Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-12-05
THE PRESIDENTS.

widespread, and intense interest in q
presidential campaign has ever been
felt or manifested than in the contest
which has just closed The hearty
and enthusiastic hard cider campaign
OF 1910, resulting in the triumph of
Gen. Harrison cold Tippecanoe').
over Martin Van Buren, Oittle MAT.
tie Van'D. and the more notable and
better remembered campaign of 1860,
when Abraham Lincoln Gather Abra-
ham Uncle Abe-Honest Old Abe
The Rail Splitter of the West) became
the choice of the people as their chief
in the dark and troublous DAYS of
doubt and uncertainty that forshad-
owed the storm of secession and trea-
son, SO soon to burst in its fury upon
the land-though both were campaigns
OF remarkable interest and historical
mportance-arc yet surpassed by the
one now closing both in intensity of
feeling and partisan bitterness.
The close of President Arthur's
term of office on the 4th of March next
will complete the twenty-fourth presi-
dental term of four years each since
the adoption of the federal constitu-
ton. During this period of ninety-six
years twenty-one different persons
have occupied that high office. OF
these seventeen were elected and four
succeeded to its honors from the vice
presidency upon the death of the presi-
dent. Of the seventeen elected, two
viz, Thomas Jefferson (for his first
term) and John Quincy Adams-were
elected by the house of representatives
IN accordance with the constitution,
the electoral colleges in these two in
stances having failed to make a choice,
and one-viz., Rutherford B. HAYES -
was declared elected upon the ascer-
tanned results as declared by an elec-
toral commission specially created to
adjudicate the disputed and memorable
election of 1876. Seven presidents
were reelected to a second term-Viz..
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe, jackson, Lincoln, and Grant
and ten to but single term-viz, John
Adams, his son, John Quincy Adams,
Van Buren. Harrison, Polk, TAYLOR,
Pierce, Buchanan, Hayes, and Garfield
The contingent presidents have been,
John Tyler, Millard Fillmore. Andrew
Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur, thew
succeeding to the presidency upon the
death of Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln,
and Garfield, respectively. But two
eX-presidents are now livingston.
Ulysses 5. Grant and Rutherford b.
Hayes. When % is Inaugural
ted March 4 next, Chester A. Arthur
will make the third, should neither be
removed by death before that time.
During the eight years of Gen. Grants
presidency, beginning March 4, 1869,
eX-Presidents Pierce, Fillmore, and
johnson died in the order named Gen.
Grant, was, therefore, upon his retire
ment from the white house in 1877, the
only living eX-president, this being the
only instance of the kind since Presi-
dent Washington retired to private
life III 1897.
Washington's first Inauguration took
place IN the city of New York; his |
second in Philadelphia, where John
Adams was also inaugurated. Jeffer-
son was the first president inaugurated |
at Washington, where all subsequent
lnaugurations have taken place-with |
the possible exception of that of Presi- |
dent Arthur. The vice president be-
ing in New York city at the time of the
presidents death, the oath of Office
was administered to him at his resi-
dence in that city by Judge Brady.
Gen. Grant was the youngest of the
presidents when inaugurated, being
Al; Pierce and Garfield were 40; Polk |
and Fillmore, 80; Tyler 81; Lincoln,
52; Van Buren, and Taylor, 55 Wash
ingtOn and johnson, 81; Jefferson,
Madison, and John Quincy Adams, SO;
Monroe, 50; John Adams and jackson,
62; Buchanan, 66; Harrison, 6S.