popular Iawver enough political speaker to have served In the Illinois legislature and one term In congress Hut he was virtually unknown outside the borders of his own state and even two years later a New York pajer was referring to him as “a third rate western lawyer who cannot speak good grammar” Against the advice of Seward and Greeley the sages In the Republican party the Illinois him for had nominated Republicans senator against Douglas When lie accepted the nomination In somehe threw a speech at Springfield thing of a ‘bombshell Into his own political camp when against the advice of his conservative friends he declared ‘“A house divided against Itself cannot stand’ I believe thla govern’ment cannot e n’dii re' porfti an entl jr tiatf alave I do not exjeect the and half free Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall tyot I do expect It 1 g— B”” ? I 4 rrrHs South” come all one thing or all the other Either the opponents of slavery will the furrtier spread of It and ar As the campaign progressed Lincoln whose supbegan to trail Douglas porters with their bands and torchlight processions In the leading cities of the state were making a powerful Inciupon the electorate Impression dents Douglas had another powerful a young wife ally In his beautiful of Dolly Madison whose grandniece “mere presence gained votes for her husband” Sometimes at the end of a meeting Lincoln would rise Douglas and announie when and where he make his reply would Sometimes the Lincoln meeting would of dodgers be banded out to the Douglas crow d as it dispersed Finally Lincoln decided to challenge Douglas to a joint d( bate and on July 21 ISIS he wrote n note from Chicago to Douglas suggesting that they divide the time and address the same audiences during the campaign Douglas Hiit to debate with Ilncoln did not for from the snceidies Lincoln had already made In reply to his he realized the strength of “Honest Abe's” logic Hut to refuse might lose the election so he agreed Nor did Lincoln's friends view the Idea with any particular enthusiasm True Lincoln had met and skillfully refuted all of Douglas' arguments but they were fearful that In a Joint debate In which the voters would have a chance to see the two ftiou aide by side their candidate would show to but poor advantage when compared to the brilliant Douglas However the arrangements were made according to Douglas’ terms for seven debates one in each of the seven districts congressional Douglas was to speak one hour at the first Lincoln to reply for an hour end a half and to close vAth a half hour Douglas rebuttal At the second Lincoln was to have the opening and closing and so on alternately speeches and this arrangement although gave Douglas the advantage of four openings and closing to Lincoln’s three Lincoln agreed to the terms for as he said humorously "My consenting to It selfish for I suspected If It were understood that the Judge was entirety done you Democrats would leave and not hear me Singers and Their Tonsils state that they have never hing hut fivqrib'e results et Uenmvul of the tonsils rarely aTects voice If the ojeritlon Is the smglr rnBeon performed by an experienced In rtvany Cass says llyptiu Magazine Tf frequent tiuprovem nt lias resulted tonsils the a'ticks of tonsillitis ouur should be removed even In' a profesIn diseases Specialists sional singer of tie nose and fhroat who hdve bid and huve removed a luige experience tuisls froP many profession il si igfrs jure AT?AtfjEzzz$ (rnmid It where the public blind shall rest In the belief that It Is the course or its advoextinction of ultimate cates will push It forward till it shall become lawful alike In all the states old as well as new North as well as place Named According of Con Ida the'fio ind d had to the geographic l'sugliirtungj(e jmd'pollfe post Injhf t bhiUliJiL pp on In the shows the arrival at Florence queer contraption seen In the New York to Vancouver by Motor Boat by fident facts! before the debates wire over apparent to allwfiio heard them that for once Douglas had met Ills mahh Through all the windings and turnings of the debates there shone forth the fundamental fact that Douglas was the disciple of expediency and of “trimming” and that Lincoln was the exponent of protest against wrong and the proponent of the right At the second debate the one at Ureeport Douglas sealed his political fate Lin- Italy of three young men who are making a picture They had already traveled more than "W)'- tour of Europe by miles 13000 TALL TRUCK LADDER wws eiy“frTTr2' 333j 'ib'MiSS 4 la t--— u I iti-- :- -n n IK'-'- an n! ?! j ) i ! "r£?m’s I " —— JfijJ1 if t ? - Trfv with y Long It was forced Douglas to quibble on the of the Dread Scott deoklon and him a labeled the South whom It could not trust though Douglas eventually won to the senate he had killed In 1800 his chances for the Presidency Lincoln had lost the lesser prize In one two 1808 but he won the greater One of the things which years’ later him dj It was his pirt In the helped historic Lincoln Douglas di 1ml s which led some to prophesy even then that they had “sounded the dnith knell of s’avery and paved the wav for the utiaxITDoalmiQthc Presidency of the United States" coln effect V V U ’ — x Ww - 41: t ImTlir and Sydney boit Miss Vancouver carrying James McArthur New York on Its way to Vanfrom the Buttery ns it started McQuillun f the Itoyal Hamilton Tadit couver II C The young men who are members will follow the Atlantic nulc s an ?atv hour to tw They club expect overage canal and up coast cross the Caribbean jswi flume through the ranuma the Pacific const The motor Where Smith-- Wi Hear truck lndder la The tallest America being tested In Milwaukee The ladder which ‘was made In Germany rises to a height of 100 feet la about thirty seconds Are NEW PRIMATE of Nomination I ivj f i PF V Arabic Salutationn ““Salem Dr George Duncan savs ileikura’ means Peine be unto you word ‘peace' has a viry compremeaning and signifies all kinds mental of blessings and material siiriiuaU ' inis a 'rojttctn greet M among — Arable speaking -- people Another expression ‘May your day be white1 ‘Jom otbjud alelkum’ — literally The ‘May a white day be to you’ term White day’— sunshiny day— a day full of good cheer with all mattery This board nt L'atfin rnf Arctic- of EkImo oigln and means “where buck deer are plentiful" The was at Pangnlitung police annual Cana cfurlng the d'an guvirri rt eiptdltion to the northern Islands t't photograph land but anyt- by Eskimo fjucoin’j giving him the close I felt con you would stay for the fun of hearing him skin me" The debates were held as follows: Ottawa LaSalle county August 21 1838 Freeport Stephenson county August 27 Jonesboro Union couhty September 15 Charleston Colea counKnox 18 ty September Galesburg Adams county October 7 Quincy county October 13 ana Alton Madison county October 15 As the debates progressed It soon became apparent how groundless were the fears of Lincoln’s friends that ha could not hold his ovrti with the “Little Giant” The humor whkh had made “Honest Abe’’ such a favorite when ha was riding the circuit was used time and again with telling effect against Ills opponent after On one occasion Douglas had thrilled and swayed his and sat audience with his oratory of down amid a storm applause Lincoln rose and drawing himself to his fill height slowly took off his coat a gesture which In the plone r meant business Handing It to some of hla friends he said "Here Hold my raiment while I go In boys! and stone Stephen!” Amid a gale of laughter from those people who knew their Bible he did “stone Stephen”— Thla sea and r"r hensive ” Gov that in rk state - it the Nw r e the th will Jhp formally notihed Alfred B he I flip In nhnflil nominee of the Democratic (n lluny evening party shown jabove of AugtJ tZ Most Rev Cosmo Gordon lung archbishop of York wlioTus ben made arcliblshop of Canterbury and primate of the Church of England to succeed Archbishop Duvldsoj who re signed U t J |