Chicago Times Quotes


Poor, desperate creature; he wants an audience … the people won’t turn out to hear him.


Context

During his campaign for the Senate against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln adopted a tactic of showing up everywhere his opponent gave a speech and talked to the crowd afterward.


Citations

Chicago Times, Editorial, 1958

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The Chicago Times was a newspaper in Chicago from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the Chicago Herald, to become the Chicago Times-Herald. The Times-Herald effectively disappeared in 1901 when it merged with the Chicago Record to become the Chicago Record-Herald.