The Portland daily press., 1896-07-18
sNUBBlNo WcE-PREslDENTs.
A Habit Common From Almost the Be-
ginning of the Government.

The snubbing of Vice Presidents by the
the beginning of the government, says
writer in the Chicago Times Herald, )"
During most administrations the Presi.
dent and Vice President have been at
| loggerheads. Thomas Jefferson, as Vice
President under Adams, was the leader
of the opposition. He expected to have
something to do with the administration
when he was first elected, but President
Adams disregarded him at the start.
Adams was disgusted when Jefferson was
elected as his successor. He would not
! waiu in Washington to see the Inaugural
| ton, but rode off in his carriage the
night before Aaron Burr was one of the
| Vice Presidents under Jefferson. Tue
two were fighting most OF the time, and
it was through Jefferson that Burr was
| finally prosecuted for treason. 1t is hard
| ly posi- bic that President John O. Adams
and his Vice President, John G. Cal
houn, had anything in common, and
President jackson threatened to have
Calhoun hanged on account of the nul1i-
fcation matters which arose in South
Carolina during Jackson's Presidency,
whom Calhoun was again Vice President
Jackson and his second Vice President
Van Buren,, were in harmony, because
Jackson was king and Van Buren, merely
faototum. Van Buren's Vice President
was Richard M. johnson, of Kentucky,
the first Vica President chosen west of
| the Alleghanies. He, was the man who
killed Teoum sch, the great Indian chief,
but his name is now almost forgotten.
John Tyler was cipher as long as Har
rison lived. Willard Fillmore had little
influence while Zach Taylor was alive,
and Andrew johnson had no influence to
speak of until the death of Abraham
Lincoln. 1t is said that John Adams
tried when he was Vice President to
rule Washington. but Washington had
opinions of his own. john Adams is said
to have been jealous of Washington's
prominence, and in the memoirs of Ogie
Taylor, published for private circulation
some years ago, there is story now
Adams rebuked q man who had used the
Adams. Vice President Adams said:
'fMy man, you should not say George
Washington and John Adams, but John
Adams and George Washington, for
John Adams made George Washington.
A number OF the ablest of our states
men have held the Vice Presidential
office, but their regulations were made
outside of it. There were John @.
Breckenridge, Vice President with
Buchanan; George NJ. Dallas. who ruled
with Polk, and William R. King, Vice
President with Pierce. All of these men
will go down in history through other
acts than thoss done during the Vice
Presidencies. Then there were Elbridge
Gerry, a signer of the Declaration Of In
dependence and the author of the system
of changing legislative districts for Con-
gressional purposes. called after his
name. gerrymanderinR; George Clinton
of New York; Schuyler Colfax, who was
mixed up in the Credit Mobilier; Henry
| Wilson and others, once famous, but now
| forgotten. There have been altogether
twenty three Vice Presidents elected by
the people OF these five died in office,
| three have risen to the Presidency by
election. four have reached the White
House by the death of the President, and
none have through their positions made
regulations which will out last aeon fury