The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 August 1911 — Page 6

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Echo of Hayes-Tilden Affair

Intimation of Former President of Telegraph Company Was That Messages Existed Proving the Case of the Democrats. The late Dr. Norvin Green, who succeeded William Orton as president of the Western Union Telegraph company in 1878 and whose brilliant management of that great corporation until his death in the early nineties Justified the selection of this quiet Kentucky physician for that post, was one of the most unassuming and modest of men. Moreover he was an entertaining story-teller, relating his anecdotes in a quiet, sometimes whimsical why—for he had a keen sense of humor—and at other times speaking with Hal dramatic force. In a conversation which I had with him one evening in the spring of 1884 he spoke guardedly of one of the great secrets; of the Western Union under Mr. Orton’s management. “You may remember,” said Dr. Green, “that William Orton and his very warm and close personal friend. Senator Roscoe Conkling, were among the few conspicuous Republican leaders in 11876 who were convinced that Samuel J. Tilden had been lawfully elected' president that year. Senator Conkling was so thoroughly convinced of thisj that he would take no part in the tactics adopted by congress by means of which an electoral commission wlas appointed as a sort of umpire or arbitrator to decide the disputed [point as to whether Tilden or Hayes i had received a majority of the electoral votes; and I have always strongjy suspected that Senator Conkling’s (belief that Tilden had received a lawffil majority ,of the electoral vote was based upon information which he obtained from his friend, William Orton. “A short time before Mr. Orton’s death !he and I were speaking of the presidential controversy of 1876. Mr. Orton remarkad that he could not understand why a more thorough investigation intb the election had not been Jnade by those who had charge of the) controversy for Mr. Tilden up to the time of the establishment of the electoral commission in January of 1877. “ ‘Mr. Orton,’ I said, 'you. as a Republican, are sincerely convinced that Mr. Tilden received a legal majority of the electoral vote. Os course I, as a Democrat, have never had any doubt of that* f “ ‘lf Mr. Tilden’s representatives,’ replied Mr. Orton K ‘had properly managed that part of their investigation which brought in the Western Union company. I have not the slightest doubt that the country would have

Cameron Stood By the Scot

Pennsylvania Senator Used His Influence to Gain Admission to House of Kentuckian Elected Just After Close of War. In 1866, the year that James Burnie Beck, who from 1876 until his death in 1890 represented Kentucky in the United States senate, was first elected to the national house of representageneral Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, who had been sent to the senate in 1845 as a Democrat and in 1856 as a Republican, for the third time in his political career became a member of that body. “(Of course Senator Cameron was instantly received into the senate on the day that the new congress was organized,” said Senator Beck to me, “but it was far different with me. I had come to congress a stranger from a border state—and the war was just a year closed, and the passions and demoralizations of the war were not ovbr. There was a great deal of suspicion as to the sincerity or loyalty of members of congress from the border states and the tests of loyalty put upon them by the northern members of congress were severe. I was fully prepared to take the test oath, but my credentials were held up nevertheless, and when congress organized I (was left out in the cold. “A few days later I chanced to meet for the first time in my life General Cameron at the home of a common friend. He looked at me intently for a moment, as though he were trying to read me through and through. Then he asked me if it were true that I had been born in Scotland, as he had heard. “ ‘Yes, senator,’ I replied. ‘I am a native of Dumfriesshire.’ ! “ ‘You know that I, too, am Scotch, riot by birth, but by descent,’ he rtplied. ‘I am as ardent a member of the clan Cameron as any of that clan that ever lived.’ '[ “Then the senator took me by the arm and led me aside. We began to chat about Scotland. I told him that he knew more about Scotland than I did. ! “ ‘We Scotchmen are, after all, of one national clan,’ he responded. ‘We may fight among ourselves, but we stand with a united front against the ■world.’

By E. J. EDWARDS

been speedily persuaded that Tilden was lawfully entitled to the presidency.’ “ ‘But, Mr. Orton,’ I said, ‘in the records of the company examined udder subpoena nothing was found to justify, or legally to justify, the claim that telegrams had been sent by Republican leaders in New York to the returning boards in Louisiana arid Florida practically offering bribes to the members of those boards for the delivery of the majority vote of those states to the Republicans.’ “Mr. Orton looked at me queerly for a moment, and then he said: ‘Ah, the trouble was that they didn't look for evidence in the -ght place; the subpoenas simply called for telegrams sent to the returning boards of Louisiana and Florida. It was not the business of the Western Union to deliver any records excepting those that were called for by the subpoena.’ “Mr. Orton said not another word; he left me in infer that, while no telegrams were sent direct to the returning boards offering bribes, still such telegrams were sent, but to persons who would convey the messages to the parties most interested by word of mouth. However that may be, there are now no records? in the telegraph office, so far as I know,

True Premonition of Death

Col. Alford B. Chapman Felt He Would Be Killed on First Day of the Battle of the Wilderness, and He Was. The bravest soldiers sometimes acknowledge that they are possesed by superstition or that there come to them premonitionFof what their fate is to be in battle. Although General Hancock was not a believer in these mysterious warnings, there was one incident in which he had a share that caused him at times to wonder whether there might not after all be a whispering voice unheard by any but those to whom the message was addressed, telling what their fate in battle was to be. This incident was associated with the death of Col. Alford B. Chapman, who, during the Civil war, was in command of the Fifty-second New York regiment, which took part in all the campaigns Grant made from the Rapidan to the Appommatox in 1864 and 1865. Colonel Chapman was not a superstitious man. He was a born soldier, taking with perfect coolness all the chances of war, seeking only to do his duty. For example, his regiment <

“I saw that the senator was still studying me, taking my measure, while at the same time our common Scotch blood had kindled a recent acquaintanceship into something like friendship. At last he asked: “ ’You were a law partner, were you not, of John C. Breckenridge when he was vice-president and when he was the south’s candidate for president in I860?’ “ ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘I was Gfcieral Breckinridge’s law partner at that time.’ “ ‘I suspect that’s the reason why they have not admitted you yet as a member of the house,’ remarked the general. “I nodded acquiescence. “ ‘Well, now, brother Scotchman,’ Senator Cameron declared, ‘I have a little influence in the house and 1 am going to use it. You needn’t give yourself any further anxiety about your admission to it. You’ll be admitted in the course of a day or two. I’ll see to that. As Scotchmen we’ll stand together; but as Republican and Democrat we’ll fight to the death.’ “His words proved true. A few days later I was received into the hodse of representatives.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Didn’t Know Stevenson. The London Dally Chronicle quotes from some unnamed source a curious reminiscence of Robert Louis Stevenson from a man who met him on his arrival in the South Seas: “The German monthly steamer from Sydney for Samoa via Tonga has just arrived, and the captain, whom I know, presents me to a small dark man, very plainly dressed and with a Scotch accent. Somehow we exchange a few French words, and so get chummy. He tells me that his trade is 111 remunerated, I all the time taking him for a Glasgow guaranty engineer, or even worse. Bedtime comes, and he, having cottoned to me, asked me for the loan of a book to send him to sleep. I lived half a mile off, and had no books about me, but referred him to the landlord, a most illiterate person. The only book he could find was 1 an ancient book on cookery, which my Scotch engineer grasped with affection and went to bed. And not for some time afterwards did I discover that I had entertained an angel unawares.”

will shed any light upon the Hayes-Tilden controversy, but I have always felt that had there been a more careful scrutiny, a more thorough search, or a search in other directions than that taken by the Tilden investigators, something would have been found at the time which would explain the unshakable belief expressed by Mr. Orton that Mr. Tilden received a lawful majority of the electoral college.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J- Edwards. All Kights Reserved.) Friend of Polish Women. The women of Poland have just celebrated the semi-centennial of Pauline Kuezalaska, who started the woman’s rights movement in that country. She taught poor girls to be her home and founded .a committee on sewing, which grew into the Society of Women’s Work. This became the Woman’s Mutual Aid society, and she finally collected her women in the Women’s Land Owners’ association and the Association of Bookkeeijgrs and kindred organizations. She organized thefiist woman’s congress at the jubilee celebration of Orseskowa, and in 1895 obtained 4,000 signatures for municipal suffrage for women in Polish cities. Too Bad. Many a good deed has been spoiled by being done at the wrong time.

was engaged in laying the pontoon bridge at Fredericksbnurg, in December, 1862, just before General Burnside, who was in command of the Army of the Potomae, ordered the advance to be made upon the Confederate position on the hills back of Fredericksburg. Although the bullets flew thick and fast, Colonel Chapman was utterly without fear, nor did he at the time he received a bullet know that he had been wounded. The ball passed through a memorandum book and some papers which were in his left vest pocket. The bulk ,pf paper was sufficiently thick to cause th'd bullet to become practically spent when it reached his flesh. But for this interposition he would have been killed instantly, since the bullet was arrested directly over his heart. General Hancock’s attention had been called to Colonel Chapman and he had decided to place him in charge of a brigade and to recommend his appointment as brigadier general. In fact, Hancock had ’ t so much confidence in Chapman that he assigned Chapman’s brigade to a forward position In the first day of the fighting in the battle of the Wilderness. • Shortly after the brigade went on to the skirmish line Colonel Chapman met General Hancock. The colonel’s bearing was very soldierly. There was no doubt of his keenness or of his courage, but he said to General Hancack: “General, this will be my last battle.” .“Why do you think so, Colonel?” asked the general. “We must all take the chances of battle.” “I know that is a soldier’s duty,” Colonel Chapman replied. “But the feeling I now have is something unlike any I have ever experienced since the war began. Something tells me that this is going to be my last battle, but the warning does not disturb me in the least.” “Oh,” Hancock replied, “you’re simply a little over-excited. Don’t pay any attention to it I have no faith in premonitions.” Colonel Chapman smiled, gracefully saluted General Hancock, and said: “After this battle is over, general, you will find that my premonition was genuine.” Within an hour Chapman was leading his troops through the woods to form a skirmish line. At the first volley from the enemy he fell, mortally wounded. His brigade passed on over his body. After his men had moved on Colonel Chapman with feeble movement took a note book and pencil from his pocket and with trembling fingers, wrote first his father’s name and address and then these words: “Dear father, I am mortally wounded. Do not grieve for me.” Here the fingers seemed for a moment almost palsied, but again, as though by desperate effort they wrote these words: “My dearest love to all. Alford.’ ’ The pencil dropped on the paper. With that brief message the soldier passed away. This communication is now held by relatives of Colonel Chapman. (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Oppose Women Workers. Mr. John Burns, labor member of the -English parliament, says that the work of women, especially married women, must be curtailed. No one would be any happier than the women, no doubt, to see this brought about if bread and mutter were also certain. There are 166,000 married women in the cotton mills of the Lancashire district alone. The theory of Mr. Burns is that if the women stay at home the salaries of their husbands will be increased.

The Little | Marquis i By LOUISE MERRIFIELD I

“It is perfectly safe, Flo, don’t be a ninny.” •. Miss Cameron went on packing her suitcase placidly. Over on the windowseat sat Flo, the picture of trouble and foreboding. “It’s not alh right. You know yourself what Jack told us—not take the Mariposa stage. It’s not fifteen miles from the penitentiary, and they haven’t caught these men yet. Leslie, I think it’s actually selfish of you to insist on the trip just purely because you’re starved for adventure.” “Then stay here, and come over the other route Saturday. I’ll wait for you at Mariposa.” Flo looked up with a sudden inspiration. “It’s not iove of adventure. You’re bound to go on this stage bpcause the Marquis is going. I heard him tell you so at dinner last night. Leslie! And you almost engaged to Jack.” Composedly Leslie finished her packing, closed and locked her suitcase. “Love of adventure, dear. Surely the Marquis is an adventure jail by his lonelies, isn’t he?” Flo started to say something very forcible, but words failed her. She set her teeth, and banged a couple of books into a corner, then rose resolutely, and began her own packing. They had been traveling west from Denver for the past month, taking the trip by easy stages, over the most picturesque route. At the coast they were to pick up the other members of the party, and his mother, and some cousins from Santa Barbara) They had parted from thenU’at the Springs, and gone on together, as it was their first trip through the west. And then had come the Marquis. They met him first at Pass Magdalena. He was cat as tall as Leslie, nor as handsome as Jack.but there was an indescrible air of distinction about him, of differential \ourtesy which set him apart from the happy tree and easy crowd at the Summer hotel on the mountain top. He did not mix with the common crowd of tourists, but had seemed attracted at onoe Jto Leslie. The girls had left the Pass with some regret, but at the next stopping place, the M&rquis appeared a day after their own arrival. The Stage Came to a Halt. That was the night when Leslie had decided to wear her very prettiest gown at dinner, the one she was reserving for Santa Barbara and the Burrows family. It was a lovely violet tinted crepe de chine, and with it, she wore the famous Cameron pearls, the only jewels she had brought west with her. That evening they had met the Marquis. He was most properly presented by stout Mrs. Carle, the senator’s wife, who had been in the same party as the girls. “My dear, he is charming—and a marquis. Absolutely irreproachable, ao Stanley tells me. No. Stanley had not met him before today. They became acquainted as men will, you know, and Stanley brought him to me, and he begged to meet you. So there you are. Believe me, his heart lies at your feet.” That was all, except that wherever the girls had traveled thereafter, the Marquis had appeared on their trail. The stage left the hotel at 7 that morning, and the girls took an outside seat. For miles they rode steadily upward through the mountain pass, and the M&rquis sat beside Leslie, talking to her in the slow, interesting way he had._ Flo, indignant, and pre* occupied, listened. Somehow, she could not like him, and to think of dear, lovely Leslie falling a victim to a title. She wondered what their father would say. If only they could reach Santa Barbara, Jack might be able to turn her back. Just behind her a couple of men were talking, and something they said arrested her attention. “Escaped from San Quentin, yes, four, last week. They shot one a few miles from here. The others are in hiding. Pretty desperate by now, without fooc or money for escape. Understood to be part of Risto’s band, Rfsto, the Mexican, price on his head, refugee since the war ended. Came north, and lived by raids.”

The stage came to a sudden halt at a sharp turn in the road. Below them was the canon, with almost per pendicular walls at this point. The driver sprang down. “Boulders across- the road,” he called out. “It’s the raiders, I reck on.” * Almost as he spoke four men sprang from the underbrush an* leveled rifles at the passengers. The Marquia very quietly reached down after Leslie’s suitcase, and swung it over to the nearest man. “What do you mean?” demanded Lelie, half rising. “I regret it much, most sweet one,” smiled the little Marquis. >“I must have those pearls. I think you for a most joyous journey, and will take a kiss for memory.” Leslie’s hand had reached into her little leather handbag. Suddenly she whipped it out, and it held a small, very neat revolver that Jack had given her. And while the men in the coach stood with hands up, and the driver lay wounded. Leslie Cameron lived up to her good Virginian)blood, and shot squarely at the man before her. They arrived late, but Jack was there to meet them. The news had traveled faster, as they had had tc procure another driver. He looked a bit warm, but hesitated not a bit when he saw the girls. And neither did Leslie. Most willingly did she ge to him. “Where are the pearls?” he asked as he released her/ “Around my neck. I never part with them when I she smiled back, “-fie thought they were in the suitcase.” “Where is he?” asked Flo, happily “They took him away as soon as Wx. reached Ricadino.” “I am mighty glad to announce that they have him safe up at Sai Quentin,” said Burrows heartily. “How sad for a marquis,” said Lea lie, thoughtfully. “A Marquis? My dear girl, little Juan Risto was a waiter along the lower California coast for years until he got thej raiding fever, probably from an overdose of tips He has the foreign manner to a T, has’t he? I remember him well over at the San Bernandino restaurant. Leslie, I'm surprised at yoiir taste for nobility.” He laughed, and took her hand in his. Flo pretended not to see, but smiled wisely all by herself. All Leslie said, was just this: “I’m sorry, Jack, but surely I got even.” “You sure did. They say he will travel with a clipped ear the rest of fiis life, and a shoulder that won’t work right.” “He wanted something to remember by,” said Leslie, contentedly. “And he got it.” OBJECTED TO “GOLD PENNY” gEnglish Merchants Set Themselves Against Coin That Was Minted Lin 1227. The most valuable penny ever coin ed in Great Britain was the gold penny of Henry 111. On Aug. 16, 1227, a writ dated at Chester was issued oom manding the mayor of London to proclaim in that city “the good money which the king had caused to be made should be immediately current there and elsewhere within the realm of England in all transactions of buying and selling at the rate of 20 pennies of sterling (i. e., 20 silver pennies) for every gold penny.” The time, however, was by no means favorable for the issue oi pieces of a denomination so much higher than had previously been known. Accordingly, the city of London petitioned against these coins, and the king issued a proclamation that no one should be obliged to take them. The coins, nevertheless, continued to be current, and in 1265 their value was raised from 20 to 24 pence; prob ably equivalent in purchasing power to £2 of today. It is unlikely that any great number of these coins was ever struck. It is probable that, by reason of their high value they would soon be melted down, for they were of pure gold without alloy of any kind. The collectors of today know of only three or four specimens. One of these was sold for more than S2OO, another for S7OO and another for SI,OOO. —Harper’s Weekly. “Firing” Photographs. Leboyer, in France, trying to solve the problem of how to make photographs permanent and free from all change, has resorted to the plan of “firing” them in a furnace upon enameled stone. It is found that the best stone for the purpose is the basalt found in prisms in the extinct volcanic district of central France. This rock, which is extremely hard and fine-grained, receives the enamel without cracks. The photographic film is deposited upon the enameled surface, and. after the photograph has been made, it is fired until the image becomes unalterably incorporated in the enamel. Discouraging the Crows. The great number of 334,700,000 needles were imported into Chungking, China, in 1910. These needles are put to a strange use. It is customary to ornament the center of the roof-ridge of a Chinese house with an elaborate decoration —usually in the form of a design embodying the character “fu,” meaning “happiness,” and to prevent this being damaged by the cwews, large numbers of needles are stuck, point outwards, into the plaster while it is still soft. The crows, one is inclined to think, must have entirely given up associating the character “fu” with “happiness.”

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