Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-09-30
g. VICE PRESIDENTS.

COFy VI tuc TcpuDllC uuc V1Cc pres
ident has succeeded to the Office of
president. As the office Of vice
president was considered by the
Trainers of the constitution to be
furthermore ornamental than useful,
it soon became the custom of the par
ties in their nominating conven.
tions, to select the candidate from
that branch of the party that had
been defeated in the first choice and
thus in almost every instance the
vice president has been elected
who was not in all things in full
accord with the president of the
nation,
In 1s40 the whig party nominated
William Henry Harrison, Of Ohio,
for president, passing by Mr.. Clay,
of Kentucky, because he was from
the slave states and selected man
from the north, and then to propiti-
ate the south selected John Tyler,
from Virginia, for Vice President.
Gen. Harrison was inaugurated on
the fourth day of March, 1871. He
was an old man and the fatigue of
the journey to Washington from
his home near Cincinnati and the
excitement of the Inauguration fes-
tivities, as we'll as the strong de-
mand upon his time by the large
crowd of Office seekers, was too much
for his strength and he died on the
fourth Of April, just one month af-
ter his assumption of the Office.
He was succeeded by Mr.. Tyler
who seemed deeply moved by the
event and issued an address at the
time of taking the oath in which
he promised to carry out the
same policy and principles
on which General Harrison
had started. The country was
in great distress financially and la
mented the death of the president
very deeply. The hopes that had
been kindled by his election in the
year previous seemed doomed to
disappointment, and they were for
a time revived by the tone of Mr..
Tyler's inaugural. A few months
passed and it was found that the
views of the new president and the
majority Of the whig party in con-
gress were very opposite to each
other, and from that time to the
close Of his administration in 1915,
Mr.. Tyler proved a disappointment
to his party and to the nation.
The next occasion was in 1S49,
when Ii|lard Fillmore, of New
York, succeeded Gen. Zachary Tay-
lor. Gen. Taylor had been a sue
ceSsful general in the war with
Mexico, which breaking out in 1916
was vigorously prosecuted to
successful close in 1913, and result
ed in the acquisition of new
territory including California, New
Mexico, Arizona and a part Of COL
orado. Gen. Taylor was from Lou
isiana. He WAS the tathcr-ln law
Of Jefferson Davis, then prominent
in the politics Of the southern
states. AS Gen. Taylor had always
been in the army his politics were
not generally known and he was
brought forward by the whig party
because cf his great popularity and
as candidate sure to be elected;
but to conci!iate thcnorthern states
Mr.. Fillmore was nominated for vice
president. The ticket was elected
by a handsome majority and the ad-
ministration Of General TAYLOR be-
gan; the country was prosperous,
the opening Of the new territory
acquired from Mexico, the discoy.
cry of gold in California, gave
wonderful! impetus to the energies of
the nation, and the hopes Of the ad-
vocates Of slavery extension were
revived and the new fields were
locked upon by the south with long,
ing eyes. In the midst Of this
Pesident Taylor was taken sick and
died from fatigue and exposure in
very hot sun on. the fourth day
of July, 1S49 in the ceremonies at
tending the laying of the found
alton Stone of the Washington
monument. Mr.. Fillmore succeed
ed him and his administration was
not marked by any remarkable
event. He did not quarrel with
his political friends, nor did he
warmly espouse any Of their leading
measures, and he retired to private
life at it's close and was never
again in public Office.
The circumstances Of the death
of Mr.. Lincoln and of the success
sion of Mr.. johnson to the presi-
dency are too recent and well
known to need dwelling upon them
at length. It was the first time
that the death of the President was
procured by violence. The second
time is now upon us. In the midst
of the hopes and prayers of the ma.
tion Mr.. Garfield has gone to his
rest and the nation stands with ST.
lent and hopeful eyes to look at
what his successor will do. Let us
hope that he will not disappoiut
them.
London Truth. No man attacks
the reputation Of a youth as women
attack that Of a girl. The man
who should come into his club and
whisper about damning stories of
his friends young son, who should
accuse him of dishonorable doings,
such as would ruin the lads charac-
ter as thoroughly as the charge of
immodesty, flirting with married
men and the like, ruin that of a
girl, would soon have the room to
himself. But women over the tea
table gather up the crumbs of scan
dal with relish and appreciation,
and even the mothers of girls are
not ashamed to believe and repeat
stories against their dear friends
daughters which may have no foun.
dation in fact, and which, even if
true, they have no means of proving
and testing.