The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-30
THAT FINAL NJ
HISTORY 10 REPEAT ITSELF.
IN" in Bryan's Name Propltious

IN" In Bryan's Name Fop1tlous.
Charlotte Observer.
Since it is difficult to arrive at any
very satisfactory conjecture as to who
shall be elected President to enter up
on the duties of that high Office with
the beginning OF its 1O9th year
whether Bryan or McKinley-all cal
culations being made from past records
are more or less uncertain and defect
tive as indicating future results. Let
us be more energetic" of resources
from whence to derive information
and consult the no more fortuitOus
records of fayorite and fortunate let
tiers.
OF the % men who have filled the
presidential Office since 1889 the names
of ten of them have IN" as the final
letter, to-wit: Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Jackson. Van Buren,, Harri-
son Buchanan, Lincoln, johnson and
BENJAMIN Harrison-these held the
Office for SO years, as against the other
Is. to-wit; John Adams, Monroe, J.
@. Adams, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fill
more, Pierce, Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur. Cleveland, who ON March 4th,
1897. will have held the Office for fifty
five wears, No candidate, the final let
ter OF whose name was IN" ever fall
ed to reach the presidential chair, eth
er previous to or following defeat, ex-
cept Dewitt Clinton and Geo. B. Nc
ClelIan, and these were defeated by
Madison and Lincoln two ems" con-
testing in each case. Jefferson was
defeated by John Adams, who in turn
was defeated by Jefferson, the latter
following his discontinue by holding
two terms. w. III. Harrison was de-
feated by Van Buren-another case of
of two sSN's" cOntesting, the former
defeating Van Buren, for next term,
and dying soon after Inauguration In
184I. It's death to beat an IN"
Lincoln was assasslnated very soon
after entering upon the term for which
he had defeated Mcclellan. Tilden, as
is now almost unanimously conceded,
was elected, though he did not enjoy
the office and since which time we
have usually written "nation" with
little en-" and truthful]y Hayes has
continuously borne the approblum of
a usurper.
Of the % Vice Presidents, 10 have
names ending with the lucky an" to-
wit Jefferson, Geo. Clinton, Calhoun
Van Buren,, r. NJ. Johnson, Hamlin,
Andrew johnson, Wilson, Morton and
Stevenson. These also serving as Vice
Presidents their respective chiefs whose
names were adorned by the final an"
save Jefferson, who was Washington's
first Secretary of State, and Wilson and
Stevenson, with whom good fortune
has not fingered, since their chiefs,
Grant and Cleveland, however great,
did nor bear the enchanted letter.
The foregoing historic facts might
we'll decide the high destiny of our
Chicago nominee, though an adverse
omen in "letterology" Qatent applied
for) appears in the somewhat lll-fated
letter OBJ, but one candidate Buchanan
with that letter at the beginning of his
name, having succeeded. Unless we
compromise, now that compromises are
made to order, and count Van Buren,
as lucky "B," making two, by means
OF straddle that was successful, that is
not needed to work out and foretell the
destiny of Mr.. Bryan since the name OF
his State begins with "N"-Nebraska
and the name of his city concludes
with "N''-Lincoln, Neb. This city,
too, named in honor of our greatest
President. Jas G. Birney, John Bell
and Black were defeated in their turn,
having no IN" at the other end to back
them up as did Buchanan and Van Bu-
rem when they "t0ok the cake" To
make assurance doubly sure, no candi-
date was ever elected whose name con-
cluded with "Y," portentous for Nc
Kinley. Pinckney was defeated twice,
each time by the mystic letter IN" in
the persons of Jefferson and Madison.
Clay was defeated thrice. Once by
Jackson, our heroic letter again assert
ing itself, and yet again the defeat of
Blrney by Harrison, and both Clay and
Birney finally retired by Polk. Need
we refer to the fact that Greeley was
not In it by large majority? This
will be readily Granted. No Vice
President ever wrote his name with a
final ct" This looks bad for Mr.. Ho-
bart, though his odds are with Mr..
Sewall, since no V1ce-President ever