The evening times., 1896-10-19

votes, Il majority OF the college. No other
one candidate received as many as ten
Vooes, and Washington and Adams became
President and Vice President, respectively.
rive candidates competed at the next
succeeding election. This resulted in the
| choice again OF Washington and Adams, the
former receiving 1872 votes the latter II;
as against so for George Clinton, four for
Thomas jefferson and one for Aaron Burr.
THE UNLUCKY NUMBER
III the campaign of 1886 there were a
bakers dozen, or thirteen, aspirants for
misplace, John Adams and Thomas Jeffer-
son leading.
The former received scventy-one clecto-
raj votes, the latter sixty-three votes.
While the remainder were distributed In
numbers ranging from one vote to fifty
nine, among thomas Pinckney, Aaron Burr,
Samuel Adams, o. Ellsworth, John Jay,
George Clinton, y. Johnston, James Ire
dell, George Washington. c. c. Pinckncy
and John Henry. Washington received
one vote OF Virginia and one OF North Caro-
lima. The total number OF electors ap-
pointed, representative OF sixteen States,
was 139
The first instance OF the naming of candi-
dates separately for the two positions
seems TO have been i'll l 1s04, when jefferson
and Clinton were chosen over Charles c.
Pinckney and Rufus King. The number OF
States represented in the electoral college
that year was seventeen, and the number
OF electors, 176.
In the succeeding campaign, that Of 1SOS.
when James Madison was chosen President
and Clinton succeeded himself as Vice
President, there was another awkward
disposition OF tue vote. Five names ap-
pear in the list OF Vice Presidential as
pirants, and three divided the honors for
tile first office.
This last was due however. to the New
Workers, who cast six Of their snineteen
electoral voters TO Clinton for President,
while giving him thirteen votes for Vice
President. The Empire state seems TO have
violated Instructions, If they had any,
and by divHiing six votes equally between
james Madison and james Monroe for the
Vice Presidency. sought to transfer the
winner, Madison, from the first To the
second place, and make Clinton President
There Were six original Clinton men, in
this attempted manipulation, but the pro-
ject failed.
l@slIEhbh anu hiHt were tlit'
other two aspirants for MIR. Clinton's po
sitiou but OF 1T5 electoral votes the latter
received 113, as against Al for King, and
Mr.. Madisun's vote for President was 1913
to Al for Mr.. Pinckney. This was the latter's
fourth effort to secure the honors Of the
Chief Magistracy.
MR.. GERRY LEADS THE TICKET.
The electoral vote had increased to PIT
by the time for the next election, when
James Madison and Eldbridge Gerry We're
chosen President and Vice President, re-
spectIvely. There wa : "a discrepancy V in the
vote that year, as between the principal
and his running mate, which, had it been a
free-for-all race as In former years. would
have made Mr.. Gerry Pres ident
Two of the New England States, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, gave De
Witt Clinton, who was running with Jared
Ingersoll their full vote for President, but,
when it came to the Vice Presidency trans
ferred three votes from Ingersoll To Gerry,
which increased his total to 81. This was
three more than was cast for Mr.. Madison.
Five asprants for the Vice Presidency
were in the race four years later, with
James Monroe and Rufus King competing
for the main prize. Maryland supplied two
of the five aspirantS for second place-John
Z. Howard and Robert G. Harper-while
Virginia presented John Marshall and Penn
sylvania James Ross. Monroe and Daniel
d. TompkinS Were elected, however, each
receiving S3 OF the PIT electoral votes.
Monroe and TompkiDs We're again success
full in 1870, Monroe receiving all but four
of the 23l electoral votes cast, and within
seven of the total number in the college.
Three OF the electors chosen that year
one each from the States OF Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and Mississippi-died before the
date fixed for casting the votes.
Georgia deserted John c. Calhoun in
S2S, casting seven of her electoral votes