Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-29
Written for THE EVENING STAR
AMERICAN WARWICKS.
Some of Them In the Senate and House
of Representatives.

Some of Them in the Senate and House
of Representatives.
MEN WHO HAVE TRIED THEIR HANDS AT pRrsI-
| DENT MAKINa-MEMBERs OF CONGRESS AS DELE
| GATES AND PRESIDENTIAL ELEcroRs-THE FIRST
CAMPAIGN OF NOTED MEN.
| - HE old whig party has been dust for
~YVmore than thirty years, but some of
| m its old-tme leaders are still active in
M public affairs. The wings conducted
~ their last successful campaign in 1s4s
when old Rough and Ready Zach Taylor de-
feated Gen. Lewis Cass for the Presidency.
Taylor and Fillmore were nominated at Phila-
delphia June Z, and John Sherman, then an
aspiring young Buckeye of twenty-five short
summers was delegate to the convention that
placed them before the people. Another active
participant in the whig canvass of 1S4S was
Senator James L. Pugh of Alabama, who was a
member of the electoral college and cast his
vote for the whig nominees. Pugh was then
twenty-seven. 1t seems strange to think OF
Senators Sherman and Pugh as being members
OF the same political party, even if it forty
two years ago. Two democratic survivors OF
the campaign of ls4S are Senators Payne and
Harris who were candidates for Presidential
electors on the Cass and Butler ticket. but only
one OF them was elected. as Tennessee went
wing. Senator Payne had reached the age of
thirty-eight and Senator Harris was thirty at
that time
John Sherman was again delegate to the
wing convention of 1852 at Baltimore. which
nominated Scott and Graham. Senator Hawley
was delegate to the free soil convention
held at Plttsburg in the same year which placed
John Z: Hale in nomination. Senator Hawley
was at that time twenty-five years old. Sena-
tors Brown of Georgia and Wilson of Maryland
participated more satisfactorily after election.
They were both chosen presidential electors
and exercised their suffrage in behalf of Frank
lin Pierce. Brown was thirty-one and Wilson
was thirty.
THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Four years later came the campaign of 1856
remarkable as marking the establishment of
the republican party and the last appearance
of the great whig wreck, which indorsed the
know-nothing nominations. Shelby NJ Cullom
was one OF the few young men of Illinois who
warmly identified himself with the wing rem
nant and native American combination. He was
candidate for presidential elector on the Fill
more ticket in 1856. 1t was his first venture in
politics and he was beaten out of sight Senator
Cullom was then twenty-six years old. Senator
Harris Jared better this year than he did eight
years before and was chosen Buchanan and
Breckenridge elector in Tennessee. Senator
Payne was again an eector III Ohio. Repre-
sentative Buckalew was a Buchanan elector in
the Presidents own state. Judge George E.
Seney of Ohio. then twenty-four years old ran
on the Buchanan electoral ticket in that state
but was defeated. Judge Parrett of the Evans
vile district of Indiana was Buchanan elector.
There Is only one man in Congress who
voted for the Pathfinder in the electoral coll
lege-Dunuell of Minnesota. then of Maine.
Senator Pugh, who had been Taylor elector
in 1913, this year voted for Buchanan in the
electoral college.
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.
The most historic convention of the demo.
cratic party was that which met at Charleston
and was afterward postponed to Baltimore in
1860 1t was in this great convention that the
democratic party dissolved for the war"
Nearly all of the most conspicuous democrats
OF the country were present delegates al
ternatives or spectators. A few of the dele
gates are in Congress thirty years afterward.
Senator Payne of Ohio was there in mis- prime
| and was one Of the foremost Douglass men on
the floor of the body. He was a member of
the committee on resolutions and reported from
the minority of the committee the platform
that was finally adopted. Gen. Spinola of New
York and Representative Pennington of Della
ware were also delegates to Charleston. Sena-
tor Eyarts of New York was even more promi-
nent IN the republican convention of 1860
than Payne had been in the demo-
cratic convention of the same year. He was
the Seward leader on the floor, and made the
speech nominating him. But Evarts and Thur
low Weed were beaten by circumstances over
which Empire state politicians had no control
and the overt treason OF Horace Greeley who
came into the convention on an Oregon proxy
and fought Stewards nomination Senator
Stanford was a delegate from California in this
convention. Senator Morgan, Senator Bate.
Senator Vest and Representative Whitthorne
were candidates on the Breckenridge and Lane
ticket for presidential electors in 1860. Morgan
was elected, but Bate and Whitthorne were
beaten by the Bell and Everett candidates.
Senator Sawyer and Representative Scull
were delegates in the convention of 1864 at
baltimore that renominated President Lincoln.
Senator Frye was presidential elector and
cast one of the PIP votes that made Abraham
President second time. Leonidas c. Houk
was candidate for presidential elector in Ten
nessee. senator Voorhees, was prominent fig
ure IN the democratic convention which nomi-
mated Mcclellan at Chicago on the 29th of Au-
gust. John Griffin Carlisle was nominated for
elector on the Mcclellan and Pendleton ticket
in Kentucky, but declined the nomination.
THE GRANT CONVENTION
Senator Hawley presided over Metropolitan
national convention which met at Chicago Nav
20, 1868, and nominated Gen. Grant for Presi-
dent. Among the delegates on the floor of the
convention were Eugene Hale, Gideon C.
Moody, j. Don Cameron, Lucien Caswell and
Leonidas &. Houk. In the democratic conyen-
ton in New York the same year. which chose
its chairman for its nominee, Wm r. Bate, Jno
q. Carlisle, j. b. McCrearv, VIM. C. Oates,
Chas. III. Mansur and Thos. r.. Stockdale were
delegates. Senator Hawley, Gen. T. j. Hender-
son and Gen. b. r. Cutcheon were all Grant
presidential electors.
In the republican convention of 1872 that re-
nominated Grant Senators Hawley, Culom
| Frye and Quay were all delegates. OF the demo-
| cratic convention that Endorsed the nomina-
| ton OF Horace Greeley it does not appear that
| there is now in Congress any surviving dele
| gates excepting Benz. A. Enloe. ODonnell of
| Michigan and Grosvenor of Ohio were both
| Grant electors and came to Washington after
| election as the messengers of their respective
| states. Stockdale and r. p. c. Wilson of Mis-
souri, were Greeley electors and Davidson and
Buckalew tried to be, but did not get enough
| votes.
In the republican convention of 1876, at Gin
| cnnati, the delegates included Senators Haw-
| ley, Hale, Frye, Sawyer, Cameron, Quay and
Hoar and Representatives Dingley, Milliken,
Boutelle, j. d. Taylor, Bingham and McCord.
Among those who helped to nominate Tilden at
| st. Louis were Senators Voorhees,, Walthall and
| Gray and Representative Elliott. 1t is an in
teresting fact that of Hayes 1856 electors only
| one is now i'll Congress-Seth L. Milliken-
| while there survive in Congress twelve men
| who were enrolled in Samuel J. Tilden's 1884,
| The Tilden and Hendricks electors were Sena-
tors Morgan. Pugh, Mcpherson, Bate and Dam
lei and Representatives Bynum. Biggs, Ellis.
Enloe, Caruth, Mcmillan and w. j. Stone of
Missouri.