The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-21
PERSONAL RECoLLECTIoNs.
BY THE EDITOR.

My very earliest recollection about
political matters was in the year 1924
Ny father voted for John Quincy Adams
for President. In the year 1928 there
was great excitement. 1t was charged
that Adams had been elected in 1924 in
pursuance of bargain and sale. In 1924
there were four candidates, Adams, Jack
son, Crawford and Clay jackson had
the most electoral votes, but not ma
jority, and the election went into the
House of Representatives, where dams,
with the aid of Clay's friends, was elected
Clay was appointed Secretary of State by
Adams, and continued in that position
during the four years of the administra-
ton of Adams. 1t was charged, and per-
haps with truth, that Clay sold out to
Adams for the position of Secretary of
State.
claim that the Democratic party had
its origin in the year 1928. True, the
name was not fully adopted then. The
Wings were known as the Administra-
ton party, and they called the Demo
Gratis "Jacksonians." l was a boy ten
years of age, but was almost instructive
ly Whig-not because my father was a
Wing, but for another reason, which l
will give. / noticed that nearly every
sober, decent, honest man was Whig,
while every drunken ruffian seemed nat
urally to be Jacksonian. When you
would see an ignorant fellow, half drunk,
riding bare-backed, or on a sheepskin,
tow-string for a bride and hickory bark
for stirrups, with his hair protruding
through the top of his old hat, bare feet.
or encased in moccasins made of the
skin of a stolen hog, you was sure to see
Jacksonian. Speak of politics, and he
would swing his piece of hat and shout
''hurraw for Gineral Jackson by Cd"
l heard all about the shooting of the six
militia men by order of Gen. jackson;
l heard all about Arbuthnot and Am
brister; l heard all about Gen. jackson
disoqeying the writ of habeas corpus, and
being fined one thousand dollars, and
how he sent the Judge to prison who
fined him, and his tyrannical and cruel
disposition generally. was old enough
to understand these matters pretty we'll );
but what gave me kind of horror of
Jacksonian Democracy was the character
of the men who composed the party.
Gen. jackson, as all know, was re-
elected in the year 1882. think that
was the year when William Allen and
Duncan Macarthur were candidates for
Congress in this district. jackson and
Ross counties were then in the same
Congressional district. Allen was elected
by one majority. l have heard many
causes assigned for Aliens election
Since his nomination for Governor it has
been stated that he was elected by a
Whig voting for him because Allen had
once stopped over night at his house
ButI know why Gov. Macarthur was de-
feated. My family were the cause of it.
and sorely did they repent of it. Nv
only brother was cripple, and never
walked after he was fourteen years of
age. He was voter in 1892 With
some difficulty he could ride horseback.
There were neither roads nor buggies in
those days. The day of that election was
cold rain, and we lived two miles from
the place where the election was held.
and my father and brother thought that
two votes in the Congressional district
would make no difference So they did
not go, and Allen had one majority. If
they had done their duty, Macarthur
would have had one majority That
failure sent the Chinese Gong" "Petti-
coat Allen" as he was afterwards called,
to Congress. Years afterwards he was
sent to the Senate and now he is ressur-
rected by the Democracy as candidate
for Governor of Ohio. All because two
men failed to go to the election forty
one years ago.