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Walter C. Davis, Shelby, Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Charles Dragoo. Portsmouth. Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry.
Ralph W. Fuller. Harlan, Company C. Fifty-first Iowa Infantry. John A. Ganser, Harlan, Company C. Fifty-first lowa Infantry. George S. Gibbs. Harlan, Company C. Fifty-first Iowa Infantry. Joseph B. Greenlie. Portsmouth, Company C, Fifty-first Iowa Infantry. William Hansen. Harlan, Company C, Fifty-first Iowa Infantry. William J. Manion, Panama. Company E. Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Burt Petty, Harlan. Company C, Fifty-first Iowa Infantry. Orville H. Plum, Shelby, Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Martin T. Sorensen. Harlan. Company C. Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Charles Stanley. Harlan. Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Howard M. Stiles. Harlan, Company C, Fifty-first Jowa Infantry. James O. Tallman, Harlan, Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Albert C. Walker. Portsmouth. Company C, Fifty-first lowa Infantry. Louis E. Wyland, Harlan. Company C. Fifty-first Iowa Infantry.
Of the above named soldiers. Harry .\. Black died of disease September 17. 1898. at the field hospital. Presidio, San Francisco, California. and John A. Ganser died of disease at the same place September 19. 1898. George S. Gibbs became company quartermaster-sergeant, and was transferred to the United States Volunteer Signal Corps, as first class sergeant June 11, 1898. His interesting and able military career is elsewhere detailed. James A. Beebe became first sergeant of his company. Corporal Louis E. Wyland was wounded April 24. 1899, at Pulilan. Philippine islands.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
POLITICS.
In the early days in Shelby county, men took their partisan politics almost as seriously as if it were a religious matter. Campaigns were man- aged in a greatly different way from what they are now. Before the coming of the Australian ballot law in 1892. each party had a separate ballot and the party workers were well supplied with these as well as the candidates them- selves. These ballots were usually between two and three inches wide and ten to twelve inches long, or at least long enough to have printed neatly the names of the respective offices and the candidates aspiring to fill them.
We often hear today of the term "scratching" or a "scratched" ballot. This term comes down to us from the days before the Australian ballot sys- tem. In the early days a voter was permitted to take one of the ballots, draw- a pencil mark through the name of any candidate for whom he was unwilling to vote, and to write in the name of another candidate, or he was permitted to paste over the name of the candidate for whom he did not wish to vote. a paster on which was printed the name of the rival candidate. Often, and usually, the candidates themselves, or their friends, had ballots already pre- pared with the pasters attached. . \ party worker at that time could "fix" and deliver a ballot. walk up with the voter to the ballot box and see that the ballot was actually deposited in the box, so that if a man were inclined to buy a vote, either with money or whiskey, he could be sure that he got what he bought.
During a great many campaigns, before the introduction of the Aus- tralian ballot system, whiskey was used to a large extent, sometimes openly, sometimes "on the sly," and sometimes effectively with many men. It was used. of course, after the coming of the Australian system, but not so effec- tively. for the reason that it could not be known what the voter would do when he once was in the voting booth marking his ballot secretly. The custom has obtained in Shelby county for many years for the candidates to treat the voters to cigars, and that custom obtains yet to some extent. although it is believed that Shelby county is one of the very few counties in the state to maintain this custom, which has proved very expensive to candi- dates for office, a custom which many good men are inclined to condemn.
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The campaign preceding the vote on the proposed prohibitory amend- ment to the Constitution of Jowa was hotly and bitterly contested in Shelby county. Men indulged in personalities, such as have probably not been known in any campaign since that time.
One of the very notable campaigns in Shelby county was the "free-silver" campaign of 1896. At this time there were many new party alignments, men who had been lifelong Democrats voting for President MeKinley, and others who had been lifelong Republicans supporting Hon. W. J. Bryan and free silver.
As is indicated by the half century vote on President in Shelby county, herein set forth, the county has been comparatively close politically from the very beginning.
It would appear that the men belonging to the following pioneer families were Republicans : A. Johnson. Hack, M. K. Campbell, Custer, Waterbury, Johnston. Redfield, Bowman, McConnell. Truman, Holcomb, John Fritz, Platt Wicks, W. J. Davis, Newby, George D. Ross, William McGinness, Mc- Cord, Booth, H. Harrod, Frost, Paul, Beckley, Slates, Bell, Patterson. Kin- sey, M. H. Adams, Bartlett. Henry Lee, Gibbs, Poling. Ledwich, McKeig. Thomas Leytham, George M. Williams. C. A. Reed, Charles Kidd, Keairnes. Swinehart, Graves, Penniston, Ford, MeCoid, Eliab Myers, Long. Washing- ton Wyland, Dr. Bayer, Dr. R. M. Smith, Buckman. Irwin, Chatburn.
Of the early pioneers, men of the following families were Democrats : Wyland ( with the exception of Washington Wyland). Sunderland. Louis. Caleb Smith. J. J. Miller, Shorett, Roundy. MeDonald. Terrill, Billeter, Cuppy, Kimball. DeSilva. Tinsley, Gish, Swain, Nance, Kuhl, Schmitz, Berg- stresser, Baughn, Sweat, MeNaughton. D. Carter. Rubendall. Cleveland. George S. Barr. Howlett, J. O. Ramsey, Cox. Richard Leytham. Malick. Black, Obrecht. Crandall. J. H. Philson, John A. McIntosh.
Among the prominent members of the Greenback party were A. N. Stamm, J. M. Pratt and others.
Political speech-making began early in Shelby county. From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil one learns that S. A. Rice, Republican candidate for at- torney-general of Iowa, was billed to speak at both Harlan and Shelbyville on September 8. 1858, and from the same source it appears that John Kasson and D. O. Finch. opposing candidates for Congress in the fifth dis- triet, were scheduled for a joint debate at Harlan on Thursday, August 21. 1862. C. C. Nourse, Republican candidate for attorney-general, also ad- dressed the people of Harlan on Saturday. August 16, 1862.
Subsequent political campaigns have brought to Shelby county many
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famous men. Among these might be mentioned Senator William B. Allison, Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. Hon. W. P. Hepburn, Hon. M. J. Wade, Sen- ator A. B. Cummins, Senator William F. Kenyon, Major Joseph Lyman. Senator Lafayette Young. Judge Thurston, Hon. L. M. Shaw, Hon. F. W. Lehmann ( now one of the greatest lawyers of America ). Hon. Smith Mc- Pherson. Hon. Claude Porter. Col. John H. Keatley. Hon. Dan Hamilton, Col. W. F. Sapp. Hon. William J. Bryan ( who came to Harlan and made a speech at the opera house very early in his political career). Hon. B. I. Sallinger ( recently elected to the state supreme court of Iowa). John A. Kasson. J. W. McDill. J. B. Weaver. C. C. Nourse. William Larrabee, L. G. Kinne. Hon. J. C. Burrows, Buren R. Sherman, Gov. George W. Clark, Con- gressmen Good. Haugen and others: Hon. John F. Lacey and others.
Perhaps the most spectacular campaign was that of 1884. known as the Blaine-Cleveland campaign, which resulted in the election of Grover Cleve- land as President. This campaign marked the culmination of the torchlight processions, marching clubs. mounted clubs. etc. During this campaign men indulged in a great many personalities and jibes, and frequently carried in their parades banners upon which appeared many "a strange device." One of the greatest events occurring during this campaign in western Iowa was the Republican rally at Harlan in 1884. which is well described by a local paper of the time, and which. in order to give the spirit of the times, the author quotes as a part of this chapter.
This, the most famous political "rally" ever held in Harlan and perhaps in western Iowa. was held on August 17. 1884. This well illustrated the exceedingly serious way in which men took their partisan politics in those days. There were on this occasion one thousand five hundred men in line with torches, and it is said that the number would have been two thousand had there been enough torches to go round. A newspaper thus describes the event :
"A crowd of seven thousand people witnessed the parade. The meet- ing was in honor of Blaine and Logan. The earliest clubs to appear were those from Defiance. Astor. Earling. Irwin, Panama and Kirkman, all of the men marching being called "Plumed Knights." in allusion to the sobriquet of Blaine. . Later. men from Portsmouth appeared. As darkness came on they were joined by the Harlan Black Eagle Legion, of three hundred men. and the Harlan Ladies' Blaine and Logan club, consisting of forty-five ladies. Then arrived the mounted Guards of Lincoln, under the command of Capt. George D). Ross, with Michael Headley at the head with a big rooster perched on a pole, with a banner on top. inscribed "Crowing Over Ohio." and very
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soon after came the mounted Cohorts of Corley, under command of Dr. Piper and carrying appropriate banners. Those present, amid great cheers from the people. were marshaled into line of march by Commander Mosby and went to the depot to escort the companies expected on the train.
"Nearly seven hundred filed out of the cars at the depot. Of the com- panies which came on this train there were two hundred uniformed Knights from Shelby, with John Sandham as flag bearer, and under the command of Capt. S. D. Abbott. There was also the Avoca corps, composed of the Avoca Plumed Knights, Avoca Ladies Club and Avoca Cadets, which muim- bered about four hundred. with the Walnut and Marne Knights and mem- bers of clubs from Hancock and Carson, numbering about fifty more.
"One of the tableaus was represented by a large wagon drawn by four handsome horses. Upon the wagon was a large platform, handsomely draped and decorated. upon which stood a stately and beautiful young lady dressed to represent the 'Goddess of Liberty." She carried a banner on which was inscribed, 'We Don't Want Free Trade.' Opposite the Goddess of Liberty' was a very tall. middle aged man dressed as "Uncle Sam,' carrying a banner with a motto to answer that of the Goddess of Liberty.' inscribed. 'Not Much.' Immediately following the protection tableau. was one to repre- sent free trade, which consisted of an old ramshackle vehicle. to which was attached a couple of spavined, ringboned and knock-kneed 'crow baits,' with old harness rope lines. In this wonderful chariot were the driver and three boys, all in rags, who looked as woebegone as they could get themselves up. They carried a large banner upon which was inscribed. 'Fre Traid.' As a take-off, it created much merriment. A juvenile tableau of Protection. followed. consisting of a platform, mounted on wheels, on which were seated a little boy and girl, dressed as the Goddess of Liberty and Uncle Sam, with appropriate mottos on the sides of their car. This was loudly cheered. The procession marched to the opera house four abreast and when the head of the column had reached the opera house the foot of the column had not come up the hill by the depot. The Harlan Cornet Band led the way, and fine martial bands from Avoca. Defiance. Portsmouth. Shelby and Irwin followed.
"A platform had been erected in the street opposite the opera house and from this the procession was reviewed by General Baker, candidate for at- torney-general, and Judge Lyman, our neyt congressman, who each, in turn, addressed the great crowd. Judge N. W. Macy also addressed the crowd eloquently. In the large room of Lamm Brothers, good coffee and ham sandwiches were dealt out freely to the people. The transparencies were very attractive and numerous and the following mottoes were displayed :
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'Brains vs. Neck,' 'Education vs. Ignorance,' 'Loyalty vs. Treason,' 'Protec- tion vs. Free Trade,' '1860-Lyman at the Front, Pusey at Home.' '1884- Lyman Again at the Front, Pusey Lost,' 'Ohio Redeemed by 12.000 Repub- lican Majority,' 'Affidavits for Sale by J. N. Baldwin,' Oscar May Want Cleveland. but We Don't,' 'Westphalia 120 Votes for Lyman,' 'On to Vic- tory,' 'The Woods are Full of 'Em.' 'For a Pure Ballot.' 'lowa is Solid." The Boys in Blue are for Logan.' 'We Crow for Ohio,' 'Civil Service Reform.' 'English Gold Wants Free Trade,' 'Keep the Rascals Out.' 'Protect Our Home Markets." "Free Trade is Ireland's Curse,' 'Shall Johnny Bull Rule?' 'The Irish are With Us.' 'Democratic Taffy Soured on Pat.' 'The G. B. Party is Dead-Democracy Owns the Corpse.' 'We are for Jim and Jack, 'For Grover's Record Ask Bro. Beecher,' 'For Liberty, but Not for Liber- tine,' 'No Fire-in-the-Rear Men Need Apply.' 'Botna Valley Booms for Lyman.' 'No Kangaroo Ticket for U's.' 'Ohio is Ours.' 'The Ninth Will be Redeemed,' 'Put Pusey in his Little Mint Bed,' 'No Pension to Rebels.' 'Democratic Diet After November -Cleveland Crow, Butler Buzzard and St. John Soup.'
"There were a number of pictorial transparencies also. One repre- sented the picture of a hideous reptile : underneath were the words 'A Copper- head.' and on the body of it were the words, 'Pusey, Cleveland. Ilendricks.' Another represented an old goose, with the word. 'Hiss-s-s-s' on her beak, and underneath were the words, 'A Quack.' On the body of the goose was the single word, 'Pusey.' On the other side of it was the legend : 'This goose will be cooked November 4." Portraits of Blaine and Logan were also shown. Lamm Brothers were thanked for the free use of their large room. D. F. Paul, who was a drummer boy in the United States army in the Civil War, played in the procession.
"The Democratic club showed excellent spirit by loaning one hundred and fifty of their torches." It was stated that the palm for the best drilled com- pany should be properly awarded to Shelby, but that Defiance was a close second. The paper contains this interesting item: "The ladies of Harlan were especially pleased at the handsome manner in which the Shelby Club doffed their helmets at the word of command." Roger's Martial band was on hand. Henry McGinness was one of the hardest workers for the success of the occasion. Capt. O. F. Graves was praised for the splendid illumina- tion of his store windows, also H. M. Cook for a light hung on the top of his highest tree. Miss Uille, who was the Goddess of Liberty, was highly praised for the splendid way in which she took her part, as was J. H. Bates, who got up the car and impersonated "Uncle Sam," and H. M. Locke, who drove
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the horses. About fifty men, in lieu of torches, carried brooms. "There were only about half a dozen intoxicated persons in the town."
At the general election of August 7. 1854. Augustus Hall, candidate for Congress, received forty-three votes, and Rufus B. Clark had nine votes, and at the general election of August, 1856, J. L. Curtis, candidate for Congress. had forty-six votes; Augustus Hall, five votes: Sanmel R. Curtis had six votes, and Samuel Jones two votes.
In 1857. forty-four votes were cast for finishing the court house at Shelby- ville, and forty-seven votes against finishing it. At the election of April. 1858. thirty-seven votes were cast in favor of permitting the county judge to borrow three thousand dollars to aid in building a court house at Shelbyville, and sixty-five votes were cast against giving such permission. At the same elec- tion, sixty-two votes were cast in favor of letting stock run at large, and fifty-one votes against.
The vote for President and Vice-President in Shelby county, begin- ning at the election of November 2, 1856, to date, is as follows:
1856-John C. Fremont. Republican 62
James Buchanan, Democrat 19
1860-Abraham Lincoln. Republican 100
Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat 1 1
64
1864-Abraham Lincoln, Republican 1 1
61
George B. McClellan. Democrat 78 1 1 1
1868-U. S. Grant, Republican 153
Horatio Seymour. Democrat 120
1872-U. S. Grant, Republican 379
Horace Greeley, Democrat and Liberal 138
1876 -- R. B. Hayes. Republican 896
Samuel J. Tilden. Democrat 631
ISSO-James A. Garfield. Republican 1,499
W. S. Hancock, Democrat 963
1884-James G. Blaine, Republican 1,802
Grover Cleveland. Democrat 1,741
1888-Benjamin Harrison, Republican 1,714
Grover Cleveland, Democrat 1.762
1892-Benjamin Harrison, Republican 1.674
Grover Cleveland. Democrat 1,890
1896-William McKinley. Republican 2,016
William J. Bryan, Democrat 2,172
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1900 -- William McKinley. Republican 2.182
William J. Bryan, Democrat 2,010
1904-Theodore Roosevelt, Republican 2.310
Alton B. Parker. Democrat 1.584
1908-William Il. Taft. Republican 1.973
William J. Bryan, Democrat 1.935
1912 -- William HI. Taft. Republican 862
Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive 1.061
Woodrow Wilson. Democrat 1,819
Among the men who have served the Democratic party as county chair men have been: Thomas McDonald. G. W. Cullison, Dr. E. A. Cobb. C. F. Swift, W. F. Cleveland, O. P. Wyland. S. B. Morrissey and perhaps others. Among the Republican chairmen have been R. W. Robins. W. J. Davis (re- peatedly at intervals over a very long period of years), W. Gammon, L. H Pickard, L. C. Lewis, Dr. F. A. Bayer, A. F. Holcomb, and others.
In 1866 Hon. G. Smith Stanton, a son of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was in Harlan during the progress of a political campaign then on in Shelby county. In his book, "When the Wildwood Was in Flower," he gives his recollections as follows :
"In the fall following my arrival in the Hawkeye state there was a hot political contest going on, and I attended one of the meetings at Harlan, the county seat of Shelby county. Speaking of Harlan, I will never forget the way they distributed the mail. The postoffice was in the hotel where I stopped. The postoffice' consisted of two dry goods boxes, one where you deposited the mail and the other where you got it. When the mail carrier arrived, he would hand the pouch to the postmaster, who was the proprietor of the hotel. also hostler and waiter combined. The combination postmaster. proprietor, hostler and waiter would dump the mail into one of the boxes, and whenever a citizen called for his mail he would dig into the dry goods box, look over its contents and take what mail belonged to him, and thus the mail in the early sixties was distributed in the shire-town of Shelby county.
"I naturally have heard in my life many political issues discussed, but I never heard of a nightshirt being an issue until that night at Harlan. There was a joint debate between the two opposing candidates for representative in the Legislature. The district generally went Republican. The Democratic candidate was a farmer. the Republican candidate a lawyer. The majority of
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voters were farmers. Many of them had never heard of a nightshirt, let alone owning one. In the heat of a former debate the Democratic candidate had charged his opponent with being an aristocrat, in that he wore a night- shirt. The Republican candidate at first denied it. but at the Harlan meeting the Democratic candidate produced the necessary proof, and from that moment the Republican candidate's chances. were doomed; in fact. if I rec- ollect rightly, he withdrew from the contest."
CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.
MISS ISABELLA BEATON.
Miss Isabella Beaton, for a number of years, was a resident of Harlan, where she taught music, sang in the choir of the Congregational church and was an active worker in the Christian Endeavor Society. She has become famous not only for her instrumental music on the piano, but for her musical compositions, which are now played in concert by many of the best artists and orchestras of the world. The Musical Leader says of her musical com- positions: "Her Landler is a favorite program piece. as is her Scherzo for orchestra. \ quartette for strings, arranged by her, has been played by the Betthelier Quartette of Paris, the Wolfried DeCarle Quartette of Montreal, the Jacobsohn Quartette of Chicago, and many others. Mr. Frederick Stock, the conductor of the Thomas Orchestra, wrote of this composition : 'The Allegro Scherzando for strings is a clean as well as clever bit of musi- cal writing.' She has met with much success with her Intermezzo, Romanze ( for piano, pipe organ and violins), Improvisations, etc. Iler opera, 'Ana- conda.' is to be produced this year, and those who have had the opportunity to see the work in manuscript and to read the story are enthusiastic as to its future."
Miss Beaton is a graduate of Grinnell College, where she made a fine record as a student. After five years of study with Moszkowski and other masters in Berlin and Paris, she returned to America, where she completed the undergraduate course in Western Reserve University, with the degree of Master of Arts from the graduate school of that college. Besides this, may be mentioned a four-years' post-graduate course in literature and his- tory of modern romantic and Germanic language-, doing original research work in history and physics in the department of sound. And all this intel- lectual power and development has been brought to bear upon her composi- tions and interpretations upon the piano.
Miss Beaton is now in concert and recital in all the large cities of the United States and Canada, and the musical public has already shown its ap-
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preciation of her merit by assuring her a welcome seldom accorded a native artist. Miss Beaton's tour is in the hands of Mare Lagen, of New York.
HION. CYRUS BEARD.
Hon. Cyrus Beard, one of the well-known early practitioners of law in Harlan, was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa June 30. 1874. In 1878, after practicing law in Washington, lowa, for a few years, he came to Harlan and practiced there until 1890. when he removed to Evanston. Wyoming, where he engaged in practice. While residing in this city he was elected justice of the supreme court of Wyom- ing for a term of eight years, commencing in January. 1905, and was re-elected for a like term, commencing in January, 1913, which term he is now serving. He was chief justice for the last two years of his first term and will serve again as chief justice for the last two years of his present term. Mr. Beard was a candidate for district judge in lowa at the time that Judge N. W. Macy was nominated.
REV. PARK W. FISHER.
Rev. Park W. Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cary William Fisher. better known as C. Will Fisher. a pioneer photographer of Harlan, was born in the building in which his father had his studio. This building was about where Paul Rettig's harness shop now stands. the date of Mr. Fisher's birth being April 24, 1880. He attended the public schools of Harlan. In 1889 the family removed to Demorest, Georgia, where Mr. Fisher again entered school, completing the course at the Demorest Normal School in 1897. Be- tween 1897 and 1907 he worked at various trades in Demorest and in Atlanta. Georgia. In 1907 he entered the Atlanta Theological Seminary, where he remained two years. Then he entered the Hartford (Conn. ) Theological Seminary, where he remained one year, being graduated in 1910. At . Atlanta June 7. 1910, he was married to Miss Elinor Sugg, of Tarboro, North Caro- lina. He and his wife then came to Hindman, Kentucky, the latter part of June, 1910. where he became instructor in manual training in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union settlement school of that city. He and his wife started a Sunday school three miles distant. on Mill creek, where he held preaching services.
As readers familiar with the book will recall. "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" lived in the pine mountains of eastern Kentucky, on the north fork of the Kentucky river. About fifty miles westward, on the mid-
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dle fork, is a place known by its inhabitants as "Hell fer Sartin." Half way between these, and a little north of them, is Hindman. the county seat of Knott county. Hindman is forty-five miles from a railroad, the nearest station being each a two-days' journey over very rough mountain roads. In this region July 15. 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher started a Sunday school of one hundred and one members. They had no Sunday school literature and no lesson helps and each Sunday went only with their Bibles. The Sunday school steadily grew and at Christmas the school had on its rolls one hundred and seventy names, with an average attendance of about seventy-five each Sunday, all the little school house would seat. Through the generosity of home churches in Georgia, New York and Connecticut, these primitive moun- tain people were enabled to have their first Christmas tree. The little school house filled to overflowing. It was a great treat. not only for the children but for the older persons, isolated as they had been all their lives. An amusing incident is this: A friend in Florida sent a box of oranges, and one little mountaineer began eating his orange as he would an apple, peeling and all. The Sunday school grew rapidly, regardless of bad weather. mud and poor bridges, fathers and mothers coming afoot and carrying their little children two or three miles. On one occasion a dozen men met at the cross- ing place of the creek. where there had been only a foot log and made a bridge of logs with a plank floor, so that the children might have a sure and safe way for crossing the creek in times of frequent high water. Later one man offered to donate all the logs needed to build a "church house" and a house for the preacher. Another man donated the ground on a pretty south- ern hillside and others gave the use of their teams and performed labor sufficient to erect the church and parsonage. In October, 1911, Mr. Fisher found the need of funds very urgent and, armed with fifty lantern slides made from pictures taken with his own kodak while in Kentucky, he started for New England, where he met a hearty response from friends there.
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