The Irish standard., 1896-08-15

| N. Y, but both are practically New y 0Tk-
eTs, both having city residences and both
tleng identified with business in this town.
The complications of city politics are
much more embarrassing to candidate
( for high elective office than the placid
and uniform course of politics in country
or semi-ruTal districts. In the latter lines
of demarkation between the two parties
are very evenly marked and there is no
room for any serious detection.
A candidate receiving party nOmina-
tiOn gets substantially the whole party
support, and necessity of making a good
fight against the common enemy strength
ems the party lines and holds the voters
of such party together. In the large
cities, however, factional differences are
many and sperplexing, and a candidate
who resides with one faction incurs there.
after the hostility Of the other, while a
candidate who seeks to keep aloof from
such fact;onal differences finds, later on,
perhaps, that he has antagonized both
groups Of the party upon which he de-
pends for support. 1t is only when there
is some sensational political movement
which breaks down the former political
barriers that candidate can hope to rise
superior to the environments of factional
|
an occasion twenty years ago OR more,
when Mr.. Tilden antagonized for time
the regular democratic organization in
New York, but later on, as some of the
results Of his efforts and after there had
been a change in it's leadership, it was
found supporting him for governor. as if
he had not been, a short time before, the
leader in the opposition to it. But this
was an exceptional case and though MIR.
| Tilden was resident Of the city of New
York, and one of it's most conspicuous
and public-spirited citizens in its polit-
! ical, professional, social and commercial
Fife, he was fond of declaring that he
came from Columbia county, in which the
town of New Lebanon his birthplace, is
situated. Mr.. Tilden was for many years
chairman Of the democratic state COM
mittee, and though resident of New
York, was regarded by the rural demo-
Gratis as their particular representative
upon it.
! In the choice of presidents of the United
States the voters of the country seem to
have followed to a considerable extent
geographical lines. Beginning at the early
| settlement of the colonies at jamestown,
Va, as starting point. and at Plymouth,
Mass, as another, it is found that Oh line
drawn westward from these two points and
extending through Virginia on the south
and through Massachusetts, and eastern
New York on the other, presidents were
chosen. Washington, the first; Jeffer-
son, the third; Madison, the fourth, and
Monroe, the fifth, were chosen from Vir
ginia; John Adams. the second; John
Quincy Adams, the sixth, and Martin Van
Buren, the eighth. were chosen from the
nothern political boundary line. This list
| includes all the presidents inaugurated
during the first half century of the nations
life From 1889 to 1S41, woth the eScep-
ton Of Andrew Jackson, who was native
of North Carolina and a resident OF Ten.
nessee, a little out Of the line starting in
Virginia. William Henry Harrison, the
ninth president of the United States, was
the first Ohio man to hold that Office. He
was resident of the town of North Bend.
Ohio, when elected, though, like SO many Of
his predecessors in the presidential office, a
Virginian by birth, as was Zachary Taylor,
one of his successors. Polk was native of
North Carolina and Pierce native of New
Hampshire, James Buchanan was born in
Pennsylvania, and was the first and only
president chosen up to that time from
section of territory midway between the
jamestown, Va, and Plymouth, Mass, line.
With the beginning Of the war contro-
velsy in 1860 the lines Of the former presi-
Dental choice seemed to converge at the
Ohio river and to continue through the val
ley of that stream westward to the Miss:s-
sppi with little interruption since.
The various presidents of the country,
with the exception of Mr.. Cleveland. have
been chosen from the Ohio river region,
following the line of the center of popula-
tion. which has been travelling from Gin
cinnati to the vicinity Of indianapolis, Mr.
Lincoln was native of Larue county,
Kentucky uarue is directly south Of
Louisville, Gen. Grant was native of
C1aremont county. OHIO. His successor,
Hayes, was born IN Delaware county, Ohio.
The next president elected to the position
which Hayes occupied for four years. James
A. Garfield. was a native of Cuyahoga,
and Harrison was born in Hamilton county,
Ohio. Mr.. Cleveland *; q native of New
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