...ge 9): Chase was the most irritating fly in the Lincoln ointment. Miss Ida Tarbell, in McClure's Magazine for January, 1899, says: But Mr. Chase was never able to realize Mr. Lincoln's greatness. Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln says (Vol. IX, page 389), about Chase: Even to comparative strangers, he could not write without speaking slightingly of the President. He kept up this habit to the end ...