The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-05
FAMOUS MEN WHO
WORE LONG Boards
Statesmen Of Other Days Classified rs to
Their WhfskerS
MOST OF THEM HAD SMOOTH FACES
Incidentally, Too, Most Of Them Also
Had smooth Manners, but There
Were Exceptions to Both Rules.
History Reviewed from n Hirsute
Standpoint.
From the Washington Post.

iohA tue w fOSt.
Both Major Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan
are smoothshaven like the beardless
statesmen of the olden time. Still the
old-timers were not all smooth OF face,
no matter how smooth they may have
been In some directions. There were
some very smooth articles Of politicians
among those old fellows, as witness the
little deal between Hamilton and JEFF
ferson. which resulted In Hamilton get
ting his financial bills through the house
and Jefferson getting the National Capt.
tai located on the Potomac river. WASH
ington, our first president. was smooth
of face, but John Adams wore short side
whiskers. but no moustache. Jefferson,
Madison, and Monroe were all smooth
of face, as well as smooth articles all
around. John Quincy Adams wore short
side whiskers like his distinguished sire,
Jackson, who twice contested the presi-
dency with Adams, the second time sue
cessfully. also wore short side whiskers.
mere tuft to the point of the ears in
his case Clay. another with whom
Jackson twice contended for the presi-
dency, in 1924 and 1882. neither getting
1t the first time, Jackson winning the
second. was smooth of face. So. too,
was Frelinghuysen, Clay's running mate
in 1874.
Van Buren, had bushy side whiskers.
which helped to make him look foxy,
and to give him the reputation he long
enjoyed of being the shrewdest politi-
clan Of his time. William Henry Harri-
son, who twice contested the presiden-
cy with Van Buren, losing in 1886 and
winning in 1S40, was smoothshaven, as
was Tyler, his running mate, who sue
ceeded him in the White House. Col
onel r. M. Johnson, who killed Tecum-
sch, and who was Van Buren's partner
on the ticket both in 1886 and 1910, was
smooth Of face. He is also the only
man ever elected vice-president by the
senate. In 1874 Polk and Dallas, the
successful candidates. We're destitute
of mustache or beard, and SO We're
Clay and Frelinghuysen. James G..
Birney started the Abolitionists to run
ming candidates for President. who had
no chance Of election in 1910, and ran
again in 1874. He wore side whiskers
Of the pattern called mutton chop.
General Taylor wore short side whisk-
ers. Fillmore, Taylor's second on the
ticket and his successor, was smooth
faced. Lewis Cass, who was defeated
that year, was smoothfaced, but his
running mate. w. o. Butler of Ken
lucky, wore little short side whiskers.
This was the year when Van Buren,
ran as Free Soil candidate and
evened up with Cass. He still wore
his bushy side whiskers but his side
partner, Charles Francis Adams, was
smoothfaced. Franklin Pierce was
smoth OF face. General Scott who ran
against his subordinate of the Mexican
war, was just beginning to wear mea-
ger side whiskers.
The campaign of 1856 brought out the
first presidential candidate who ever
wore moustache and full beard, either
or both. and he wore both. This was
John G. Fremont, the candidate of the
new Republican party, which was about
to make new precedents in more way
than in nominating a moustached and
bearded candidate for the presidency.
The Democratic candidate, James Bu-
chanan, was smooth-faced, but his
running mate. John G.. Breckinridge
wore a moustache. Judge William l..
Dayton. Fremonts partner. was smooth
shaven. Fillmore and Donelson. the
Know Nothing candidates. were both
smoothfaced. In 1860 there We're four
tickets In the field. Lincoln and Ham,
lin. Breckenridge and Lane. Douglass
and Johnson. and Bell and Everett
There was but one moustache among
the eight, and Breckinridge owned that
one. After the election Mr.. Lincoln
grew a. beard confined to his throat
and the lower part of his cheekbones
and chin. which failed TO add to his
homely style of beauty. Andrew
Johnson, who was elected vice-presi-
dent with Lincoln in 1864 and succeeded
him after his assassination. was
smoothfaced man. General Mcclellan,
the Democratic candidate for president
in 1864, wore a moustache and tuft
OH his lower Lip, which did not extend
to his chin. 1t might be called an abb
brevlated imperial. George H. Pendle-
ton, Little Macs associate on the
ticket, wore q moustache and beard.
A period is now reached when for
twenty-eight years we have had no
president who did not wear some pat
tern of hair upon his face. Three in
succession, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield,
wore a moustache and beard. Grants
first vice-president, Schuyler ColfaX,
wore beard, but no moustache. His
second, Henry Wilson. wore short side
whiskers. Hayes. vice president. Will
liam w. Wheeler, was smotohfaced.
Garfields vice-president and successor,
Chester a. Arthur, wore a moustache
and side whiskers, that being the first
time this combination has been seen in
the executive chair. Horatio Seymour.
the Democratic candidate in 1868, wore
short thin side whiskers; his second,
Frank p. Blair, Il moustache. Horace
Greeley shaved his face to his chin and
the edge of his cheek bones, but below
that region the whiskers We're thick.
This is the pattern known as Galways.
Samuel ]. Tilden was smooth of face.
but Thomas A. Hendricks wore short
side whiskers. Grover Cleveland was
elected wearinng a moustache, and he
has never shaved it off or added whis-
kers to it. Allan G. Thurman. who was
on the ticket with him in 1883. wore a
beard. but no moustache. James G.
Blaine wore a moustache and beard,
John A. Logan heavy sweeping black
moustache. Benjamin Harrison wears
q moustache and beard. Levi p. Nor
ton. his vice-president. is smooth of
face. Whitelaw Reid, his running mate
in 1892, wears a moustache. And now
we have gone back to the beardless era,
so far as the leading candidates for the
presidency are concerned. But the
ce-presidential candidates, like Vice.
President Stevenson, wear moustaches.
William Writ, the first third party
candidate for the Presidency, wore
very short side whiskers, as did Will
lie P. Mangum, of North Carolina, who
was voted for in 1886 for President by
the electors of South Carolina. Francis
Granger. Of New York, who, the same