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Show 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 W. N. V'lley of The Dalles, Wash., hale and hearty at ninety. There were no private pri-vate trains for Presidential candidates then. The two rivals were compelled to move from town to town seated In a covered farm wagon, behind a team Ot 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 mad. Placing the newly found friend between tliein, 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. |