Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-25
GIVEN AS NICKNAMES.
TITLES BESTOWED ON OUR CHIEF
 MAGISTRA TIES.

Warrington the "American Cincin.
 natus'' - "Independence Forever"
 Adams-Harrison of "Tippercanoe
 and his Many Tiaies-aueer Names
 Applied to Chief Magistrates.
 "The American Cincinnatus!
 This grand appellat1on was the sole pseudonym that the American people ever found suitable to the traits and characteristics of George Washing ton, tho first president of the United States.
 He was not a farmer in the strict name was applied rather as expressive and typical of those great attributes of patriotism and self-deniaj for his coun- trys sake which Washington shared in common with his illustrious prototype.
 John Adams called himself ga presi- dent of three votes." He was known long after his death by certain title which he also supplied himself indirectly.
 On the morning of the 3Oth of June, 1926, an individual who was chosen to give the oration of the Fourth of July at Quincy. John Adams's home, called at the house of MT. Adams and asked him to propose for him a subject as q patri- otic toast, to be drank after the oration.
 II will give you one, the noblest you couAu cIlooSe, eAlu IAe pAilooopHlC PAoS- ident, forgetting for the nonce the re- straint and frigid dignity of his manner:
 ''Independence forever!'
 The words were reported in the slow way of the time, but the people, as soon as the phrase came to their ears, ap- piled it at once as appropriate to the philosophic grandeur of the character of John Adams.
 Moor ever presumed to think of nj lxna arna in n0nnpptiOn with tho of Jefferson, notwithstanding his sim plicity eulogized as democratic-practi- cally, the greatest foe of undue familiar ity in the world.
 He himself baptized his favorite plants and gave them names to suit his claSsi- him with a nickname.
 James Madison was never known other than as one-the leaSt-of Jefferson's political family" as it was called.
 James Monroe was known as a man of such purity and simplicity, his manners were so touchingly. complaisant and ap- pealing, that he won friends and not a single enemy. No one ever had the heart to designate hlm by any disrespect- full name.
 John Quincy Adams was called, almost
 from the beginning of his political ca reer, Tribune of the People," "Colum- bus" and "Publicola' were other names given him by the people. Neither Jackson nor Van Buren were given distinctive names, but Jackson's great victory at New Orleans gave occa- sion for many heroic titles which were
 used during his life, but none of them have been preserved to go down to pos terity with the fame of their pOssessor. President Taylor was never known by any other name than Zach" It seemed to his countrymen to convey a perfect idea of the fidelity and rare persistence of the man.
 MT. Pierce was called Frank. His l qualities were negative-a great virtue in president of the Republic. President Pierce had a peculiarly un- felicitouS manner in making promises. Any one who camo to him was sure to be told that he should receive just what he desired in the way of office. Possibly the l name Frank, short, insignificant, gave just the meaning necessary to express tho estimate formed by the people of their president.
 President Buchanan was always known as Buck" "Bucky' and "Breck," a happy reference to MT. Breckinridge,
 were familiar and oft-repeated words in the fifties.
 Gen. William Henry Harrisons appel lation, 'Tippecanoe," is immortal A reflected immortality belongs to the " Tyler.
 Abraham Lincoln had many nicknames 1 they were given by different classes ol l the citizens of the United States. They were homely, most of them but they all possessed one great Homeric property appropriateness and absolute epigram- matic force and power of definition. The man was one of the people, grandel l in intellect than most of them, but ol such simplicity and soundness of heart that his fellow cOuntrymen had no diff culty in choosing names to express thei, appreciation of his genius by familiar means,
 "Grover" and 'Sirc," the one the un
 due familiarity of the people, the other reverently applied by MT. Cleveland's l celebrated private secretary, were the titles under which the ex-president most often appeared before the public during his administration. - N. Y. Morning Journal