The evening times., 1896-10-19
WHEN ELECTORS BOLTED
Past Instances in Which In
Structi0nS Didn't Instruct.
COMPARISON OF RESULTS
Two Elections by the House and One
by the Senate Through Failure of
the People to Decide-Cnndidate
Who Led In the Electoral College
Afterward Defeated.

"SNnNS Ia thC Va u Sllltl
have not always observed the letter OF
their instructions when casting their bal
| lots in the Electoral College, a nd the mixed
conditions OF the present situation sug
gests the thought that mayhap history VIII
repeat itself before this fin de steele con-
| test comes to conclusion.
1t may transpire also, it is argued, that
a President W i'll be chosen by popular vote
at tile polls and that the Senate " i'll be
called upon to elect the Vice President.
With MIR. Sewall as the product OF Chi
cago and Mr.. Tom Watson issuing from
| the st. Louis combine, each claiming a
share in the spoiis or this Ammonitish ar
of ballots. and each demanding the rights
| of the duly unnolntcd, such a result seems,
to many, to be at least among the posi-
bilities.
1t has twice occurred in the history of
the United States that the people failed to
choose a President by popular vote, thus
throwing the election into the House of
Representatives, and once the Vice Presi-
| dent " no failed OF a majority, was chosen
by the Senate.
''' 80 'i''BEGAN IN 1900.
The first of the Presidential instances
| succeeded the popular vote of 1900. when
Thomas jefferson received 30 electoral
votes; Aaron Burr, 10; John Adams, 65;
Clinton c. Pinckney, Ga. and John Jay, 1,
In d free FOR all race. Jefferson was chosen
in the House by the vot cs Of ten States. Aaron
Burr receiving the votes of seven, and two
States casting n blank ballot Aaron Burr
was made Vice President
The next failure to choose by popular vote
occurred In 1924. There We're four cam
didates for President and six for Vice
President, who were recognized by the
electoral college. These were: For Presi-
dent, Andrew jackson, who received 80
votes; John Quincy Adams, "a votes;
William II Crawford, Al votes, and Henry
Clay, 81 votes.
No one having a majority, the House OF
Representatives proceeded to choose. The
contest resulted in the election of Adams,
who was given the votes of thirteen States
Andrew jackson, who led in the electoral
college, received the Votes of seven states
and william II Crawford four votes.
AT the succeeding national election, in
1928, jackson received rs of the electoral
votes, and at the same time John C. Cal
houn was given III votes for Vice Presi-
dent, both being declared chosen by popular
vote.
The campaign of 1886 was remarkable
for the choice of President, Martin Van
Buren,, by a majority of the electoral
votes, lie obtaining 1TO, while the Vice
Presidency was undetermined. 1t was re-
markabIe in another particular also, and
that was in the presence in the field Of
five Presidential aSpirants, with but four
competitors for the second position. Still
oil t.l in,
fact that two of the Presidential candi-
dates carried but one State each
ODD CONDITION OF THINGS.
These were Daniel Webster, who re-
ceived Massachusetts fourteen votes, and
William p. Mangum, for whom South Caro-
lima cast her eleven votes. Webster's run
ning mate in Massachusetts was Francis
Granger, of New York, but the latter
carried seven States by popular vote,
while Webster carried but one. Hugh L.
White, of Tennessee, one of the candidates
for President, received the electoral vote
OF TWO States, and the same States, Georgia
and Tennessee, gave their votes to John
Tyler for Vice President; Yet Tyler, in
addition, carried Maryland and South Caro-
lima, and received forty-scven electoral
votes The leading candidate for Vice
President was Richard NJ. johnson, of Ken
lucky, who W as given LAT electoral votes,
and was yet obliged to transfer the battle
to the Senate. He there received the votes
OF tbirty-three States to sixteen cast for
Granger, the next highest candidate in
the favor of the electoral college.
In the first four national elections but
little formality prevailed in the naming of
candidates, and the man who received the
highest vote was declared to be chosen for
President, his next highest competitor
usually taking second place.
For this reason there were twelve candi-
dates voted for in the first contest for the
Presidency as follows: George Washing
ton, John Adams, Samuel Huntington,
John Jay, John Hancock. Robert II. Harri-
son, George Clinton, John Rutledge, John
Milton, James Armstrong, Edward Telfair
and Benjamin Lincoln. Washington re-
ceivcd sixty-nine votes, the total of the elec-
tors appointed, while Adams got thirty-four