The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon!

Historians have recently discovered the transcript of an eighth Lincoln-Douglas debate in addition to the seven the two candidates engaged in during their 1858 contest for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. The previously unknown final debate took place outside Trump Saloon in Moline, Illinois, which is long considered the best and classiest saloon in the entire state. Some people say in the world.

The transcript reveals how the fake news—very unfair and, frankly, disgraceful—Illinois press corps treated the late...