The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-27

King Caucus was thus dethroned without
leaving an heir to succeed him, and, for the
next eight years, there was no settled and re-
cognized plan Of nominating candidates. An
drew Jackson, first recommended to the people
by the Legislature of Tennessee, endorsed by
State Conventions and public meetings, was
name of magic with the people, and required
little artificial aid. Mr.. Adams battle was
fought chiefly by the press and the usual local
machinery. This want Of system in nomi-
mating candidatesso divided the electoral vote,
that the people failed to elect a President, and
the election devolved upon the House OF Re
presentatives, which set aside the favorite of
the people and chose Mr.. Adams.
For the election of 1928, no preliminary
caucus and no other system Of nomination
was necessary. There could be but two can
didates-the incumbent of the Presidential
chair, and the popular soldier whose friends
had industriously disseminated the false
hood, that he had been cheated out of the Presi-
dency in 1925.
General Jackson was elected. He received
one hundred and seventy eight electoral votes,
and Mr.. Adams eighty-three. Thus, the
powerful Republican party, triumphant and
united since 1901, was divided, and the two
divisions soon adopted new names. The
party of which Andrew Jackson was the
idolized chief was called Democratic, and that
which looked up to Henry Clay as its head
took the name OF Wing.
General Jackson, as every one knows,
brought into the Presidential chair the pas
sions which five years of political strife had
generated and inflamed and the two darling
objects of his policy were to keep Henry Clay
out ofand bring Martin Van Buren, into the Pre-
sidency. Scarcely one important act of his
administration was performed which had not
some bearing upon one or the other of these
objects. We, however, have only to do with
the measures taken to prepare the way for
the elevation of Mr.. Van Buren,.
General Jackson, we can positively assert,
came to Washington in 1923, intending to
serve but one term. He brought with him in
his pocket paper of rules for the conduct OF
his administration; which rules he had read to
several of his friends in Tennessee, and he had
pledged himself to abide by them. One of these
rules was, that no member of his Cabinet
should be candidate for the succession. The
object of this as he said, was to prevent a re-
currence of the intrigues which had taken place
in the Cabinet of "Jim Monroe" as he was
wont to style his old friend; almost every mem
Der of which had been an active candidate for
the succession. This famous rule was read to
the members of General JacksOn's Cabinet,
and they all admitted its reasonableness, and
promised compliance with it. There was,
however, but one member of the Cabinet Of
sufficient prominence to be thought of as a
candldate, and that was Martin van Buren,
Secretary of State. To him alone the rule
could be supposed to apply.
Andrew Jackson was not man to let slip
of writing paper interpose an obstacle to the
execution of his will, and means was readily
found of removing Mr.. Van Buren, from the
list of the excluded.
On General Jackson's inauguration day,
his most intimate friendss could not have
foretold who would finally stand high
est in his regard, Vice-President Calhoun
or Mr.. Van Buren,. The events which
led to the Presidents speedy and total
estrangement from Mr.. Calhoun, and which
induced him to dedicate himself, as it were to
the elevation of Mr.. Van Buren,, are too well
known to be related here. 1t sutfices merely
to remind the reader of the fact; and by that
fact the politics of the United States were not
merely Influenced, but controlled for period
of thirty years.-From the Northern Monthly, or
Neoo jersey Magazine for July: to be continued in
the August number.