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. r ' - : - - : - - - r l. " . . . : , . ' . - . -r. - - . . . , . , . , . _ , f 'II. . , < I. . " fl " . . ' . - , . . , , ' " :4 : " , , - - ' . . ' " , . r " , . ' ' . . I ' " , ; , ' , ; . . , : . mr : J ij ( U TE f , ; \1 \ : iiE S , : ' ; E NC : " , ; ' x " " J < ID ) < dJllw ( ! j ] IF @ ! ! uftlJll IID rr@JID - - - < ID 1llx OOID1fum ) OO@ill ( Ih1&JU ' @ [ Q ) @ J1 Ulln\W@IfIf ) < < ll lIDy rr IIIIII < IID IIIIJ I I ' Personal feuds have played their part , and n fateful one , In the hIs- tory of the prcsldency. Had not Alexander - t1IHlor Hamilton been the unyielding toe uf Aaron Burr , the latter , and not Jefferson , would have succeeded the I , . , . , . Aaron Burr older Adams ; but even more moment- ' 0118 In Its consequences was the long 'battle between Andrew Jackson and : Henry Clare When Jackson first ran : for the presidency , In 1824 , the candidates - ' dates 1 opposing him were Adams , Crawford and CIa ) . . None of the four _ secured : a majority of the electoral college , and the election thus devolved .ed upon the House , with choIce to ibe made from the three candldates- . ! Adams , Crawford and Jacltson-who il1ad received the most electoral votes. 'This debarred Clay , who , forced , as he expressed It , to choose betwenn two 'evlls , announced that he had declaed 'to support Adams. But Clay's deter- ImlnaUoa no sooner became known than some of Jackson's frIends attempted - tempted to drive him from It. at-I A tow days before the time set for 1.110 election In the House a letter apI I , Iwarel In a Philadelphia newspaper , : naserting that Clay had agreed to sup : port Adams upon oI1lHton ! that he be . made Secretary of State. The same 'terms , the letter alleged , had been of erell ' to Jaclson's friends ; but none } P r i t I , .v I ! j i I , . i , f r - Roscoe Conklin I I . ' of them would "descend to such mean i ' barter and sale. " The letter was ( : anonymous , but purported to be writ- ten by a member of the House. Clay i ; nt once published a card , In which he I pronounced \ writer "a dastard and i a liar , " who , If he dared avow his name , would forthwith bo called to . : 'the field. Two days later the letter II : s , was acknowledged br a witless mom : her from Pennsj IYanla , Kremer by I I I II 'Ilame , who asserted that the statements - I I , ; ments he had made were true , and , , that he was ready to prove them. A : duel with such a character was out , ; I -or the question. Something , however , had to be done , and Clay immediately ' demanded an Investigation b1 a spe- - - clal committee of the House. Such a commIttee was duly selected. None of Its members had supported Clay for the presldenc Kremer promptly declared - clarcd hIs willingness to meet the inquiry - quIry , but In the end the committee reported that ho had declined to ap- pear before It , sending Instead a communication - mt\nlcatlon In which he denIed time power of the House to compel him lo testify. No further action was taken : and In thIs shape , for the time being , the matter rested. Soon , however , came the election of Adams by the House , followed quickly 'I , 7 111 i Alexander Hamilton. by his appoIntment of Clay as his Sec- retary of State. Though It Is now generally acknowledged that there has been no bargain between Adams and Clay , It was natural that , at the momeut , the rank and file of Ja.ck- son's following should regard Clay's appoIntment as conclusIve proof that such a deal had been made. By accepting - cepting It Clay made himself the vIc- tim of circumstantial evidence. As 11. matter of fact , he hesitated to ac- copt the place , and finally assumed ! its duties with reluctance. What chiefly - ly determined him was the belief that If he did not accept It would be argued that he dared not. This to Clay was more obnoxious than the other horn of he i dilemma He , there- fore , took the alternative of bold defi- anco ; but In so doIng commUted a calamitous error. In 1880 the unrelenting animosity of Henry B Payne alone prevented Allen G. 1'hurman from being made the nominee of the democratic' national convention. In 1857 : Payne was a candidate for the democratic nomina- tion for governor of Ohio. The convention - vention met in Columbus , and Thur- man , then fresh from a perIod of brll- t :4Si _ . James G. Blaine 1IP-'lt service on the supreme bench of his state , had a friend In whose candidacy - dacy for state treasurer he was much Interested. Some of Pa 'ne's lieuten- ants , , without his knowledge , - promised - . Thurman the support of the Payne forces for hIs frIend In return for the votes he controlled in the convention ; but the Thurman candidate for treas- UI'p.r failed at the last moment to receive - ceIve the promised support of the Payne following , and was defeated. Payne was not aware of the trick that had been played upon Thurman , but the latter , who scorned double dealing In any form , was quick to resent It. Within the hour the opportunity to do fell in his way. The convention ended , Payne went to a hotel for dinner , accompanied - companIed by some friends , and in jovIal mood opened wine in celebra- tion of his success. Presently Thur- man and a few friends came In and took seats at an adjoining table. Payne bade the waiter carry a bottle of wine to the newcomers , but In a moment It came back with the gruff message that Mr. Thurman did not care for any of Mr. Payne's wine. In evident surprise at this refusal , Payne rose from his seat and crossed to the group of which Thurman was the cen- tral figure. "I trust you and your friends wlll drink a bottle of wine with me , judge , " he saId , ' urbanely. "Drink to my suc- cess and the victory of the democratic parb' " "I do not want any of your wine , sir , " was the reply. "I told that damned walter to say as much to you , sIr , a moment ago. " And so saying , Thurman turned his back abruptly on the man from Cleveland. Payne never forgot nor forgave this public insult. The quarrel thus begun ! rjj\ f rjjs Henry 8. Payrte ever after kept the two men apart , and three and twenty years later thwarted Thurman's hIghest ambition. In 1880 ho was a candidate for the presidential nomination before the democratic national - llonal convention Had he had the unflinching - flinching support of the OhIo delegation - tlon , there Is little doubt that he would have been the nominee The delegation was solid for him on the first ballot. Then it broke and the chances of his nomination vanished into thin aIr. Payne was behind the break. The delegates from the dIs- trict in which his influence was su , preme led It and were strongest In the claim which stampeded the convention to a dark horse As Ohio was then an October state and practically certain to go for Garfield , the result would be disastrous to the democratic cause That argument defeated Thurman and nomInated Hancock , and the revenge , of Payne was complete. But the most dramatic of all the political feuds of the last forty years , both in Its Inception and Its sequel , was that between Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. The two men entered the popular branch of Congress at about the same time , and both soon became leaders In that body. There was , however , little in common between 4 . - - - . . . . . - : " " " . " ! > . .w..o < > - ' .r11 r. ---'M------------ - . - - - - . - . . . . I them save the girt of pre-emInent ahll- ity. Conning made Blaine the ob- \ , ject of his sarcasm whenever oppor- I y tunlty offered , and the member from Maine was prompt to retort In Idnd. Thus the enmIty grew until , In the course of one of their many encoun- ters , Blaine stung to the quick by an unjust and ungenerous taunt , burst forth In an onslaught on hIs torment- .011II. , or whIch wrought the House into a ' ? 7 i high pItch of excitement and marked I . the beginning of a fierce struggle in the Republican party that ended in . the humiliation of Conlellng and the defeat of Blaine for President. Here arc Blalne'3 ! words , and they are a model of excorIation : "As to the gentleman's cruel sar- ' . . casm , I hope he will not be too se- vore. The contempt of that large- mInded gentleman is so wilting , his haughty disdaIn , his grandiloquent swell , his majestic , supereminent , overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all members of this House that I know it I was an act of the greatest temerity \ ' for mo to venture upon a controversy with hIm. " Then , referrIng to a chance news- paper comparison of Conkling to Henry Winter Davis , lately dead , he continued : , "The gentleman took It seriously and It has given his strut addItional -f 4 pomposity. The resemblance Is great ; It is strl1dng-H 'perlon to a satyr , Thersltes to Hercules , mud to marble , dunghlll to dIamond , a sInged cat to a Bengal tiger , a whipped pup- py to a roaring lion. Shade of the mIghty Davis , forgive the , almost profanation of that jocose satire. " There could be no reconciliation - after such an onslaught , and the bat- tle was to the death. Defeated for the Republican nomination by Conk- I ling and his friends in 1876 and again p In 1880 , Blaine in the latter year 4y threw his following to hIs friend Garfield , who , nominated and elected , made Blaine his secretary of state and official \ rIght hand. Then came the ) struggle over the New York patron- age , which retired ConkJlng , and was followed by the assassination of Gar- , field. In 1884 , when Blaine was .final- ly the formal choice of hIs party , Conkling was no longer in politics , but the sequel proved that hIs was still the wlll and power to strike a mortal blow. A defection of a few hundred votes In Conkling's home ' - r o - : : -rr'w-z ir t r.- " ( . ; , ; , I , , crt , " _ if " 4 I r ' ' , , ' , ; t J' L j # i I Allen G Thurman county of Oneida gave that county , normally Republican , to Cleveland , . and with It the electoral vote of New York and the presillenc Conkling had wIped out the score against his ancient . enemY.-Uufus Rockwell Wil son In Philadelphia Ledger . . . ) What a City Boy Mlsse:1. : Poor 11'1 Boston kid ! Ever seen a muscadlnc . - Scuppernong on hanging vIne ? net you never did , You city boys don't have much fun : Never do the stunts wc done When I was n Idd Ever heard n mock' bird sing-- Fished for tadpoles In spring ? Bet you never did. Ever go out Idlllng snakes , Over bogs and through cane-brakes ? net you never dill. Ever seen watermelons grow Hundreds of 'em row by row ? . Oh , you never dId ! ' . . . - ' -Hoston Transcript. . , . , ' "