The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-24
THEIR HOPES BLIGHTED.


The Career of Defeated Presidential
Candidates Since 1860.
Stewards Presidential ambitions van
ished when the nomination which he COW
eted went to Lincoln, and Breckenridge
and Douglas were the other wrecks left on
the shore by the political storm of 1850.
During the war the former commanded a
Confederate regiment in the field and
served Tor time in Davis Cabinet, but
his heart was never in the secession
movement, and when it was overthrow
he felt that his career was ended. He
went back to Kentucky, expecting to take
up the practice OF law, but did not live
long after he retired to private life. Doug
las, when the war opened, was prompt
and outspoken in support of the Union,
and had he lived he pro badly would have
been one of Lincoln's most valued ad-
visers.
But he had been ailing for more than a
year and the mighty strain of the canvass
of 1860, coupled with grief at the hopeless
rupture of his party, undermined his con-
stitutlon.- He sank rapidly, and when il
was evident that his day was ending he
sent for his sister to come and nurse him
during his last hours. After his death the
manifestations of respect revealed the
mighty hold which he had upon his party
and the admiration his great opponent
had come to feel for him because of his
splendid stand for the Union. No part oil
Douglas life so well became him as its
close.
After the campaign of 1864 General Nc
Clellan emerged but once from his self
sought retirement. In 1877 be was nomi.
mated for Governor by the New Jersey
Democrats and elected. This was the only
political Office he ever held, and when his
term was over he returned to his pleasan
home in Orange, where the balance of his
life was spent. He died suddenly, with
out warning dizziness, some ten years ago
Horatio Seymour survived for a dozen
years or more the crushing defeat by
Grant In 1868, but thereafter took small i
any part in public affairs. Horace Greeley
died less than month after the election
of 1872.
His death, however, was not due tc
disappointment at his failure to reach the
Presidency-he had known for weeks thaI
the tide had set strongly against him-bu
to the exhaustion of the campaign. fol.
lowed as 1t was BY the tender nursing n
his wife, who fell and died few weeks be
fore election day. The strain was tor
great Insomnia seized him with all il,
horrors, and it seemed to those who knew
him as II he, realizing that he had DANGER
OuSAJ oeA1ihCo Ailo pAy S1Cdl ana meDta
powers, gave up at once without MAKING ,
struggle for life.
Tlldenin 1876 accepted the loss of tn.
Presidency with perfect composure. RI hf
had personal disappointments or nonr
lsned resentment no one knew it. Within
month after the seating of HAYES bt
carried through an important busines.
enterprise which added millions to hi.
already large fortune. A little later he
bought beautiful place on the Hudson
ana dividing his time between tnat an
MS city home at Grammercy Park speni
MS last years in peace and serenity. snr
rounded by books and by men of the high.
est cultivation. A-e
General Hancock was never heard to 20.
P P1 at his defeat by Garfield in 1880. and
blaine, Within week of his defeat fonr
years later, was hard at work ON the SEQ.
ono volume of his Twenty Years of Con.
gress, giving no token of disappointment
at Inc outcome of the canvass. which had
brought him within 1000 votes of the Pres.
ioency. Cleveland as soon as his first
Term IN the White House was ended set.
ued down to the practice of his profession
IN New York City, and, although he ner-
mltted his labors to be broken in upon by
political inclination and a desire for a re.
nomination, probably made more money
q turing the ensuing four years than an anv
other period of his Life. While in 1s9s