The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-15

Monroe, Republican, received 23l;
John @. Adams, Republican, l. For
Vice Presidenl, Daniel d. Tom pkins,
Republican, received 218; Richard
Stockton, n. j., s; Daniel Rodney,
Del, 4; Robert G. Harper, and Richard
Rush, Penn, one vote each. Monroe
and Tompkns were elected.
1t will be noted that Monroe, at this
election, received all the votes for
President but one. The dissenting
vote, 1t is said, was cast by an elector
who would have no one but Washing
ton receive the honor of a unanimous
election.
John @. Adams called himself a
Republican, but he was generally re-
garded as Federslist.
AT the ninth election, 1S42, Andrew
Jackson, Republican, received 80 votes;
John @. Adams, Republican, 81; Hen
ny Clay, Republican, 81; William H.
Crawford, Republican, Al. For vice
president, John G. Calhoun, Republi.
can, received 1872; Nathan Sanford, N.
Y, Rep, 80; Nathaniel Mann, N. G {;
Rep, "a; Andrew Jackson, Rep, 10,
Martin Van Buren,, Rep, 9; Henry
Clay, Rep, 2 Calhoun was chosen
vice president. There was no election
for president, and John @. Adams was
chosen by the House of Representa-
tives.
The old Federal party had disap-
peared at this election, and the contest
seemed to be for men instead of parties.
Henry Clay being a member of the
House of Representatives gave the
casting vote for j. O. Adams, and for
30 doing incurred the life long hatred
of the "Jacksonians."
At the tenth election, 1928, the two
parties were arrayed against each other
as democrats" and "National Repub-
licans." Andrew Jackson, DEM, re-
ceived 17S; and j. c.. Adams, Nat.
Rep, 33. For vice president, John G.
Calhoun, DEM, received III; Richard
Rush, Penn, Nat. Repub., SO; and Will
liam Smith, s. c., DEM, 7. Jackson
and Calhoun were elected.
At the eleventh election, 1882, An
drew Jackson, DEM, received 219;
Henry Clay, Nat. Repub., 40; John
Floyd, Ca, Independent, II; William
West, Va, "Anti- Masonic" 7. For
Vice-President, Van Buren,, Dem, re.
ceived 1879; John Sergeant, Pa, Nat
Repub., 40; Henry Lee, Massachu
sets, Ind, II Amos Ellmeker, Anti.
NJ, z; William Wilkins, Pennsylvania
30. Jackson and Van Buren, were
elected.
At the twelfth election, 1886, new
party, the ewing" successor to the old
Federal Party appears. Martin Van
Buren,, DEM, received ITO; William
Henry Harrison, Wing, 70; Hugh l.
White, Tennessee, Wing, 90; Daniel
Webster, Wing, IA; Willie p. Mangum
North Carolina. Wing, II. For Vice.
President, Richard M. Johnson, Ken.
lucky, DEM, received 147; Francis
Granger, New York, Wing, II; John
Tyler, Virginia, Wing, AZ; William
Smith, Alabama, Dem, %. Van Blu
rem and johnson were elected.
The Wing Party, "of glorious mem
ory," disappeared after the election OF
1852, and the Republican" Party took
its place.
Counting up the presidential terms
we find that there have been from l76f
to 1899 inclusive, 28. or these the
Federal Party have had 3; the first
"Republican' Party, Z; the Democratic
"t'JS Viz w hiS dIlJt q, anu Ihe
present Republican Party,S.
There have really, however, been
only t,oo parties since the organization
of the government. The Federalist
National Republican, Wing and (pres
enD Republican have been the same
party under different names; and the
same is true of the (frsD Republican
and Democratic parties. Counting ur
the presidential terms held by the
Federalist, National Republican
Wing and Republican parties, we fine
they have elected their candidate IL
times, and the (6rsD Republican and
Democratic Parties IA times. So thai
the pending election is "the rubber
The other parties that have nominated
and voted for Presidents and Vice
Presidents are: The Anti-Masonic
the Liberty Cor "Abolitionist") Party
the Free Soil; the Free Democrat; the
Union; the I'D. and L." or "Liberal;'
the Temperance; the Greenback; the
Protection; the American Cor "Know
Nothing"); the Peoples; the U. l.
Omitted Liberty; the, Prohibitionist
the Socialist Liberty; the Populist; the
National (or "Gold) Democratic; and
the National, or Free Silver Prohibi
ton. In our next we may have some
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