The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-11-12

uncertain as 10 Rs outcome by the
candidacy Of william Writ. sun.
ported bS the then Anti!At5sonie
iarty. and that Of John Fil6td d
Vifeidia. But .iackson taeaigai
.2lg Electoral yoIes aud CIV bnt
40. The political contest N fSla
in which the Aboliti6nists l0r tbe
first time nominated d capdidais.
James q. Birney. OF Nav YORK.
was another exciting csmnaign'
james k Polk was stliecessfll1 INA
Henry CIay. The Wig eandIlate.
way defeated for tho Third titne. ie,
ceiying l05 out Of the rs Eleotdral
votes.
Martin Van Btretl was opposed
lin 1881 by William Henry Hafri.
son, Hugh L. White. Daniel Wsb.
ster and Willie p. Manrnm, The
great New England orator received
but fourteen votes, aud tlIis mas
his nearest reach to that Office, ii
Though II was known that ne had
str,Ing aspirations to an Office that
cnuld have added notbing 10 his
high fame. While his .reSntation
as an orator was NOT at all dimtned
BY that II Henry Clay. and bids
| fair 10 uutliye IL, he AID NOT nv Inc
Uncertainties Of a national cam.
paign 81 often. 5sl'@
The ahatd CIDER carnpaipn FIJI.
flowed. when Martin Van Baren
was defeated by William Henry
Harrison, whom be had defeated
four years before. DANES G. Biz.
ney was again the Liberal" can
didate. af,ittle Van" received but
forty,eight electoral votes. He was
the Free Soil candidate of 1913,
and as such was buddy distanced.
Lewis Cas-, the Democratic can.
didate. was the PRINCIPAL of the de.
feated candidates Of ls4S, when
| Zachary TAYLOR was elected. Cass
had been distinguished In both the
military and civil service Of his
country. lad been Senator. Ssore.
laryof War and Minister Ia France,
und returned to the Senate after
his defeat for the Presidency. wind
ing up his career ~ Buchapan's
Secretary Of State.
In 1852 the Wings again nut nm
a military hero. Winfield Scott.
The leading parties we're anxious
to avoid the slayery question.
which was then tugglng at The
bonds of the Union and the Who's
were afraid to nominate the man
of their hearts. Daniel Webster.
while Lewis Cass would have been
the Democratic nominee but for
his former deteat. The gallant
Scott was defeated md Franklin
Pierce. whose medincre talents
made him parhaps n sIfer rular k,r
those aeitated times, was cbnset
John p. Halo was fbe Frse xii
candidate, md received nboYt mi
the popular vote lint Ind bean
given 10 Van luren. s,.ott was
every inch n soldier. the snn nj n
Revolutionary Cap,nin. Ilis la.
tiers gave his friends M much tro,,.
bic almos, MS Blaine's now ciye Sis
supporters, though, unlike Blsina's
they we're not writlen 10 he bm,csd
SENT clairnnl to ho ,roa, raI;,ss,i
by his defeSt, 'N'''N
john 6. Fremont. lha Ranubli.
can candidate, "a ,,rd the onll II 5s.
feat in 1876 when hines R,chan.
an was elected. The ,pstbander,i
still lives, and was recently trottsd
out To add ecIat IN RISi"ais HIM
drome IN It's North. We @lr l rayaI.
Millard Fillmore, the "Americana
candidate. Ind eirht elpctoral votes
stepben 4. Douolas, J"bn G.
Breckinr;l,s onI In poII ,oso
Abraham Iineoln's con,petitnrs in
1860 The civil war which fnllow
ed tbis rIestinn drova T,inonjn's
brilliant Democratic comneiilnrs ~
opposing sides. md DnngIas cavo
his activity md elnoTe5oe o. The
aid Of the Union while Brcrk;n.
ridge became the Confedernts Vim
President, '''
General Georca R Mcc1stlon r,0
the Democratic nominal Of iSei
His poliLicnl cam na;sn wos ns
brilliant md as n,,inr,unala nc
those in the military fisld and he o
received b"t 81 ~ ,ha gga o,a",rSa I
votes. wy -'O ''1'
Horatio sevmour woe Gonorol.
Grants frst c"mnr,;,nr for tSa
Presidency, His d;Sting,;sbad I ra.
reer in Ia noIi,ira ~ Nav Ynrt
and his birh ebnractcr, moralI~
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