The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1894-04-18
Political "Reminiscences.
PRESIDENTIAL AND SENATORIAL KLRC
oNS-sPARTANBURG COUNTY
NOMINATED CALHOUN
FOR PRESIDENT.
,BY MAJOR WA. HOY.

I
, what ! remember OF the events. The
first newspaper article | ever read was
headed this way: Horse racing presi-
Dental contest for 1924" The horses
entered were John G. Calhoun, John ..
Adams, VIM. Crawford, Henry Clay
and Andrew Jackson. Then followed
q description of the horses. Calhoun
was hardly bridle-wise. Some Penn
sylvania farmer had had him in charge
and fed too much cut feed. 1t did not
take pains to describe Clay: he said
he was ridden by rough kentuckian.
| John Quincy Adams was sired by the
l celebrated John Adams that ran with
such celebrity during the Revolution
ary war beaten in his old age by JEFF
ferson, the pride of Virginia. All the
1 prestige the Crawford horse had was
that he was a native of Virginia, that
had produced such stock as Washing
ington, Jefferson, Madison and Mon
1 roe.
1t then stated that the gallant war
horse, Jackson, was led to the pole
| and ridden by the editor Of the Nash
Vile Gazette. His friends were but
| fe-, but they swore that he was the
horse of horses and never had been
beaten. He had run against cele
brated horse named Dickinson and beat
him. He had run against Weather
ford, q celebrated Indian horse and
beat him. He had beaten the cele
bratsd British horse, Packenham, at
New Orleans. The writer laid great
stress on his beating Packenham, the
brother in law of wellington. The race |
then began, Calhoun being withdrawn,
and the result as they passed through |
each State showed Jackson 90, Adams |
s8, Crawford Al, Clay 81. Jackson had
bsen nominated in 1929 by the Ten
neises Legislature. 1t was said the
Legislature made great blunder by |
putting him in the United States Sen
ate, or kind Of stepping stone to the
presidency. Jackson when he entered
the Senate voted for the tariff OF 1924 and
several other unpopular measures, that
prevented his being elected by the
electoral vote, causing the election to
90 into the lower house Of Congress
whore Adams and Clay by combining
monkeyed him out Of the presidency
for four years.
Some people OF = religious turn OF
mind thought they could see the hand
Of Providence in the matter. They
thought no man, except Jackson, could
have preserved the Union IN the trials
it went through ip The peIt eight OF
ten years, includin4 ths 80. LIZ
9e5?6ket1t. C1sy and xnthe Kentucky
=. ..;......s :, -. ;c.t---ta" ~ H. rcG'a
lature of Kentucky, in case the election
went into the House, to vote for Jack
son. Clay and his colleagues refused
to obey their instructions and that un-
popular vot. destroyed all chances for
Clay OF ever reaching the presidency
Adams never could have got majority |
of the States, 13 out Of "a. without the
vote OF Kentucky and in that event If no
one could get majority OF the States,
the constitution provided that il any
person had received a majority OF the
electoral votes for Vics>PreSident, he
shall be president. Calhoun had re-
ceived large majority Of the electoral
votes, 1888, and should have been Pre'i-
dent. Louisiana, to her disgrace, voted
for Adams. Her delegation stood 8 for
Jackson and 2 for Adams. One mem
Der Of the lower house disobeyed his
instructions and voted for Adams.
That member went into ignoninious
retirement.
1t certainly, Mr. Editor, must have
been . great misfortune to this country,
by the hitching Of one or two men, to
have prevented Mr.. Calhoun from CIV
ing the country four years Of the best
government possible. could have
stated how each State voted but pre-
sumo most OF your readers have ency-
clopedias and can see for themselves.
The first election for United States
Senator that ever heard OF was when
Gen. jackson beat Judge Williams for
that ONCE in the Tennessee Legislature
Williams term was to expire in 1922.
Jaskson's friends civilly invited him to
decline in Jackson's favor, as courtesy
i to q presidential candidate. Williams
declined the polite invitation and
entered the race. Jackson beat him
eight votes. l presume that meagre
majority was the greatest honor
Williams ever had.
I do not recollect Hayns beating
Judge Smith. l have lately seen it
stated that it was in 1928. think 1t
must have been in 1922. Senator'S
elections, think, mostly come on in
the even years. Hsyne, l have heard
men say, beat him six votes.
Iwell recollect the great contest in
1926 between Judge Smith and Judge
lHuger to fill out Gaillardh time. Some
anonymous writer made q furious as
ssult on Judge Hugsr in the old Caro-
lima Gazette. 1 recollect that the
, writer stated that Judge Huger had
!, been q member of the South Carolina
Legislature for 1S years; had originated
, no useful measures and had been four
, times candidate for the United States
:, Senate. He thought it wicked that he
! had opposed Gaillard in 1924 for re-
election. l think Judge Huger must
have been on an uphill road to travel
, | in his race. For the Senate in 1926, he
( had Hayne and Smith both to run
:. against. Hayne addressed card to
y Smith stating to him that he had his
d best wishes in his approaching struggle.
s The vote stood Smith 80, Huger, 80. l
y think the anonymous writer that
|, spoke Of must have done Huger injus-
e tice and l think the Legislature made
"a q mistake in not electing him in place
70 GoillorI ;,