New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-08
DEFEATED PREAIDEh1IAL CIADiDAIEo
AN AXIOM PERslsTENTLY bisPRovED-NArIoSAL
AID STATE HISTORY. .
From The Kennebec Me- Journal.

From The ken9cDcc Me- journal
II has been assumed as a settled aXiOm-a kind
of normal tact practical Iolitics-that Presidential
candidates defeated are IN measure disquaIlhed
directly counter 70 American political history. There
have been George Washington was chosen me
Chief Executive but three Instances VI iTesuentai
nominations by the two great parties which divided
the people Of the country al the time these We're auc
Of candidates who had been previously eeieated a. tc
uolIs and these three elected. two OF them ny
remarkable maiorites. These Wee Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. IN
1896 John Adams. tho candidate of the tedeI alsis;
was eCea over m ,,o e, damned rne Sy h &
feat four years Ie.oe IN i7oV the d hs ns af re
never recovered.
Andrevy JAG hson was defeated in 1924, receiving
only OF the PSI electoral votes that year, and
a decided minority OF the popular vote. Nothing
oannied ~ lhis fIeai, NJ suploIIcis ,sn3 ,,
h his ns5 and TH by h % M seo ne e
and ee S h BY ed nss %a II 1889 sHRE am
the principal Whg candidate, was badly beaten, re-
nonenf. Van buren,, received 40. Instead OF this
defeat lending render him an unavailable candidate
leaders learned Of the popularity OF Harrison among
the Wing masses and instead Of keeping him ont Of
the field by combinations unknown 10 the people. the
Whics pnt hin IN nomination and elected him by
tremendous majority giving him 24 electoral votes
E TO 90 1 lSf a. saa they a today the hss aans for
protective tariff and having the advantage OF
administration These the three fnemorahss
nominations and elections of once defeated candi-
The case Of Henry Clay is often referred 70 rs one
Of an opposite character But in reality Clay was
never tho nominated candidate OF a great political
nafty bat once. that was in 1S34. wlsn he made
marvellous run receiving more votes probably than any
otter Wing candidate could have received being do
fatod only 10y the kinney vote In Newlofk II Is tire
Clay received few electoral Isa4 and about
one-sevcnfh of the popular vote ~ IN" country. ne
being local candidate I'm few siucs. hut In
sense the nominee of great National party. As 10
the election Of S43. when Taylor was chosen by tho
Wings 81 is admitted by those familiar with the history
OF the political contest that year. thai had Clay been
nominated he would have been t"umpbanfiy eiecfcl
the result depended New-fOrf. In which the
Democrats split in two nearly ednai parts by
local quarrel having possible relaf1n TO Clay or
Taylor. Thus both the history and the analogy 81
American National politics plainly very far from
being unfay0raae 10 the second nomination Of cand-
date who has hc.n defeated ~ the Doois.
foclsaiy ~ tI~-c IS strong popular fenfenry IN his
direction And In memorable State political
paIgns tho same truth has been often Illustrated.
Tins in Maine Edward Kent. WhIg was dcfeai Il badly
In 1886 by Dunlap. democrat yet was eiertsd IN
1877 defeated again In 1873. and again tn 1850. ny
Fairfield democrat. and aeain ei.eted In lao. ThTs
William H. Seward IN 1895 f~fesfrf a. IN" Nl%.
candidate fnr Coverno- ~ New-Y York. by william r
Marcy the choice Of the Democrats Nothing dannieG
The Why's r~nomnaied seward and elected him In
1899 over Marcy, by majority OF 10 roo. So
Abraham lincoln defeated Ia 1858, In the memorable