Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-07-25
CHARM IN LETTER N
Arp Says Democrats Have the Bulge
This Year.
CANDIDATES HAVE THE CHARM,
No Ticket Where Both Candidates
Names Ended With .'N'' Was Ever
Beaten.

A paragraph in a New York paper
asks: lis there charm in the letter
N? and all's well that Ms (ends) well
so the writer tells is that the names of
ten Presidents OF the United States
ended in \. He might have gone fur
ther anC said that no Presidential can
oldate whose name ended with y mad
ever generally been laid on the politi-
cal shelf as back numbers and under
the ban. 1t has been said that this was
! the reason why Roosevelt did not wish
to he nominated. But this is Il mis-
take. JefferSDn was Il Viz" President
and so were Jackson and Van Buren,
But it Is astonishing how little Is gen
orally known of Vice Presidents. How
soon they are forgotten. Even the best
histories OF the United States fail to
mention them in any table or order or
index. Indeed the defeated candidates
for Vice President are equally ignored
Who did Taylor run against? Who did
William Henry Harrison? Who Van
Buren,. Who Madison? Who was !. q
Adams Vice President? Who Jeffer-
sons and Jackson's, Monroc's and Mad
ison's? You can't find answers to these
in any school history. and | found
them only after much research in Ap
pletons biographies; and who run
against jefferson for his second term >
Who against Monroe and Taylor and
Pierce? Nobody knows hardly. Nov
here is Il table of reference that lovers
of history may look over and paste in
book for reference:
Washington and Adams. Washington
and Adams. Adams AID Jefferson. .Ief-
ferson and Burr. jefferson and George
I.,1l
Munroe and Daniel Tompl,ins. Monroe
and Daniel 1ompkins. J. Q. Adams
and John G. Calhoun. jackson and Cal
houn. Jackson and Van Buren. Van
Buren, and r. NJ. Johnson. Harrison
and Tyler. Polk and Dallas, Taylor and
FILLMORE, Pierce and William II. King.
Bechanan and breckenridge. Lincoln
and Hamlin, Lincoln and Johnson
Grant and ColfaX, Hayes and Wheeler,
Garfield and Arthur. Cleveland and
Cleveland and Stevenson O)-.:?t XIX
/ Hendricks. Harris II and Morton, Cleve
land and Stevenson.
Jefferson ran against G. G.. Pinckney.
Madison ran against Dewitt Clinton.
Monroe ran against Rufus King.
j. y Adams ran against Jackson.
Jackson ran against Clay.
Van Buren, ran against Harrison.
Harrison ran against Van Buren,.
Polk ran against Clay.
haylor ran against Cass.
Pierce ran against Scott.
Buchanan ran against Fremont.
Lncoln ran against Breckenridge
and Bell
Grant and Seymour
Grant ran against Seymour.
Hays -cne against illdeN
Barfield ran against Hancock.
Cleveland ran against Blaine.
Harrison ran against Van Buren,.
Now pick out those successful Candi-
dates whose names, presidents and vice
presidents, ended in y.
Jefferson and Clinton. Madison. and
Clinton, Jackson, Van Buren, and X. NJ
Johnson, Lincoln and Hamlin. Lincoln
and Johnson. Harrison. and Morton.
And now II there is any charm in the
letter N look out for a ground-swell
that will roll Bryan and Stevenson in
to Office next November. Look out. /
say, and have as much faith as do i'll
seeing the new moon in clear sky
over your right shoulder. Bryan was
defeated the last time because the
name OF his running mate ended in l..
That's why the wise men wouldent
in it they said. But alls we'll that Ms
(ends) we'll. so Mr.. Shakespeare says.
Bryan and Stevenson Will sweep the
coutry. for the double Ms have never
yet been defeated
And there is another shameful neg
lect in our histories They tell us no
thing scarcely of the mothers or wives
OF the presidets; nothing OF their chill
dren nor who was born in the white
house. OF course we know about Wash
ington's mother and his wife. and about
Dorothy or Dolly Madison who was a
widow Todd, and maybe was kin to
Mrs. Lincoln. for she was a Todd We
know something about General Jack
sons wife and about Mrs Eaton for
there was a scandal about her. and
because Mrs. Calhoun and Others
wouldent visit her in the white house
Jackson broke up his cabinet and took
new one We know that Jefferson
had no sons. but that his daughter
married a Mr.. Eppes. and her descend
ants are quite numerous. One of he
grandsoDs was my classmate in col
lege. VIC know something about Mrs
Polk and Harriet Lane who kept the
White House for Buchanan and about
JULIA Dent Grant and Miss Folsom,
whom Cleveland married. but this is
about all. The mother of a great man
deserves the highest consideration of
the historian. but they have not had It.
With the few exceptions that | have
named our people know nothing OF the
mothers. wives or children of the Pres
idents. How many New England peo
pie know who was Daniel Webstcr's
wife or mother? How many Carolini-
ans know of Calhoun's. how many
kentucklans know OF Henry Clay's?