St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
FROM JACKSON TO CLEvELAN d.
striking Parallels Beftcpen Men and Events
of the Taco Periods.

StflklHU fuFUttPtS fSeflcPPn w en- ana EcenCs
of the T,c0 Periods.
Miss Snead of Washington Miss Grundy,
has recently contributed to the Courier
Journal an interesting article, showing GER
tain points of analogy between Cleveland:
and Jackson's first election and the attend
ing circumstances.
To begin with, the dates of the election
fall on the same day of the week and month
Tuesday, Nov. 4. The electoral colleges
met on Wednesday, Dec. g. Again the vote
will be counted Ia the presence of the two
houses Of congress on Wednesday, Feb. II,
and Inauguration day will be on the same
day of the week-Wednesday March 4-aud,
let us hope, on as suspicious day, for it is
recorded that the day of Jackson's inaugu.
ration was one of the brightest and balmiest
of the spring.
The condolences extend to many other
points. Parton says In summing up the
events in the Jackson campaign: "The
scepter was about to be wrested from the
hands of those who had not shown them
selves worthy to hold it. When they felt it
going, however, they made vigorous clutch,
and lost it only after desperate struggle. -
This might have been taken from the col
umns of Democratic paper last Novem Der,
so applicable is 1t to the recent campaign.
The tariff situation was in many respects
identical. The following, from jackson IS
inaugural address, reads well to-day: "With
regard to proper selection of the subjects
of import, with view to revenue, it would
seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution
and com promise, in which the constitution
was formed, requires that the great interests
Of agriculture, commerce and manufacture
should be equally favored"
Again, In regard to the public service, Gen.
jackson says that public sentiment demands
the correction OF those abuses that brought
the patronage Of the federal government into
conflict with the freedom of elections, and
the counteraction Of those causes which have
disturbed the rightful course of appointment,
and have placed or continued In power I'M
faithful or incompetent hands"
Like Jackson, Cleveland seems thus far TO
be keeping the secret as to the formation of
his cabinet and his future course. Cleveland
was the first governor of New York to resign
that Office since Martin Van Buren,, who re-
signed TO enter Jackson's cabinet.
There will be enormous crowds here to see
Mr.. Cleveland inaugurated. Daniel Webster
wrote in 1929: 81 never saw such a crowd
here before. People have come 500 miles to
see Gen. Jackson, and they really seem to
think that the country is rescued from some
dreadful danger"
Many names that were prominent In the
Jackson campaign have again come to the
front. John Quincy Adams was then presi-
dent His grandson aud namesakc last
November ran for congress In Massachusetts,
Isaac Hill was a Jackson leader in New
Hampshire. His son was the Democratic
candidate for governor Of that state last
year. James Gordon Bennett and the New
York Herald were ardent supporters Of jack
sou. His son ana namesake put the names Of
the successful Democratic candidates at the
head of his columns, thing not done in
manyyears. VIM. Hendricks, uncle of the vice
president-elect, was senator from Indiana
from 1925 to 1887, having previously been
governor OF that state from 1922 to 1925,
another curious incident, Gen. William Harry
Harrison, grandfather OF the present senator
from Indiana, was senator from Ohio
from 1926 10 1923. John S. Barbour, father
of Representative Barbour of Virginia was a
representative from Culppcper court house.
Richard Stockton and Robert T. Stockton.
afterwar1 commodore, grandfather and
father Of ex-senator John p. Stockton, Of
New Jersey, were then prominent In public
life. Secretary Frelingbuysen's uncle and
adopted father, Theodore Frrlingbuysen. was
a senator from New Jersey through jack
sons first administration.
The only points where there is no parallel
will be in the Inauguration. Gen.
Jackson came TO Washington saddeDed
at the recent death Of bis
wife, and strongly expressed his distaste for
displays of fcstivity and rejoicing. Besides
a. L
straint between himself and President
Adams. Mr. Adams did not go TO the CAPT
tOl at all the dzy Jackson was inangurated.
But there is every reason TO believe that
President Arthur will follow tine well-estab-
lshed presidents in transferring the presi-
Dental Office and mansion TO his successor
in everv uartfcutar