Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-31
oun y.cK.PREsIDENTs.


ouR yICE-PREsIDENTs.
Planning down the list Of men who
h.x. been raised to the dignity Of the
second highest Office in the gift of the
American people. We reflect as We look
At the names that il would seem as though
tho candidates for the yice-Presidency
had been usually chosen as sort OF
balance weights for the more prominent
ana far Chief Executive. Hamlin was
the opposite Of Lincoln. then johnson
ON the second ticket. who was entirely
opoosite to Lincoln In mental charac-
teristics. Smiler Coliax was the shall
lowest aud most insincere man ever
in the Senste's Presidential Chair and
directly opposed to Grant. who is. or at
least was. thoroughly honest in his con.
yictions. Henry Wilson. the present in
cumbent, is one OF those Aabby jelly
men that are neither one thing or the
other. Frank Blair. Jr., was one Of the
most thorough Americans ever proposed
for the position. Looking back before
tho war, We hnd VIM. l.. Dayton and
John @. Breckinridge and Andrew Jack
son Donnelson. the nephew and adopted
son OF Old Hickory. fighting for the Sec
ond Office in tho gift Of the people. in
1856, while Butler and King. less re-
membered but vigorous men. did the
same in 1852. Dayton for "Vice," be-
hind Fremont for President. in 1856,
made the Republican ticket then as
Kangaroo thing as could be imagined.
No other name ever appealed so strongly
TO the imagination of Young Americans
a. Fremont's did. No man was per.
haps ever 80 notwithstanding TO observa.
ton. His portraits as restudied sug.
gest a combination made up Of wha,
might now be called the Oliver p. Nor.
ton and the Buffalo Bill qualities. He
was thought to be stalwart in person
and mind. and his tremendous hail
parted counterwise aud his bushy beart
made counterfeit presentment for wo
men to worship ana men to follow Il
the death. The presentment was coun
terfeit In rare sense. 1t was an i'm
mense pictorial job put up on the people
Fremont's physical qualities are OF I
mean sort. He is barely over five feet
high. His form lis frsil. STOPPING and
puerile. His features are commonplace
aud he has sunk from pioneer and
statesman Ia q wild land Spectator
under indictment in France, in con
tumaoiam, and identified with thu
vocation OF subsidy getting ant
stock imitation in these States
His family connection with Thomas H
Benton was one OF his strongest cards
Is that veteran statesman threw all hi
influence in favor Of his son.in-law. Ye
Fremont came near defeating such a
accomplished statesman, complete gen
tleman and illustrious patriot James Blu
chsnan. and he was put in front Of Wn
L. Dayton, a man with more OF Wei
ster's captivating vices and commando
virtues than any other man Of our time
Jurist, statesman. orator. scholar, mast
OF root English, with ON ability to alta
excellence almost without labor and
all his parts grandiose, VIM. l.. Dayt'
was the greatest Jerseyman ever pr
duoed. and as great in his physical inc
lence AZ In anything else. He would h'
bench of the judges and the bar OF
State entranced while lolling In an eli
chair. He dictated his magnificent bri
and orations swinging in his hammo
on his porch, or in his library. He Ii
next to the State House. that his jour-
to Court might be brief. John Cab
Breckenridge beat him for tho Weep
idsncy. His versatile abilities in aft
have just received grateful recogniti
He carried into politics aud war. gu
ties which had made his ancestors
greatest controversial theologians 1
polemical preachers of Calvinistic Am
lea. Robert J. Breckenridge being
other Chalmers and William Breckinri
another Knox. The retrospective 8
dent OF affairs sees nothing in the p'
Of Dayton and Breckenridge to make
ashamed that his countrymen propo
them for the second Office in their {
1t would seem as though the candida
for Vice. Presidential honors have b
chosen more as necessary adjunct
fill up the ticket than as a probable o.
executive, the latter contingency be
apparently little thought Of in the |
Of political conflict. The recent pro,
nent and partially ignoble part borne
two Vice-Presidents will probably leat
more care Of selection and attention
requisite fitness on the part Of the ,
eral National Conventions in the ensu
Presidential campaign.
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