The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-29

ginia, which had voted for Crawford
for president. Van Burens nine votes
came from Georgia, which had also
voted for Crawford. Finally. Connec-
ticuts electors threw their eight votes
for Adams for president and for Jack
son for vice president, while Missouri
gave her three votes to Clay for presi
dent and to Jackson for vice president.
Such are some of the remarkable varia-
tions and combinations which illustrate
the former relations between the vice
presidency and the presidency, in cleo
tions, as compared with those of our
day.
In 1898, Jackson and John Q. Adams,
on opposing tickets, received IT'S and S3
electoral votes respectively, and CAL
houn and Rush. for vice president, re-
ceived III and S3 Georgia giving seven
of her votes for vice president to Will
liam Smith. of South Carolina. But at
Jackson's reelection there were four
candidates for president and five for
vice president. The Clay and Ser
geant ticket received 40 votes from the
electors of six states. South Carolina
gave her II votes TO Floyd and Lee, and
Vermont her seven to Writ and Ell
maker. Pennsylvania electors, which
which had furnished SO votes for Jack
son, gave the same number, not to
Van l}uren, who ran with him, but to
William wilkins of their own state:
and thus it turned out that while Jack
son got 30 for president, Van Buren
received only 1S9 for vice president.
The vote of 1896 reversed these condi-
tions. five candidates receiving elector-
al votes for president and four for vice.
president The clearest party division
is indicated by the votes Of Van Buren
and Il. NJ. Johnson. 40 and il7 respec-
lively. against Harrison and Francis
Granger, 13 and II respectively. Nir-
ginia. however, which had cast her %
votes for Van Buren,, gave them to Will
lam Smith. of Ala hama, for Vice-preSi-
dent. As to the minor candidates, the
ticket of Hugh l.. White and John Ty-
Ter carried Georgia and Tennessee; the
electors of Massachusetts gave their
votes to Webster and Granger. those of
South Carolina to Mangum and Tyler.
and those of Maryland to Harrison and
Tyler. Here was another set of Varia-
tions and cross-variations that would
seem strange in our day. But the lead
ing clue is that the Democratic vote
hung together. except in the case of Nir-
glnia's for Smith. while the Whig vote
was divided
In the election of 1SiO, Harrison and
Tyler We're alike, with 25a votes for their
respective offices: but while Van Buren
had Go votes Cor president, II. NJ John
son got only IS for vice president. South
Carolina, which had voted for the form
er. throwing her eleven votes to l.. w.
Ta2ewell, of Virginia, for vice-presi-
dent. and Virginia giving one vote to
James X. Polk.
The fifteenth term. 1Si4. was notable
for furnishing a straight electoral vote.
of the kind familiar to the present day.
Polk and Dallas received 10 votes. and
Clay and Frelinghuyscn 105. Birncy
and Morris got q small popular vote,
but nothing from the electors.
IN LATER YEARS.
Ever since then, with one notable eX-
ception, the same conditions of uniform
votes for vice-president as for president
have prevailed. Taylor and Fillmore
beat Cass and Butler in 1913, the Free
Soil ticket of Van Buren, and Adams fig
uripg in the popular but not i'm the cleo
toral vote Pierce and King beat Scott
and Graham in 1852, and also Hale and
Julian. Then. in 1856, j. C. Brecilin-
ridge. w. l.. Dayton, and a. j. Donald
son were the respective running mates
of Buchanan. Fremont, and Fillmore
Buchanan and Breckinridge being the
winners. In 1860 there were four tick
cts i'm the field. Lincoln and Bamlin
with .SGG,352 popular votes, received ls0
electoral, while Douglass and Johnson,
with 1,375,l57 popular votes, had but
IL electoral; Brcckinridge and Lane,
with S45,763 popular votes, had - cleo
toral, and Bell and Everett's 5S9,5Sl
popular votes yielded them 80 electoral
Andrew Johnson was vice president
at I.incoln's second election. the de.
feated candidates being Mcclellan and
Pendleton. Then came Grant and Col
fax. beating Seymour and Blair. But
1872 showed a novelty, recalling the
earlier days already spoken OF. The
successful ticket was Grant and Will
son, they defeated Horace Greeley and
b. Gratz Brown. But the death of
Greeley before the electoral vote
caused his party to divide its vote
among four candidates, Hendricks re.
ceiving AZ. Gratz Brown lS, jenkins .,
and David Davis I. Still gyeaar. how
ever, was the division for vice presi-
dent. Gratz Brown received a votes,
Julian and Colquitt five votes each,
Palmer and Bramlette three votes and
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Banks one vote each.
Since then there has been no peculiar
ity worth noting. and it will be enough
simply to give the names of those who
have received electoral votes for vice
president in order to make the record
complete. In 1876 Hendricks ran with
Tilden, and Wheeler with Hayes: in
1850. Arthur with Garfield and English
with Hancock; in 1884, Hendricks with
Cleveland and Logan with Blaine; in
1sSS, Morton with Harrison and Thur
man with Cleveland; finally, in 1892,
Stevenson with Cleveland Reid with
Harrison, and James c. Field with
Weaver, these last securing 90 electoral
votes.
1t may be added that of the twenty
tnree persons WHO nave lllei tlc OF
flee of vice president by election Nor
ton and the present incumbent, Steven
son. are alone living.
The names of minor candidates for
the vice presidency who received more
or fewer votes before the electoral peO-
pie. but none in the electoral college.
would reveal also some familiar and
ether forgotten names. Thus may be
recalled in the last twenty years. $. f.
Cary, who ran with Peter Cooper on
the Creenback ticket in 1876, and B.
=. Chambers, who ran with Weaver
on G similar ticket in 1880; the Pro-
hibitionist tickets of the last five terms
consisting of Green Clay Smith and G.
Y. Stewart, Neal Dow and Thompson,
st. John and Daniel, Fiske and Brooks.
and Bdwel and Crannl. There were