The times., 1899-03-05
FEUDS THAT FIGURE
In OUR HISTORY
Relentless Quarrels in Almost
Every Administration.
Van Buren's Friendship for Pretty
Margaret Eaton.
The Break Between stephen A.
Douslns and James Buchanan
Tint Made Lincoln President.
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(From the st. Louis Globe -Dcmocrat)
The death few days ago of the sec
ond wife of Stephen A. Douglas, recalling
as it does the quarrel between Douglas
and President Buchanan, will bring TO
mind the feuds between Presidents and
powerful members of their party which af
fected the current of history. These be-
gan early in the country's career, and
have continued at intervals down to the
present day. They figured during the Ad-
ministrations of Adams. Jackson, Buch-
anan, Garfield. Cleveland and others.
Between John Adams. who may be call
cd the leader de jure of the Federalist
party, and Hamilton who was the leader
de facto, a quarrel occurred during the
Presidency of the former which was a
powerful factor in bringing Adams de-
feat for reelection. In fact. the disagree
ment between Adams and Hamilton be-
gan before the formers election to the
Presidency, or even to the Vice Presiden-
cy. In the first election for President and
Vice President, that of 1883, Washington
received 60 electoral votes, or one of the
two votes cast by each elector. and Ad-
ans only "a. Under the Constitution as
it existed until 1904 the electors did not
name their choice for President and Vice
President specifically. but the person who
had the highest number of votes. If a
majority, was made President. and the one
standing next became Vice President Ev-
erybody, of course, knew that Washing
ton would lead all the other candidates,
but as Adams ranked next to him in
prominence Of all who were voted for
there was some surprise that he fell so far
behind Washington. The cause was un-
derstood to be the influence OF Hamilton
who urged some of the electors to cast
one of their votes for somebody else than
Adams, in order not to have tie in the
Electoral College, which might endanger
Washington's choice. This was the be-
ginning OF the disagreements between the
two men which had a disastrous effect on
their party subsequently.
The disagreements between the two Fed
eralist chieftains during the Presidency of
Adams, and the distrust which Hamilton.
Gouverneur Morris, and other magnates of
the party had for Adams. melted Hamilton
to write letter during the canvass of 1900
attacking Adams and championing Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, the other nominee on
the Federalist ticket The object was TO
get more votes in the Electoral College for
Pinckney than for Adams, in order that
Pinckney might be made President and
Adams Vice President II the Federalists
carried the election. The letter was in
tended for Southern circulation, Pinckney
being from South Carolina: but 1t was
published in the North, also and height
ened the Generalization of the party which
the alien and seditious laws and the quar-
rels about France caused.
But neither was elected. Adams receiv-
ed siXty-five electoral votes in the whole
country and Pinckney sixty-four Jeffer-
son and Aaron Burr. the Republican
Democratic) aspirants. however, received
seventy-three votes each. The tie sent
the contest TO the House of Representa-
tives, which. after a long fight, gave Jeffer-
son the higher post. and the second one
thus went to Burr. Among the States
which went against Adams in 1900 was
New York. which he carried in 1886 Adj
ans friends blamed Hamilton, who was a
New Yorker for this detection, but 1t is
probable that his influence had nothing to
do with the result in that State Burr.
then the leader of Tammany. did some
sharp electioneering work In that State in
the early part of 1900 which would have
held its electoral vote away from the Fed
eralists, even if Hamilton had been as ar
IDENTIFY in favor of Adams as he was of
Pinckney, and in the existing division be-
tween the two parties the vote of New
York would have been decisive The Ham
ilton quarrel. nevertheless, was one of the
causes OF the general decentralization In
the Federalist party which defeated Adams
That defeat ended the ,Federalist party's
days OF power. Ii never elected a Presi-
dent, except Washington in 1889 and 1882
and Adams in 1896. and was not a serious
factor in Presidential capyasses afterward,
except in 1912, when in Combination with
a faction OF the Democrats, led by Dewitt
Clinton, 1t ran the Democracy a close race
for the Presidency, though Madison car
ried the country.
A still more exciting quarrel between a
President and chieftains of his party be-
gan soon after jackson went to the White
House. In this feud Calhoun was the prin-
cipal figure on the anti jackson side The
quarrel was melted by two causes-Jack-
sons discovery that Calhoun. who was Sec
retary of War in Monroes Cabinet was
hostile to Jackson during the Florida war,
in Monroe's days, and the refusal of the
wife of Calhoun and those of the members
of Jackson's Cabinet in 1929 to recognize
Mrs. Eaton, wife of Jacksons Secretary OF
War, socially. William H. Crawford, Sec
retary of the Treasury in Monroe's Cabi-
net. told one of Jackson's friends in
1928, during the campaign In which Jackson
was elected the first time, that Calhoun, in
Monroe's Cabinet. wanted to have Jackson
censured in 1918 for exceeding his instruc-
tions in the Florida war. This did not ge;
to Jackson's ears Immediately. but he
heard of it in November, 1929, before the
first year of his Presidential service end
ed. He had suspicious Of what he called
Calhoun's fidelity" TO him several years
earlier, but now he obtained proof or what
he thought was proof. He received actual
proof in personal letter from Crawford in
May, 1880.
Several weeks before Crawford wrote,
however, the divergence between Jackson
and Calhoun became known to Calhoun and
the rest of the country. This occurred at