Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-02


have resulted III dusls had il not been
Tor the danger 81 one 81 the CONTESTANTS
being killed, thereby giving the other
side majority Of one. Finally On the
thirty sixth ballet, Jefferson won, and
Burr was declared Vice-P President
In 1904 Jefferson was reelected Presl-
dent By I48 out Of 176 electoral votes,
and Clinton was chosen Yice-President.
There was not much of q contest at this
election. the bitterness Of the former
having nearly all disappeared. Before
his first election jefferson had said he
would not remove the officials appointed
by his predecessors. President Adams
put in the last two days OF his term
signing commissions for his friends, and
hurriecly left Washington city, to
which the capitol had been removed
shortly before, refusing to remain for the
Inauguration ceremonies. lie was very
sore toward jefferson. and they re-
manned at swords points for several
years, but finally became friends again,
and both died on the same day, July 4,
1925, and within an hour or two of the
same time. John Adams lived long
enough. however, to have the extreme
satisfaction of seeing his son. John
Quincy Adams, inaugurated as sixth
President of the United States.
The campaign in which John @. Adj
ans was elected was the FIRST one OF real
exciting interest, at least as far as the
general public were concerned. Presi-
dent Monroe had made him his sec
rotary of state. Having been min
lister to Russia and being p0pu-
lar among men of letters, he was easily
induced to believe he was bigger man
than old Monroe Scarcely had he got
ten his seat fairly warmed until che pres
idential bee began buzzing around the
heads of William H. Crawford, secretary
Of the treasury, and John G. Calhoun,
secretary of war; Henry Clay and An
drew jackson were also brought out,
making five candidates in all.
1t was regular political circus. Each
candidate had y strong following. and
they went at each other hammer and
tongs, making the fire fly. Jackson
was denounced as a backwoods ssYah0o, y
Adams was held up as an aristocrat.
Crawford and Calhoun as .'fire-eaters, y
and Clay as nothing more than an orator
in particular and a. backwOodsman In
general The people became excited,
and many were the broken heads and
bloody noses at 'stumpmeetings They
were stump meetings in fact, as they
were usually held in the woods, the
speaker standing on stump 1t was in
this campaign that political speeches be-
came known as stump speeches" The
contest betcen jackson and Clay was
particularly bitter, they both being from
the West.
The election resulted in eighty four
electoral votes for Adams, ninety mine
for Jackson, forty-one for Crawford,
thirty-seven for Clay, Calhoun having
withdrawn in favor of Crawford. There
being no choice, the election was thrown
into the House of Representatives, where
Clay had influence enough to beat Jack
son and elect Adams. This action made
jackson hosts Of friends, and ruined the
prospects of young Harry of the West. "
He was nude secretary of state by Adams,
but jackson was afterward elected Presi-
dent by an overwhelming majority.
Clay was defeated twice for the nominal
ton afterward, and finally for election
in 1874, which virtually caused his
death.