The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-08

dent Madison. with Elbridge Gerry. of
Massachusetts. vice president. Madison re-
ceived lbs electoral votes to 50 fer DEWITT
Clinton. In 1916. II the eighth presidential
election. James Monroe OF Virginia was
elected president. Wis Daniel u. Tompkins
sf New York. vice PRESIDENT MOnroe's I'M
successful competitor was Rufus King. of
New York, who received only - electoral
votes out OF 2l7. Monroe and TOmpkins
were reelected in lS20. at the ninth R,6i-
dental election practically without OT5Y11si-
ton, single electoral vote being east for
John Quincy Adams. This was the EZRA of
good feeling" At the next or tenth
presidential election. in 1921. there was
fierce struggle which resulted in throwing
the election into the House of Representa-
tyes. After $500 the presidential candi-
dates had been nominated by congressional
caucuses, but in 1927 the caucus system
broke down. fscre were four candidates
IN the field Andrew Jackson received 81
electoral votes, John Quincy Adams
~, William IT, Crawford II. and Henry
Clay 81. None OF the candidates i'm this
famous scrub race having received
4 majority of the electoral votes the election
devolyed upon the House OF Representa-
uVes which chose Mr.. Adams. At the elev-
enth presidential election in lS2S. Andrew
Jackson and John e. Calhoun We're elected
president and vice president, beating John
Quincy Adams and Richard Rush.
The twelfth presidential election. in 1872
X remarkable because in that wear the first
National Democratic convention was held
Andrew Jackson was nominated for a second
term, with Martin Van Buren, for vice presi-
dent The candidates thus nominated We're
each elected over three competitors. The
thirteenth presidential election. in 1876. re-
suited in the election Of Martin Van Buren,
Nominated by national Democratic con-
ventIon in lo,s'-oyer three opposition can
didates. In 1880 the Wings held their
nrst national convention. They nominated
Gen. William III. Harrison. of Ohio, for pres
ident, and John Tyler. of Virginia. for vice
president, and elected their ticket by large
majority-at the fourteenth presidential
election IN $780, beating Martin Van Buren,,
who had been re-Dominated for president by
the Democrats. Tie fifteenth presidential
election. IN 1874. resulted in the election OF
James h Polk. nemscrat. over Henry
Clay, Wing. The electoral vote of
New York decided the contest and in
New York a few thousand votes deter
mined the result. But for third partv
movement by the aboltionists. who had
nominated James &. Birney for president at
Butlalo in 1913, Clay would have been elect
ed. The sixteenth presidential canvass, in
1915, resulted in favor of the Whigs owing
TO the Democratic free soil movement The
wing candidates. Zachary Taylor and Willard
Fillmore, were chosen over Lewis CAS- and
William o. Butler, Democrats. ssld Martin
Van Buren, and Charles Francis Adams, free
soilerS. At the seventeenth presidential
election. in 1852, Franklin Pierce and Viii
liam Il. King, Democrats were elected over
Winfield Scott and William a. Graham,
Wings.
At the eighteenth presidential election in
ls56. the present Republican party was for
the first time in the field. while the so-called
American party formed third organization
The election resulted in favor of James
Buchanan and John c. Breckenridge. Dem
ocrats, over John G.. Fremont and William
l.. Dayton, Republicans. and Willard Fill
more and y. J. Donaldson. Amcri-
cans. The nineteenth presidential cleo
zion, in 1850, found four ii, Let in
the field. The Republicans noni-
mated Abraham Lincoln of1llinOis, aud Han
nibal Hamlin OF Maine. The Democrats split
up into two factions, the one nominating
Stephen A. Douglas and the other John &.
Breckenridge for president. A fourth ticket
headed by John Bell of Tennessee, was nom
mated by the union party. Lincoln was
elected by a minority of the peo-
pie, but by considerable ma or-
ity of the electoral votes. The TWEEN
tieth presidential election, in 1864 resulted
in favor of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson, Republicans. over George II. Ne
Clellan and q. H. Pendleton, Democrats.
At the tWenty-firSt presidential election in
ls6S, Ulysses :. Grant and Schuyler COlfaX.
Republicans. elected over HOratio
Seymour and Frank p Blair, ir., Democrats.
The twenty-scc0nd presidential election in
1872. resulted i'm favor OF Ulysses = Grant
and Henry Wilson. Republicans. who were
chosen over Horace Greeley and b. Graft
Brown, candidates of the Liberal Republican
and Democratic parties.