The evening times., 1896-10-19
for William Smith, of South Carolina. for


| wee President, Which reduced the former. \
'oee to III. lie WIS elected, however, with
andrew jackson ip first place
lhere was a miN-up I'm the vote that wear.
such as mad occurred several times before.
| Mdihe electors gave jackson and Cal
noun one vote each, the ether eigh, going
10 Jo'in Quincy Adams and Richard Rush,
uhe ialler Tor Vice President New York
anu Maryland divided also, the former Civ
ing jackson and Calhoun 20, and Adams
ana Rush 16, while tie latter BROKE.
! nearly even, voting 3 for jackson and Cal
noun and q for Adams ami Rush.
~ WIN these exceptions there was no di-
version jackson Receiving I7S votes, and
A dams S3.
.-.- NOT CAST AS A UNIT.
Three other ihnstances are gwen where
the electoral Votes OF States were not cast
as unit. When General Jackson was
elected Tor second term, in 1889, his
eiectoral vote was in the aggregate 219.
ana mat given TO Martin vanBuren for
Vice Presidentwa butlss.
Including Mr. Van Buren,, there were five
aspirants fort the second place three of whom
| were from Pennsylvania, and all were rec
! ognlZed by the electors. or the five Amos
Eilmaker, of Pennsylvania. received the
| lowest number OF votes-seven-and these.
| all came from Vermont. These seven votes
| were also cast for william Writ, a Presi-
| dental candidate, haiiing from MARYLAND
| The two principal tickets were composed
| or jackson ana Van Barren and Henry CIay
! and John Sergeant, the latter n pennsyl-
vanian; yet there was one more candidate
for President than for the Vice Presidency
| The winning ticket absorbed nearly all or
/ the electoral vote, the aggregate OF which
had Increased to 2sS.
The second Instance ceOccurredi in 1886. Van
Buren, and johnson Richard NJ } were p!tted
against william Henry Harrison and Francis
Granger. Van Buren received 11O Of Il
poss bie2S4 electoral votes. and was elected.
over four competitors, while johnson, with
but three rivals. HAD 10 seek the coveted
seat by the vote of the Senate.
The campaign OF 1910 with .'Tfppecauoe
and Tyler, too as a successful shibboleth,
witnessed the third division and disparity.
there being four Vice Presidential can
didates and but two for the higher office.
Richord NJ. johnson W as again yoked with
Van Buren, and both were defeated. In
that contest the winning candidates, Har-
rison and Tyler. each received 234 votes
within sixty OF the total. but johnson had
twelve electoral votes less than his part
Der, Van Burcn. hN
This is the last election which records
other than a str;iight vote. the electors
chosen by the two or more political organ
izations involved being loyal to the can
didates.
PRESENT CAMPAIGN UNIQUE
In no previous political campaign in the
annals OF this country has there ever been
an exact duplicate OF the conditions nor
many OF the features which are prominent
in the present one, and at no time has il
transpired that any party induiged in the
luxury of n bifBrcated ticket. In no pre-
vious contest has principal candidate
canvassed the country, as Mr.. Bryan, in
his own behalf, nor for that matter has
any aspirant to the Presidency received
as many visitors as has Major McKinle
Yet prior contests have presented novel
features, and there are ON record. accessible
to research, many striking examples of the
oddities of American politics.
Twenty-seven times the people have
chosen Il chief MA gistrate, and OF the num-
Der Of citizens thus elevated to the highest
place within the nations gift, but six could
boast of more than one given name each.
These We're John Q. Adams, William
Henry Harrison, James X Polk, Ulysses
s. Grant, Rutherford b. Hayes and James
A Garfield, the first named being chosen
by the House of Representatives.
Three of the six were chosen over men
Who likewise had TWO initials in their
given names In eight instances men with
a single given name were victorious over
their competitors with two, and in each Of
all other cases both the leading contestants
had bur one so that the candidates with but
one initial preceding the surname have Won
against the double standard in all elections
but three, while the majority on the side
of tue single given name is twenty, and one
of the three contests in which the reverse
was true failed OF a decision before the
people.
In the computation. those who served two
terms are each counted twice. There are
eight In the reelected list, and but one of
these, Ulysses S. Grant, had the two initials.
The twenty-eighth Presidential elect IN
will take place November 3 next, and it
must be conceded that, despite the iDflu
ence Of his rabbits foot, the logic of his
tory Is not favorable to the success of Will
liam Jennings Bryan. as against the man
with single initial. -..--.