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tions to me, to do nothing that would awaken jealousy from either political party - One method of Mr Train to forward himself was to say that Lane of Kansas desired him to come to Lawrence and take his place in the United States Senate for the next six years - That if he went there the Kansas branch of the Pacific Road would be built at once, the Iowa branch would never be touched. this statement seriously injured him as it would be difficult to persuade a western man that the fortunes of the Pacific road hinged upon the political status of any one person Under the impression that Poppleton was in his way Mr Train gave notice pretty publickly that the company would employ some other attorney and that they were through with him &c. this excited, being publicly talked some feeling among the many friends of that gentleman and for the purpose designed did no good - The most serious blunder that Mr Train made and one that injured his prospects more than any thing else, was a propensity to claim results, as the effect of his own agency, with which he had nothing to do, to such an extent that his statements had to be received with many grains of allowance - He came here claiming the postponement of the Chicago convention as his work; no one doubted it, nor perhaps ever would have questioned it, had he not have claimed in the same breath that he put his finger on Nebraska as it was becoming a state and stopped that when it was known to every one here - that three quarters of the Delegates were elected pledged against a State organization, and that Mr Train used every effort in his power to persuade them to violate those pledges and make
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tions to me, to do nothing that would awaken jealousy from either political party - One method of Mr Train to forward himself was to say that Lane of Kansas desired him to come to Lawrence and take his place in the United States Senate for the next six years - That if he went there the Kansas branch of the Pacific Road would be built at once, the Iowa branch would never be touched. this statement seriously injured him as it would be difficult to persuade a western man that the fortunes of the Pacific road hinged upon the political status of any one person Under the impression that Poppleton was in his way Mr Train gave notice pretty publickly that the company would employ some other attorney and that they were through with him &c. this excited, being publicly talked some feeling among the many friends of that gentleman and for the purpose designed did no good - The most serious blunder that Mr Train made and one that injured his prospects more than any thing else, was a propensity to claim results, as the effect of his own agency, with which he had nothing to do, to such an extent that his statements had to be received with many grains of allowance - He came here claiming the postponement of the Chicago convention as his work; no one doubted it, nor perhaps ever would have questioned it, had he not have claimed in the same breath that he put his finger on Nebraska as it was becoming a state and stopped that when it was known to every one here - that three quarters of the Delegates were elected pledged against a State organization, and that Mr Train used every effort in his power to persuade them to violate those pledges and make
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