The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-20

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lily the House Of Representatives shall
choose from the three. candidates having
the highest number Of votes, President,
aud II they fail to do 30 before March 4
the viee.P President shall act In that cspact-
", as In case Of death or other eensttti.
tional disability OF the President. II both
Offices become vacant anew election. Will
be ordered and will proceed as above.
Previous to 1904 the electors voted for
two names, the one receiving the highest
number 70 be declared President OF the
United States and the next highest vice
President. Since 1904, however, separate
ballots have been cast for each Office.
The First Electoral College
was composed Of sixty.nine electors, there
being two vacancies each in Maryland and
Virginia. Only ten Of the thirteen States
took part in this vote; New York having
failed to agree on the mode OF choosing
electors, and North Carolina and Rhode
Island not having ratified the constitu-
ton in time to vote. During the earlier
elections, before party politics had become
were selected from the leading men Of the
country, irrespective Of their personal or
political feelings and opinions, aud their
constituents were satisfied 10 abide by the
result OF their vote. Six OF the members
OF the first college were signers to the
declaration Of Independence, twenty-one
had been members Of the Continental
Congress, and two, Samuel Huntington,
OF Connecticut and Henry Laurens, Of
South Carolina. had served as president OF
that body. The delegation from Massa.
chusetts was as follows: Caleb Davis and
David Sewall at large, and the below
named by districts: l. Samuel Phillips, jr.
g. Walter Spooner; 8. Francis Dana; 4
Moses Gill; s. Samuel Henshaw; 6. vii.
liam Cushing;7. William Sever; s viii.
liam Shepard. There was no opposition |
to the election OF Washington 10
1872, the only contest being on
the second name, but Mr.. Adams |
was elected both terms. In 1889 the con.
vention, or college, was composed Of ten
states, and sixty.nine electors voting: and
in 1902, 1872 electors voted from fifteen |
states. The agitation OF party politics ip |
1895 made the election very close one,
and the sixteen states sent full vote OF
1888 electors. Adams Was elected Presi-
dent, receiving seventy-one votes to sixty.
eight for Jefferson, the Republican lead.
or, who was made vice-President. Four
years later the vote was tie (73) for Pres.
ident, between Jefferson and Aaron Burr,
Republican candidates, and for the first
time In the history ofthe Constitution the
election was thrown into the House OF
Representatives, which was strongly Fed.
eralist. The state OF South Carolina, with
eight votes, carried the day for the Fed.
eralists in the electoral college, against
Adams and Pinckney, New England cast
a solid vote 1897 for Adams, and, with one
exception. in Rhode Island, for PinCkney.
After q bitter contest Of six days, in which
each state could vote for one candidate,
either Jefferson or Burr, the former was
elected President on the thirty.six ballot,
by the following vote: For Jefferson, Geor.
gia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia-l0,
For Burr; Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire AMI Rhode Islan1-4:I
blank, Delaware and South Oarolina-2
In 1904. seventeen States and l76 electors
voted, Jefferson and Clinton receiving 1872
each, and the Federalist candidates, Pick.
ney and King, received "a. The electors
ct this time cast separate ballots for Presi.
dent and ice-President, and tho Massa.
chusetts electors, 10 in number, cast q SOL
id ballot for the Republicans, for the first
tine since the constitution was formed.
In 1908 Madison received the votes oil nine
States and part OF the votes Of two more
-l22 In all, and the remaining So votes
we're divided between pinckney and
George Cliaton, Madison aud De Witt @.
Clinton were opposing candidates in 1872,
the former being elected by vote oil l2S
to SO. In 1915 and 1920 the Republicans
carried the elections with little opposition,
and only one ELECTORAL vote was cast
against Monroe In the latter year, and
that from New Hampshire. The ''scrub.
race" for the Presidency In 1924 resulted
In the election OF John Quincy Adams by
the House OF Representatives, thirteen L
States voting for him, seven ior jackson
aud four for Crawford. jackson was
elected At the two subsequent elections,
and yice-P President Van Buren, was his
successor in 1885. He was defeated by
Harrison in 1870. James &. Polk won the
administration OF the Democrats in 1874,
but the Wings, under Zachary Taylor,
were victorious four years later. The next
two elections we're easy conquests for the
Democracy, and from that time (lS60) TO
the present the reins Of the government
have been controlled by the Republican
party. In 1871.
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