Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1911 — Page 3

New News Of Yesterday

Famous Quarrel Explained s' '————— <v. .

Hitherto Unpublished Version ofc- the Real Cause of Thomas C. Platt's Resignation From the Benato Given by E. J. Edwards.

In a recent number of a popular magazine the late Thomas C. Platt tells, In his autobiography, his version of the situation that led him and Roscoe Conkling to resign from the United States senate a few weeks after President Garfield had sent to that body the nomination of Judge William H. Robertson as collector of the port of New York. In one place the senator Bays that when he learned that the man who had been Instrumental In defeating the Grant movement for a third-term nomination had been favored of the president without the (knowledge and approval of the New York senators, who had fought for Grant’s nomination, He, Platt, walked over to Conkling and exclaimed: shall send my resignation to Governor Cornell tonight.” Then the two went Into conference, Conkling insisting “that we should wait and fight it out In the committee to which the Robertson nomination had been referred." But, “I finally Induced Cockling, on May 14, to Join me In offering our joint resignations.” Why did Senator Platt not desire-to “fight it out in the committee” to which this nomination, which was so distasteful to him, had been referri ■ Because “we have been so humiliil as United States senators from tflW great state of New York,” is the reason he gives. That may hav.t been the reason in part, perhaps, but as the belief is quite general in old-time national political circles thlx Senator Platt did not reveal all he knew- about the Robertson Incident in his autQblography, I am telling today a hitherto unpublished version of the real reason of Platt’s resignation, and I tell it on the authority of the late Col. John R. Van Wormer.. “The' real, and not the ostensible reason of Mr. Platt’s resignation from the United States senate dates- back to the closing days of 1880 and the first days of 1881 when, prior to the Republican legislative caucus at Albany, the party leaders were busily engaged In trying to determine upon the man to succeed Francis Kernan, a Democrat, in the United States senate,” said Colonel Van Wormer. “That legislature was Republican by a safe majority, and, therefore, Mr. Kernan oould not be re-elected. “Now, there was a strong element of the party in favor of the election of Richard Crowley, who had represented one of the New York districts in congress for a number of years. ‘Dick’ was a very popular man. He was a very strong Stalwart, the name of the party faction headed by Conkling. “But there was a wing of the party, under the leadership of Chauncey De-

Appeal That Got $50,000,000

How the Bankers of the East Responded instantly to Secretary Salmon P. Chase’s Call for Financial Aid.

The late George S. Coe of New York and New Jersey was one of the great bankers of United States at the time of the civil war and for twenty years thereafter. During the first two years of the war he was more intimately associated with the Lincoln administration on the financial side than any other of the country’s prominent bankers of that period. Of course, he thus came into close and Intimate contact with Salmon P. Chase, who has gone down in history as one of the .country's great secretaries of the treasury.

“For a number of years before he became a member of Lincoln’s cabinet I had conceived a high admiration for Mr. Chase," said Mr. Coe to me when old-time finance was under discussion, “but not until some months after the outbreak of the civil war was I privllegfd to meet him, and that meeting resulted In one of the most dramatic incidents In connection with big finance of which I have personal knowledge. “You may remember that when President Lincoln’s administration began the government was almost in a bankrupt condition. Jts credit was very low, and there was practically no gold in the treasury. Yet, Jf the north were to have an army adequate to cope with the resources and determination of the confederacy it was absolutely necessary for the government to have money to pay that army, to purchase supplies and equipment for It “At the height of the uncertainty over the government’s financial condition, following the outbreak of war, the bankers of the east—New York. Philadelphia and Boston—received an intimation that the secretary of the treasury was anxious to dUeet them in confidence, for he had a message of great Importance to communicate to them, aw was at once made for Secretary Chase to meet ns In the directors’ room of the bank of which I was then president

pew, which, while not exactly opposed to Senator Conkling, was disposed to be friendly to Judge William H. Robertson, who bad taken such a leading part in blocking Conkl!ng*s plans for a third-term nomination for Grant. This Depew-led. wing was rather favorably disposed towards the nomination of Tom Platt for senator. “But when we who were backing Cro.wley heard that Levi P. Morton, who, it was thought at that time, would of the treasury under Garfield, looked with favor upon Platt’s candidacy, we at last had a meeting with Platt At that meeting we told him that if he would pledge himself not to make any war upon Judge RObertson for upsetting the Stalwarts* plan to nominate Grant — if he would not encourage any further factional disturbances in the party—we would throw the Crowley support to him, and thus assure him of the senatorial nomination and election“lt would be impossible to conceive of any more earnest assurances than Mr. Platt then gave us. He declared he was sick and tired of factional disturbance and wanted to bring about a general reconciliation, and with that pledge made to us Mr. Platt was able to-secure a sufficient number of votes

Confession of John J. Ingalls

How the Brilliant Kansan Told E. J. Edwards That He Could Project Himself into the Future and Determine Coming Events.

In midsummer of 1883 I was on my way to the NewwMexican ranch of Stephen W. * Dorsay, former United States senator from Arkansas, and during the national campaign of 1880 prominently before the country as secretary of the Republican national committee,.... It was a visit that resulted in Senator Dorsay exposing the manner in which he had collected and used 8200,000 in new two-dollar bills for the purpose of making the state of Indiana return a majority for the Republican candidates. v Sometime during the night the train on which I traveled between St Louis and Kansas City was held up for several hours by a freight wreck dead ahead. The confusion Incident to the clearing of the track caused all the passengers in the sleeping car to be astir early in the morning. That is all except one, at the rear end of the car, and not until nearly ten o’clock was there a head thrust between the curtains of the lower berth, revealing the late riser as none other than Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas. “Senator, you are a late sleeper," I said a little later in the smoking compartment, “and, apparently, a very

“There, prompt almost to the second, Mr. Chase appeared on the day and hour set and we were introduced one after the other to him; The gracious dignity of the man, a certain majesty of manner—l do not know how better to express ft—the great intellectuality revealed in his face, the noble poise of his head, his entire personality, greatly impressed me, and I am certain that every other banker in that room was equally impressed. “Soon after the introductions were over and a few casual remarks had been made. Secretary Chase began to deliver his message. He spoke quietly, in.a low tone of voice, but every word was distinctly uttered; his was one of the most attractive voices I have ever heard in private conversation, and then it was that I understood what his great charm as a pub* lie speaker was. And this was the message he brought to us, substantially in these very words: “ ‘Gentlemen, the government of the United States is in need of gold. It is in greater need of gold than of an army. This is so because it will not be difficult to raise whatever size army we may find necessary to save the Union. Enlistments will proceed, are proceeding, all over the north. But what are we to do with an army unless we can feed It, clothe it, provide it with equipment and ammunition?

'“Now, gentlemen. I am no financier. It is my duty, under the law, to administer the finances of the country, but it is no part of my duty, nor is it within my power, to raise money until congress gives me that power. You are men of finance. It is your business to know bow to raise money. I appeal to you, having nothing to offer except the credit of the government, and the preservation of the Union for fifty millions In gold. You know how to secure that gold. I shall know how to make wise and efficient use of It. This, gentlemen. Is the message I had to deliver to you.’ ’’ i. Mr. Coe leaned forward In his chair. "Hb got the gold on the Instant," he said, emphatically. <Copyri*ftt, J9M. by B. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) *

by E. J. Edwards

to place him in the United States senate. v ■ ;C. “A few weeks after Mr. Platt had taken his seat, President Garfield, unknown to the senator, sent to the senate the nomination of Judge Robertson as collector of the port of New York. The very same Robertson who had led the bolt of the New York state delegation at the Chicago convention which defeated the nomination of General Grant, had been named for the most Important political federal office in the Empire state! “Tom Platt was in a fix. I have heard that the night following the announcement of- the nomination he did not sleep a wink. x He had more to be worried about than Senator Conkling, even, for there was that pledge to us old Crowley men. It was that that bothered Tom Platt most, and it was that that finally forced him to reach his unalterable determination to resign, ‘I can’t vote to confirm Robertson’s appointment,’ was his conclusion. ‘But, on the other hand, I am under pledge to those who made my election as senator possible not to oppose that appointment with my vote. I am between two fires. There is nothing left for me to do but to resign from the senate.’ ‘That,” emphasised Col. Van Wormer, “is the real reason of Platt’s resignation from the senate.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edward*. AU Rights Reserved.)

sound one. All the rest of us in the car were up early owing to the freight wreck that has made us so late.” The brilliant Kansan smiled. “My-method of spending the night In a sleeping car differs from that of most persons," he said. “I usually go to bed an hour or so before midnight. Then, while I sink Immediately into a physical lethargy that is- luxurious, my mind becomes very active. This mental activity seems to bring to the surface, so to speak, the sub-con-scious quality that is in every human being, and it continues until about two o’clock, when I sink ' Into a profound slumber that will last for eight hours if the train schedule permits. “Now, when my mind thus becomes active—and it does so only in a sleeping car—l find that I am studying the psychological side of my nature. You may have heard it said that I am an atheist, or an agnostic, but both accusations are absolutely untrue. 1 am a profound believer in a first, allpowerful and ever-controlling Cause, and am persuaded that it is a conscious Cause. is much that we do not know, and we cannot know, since the mind is mortal, and. therefore, reasoning is confined within mortal limitations. Yet, as my mind iq active as I lie in my berth, I find myself absolutely convinced, and not by any process of reasoning, that the vital, conscious element in my nature existed before my birth, and must exist after my death. I —that is to say, that part of me which I recognize, my consciousness—has existed from the beginning and will exist forever.”

For a few moments Mr. Ingalls sat looking thoughtfully out of the window. “And as I have pondered upon this,” he continued, “I have found it possible to project myself into the future; I know, for instance, at what time my service in the United States senate will end, although I do not know why It will end. To know that would involve considerations entirely apart from my projected consciousness. And I also know, or am convinced that I know, the time of my death, although I do not know the place or cause. If is a consciousness that has given me great peace of mind. It has absolutely relieved me from all sense of personal danger. Ah, the soul, as distinguished from the intellect, is the marvelous'part of our nature! It has never been explained and never will be; it is not a part of our mortality.” Seventeen years later, with perfect serenity, John James Ingalls approached his end. And I have often wondered since then whether his great peace of mind as be faced the grim reaper of us all would justify the impression that be had predicted aedhrately the time of his death. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

Some Big Fires.

Among the fires which have entailed a loss of $10,000,000 and upward in less than two and a half centuries past may Tie mentioned: London, 1666, $33,660,600; Smyrna, Turkey, 1773, $20,000,000; Constantinople and suburbs from 1729 to 1870 a dozen fires ranging from $10,000,000 to $26,000,000 each; New York. 1836, $17,600,000; Hamburg. 1842, $36,000,000; Charleston, 8. C.. 1861, $10,000,600; Portland. Me.. 1866, $10,000,000; Chicago, 1871. $166,000,000; London. 1874, $70,000,000; St. Hyacienthe, Quebec. 1878, $16,000,000; St. John. N. B, 1877, $16,000,000; Kingston. Jamaica, 1882,$10,000,000; 8t John’s, N. F.-1892, $26,000,000; Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1896, $22,000,000; Ottawa. Ont., 1900, $lO.000,000; Baltimore. 1904, $60,000,000; Toronto, ISWtt. $12,000,000. and last bat by no means least Ban Francisoo* 1906, $860,000,000 or more.

EVER ON THE MOVE

MODERN QREEKB HAVE P/VSSION FOR WANDERING?

Case Is Boclal Center of Town—Little Comfort in the Homes—Sisters Must Marry Before Their Brothers Do.

To the Greeks, if we are to believe Ducke Ferriman, the art of making a home is not known, which does not necessarily mean that the men of Hei* las lack the notion of “home” or dislike it. They understand home life otherwise than we do, that is all. “One may meet with exquisite cleanliness,” Mr. Ferriman states, “with beautifully embroidered bed linen scented with rosemary, but never with what*we mean by cozinesß. The Greeks are far less in their houses than we are, and when they are at home they appear to spend most of their time in looking out of the window. They are not given to Inviting, their friends to their houses. It is not -that they are niggardly, for they will gladly entertain you at a restaurant at far greater cost to themselves. But it does not enter into their ideas to ask you home to dinner, .even after an acquaintance of many years. “They do not ask each other, so it can hardly be expected that they should make an exception in the case of foreigners. The case is a second home to them. Thete they meet friends and gossip. That is one reason, perhaps, why they dislike country life. “It offers no alternative to the home, there the hearth is the social center, while in town it is the case. In Athens those who do not own the house they dwell in seldom remain long in the same abode. Two or three years is quite a long tenure. Many people make a point of moving every year. “The imposing facades of Athenian houses conceal for the most part a bare and comfortless interior, and a well kept garden is rare. ... A garden is not made in a year, and a person who changes his residence every twelve months does not want to be troubled with much furniture nor is he particular as to its arrangement, seeing that it will be carted away in a few months. "Home life has no resources for the Greeks as it has for us. It affords them little occupation and no amusement. They like to eat and drink in crowds, where there is noise and movement. . . . Their instincts are too gregarious to allow them to appreciate the domestic intimacy which we prize. “The day chosen for marriage in Greece is usually Sunday, but the day of all days in the year is the Sunday preceding the Christmas fast. It is not fashionable now to be marFfbd in church. In Athens the ceremony takes place in the house of the bride’s parents. A temporary altar is Bet up in the middle of the room.

“At the conclusion of the ceremony the priest and the couple Join hands and walk three times around the altar, the guests pelting them with comfits. The most Important part of the ceremony is the crowning of the bride and bridegroom with wreaths of orange blossoms. Hence a wedding is popularly called ‘the crowning.’ “Love marriages are fare exceptions. The match is made by the parents and relatives rather than by the parties principally concerned. . .• ... There are certain established usages which though not legally binding are not to be contravened with impunity. "Then it is considered wrong for brothers to marry until their sisters have been wed. Again girls must marry in order of seniority. It would not be right for a girl to be married while she had an elder sister who remained single. The men of a family are thusnaturally anxious to see their sisters settled, and as a dowry is indispensable its provision is often a matter of serous anxiety and the fruit of great self-denial on the part of the brothers if the parents are dead. • “There are cases in wl\Jch brothers have remained unmarried for years and have devoted all their hard earned savings to the dowries of their sisters. Among the poorer classes emigration Is resorted to not infrequently solely, with this object and many a dowry comes to a Oreek maiden from across the Atlantic.” — London Daily Mail.

The Way of a Woman.

They had been quarreling and, although hubby was willing to takp the blame all upon himself and smooth matters over peaceably, she was still snippy and Indifferent. “Come over here, Jessie. Aren't you curious to know what is in this package?” - “Oh, not very; I can stand the strain,” she replied, belligerently. “Well, it’s something for the one I loves best in all the world,?’ he said coaxlngly, trying to win a smile. "Oh, is that so?” she sniffed. "I suppose, then, it’s those suspenders £ou said you “needed.” —Lipplncott's.

Would Improve.

Old Lady—l want you to take back that parrot you sold me. I find it swears very badly. * y* Bird Dealer—Well, madam, it’s a very young bird. It'll learn to swear better when it’s a bit older.—Every Woman’s Magazine.

Where Did She Get It?

First Lady—Did you notice Mrs. ’Awkea ’ad a Mack eye? -- - Second Lady—Did I not! And ’er “Usbhnd not out of prison for another week! I don’t call it respectable!

RELIGION IN MEN’S HATS

Fantastic and Strange Object Which Many Men Worship—Doctrine Is Absolute. The hat that wears la much more characteristic of his religious belief than the hat that a woman wears. I will tell you why. The jroman wears her clothes, not because they conform strictly to a religious dogma or doctrine, but because she thinks she looks pretty in them. Whereas a man wears his clothes because he thinks " they conform to an absolute doctrine of religion. We talk about the natives of the /South Sea islands. We talk about the natives of Alaska with their totems and their idols, the strange figures that they worship, and we look down upon them because they worship the totem. But how much more fantastic and strange object is that which many men worship—the shape of their hats ? and it is even true that a man that wears one form of hat feels ashamed of himself if he has to go out on the street with another form of hat on — he feels different, and the only way he has of arriving at salvation is that strange religion of hats is to commence to get used to the hat; to move in accordance to the hat he wears; in fact, to follow the religion of that hat. Let us say we have a man with a straw hat. Now a man that wears a straw hat has a little lighter tread as he walks along the ground. He has a lighter way of examining things. He is a more fanciful man. Now, if you put a man in a silk hat, you will find a man in a silk hat has a very dignified and solid way of conducting himself under . the apspices of that silk hat. If we had a man with a straw hat and a man with a silk hat and a train, and if the train were drawing out of a station, and those two men attempted to catch It, do yon know which man would catch that train? You do, don’t you? Because you know the religion of that silk hat wouldn’t allow that man to run. It would be ridiculous to run in a silk hat. But a straw hat allows little trivialities and one of those trivialities is running, prdviding that man wishes to, catch a train, because no running other than for a train is allowed by any hat whatever.

Smuggling Extraordinary.

One of the most ingenious tricks was that originated by a band of clever Parisian rogues. A coffin, supposed to contain the dead body of a man wire had died of diphtheria, was dispatched from the gay city for burial in London. It was met at the railway terminus in this country, and conveyed at nightfall tb a house not far from the Mile End road, Whitechapel. Everything would have passed off as desired and planned had not a policeman on duty become suspicious on seeing a particularly large coffin being taken out of a hearse into a bouse that was known to be the habitation of men who had done penal servitude. After the funeral party had shut their door, and the hearse had driven away, the policeman secured assistance and knocked at the door. It was found that the coffin, instead of containing a corpse, was filled tightly with cakes of tobacco, dozens of boxes of cigars and other excisable- goods. The “mourners” were immediately arrested and the goods confiscated.

The Hoop Pole Man.

The Maine hoop pole man makes even better wages that his brother, the gum picker. The hoop pole man follows along the wake of the loggers. He barbers the face of the hillside of stuff that no one else wants. He is after the second growth, as the young birch and ash are called which spring up around the rotting stumps of great trees. The hoop pole man takes a horse with him on his tours. He cuts the poles and the horse hauls them to camp by daylight. Evenings the pole man fashions the hoops with a draw shave, sitting beside a roaring fire and pulling at his black pipe. Sometimes the poles are sold round, but the harvester who trims his own stuff and shA7es the hoops receives two or throe cents each for the- finished product, and that pays.—Belfast Republican Journal.

Japanese Influx to Korea.

According to the Seoul correspondent of a Japanese paper, from six hundred to nine hundred Japanese reacb Seoul dally, of whom about one hundred remain in Seoul. Thus the Japanese in Seoul alone are increasing at the rate of mree thousand mop'.hly. The Japanese are also increasing in other parts of Korea. The annexation likewise appears to haye ene-.r„raged the introduction of capital frofr. Japan proper, though It was previously rather timid.

Ignorance.

At an aviation meet a spectator approached a policeman and inquired excitedly, while he pointed at an far, far up in the air; “Bay, 'this is the altitude prize they’re trying for now, isn’t It?” The policeman looked at him scornfully. v "Altitude, hell!” be replied. “It's the height prize!’*

Slow But Sure.

Knlcker—What would you call poetic Justlee? - Bocksr—lf the boy who puts a bent pin on a chair grows up to get a hatpin in hit eye.

ARROUND THE CAMP FIRE

REPRIEVE ARRIVED TOO LATE

How Triple Execution Planned by Commanders of Army of Potomac Proved Painful Incident. ■ - n .'' Nearly 300 Union soldiers met Ignominious deaths during the war cf 1861-1865. Most of them were shot fnr desertion. Only one of this number, X am glad to say, was from New Jersey, my native state, and he a foreigner, whose home was in Newark. This fellow had deserted from the Thirteenth New Jersey regiment, shortly after the battle of Antietam, the first engagement In which that command participated, and joined the Confederate army. Later on, he forsook the confederates and re-entered our lines, hoping, thereby, as a confederate deserter, to be sent north in liberty. A* fate decreed, he was seen by some cf the Thirteenth, Imprisoned, tried, con- ' vlcted, and sentenced to be shot, as were also two New Yorkers who had been found guilty of the same crime, writes Gen. J. Madison Drake, in tfc® Saturday Globe. At eight o’clock in the morning theTwelfth corps formed, when the courtmartial proceedings and the orders for the execution were read to each regiment by the adjutants. While this part of the ceremony was being enacted, a small column of armed men was , ment by the adjutants. The suspense was awful as tho marchers and wagon drew near with painfully slow and measured tread, to the spot designated for the tragedy. The three prisoners, assisted by th© soldiers, tottered from the vehicle to the ground. The 12 armed soldiers, advancing a. few steps, faced the doomed men. The reading finished, white band- * ages were bound over the eyes of th» prisoners and with arms pinioned behind their backs, they each were made to kneel upon the rudely constructed coffins —placed beside their graves. In a moment the officer in command of the firing party commanded — “Ready,” “aim,” “fire!” mid a quick, sharp volley sounding through a cloud of black smoke, as the report reverberated over the field, like a single shot, the blindfolded, pinioned forms, tottering for a single instant, pitched heavily forward to mother earth. t To make my story complete it wilt be necessary to add the words of General Slocum In his address at. Gettysburg July 1, 1887, at the unveil-

“Ready, Aim, "

lng of the monument to the Thirteenth New Jersey regiment on that field, to which he referred as follows to theexecutlon above described: “ • . • The corps commanders had a little conference and agreed they would take the matter of the wholesale desertions from the Army of the Potomac into their own hands, and put a stop to it. It so happened that I had at that time three of these men in my corps. They were tried and convicted upon incootestlble evidence and when we got to Leesburg, before the battle of Gettysburg, their graves were dug and the men placed at the head of the holes and shot. Before ten o’clock I received a message from Mr. Lincoln saying: ‘lf such a man,’ giving his name, ‘has hot been shot, you will suspend the sentence.’ I sat down and telegraphed the president: ‘The man has been executed, pursuant to his sentence.’ “Just before I departed with my corps from Washington for the western army I went to bid Mr. Lincoln good-by; it waa the last time I ever saw him. As 1 entered the room ho said to me, hardly waiting for me to greet him. ‘General Slocum, the last message that I received from you gave me more pain than anytßlng that has occurred since I took my seat as president.' t was astonished at Uts words and Bald with surprise, ‘Mr. Lincoln, I don't remember; wbat was It?’ Said he, You were up there at Leesburg, and 1 telegraphed you-to suspend the sentence of a man who was condemned to death and the wife and sister of that man sat hers at this table opposite me and I had to open your telegraphic answer and read* it to them. That** said he, ‘caused me morepain than almost anything that has Occurred since I became president of the United States.”*