Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-01-04
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isdhlo at Presidential Elections J = -
Sss SssFromths Enauirer.jji y as
The near approach Of tho .Prness,iisd ns,is ded- T.
tiat election, and the interest felt t, ip
he resultsby all sorts, of men, sand ioi
oman and children too, in the, fact
" q 0hiois always held as ardohbtfdl
Ina Is q inclines one tothe opinion that
stat E ilectpfal vote, and for whom giyl
her l lS os'uldTFbe as useful a sketch sf
en-, wsIfSs Il tms Politics. as could well be
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wrlfep i Sgreats Presidential. fight. Of
IN the @sp ME- jefferson succeeded
lSeV, swne eEsdams Ohio had no~vote!
the elqesA Sst SSss APART Of The Territory
She YVES ;tnel.,I the River Ohio. Pa The
NortnWest oW rev ont Of That. contest,
1eelfhgsTu'cnE ict that under the then
causeas e5 1e = estitution the two high
ciauseei sne Jon j. ss siyihg votes foE p res
est can.sva -, a.sheN ~ g, g fthe two, if a ma
idens tne nighes' number cast, lbet
1orieyyoLgsne ynoie lext highest Vice.
came tssiuSl,, ~ 'uo and Aaron Burr
IresiSehe. 'enersVn -. umber of Elec.
DOM HaFsSnsS llsu9s' ZEE in number
while John Adams h.-. H. ~ ss;n,sa, .s;AS5 !, !
four. Y Mr.. Pinckney, on. lass \.
VIII Muais ~, ~, nau ss ssolo ~. !. -the mem-,
bers ofthe Electoral College .,.,y rtSS 81 S.sS "a
ments to drop, the candidate / ts;ri iona ~
to be- Vice. President, as. was & o s;s,. q.
the case aasee ofSasPineEhey on the II s'SAas I ~
with Adams, but II was not dom q ~, ~
the case of Aaron Burr on the tic !. n sss
with Thomas Jefferson, and hence } y
ferson and Burr received precisely IT, n
same number of votes. The election y
had to be decided by the. House nof i
Representatives in Congress- The Fed {
eral nembers, as rule, to create dis 0
cord in the Democratic ranks, voted T
for Burr for President, who after
protracted contest, was defeated, and i
jefferson elected. Fearing, at the
next Presidential election, that Mr.. l(
jefferson might be defeated, Ohio, con- I
sidered reliably Democratic, was
brought into the Union in hot haste,
and at the election of 1904 cast her
three Electoral votes for Mr.. Jefferson
almostswithout contest. and SO il. con. +
tinued voting for Madison in 1908
and 1872, sand for James Monroe in {
1915 and in 1920 without opposition
to either worth speaking Of.
In iS24athere were three Electoral !
tickstsvotea for in Ohio, there being
fouE candidates in the feld-Clay,
jackson, Adams and Crawford. There
was no Crawford electoral ticket nom
mated in Ohio The vote stood for
hesClay Electoral ticket 1926 votes;
forsJ ackson, I8,457; for John Quincy
Adams, 1880 The meager majority
of 76$, of Clay over Jackson gave the
sixteen Electoral votes of Ohio to Mr..
Clay The electoral vote of the Union
stood: Jackson, SO; Adams, 81; Craw-
ford, Al; CLAY, 81. Neither of the can
didates RECEIVING majority of all the
votes cast there was no election, and
hence it devolved upon the asHonse oil
Representatives to elect the choice be
ing tcenfned to the three highest. At
that election thirteen out of the thenit
twenty -four States cast theirvotes ford
Me. Adams and elected him. But
seven States voted for Jackson. al
though hereceived the Electoral vote
of eleyensStates, while Mr. Adams re-
ceiyed asssmajority Of the Electoral
vote of but eight States. In Congress
the vote cf Ohio was cast TO. Mr.,
Adams, although be got one-third
less yotesln the State than Jackson.
The Ivoteeeof Kentucky was also given
to'Mr. Adams, whose friends in that
State ran no Electoral ticket
1nilS2S, Mr.. Adams again being
candidate, the contest was bitter be-
yond precedent. The battle was as
much personal as political 1t aliena-
tee families ar d lifelong. friends. The.
personal friends Of Henry Clay, aud
their name was many, entered into
thg contest against jackson in Ohio
dSs III OtuOt pbdtcS, dfAu cu utcucdi bcucu
forsa timeswere the supporters Of Gem
eral jackson that in the preliminary
contest for Governor, which took place
on the Second Tuesday Of October,
1925, many OF them failed to attend
the election. But when the returns
came in, and il was found that John
WI Campbell, the jackson candidate,
and in many parts Of the State un-
known tosthe mass Of the voters, was
only,beaten ABOUT 1000 votes by the
Adams Candidate, Allen Tfiinbies.
one 1f the best known and popular
mensin the State, the jackson men
took heart, and at the FresidentiaE
election on the 3latlspf October gave
thySgaclsgn Elect9 4! kst "A tnajcrifs' ,lis
ty0ftho table before me tsays, "a y20l
$50. ,,3h4Va HtttHAlisJ
VuD0ssi tA4se5 sasatl .vssaN1A
General jackson received twenty out