Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03

Gratis with the abolitionists and ran as the
free soil candidate for President, with
Charles Francis Adams Of Massachusetts,
vote was ISL .90S. an increase over 1S40 Of
49, 97, little more than per cent. Tay-
lor's plurality was 1885, but the vote Of
by 1bl. FOG. Thus did Van Buren, even up
with the people who prevented his nomtna-
ton four years before.
1862.
Taylor being dead, the wings in 1852. at
the seventeenth election, tried Winfield
Scott Of New Jersey, the second conqueror
of Mexico, nominating him with William A.
Graham of North Carolina. The democrats
took another dark horse, Franklin Pierce
of New Hampshire. who had been United
States senator and volunteer brigadier
general under Scott in the Mexican war,
nominating with him William R. King of
Alabama. Van Buren, had returned to his
party, so the free sellers nominated John
P. Hale Of New Hampshire. then a United
States senator. and George w. Julian Of In
diana, who had been in Congress for one
term from 1S49 to 1851. California having
casting 3, A4,201 popular votes, an increase
over 1s4S of 1888, less than 10 per cent
Pierce had 1.6O1.474; Scott, 1856. 57S Hale,
156. 149 Pierce's plurality was 2l4.Ss6 his
majority was 5S747.
1855.
notable for the appearance of the republi-
can party In the field of national politics
and for the great increase In the popular
vote caused by the intense interest felt by
| the people in the issues at stake. The dem
ocrats nominated James Buchanan of Penn
sylvania for President and John G. Brock
inridge OF Kentucky for Vice President, the
former one Of the old and the latter one of
the new leaders of his party. The republic
can candidates were John c. Fremont of
California and William L. Dayton of New
Jersey. The American or know nothing
party put out Willard Fillmore of New
York, a former Vice President and Presi-
| dent, and Andrew Donelson of Tennessee.
The total popular vote, thirty-one states vot-
| ing. as in 1852, was 4.O5S,y67, an increase
over 1852 Of 800, 76S, nearly 30 per cent.
Buchanan had ], S3S, 169: Fremont, 1.341,-
264; Fillmore. S74 ,534 Buchanans plurality
was 4S4,906, but the combined vote OF Ere
| mont and Fillmore exceeded his by 377,62s.
1850.
| In 1850, at the nineteenth election, there
| were four tickets in the field-Abraham Lin
coin Of Illinois and Hannibal Hamlin of
Maine. republican; Stephen A. Douglas OF
Illinois and Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia.
democrat: John C. Breckenridge of Ken
| lucky and Joseph Lane of Oregon, demo-
| crat; John Bell of Tennessee and Edward
| Everett of Massachusetts, constitutional
union. Minnesota and Oregon having been
| admitted, thirty-three states voted. The
| popular vote was 4,6i6,S53, an increase over
1896 of 622, SS6 more than 10 per cent. Lin
coin had 1865, 913; Douglas, l,314,6 64; Breck-
| inridge. S4S, 4O4; Bell, 591,9G0. Lncons
| plurality was 49l 1885, but less than Douglas
| and Breckenridge combined by 354, 566, and
| less than they and Bell combined by ga, 149.
Lincoln had at this election the smallest per
cent $500 of the popular vote of any
| President ever elected by the electoral col
leges. Douglas had the highest per cent
| (2y.4U) of any candidate who ever received
so few electoral votes 02). Breckenridge
| had the lowest per cent US0S of any can
| didate who ever received so many electoral
votes (72), while Bell. who received less
than half as many popular votes as Doug
| las, had 80 electoral votes, or more than
| three times as many as he.
| 1864.
When the twentieth election came in 1864
the country was in the midst Of civil war
so that notwithstanding three new states
had been admitted, Kansas. West Virginia
| and Nevada but twenty-five states voted,
eleven taking no part in the election. There
were but two tickets in the field, Lincoln
| and Andrew Johnson Of Tennessee. whose
| state was one of those that did not vote.
and George b. Mcclellan of New Jersey and
| George H. Pendleton of Ohio. The total
4 popular vote was 4O24, T92, a decrease from
1860 of 852 061, about IA per cent: This is
\ the only election where a record Of the
| popular vote has been kept at which a fall
| ing off Is shown.
| 1858.
| In 1868, at the twenty-first election, three
states did not vote, Virginia, Mississippi and
| Texas, but thirty-four did, Nebraska hav-
Ing been admitted. There were only two
tickets in the field, Ulysses S. Grant Of Hi
nois and Schuyler Colfax Of Indiana, repub-
lican. and Horatio Seymour of New York
| and Francis c. Blair of Missouri, democrat
The popular vote was 5,724, 6S4, an increase
| over 1864 Of ,699, S92 more than 40 per cent,
and Of 1,047 ,S31 over 1850. about 80 per cent
Grant had S,O15,o11; Seymour 2'o9elS.
| Grants majority was 3O5, 45S.
1872.
In 1872 the full complement of states
thirty-seven, voted. This year is notable
for a revolt among number Of republicans
who nominated Horace Greeley Of New
York for President and B. Gratz Brown Of
Missouri for Vice President. The democrats
ratified these nominations. This caused a
revolt in their ranks and led to the nominal
ton by the straight-outs Of Charles O'Conor
of New York and John Quincy Adams Of
| Massachusetts, A new minor party that
is still with US, the prohibition, first ap-
peared this year, and nominated James
| Black of Pennsylvania and John Russell Of
| Michigan. A convention calling itself labor
reform nominated David Davis of Illinois
| and Joel Parker Of New Jersey, but they
declined and were not voted for. The re-
publicans renominated Grant and with him
|
lar vote was 6, 466. 165, an increase over 1868
of TAI 500. little more than IL per cent,
and an increase of 1,7S9393 over 1890. more
than 80 per cent for the period of twelve
years, during four years of which civil war
ragged. Grant had 1897 .O70; Greeley. 1884
O79: O'Conor, 29.4Os; Black 5,6Os Grants
plurality was 1872, 991; his majority, 727, 975.
1915.
The centennial year, 1915. witnessed the
twenty-third election. which was finally
settled by the electoral commission, and the
admission of new state. Colorado, making
thirty-eight states. Rutherford B. Hayes of
Ohio and William A. Wheeler Of New York,
republicans. and Samuel ]. T1lden Of New
York and Thomas A. Hendricks Of Indiana,
democrats. were the principal candidates.
Tho minor parties put out tickets headed
by Peter Cooper of New York, greenbacker;
Green Clay Smith Of Kentucky, prohibi-
zionist, and James B. Walker Of Illinois.
American. The total vote was 8,412, 1873, an
increase over 1872 Of 1916, 4S7, almost ex-
actly 80 per cent. Hayes had 4,083. $50; TIL
den 4.2S4. ss5: Cooper, s1,74O; Smith, 9.522.
and Walker, 2,636. Tilden had $50 ,9S5 more
than Hayes and 157 more than all others
combined. Hayes fell behind all the others
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