Milford News | 1929-04-05 | Page 7 | Old-Time Campaigning

Old-Time Campaigning The man who drove Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln and Stephen A. Douglas around Illinois in 1SG0 for . their famous series of debates is still alive. He is V. N. Wiley of The Dalles. Wash.,, hale and hearty at ninety. There were no private pri-vate trains for Preshlential candidates - then. The two rivals were compelled to move from town to town seated In a covered farm wagon, behind a team of sturdy horses driven by Wiley. It was the custom of both candidates, Wiley recalls, to offer lifts to foot-weary foot-weary travelers whom they passed on the road. Placing the newly found friend between them, they tried to draw him out on the political situation, situa-tion, without revealing their identity, attempting to get an insight into unadulterated un-adulterated public opinion.