Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-29
CURIOUS FACTS IN HISTORY.
Political Revolutions When to Look
For Them.

Political RevOlutiOns..-When to Look
For Them.
In the recent issue of the Knoxville
Journal our townsman, j. S. Mathes,
had the following article on the curios-
ities of political changes since 1900,
which we are sure many of our readers
will peruse with interest:
JoNEsBoRo, TENN, Nov. 1S.-One of
the curiosities of the almanac, or rather
one of the remarkable facts of the al
manac, is that presidential electors
which, as is well known, occur once
only in every four years, and then al
ways on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November of that year
only fall on the same day of the month
once in every twenty eight years. And
another remarkable fact is that more
than one of these periods of twenty
eight years have marked the beginning
of important epochs in the history not
only of political parties, but of the na-
tion itself, as the instances here given
will show.
The election of the year 1900 resulted
in the triumph of jefferson over John
Adams. Adams was the first President
that was ever defeated for reelection
and Jefferson was the greatest apostle
of Democracy ever elected to the Presi-
dency. His was the beginning of an
unbroken reign in Virginia Presidents,
lasting twenty four Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe-the last two be-
ing styled by Josiah Quincy as James
the 1st and James the I'd.
The year 1928 marks the beginning of
another Democratic regime; in that
year another Massachusetts Adams was
defeated for reelection by jackson,
whose triumph was new dynasty dur
ing which the victors were rewarded
with the spoils.
In 1856, twenty eight years after Jack
son s first election, Buchanan, the last
ante bellum President, was elected. He
was also the last of the long line of old
school statesmen, born back in the last
century that have occupied the White
House, and the last President elected
on platform and by party uphold
ing slaveryl
In the year 1884, just twenty eight
years after the election of Buchanan,
came the election of Grover Cleveland, |,
the fist Democratic President since the
! great war of the rebellion.
Going back to the year 1910 and tax
ing up the history of the opposition to
Democracy, we find the grand old Whig
party, under the leadership of the first
Harrison. sweeping the country from
Dan to Beersheba. Four years previous
to that time Martin Van Buren,, the
sly, slick Fox of Kinkerhook, had slip.
ped into the Presidency in the scrub
race of 1886, more through the forms OF
law than by the will of a majority OF
voters, and ha given the country such
a corrupt and extravagant administra'
tion-an administration marked by
such an era Of hard times that Harri
son swept the country by majority
unprecedented at that time in our his
tory.
In the year 1868, just twenty eight
years after the great Wing tidal wayt
of lS4o, General Grant, the first Repub
lican Presid ,nt after the close of the
war of the rebellion, was triumphantly
elected. .t...
The year 1896, now three years off
will be just twenty eight years since
the date of General Grant s first elec
ton, and, according to precedent vii
mark the beginning of an epoch not
able to the opposition to Democracy
AhO oibho VI tuC bllutS, db tNluCcu DN
the recent elections, point TO the yeal
1895 as time when there will be such
an overturning of Democratic idols anG
such Staying of the false prophets Of
Democracy as has not occurred since
the days when the Prophet Elijah me-
the false prophets of Baal at Mount
Carmel and the people arose up in theil
righteous wrath and slew them to the
number of 45O for deceiving them.
/ In 1910 Van Buren,, the Democratic
candidate, was from the State of New
York, and Gen. Harrison, an Ohio mar
wiped the very earth with him.
In 1868, Seymour, the Democratic can.
didate, was from the great State of New
York and yet Gen. Grants former Ohio
boy. easily defeated him.
And now as 1896 looms up before us
whether the Democratic candidate il
Cleveland, of New York; Hill, of New
York, or Whitney, of New York-iust
remember that Mckinley, another Ohio
boy will be on hand to clean him upl