The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-14

Four years later these dissensions haG
much increased, and O great effort was
made to turn out the Virginian dynasty,
but with no other result than to place
another disappointed Presidential aspi
rant in the list to which such men be-
long. Had George Clinton lived, some
thing effective might have been done
but he died early in 1912, a disappointed
man. His nephew, De Witt Clinton,
was nominated by the boiling Democrats
and the Federalists held a convention in
New York and resolved to support him.
After q warm conflict Mr.. Madison
was reelected, he receiving 1913 votes
but the SO votes that were given for DE
Witt Clinton showed how strong the op-
position had become, their vote having
gone up, per Saltuna, from AZ to 80, al
most doubling in four years. Elbridge
Gerry, of Massachusetts, was chosen
Vice President, his vote being 121 !; and
Jared Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, an old
Federalist, had Sc.
But before another election could take
place, everything had changed. The
in June, 1872; and most of the North
ern Federalists had so borne themselves
concerning it as to create the impression
that they were anxious for the success of
the enemy. The masses are always pat
riotic, and they "frowned upon" the
Federalists, who never afterward made
any figure as a national party so that
when the Presidential contest of 1916
began, the Democratic party alone had
much to do with it. In making their
arrangements there was another disap-
pointed aspiraLt placed conspicuously
before the country, and another Southern
man and the Federalist candidate made
third, and fourth had been created a
few years earlier. Early in 1913 John
Armstrong, of New York, had been
made Secretary of War. He had been
good soldier in the Revolution, and
his reputation as writer and author has
remained high, Notwithstanding his final
failure in politics. He wrote the New
burgh Letters, which made him sort
of American Junius. He served in the
National Senate, and he was Minister to
France in Napoleon 1. time. Made q
Brigadier General in 1872, he went soon
after into the Cabinet. He hoped to be
Madison's successor in 1877, but the
capture of Washington ruined him,
though he was not responsible for that
disgraceful event. 1t was believed that
the President wanted to get him out of
the way, for the purpose of being sue
ceeded by Mr.. Monroe, with whom he
had "made up, and who had been ap-
pointed Secretary of State, and who
acted rs Secretary of War after Gen.
Armstrong; retirement.
The New Workers then sought the
nomination of Gov. Daniel ID. Tompkins
for the Presidency, he having been very
useful In supporting the war when at
the head of their State but he had to
give way to Mr.. Monroe. Mr.. Craw-
ford, of Georgia, also hal to yield to
the Virginian. Mr.. Monroe had 1873
votes, and the same number was given
for Gov. Tompkins, who was chosen
Vice President. Rufus King, of New
York, the Federalist candidate, received
only thirty -four votes for the Presiden-
cy, and the. same number of votes for
the Vice Presidency was distributed
among four Federalists.
There was no contest in 1920, Monroe
and Tompkins being reelected with no
opposition worth mentioning. Conse-
quently there were no disappointed
aspirants created at that time; but
at the election of 1924 they cropped out
strongly. There were six aspirants to
the Presidency as Monroe's administra-
ton drew to close; Mr.. j. Q. Adams,
Gen. Jackson, Mr.. Crawford (who had
waived his claims" in 1870, De Witt
Clinton, Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Calhoun.
Mr.. Crawford was the "caucus candi-
date" Mr.. Calhoun postponed his pur-
pose, and became a successful candidate
for the Vice Presidency; and De Witt
Clinton did not persevere. The contest
lay between Crawford and the other
three aspirants. There was no choice
made by the electors, and Mr.. Adams
was chosen by the House of Representa-
tives.
In 1923 President Adams was beaten
by Gen. Jackson, and thus he, like his
father, was disappointed one-half, as he
failed only of reelection. The contest
was confined to those two great men, no
new aspirants appearing in the field; but
in 1882 there were four candidates, two
of whom were new men in the Presi-
Dental business. President Jackson
was reelected, and Mr.. Clay, who had
been badly beaten in 1924, was beaten
in the same manner in 1882. Mr.. VIM.
Writ, who had been United States Attor-
ney General from 1917 tc 1929, was the
anti Masonic candidate, and received
the electoral vote CD of Vermont; and
to John Floyd, of Virginia, were given
the IL votes of South Carolina.
There were five candidates at the cleo
ton of 1886, and Daniel Webster, per-
haps the greatest of all the disappointed
aspirants, obtained the IA votes of Mas
sachusetts; 26 were cast for Hugh l..
White, of Tennessee, an old Jackson !
man; and 70 for Gen. Harrison. Mr..
Van Buren was chosen President, the
number of his votes being 170. South
Carolina gave her IL votes to Willie p.
Mangum, of North Carolina.
The great battle of 1S40 was q square,
stand-up fight between the Democrats
and the united opposition, and the
former were beaten, President Van
Buren receiving only 60 votes, and Gen.
Harrison 234. With, perhaps, the ex-
ception of the campaign of 1872, there
is nothing like it in our history. There
were no new aspirants in it, but Mr..
Van Buren, was served like the Adamses,
h., fa;l;po, of a ra-alaofion Tho Whiua