The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 August 1911 — Page 6

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“Prince” John Van Buren’s Famous Herkimer Address That Resulted . in the Election of Zacharay Tayior as President. In XB4S General Lewis Caso was the regular Democratic nominee for the presidency Zacharay Taylor was the non -<n<v of the W higs. The FreeSeil Democracy. composed of that element in the Democratic party which was opposed to the extension of .slavery ii; the territories, had made ar informal organization in 1847. The hope was that the Free Soil movement would be so nourished that its growth would Justify an organization which would nominate a Free Soil Democrat as candidate for president The expectation was that if this could be done exPresident Martin Van Buren would be the candidate. The first important and formal step taken by Free Soilers in New York state to perfect an organization was the calling of a great mass meeting to be held in the village of Herkimer, a few miles east of Utica. The announcement was made that “Prince” John Van puren, Martin Van Buren’s son, one of the most brilliant of campaign orators, had consented to make the chief speech at this meeting, called specifically for the purpose of organizing a bolting movement against the regular Democratic nomination made at the state convention of that summer. “I remember very well the excitement which was caused by the announcement that ‘Prince’ John Van was to speak at a great bolting mass meeting at Herkimer,” said Dr. E. Prentiss Bailey, editor of the Utica Observer, with which he has been In continuous: service for over sixty years. “Prince John was the idol of the younger Democracy at that time, and he was certain always to obtain a large audience wherever be appeared to make a political speech. But it was well know-, that at this Herkimer meeting Prince John would sound the: bugle call to which Free Soil Democrats, it was expected, would instantly Respond, and in such numbers that it would be practicable to nominate Martin Van Buren for president a few months later. Os course it was known that if Martin Van Buren were nominated he would probably

Helped Save Mt. Vernon

How* Edward Everett Gave Receipts From Writing and Lecturing to Fund for Securing Washington’s Home and Tomb. Either by the aid of congress, or through"private subscriptions, the estate of Mount Vernon upon the Potomac, upon which stand the home and tomb of Washington and his wife, will soon be improved and the whole estate redeemed from the evidences of demoralization which of late years have characterized it. The attempt to restore Mount Vernon and to perfect it, according to the plans of the Mount Vernon association, will bring to the minds of many persons now well along in years the manner in which Mount Vernon, 53 years ago, was secured in perpetuity by the Ladies’ Mount Vernon association, organized in the midfifties with intent to secure, preserve and hold in trust, as a? place of national interest, the home and tomb of Washington. The latej Robert Bonner, at one time the proprietor of what was the most successful periodical published in the United States, was once asked if it were true that the largest amount he ever paid for a single contribution was the $5,000 which he gave Charles Dickens for a short story. “I paid Edward Everett SIO,OOO for a weekly article which was to run one year; that was at the rate of a little under S2OO an article,” said Mr. Bonner. '“Mr. Everett was to write upon whatever topic he chose, and 1 didn’t limit him as to the number of words. The articles averaged a little under a column. “When it was announced that Edward Everett, one of the most brilliant orators of his time, who had been governor of Massachusetts, minister to England, secretary of state for Fillmore, United States senator and president of Harvard, was to write a series of a&tlcle for the Ledger, a good deal of surprise was expressed, but it speedily became known that Mr. Everett had promised to turn over the entire SIO,OOO to the association which had been organized to preserve the estate of Mount Vernon for the American people. Then the interest in his literary work was greatly increased, and this announcement did as miich as any one thing to secure for the Mount Vernon association the money needed to buy that estate. "It shquld be a source of some gratification to American writers,” Mr. Bonner Continued, “that Washington’s home and tomb have been preserved

receive votes enough to prevent the election of Lewis Cass and secure the election of Zacharay Taylor. “The young fellows in our printing office were told that it they would hurry up with their work they would be permitted to go to Herkimer and see and hear Prince John, and that tickets would be given to them for that purpose. “Several hundred of the citizens of Utica went to Herkimer. Democrats from all the surrounding districts poured into the town. There were so many of them, in fact, that is was found necessary to abandon the hall which had been hired for the address and permission 'was obtained to use the great railroad freight house for the meeting. That enormous building was speedily filled within a few moments after the doors were opened. Prince John Van Buren was escorted into the building, and he asked that they find some quiet place for him, if they could, vzbile the meeting was being organized. “The best they could do was to show him into a remote corner. He sat down upon a bench, and, having taken the manuscript of his speech from

When Lincoln Met Hamlin

Martyred President’s First Running Mate Was Not Acquainted With Him Until After They Had Been Nominated. Hannibal Hamlin, fo*r times United States senator from Maine, once governor of that state, and vice-president during Lincoln’s first administration, told me in the winter of 1891 the story of his first personal meeting with Abraham Lincoln; and the words he used then to describe that meeting were practically the last I heard him speak. I never saw him again, his death occurring a few months later when he was in his eighty-third year. I had asked Mr. Hamlin if he had ever seen Mr. Lincoln prior to 1861. ‘Yes,” was the answer, “Mr. Lincoln and I were in congress at the same time. When he was serving- his only term in the house, I finished my clos-

chiefly through th© contributions mad© by literary men and women between 1855 and 1860. Almost every author of note contributed something. Mr. Everett himself delivered a lecture on Washington at least 100 times and turned the entire receipts over to the Mount Vernon association. My recollection is that the receipts amounted to about $50,000. If they did, then he contributed, by his pen and his lecture, $60,000 to the Mount Vernon fund. “Mr. Everett, I know, was very proud of his success as' an orator and writer in aid of the Mount Vernon fund. I do not know whether there is any visible memorial to Mr. Everett, and to the others who assisted in raising the needed money, but it has always seemed to me that it would be appropriate in some visible way to make acknowledgment of this service.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. X Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Italy’s Capital. Extensive plans for building improvement and beautification in Rome are being developed in connection with the proposed reorganization of finances in the Italian capital. Rome has for years staggered under the heavy debt —as money goes in Italy—of thirty million dollars for a community of 600,000 people. The government has now consented to come to the rescue of the' embarrassed municipality, and a bill defining the terms of the agreement between state and municipality is being discussed. The government is not to interfere directly in the management of municipal affairs and will content itself with a partial financial censorship. The city cedes to tho state a number of sites for public buildings, and the government proposes to erect at least four department buildings, a court of accounts, an institute of artistic Industry, and additions to existing museums and picture galleries. The city, in turn, obligates Itself to spend the sum of $25,000,000 on elementary and secondary schools, markets and sanitation. On His Own Account. Johnny's father is a lawyer, but Johnny means to be either a prize fighter or an engineer. Said the shocked visitor who believes that children should not possess personal opinions: “Fie fie, sonny! Don’t you want to follow in your father’s footsteps?" “No," was the lad’s unabashed answer, “I’d rather make tracks of my own."

his pocket, began to read rapidly and ir an under tone some extracts from it to his friends. Prince John had a remarkable power of sarcasm and vituperation. In his speech he had focussed that power upon the so-called ‘Albany regency,’ which was the central body of the regular Democratic organization. “Having read one of the paragraphs which was saturated with sarcastic humor, Prince John was asked by his friends to result over again. He was willing to do that, being pleased that the paragraph should have so strongly appealed to his friends. “When he finished one of the little audience said to him: ‘Mr. Van Buren, that paragraph ought to be in italics.’ l “ ‘By heaven, sir, the whole speech is in italics, and is intended to be,’ Van Buren replied. ‘lt will make or break the Free Soil Democracy.’ “The speech served to stimulate into intense enthusiasm the Free Soil Democracy of New York. It made th© Buffalo convention, which nominated Martin Van Buren for president and Charles Francis Adams for vice-presi-dent, possible. It served to create the national Free Soil Democracy, and it was the vote of this party which defeated Cass for president.” (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

ing term in that body and got acquainted with my duties as senator. But though for many days we both worked in the capltol, and for some time sat in the legislative hall, Mr. Lincoln and I never had a personal meeting. Ido not recall when I first had my attention called to Mr. Lincoln as a member of congress, but I know I was greatly impressed by a speech which he made —I think it was in 1848—in which he declared himself earnestly in favor of the exclusion of slavery from the territories. His views on that momentous subject were the same as mine; and my views I expressed in one or two speeches made at about the same time as the Lincoln speech I speak of. However, though we stood on the same ground through some freak of fortune we did not meet. Yet, after Mr. Lincoln was nominated for president and-1 for vicepresident, we both had a peculiar sense of personal acquaintance, the explanation of which was made mutually on the occasion of my visit to Mr. Lincoln at Springfield. 111. “Many of the leading Republicans of that time had never, met Mr. Lincoln, and for /that reason he was called upon almost every day by Republicans who had come from all parts of the United States north of Mason and Dixon’s line. As soon as the presidential ticket was nominated, I determined that, at the first convenient moment I would go tp Springfield and call upon Mr. Lincoln, although I was sure I knew something of the ability and character of the man which had led the Republican convention to nominate his for president My visit to him was to be more one of courtesy than for the sake of getting a personal impression of him. I had in my mind no doubt of the wisdom of the Republican party in nominating Mr. Lincoln. I did not agree with those who feared that because of his inexperience in public life, Mr. Lincoln would be in danger of failure as president I was impatient when I heard anyone say that Mr. Lincoln would bring prairie manners into the White House. “Five minutes after I had met Mr. Lincoln, it seemed to me that we had been acquainted for years. He was perfectly natural, unassuming, unpretentious. As we chatted, I saw that he was measuring my height with his eye, and I thought that he was gratified to discover that, although I was tall, he was a little taller. He always seemed a little proud of his great stature throughout the years that I knew him. “Pretty soon Mr. Lincoln left off talking about general matters, and asked me if we had ever met before. I" replied that I had no recollection of our having met previously; that if we had I was sure I should recall the circumstances. ’But, Mr. Lincoln,’ I added, ‘though this is our first meeting, I nevertheless feel well acquainted with you, for it has been one of my most vivid recollections of public men that you, when a member of congress, made the ablest speech I can remember in defense of free soil? “ *Why,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ’that is a curious circumstance, for while I do not remember ever having met you personally, I have had constantly in remembrance the speech you made in the senate as a Free Soil Democrat, and I said at the time: ‘Senator Hamlin’s views upon that subject and mine are practically alike.’ ” “That, sir, was a feature of my first personal meeting with Abraham Lincoln,” continued Mr. Hamlin, “and then began a political and personal association and friendship which was maintained and constantly strengthened until the day of the death of that great man.” (Copyright, 1911, by H. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved) . k j

WORLD’S BIGGEST OIL WELL Great Mexican Gusher Is Still Thowing Out 125,000 Barrels of Oil Each Day. Mexico City, Mex.—With the gate valve holding in at least 300 pounds pressure the great oil well in the Potrero del Llano field in Mexico is still doing'regularly more than 125,000 barbels of oil per day. It is one of the wonders of the world. It is by far the biggest producing oil well ever drilled and is so admitted to be by all oil men who have witnessed its performances. The output of oil during the first 92 days the flow was struck was more than 12,000,000 barrels. This is a II J® Ww World's Greatest Gusher. conservative estimate. In view of the fact that several million barrels flowed into the Buena Vista river and thence to the Tuxpam river and out to sea, going to waste in this manner, an accurate estimate of the total output cannot be given. But that this big estimate is not far wrong is shown by the fact that approximately 8,000,000 barrels of oil from this well have been saved and are now in storage. One earthen reservoir covers more than 45 acres of ground and is more than 30 feet deep in the central portion. It now contains 5,000,000 barrels of oil. Other smaller reservoirs are full of the product and an army of men are kept constantly at work constructing additional storage places for the unremitting flow. The market value of the crude oil at the well is $1 Mexican money or 50 cents gold per barrel. The value of the daily output is therefore more than $60,000 gold or nearly $2,000,000 per month. Even at the present rate of flow it is found impossible to save all of the oil, and many thousands of dollars worth of it goes to waste each day. BEE STING FOR RHEUMATISM Hoosier Farmhand Sufferer Tries Heroic Treatment and Says It’s Great. Owensville, Ind. —That bee stings have healing and curative qualities is vouched for by James Cross, a farm hand who suffered with rheumatism, in the toes of one foot. He was told' that a bee’s javelin would chase away the rheumatic pains and he tried It. He captured twenty-five bees, put them in a tight paper box, cut an inch slit in one end, through which he poked his toes, and waited patiently for something to happen. When the imprisoned and thoroughly angered bees saw five human toes in front of them something happened very quickly. Stingers dashed at the toes in great haste. Cross made ugly faces and writhed but stayed with the game. At the end of two minutes the bee battery had exhausted its ammunition, but when Cross attempted to pull his toes out of the box he found they had swollen to three times their natural size. The slit in the box was far too small and he was forced to cut the box to pieces before he could release himself. “Did the remedy cure the rheumatism?” he was asked. “Well, I can now do the Isadore Duncan toe dance to a queen’s taste, as oil signs of rheumatis pains in my toes have disappeared,” he replied. Law O. K.’s Press Camera. Newport, R. I. —A newspaper photographer has a right to take a picture of anyone in a public street, according to a decision by Judge Stearns in the Superior court. The judge instructed a jury to return a verdict of S4OO in favor of a Boston newspaper photographer who had alleged assault and personal injury against Harry P. Walker while the photographer was taking pictures of a Newport society wedding. Fowl Fatten on Locusts. Hazleton, Pa. —Farmers of the surrounding valleys have learned that the 17-year locusts are not such a pest as they feared they would be. The locusts are good food for the chickens, which devour them with avidity, and seem to be getting fat on their new rations.

BLACKMAILING MUST BE ART Amateur Makes Mistake When He Seeks to Make Money in Such an Avocation. Police Commissioner Waldo of New York was talking about blackmailers. “They are, as a rule, stupid,” he paid. “Their threatening letters are as ludicrous in their stupidity as a letter a friend of mine received the other day.” And Commissioner Waldo, with a laugh, produced the letter. Written in a large, boyish hand, it said: “Deer sir—Your winder was broken by a. bad bo! wat throo it throo four thee pirpus. The ball beelonged two mee, but an eneme of mine sneaked it and did the deed to put the blaame on mee. I am sorry he did it, and that it have give you grate pain, and I have persecuted the perpfeetrater wot done it. But you would not have thee Innocent suffer fer the gilty, so, if you drop thee ball over the garden wall. If you don’t beware!—(Signed) Innocent.” BRIGHT’S DISEASE. How a Severe Case Was Cured After Dostors Gave Up Hope. J. C. Reimers, Litchfield St., St Paul, Minn., says: “I was so bad 1 could not arise from bed. Urine was dark and scant, I was thin and emaci-

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