Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-12-26

eX-vice president oil
the United States has been chosen by
the people to the presidency, says the
Washington Star. Four vice presi-
dents succeeded to the great office by
the deaths of presidents, but each OF
these was unsuccessful in his desire
for nomination to succeed himself.
President John Tyler and the Whig
Congress fell out over the question OF
the national banks and a high protect
i've tariff, and the president himself
was soon closely afIiliating with the
Democratic party. He, however, failed
to secure the nomination of the DEM
ocratic convention, but was unani-
mously nominated at an independent
Wing convention held in Baltimore,
Many prominent Wings and Democrats
advised the president to accept this
Independent nomination, hoping, OF
course that the Democratic candidate
would be withdrawn and that he might
be indorsed, and some of them un-
doubtedly thinking that, whether in
dorsed or not, he might be elected on
the independent ticket.
81 have been told that I could carry
Michigan on the Independent Whig
ticket" said President Tyler at the
white house to a famous old-time Whig
politician of Michigan who is still liv-
ing, hale and hearty, in his early nine
ties.
THE angel Gabriel could not carry
Michigan on an Independent ticket,
replied the loyal but ingenious Michi-
gan man.
What states could carry?" asked
the president,
Not one, without Democratic in
dorsement although with it you could
be elected"
President Tyler afterward declined
this Independent nomination and was
never again a candidate for the presi-
dency. President Willard Fillmore,
who succeeded to the place by reason
of the death of Zachary Taylor, was
also hopeful of a nomination at the
hands of the Wing convention, but that
body was carried away by the glamor
of the name and fame OF General Win
field Scott Four years later the ex-
vice president was nominated by the
native American party for president
but he tailed the list Of candidates al
the polls.
The efforts of Andrew Johnson TO Sc
cure the Democratic nomination fol-
president in 1868 and OF President Ches-
ter A. Arthur to get the Endorsement Of
the Republican convention of 1884 are
still familiar history.
Vice President John G. Breckenridge
received the nomination of the south
ern wing of the Democratic party, bu
his candidacy resulted in disaster tt
himself, and although his electoral VOTE
was next to that of Lincoln his popular
vote fell far behind that of his grea
competitor, Stephen A. Douglas.
1t is, therefore, q rather curious cir
cumstance that fifty years after tn
campaign in which a vice preslden
was last advanced to the presidency
the present vice president of the Unite
States and the only living ex-vic
president should both be candidates 70
the nomination of their respective par
ties. Vice President Stevenson ha
been from the beginning of his teri
of office regarded by his many friend
throughout the country as a promisin
candidate for the next Democrat
presidential nomination. The electio
of ex-Vice President Morton to the gov
ernorshlp of the state of New Yor
and the recent remarkable success
Thomas c. Platt, who Is Governor MOI
toms great supporter, in retaining tn
leadership in New York, have brougf
the governors name to the front anon