The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-12-12
1.-THE WORLD gaE HUNDRED
YEARS AGO TODAY" !"
DECEMBER 12, 1900.
Copyrighted. 1900, by r. Il. Hughes,
Louisyille.)

,lOu III Tue OUlteU OtdtcS WAS dI
asst known, though the popular
vote had been cast more than
month before. 1t became evident
that the Electoral College would
show the vote to stand as follows:
jefferson 73, Burr 73, Adams
65, Pinckney 64, Jay l.
jefferson and Burr were the
candidates; Adams and
Pinckney the federalists.. The
vote for Jay was purely compli-
mentary.. The law then provided
for the second highest mans be-
coming vice president, whether of
the same political persuasion as
the successful candidate for presi-
dent or not. A period of extreme |
anxiety now began, scarcely more
for jefferson than for the whole
people of the United States.- The
equality between jefferson and
Burr would of course cast the cleo
tion, into the house of representa-
tives, the political composition of
which was such that the republi-
cans could not control the choice,
'leaving the federalists with the
power by holding steadily together
to prevent any election whatsoever.
Many influential federalists soon
showed themselves su fciently en-
bittered and vindictive to contem-
plate it. Meanwhile both parties
awaited the arrival of the date for
counting the electoral vote. reflect
ing eyer and anon on the campaign
of a few months before. which had
been the warmest up to that time.
Early in the spring of 1900 it
became manifest that the federalist
party was losing ground. In
April the New York state election
went against them. Soon after
after this the dismissal by Presi-
dent Adams of some of the cabinet
officers who were too friendly with
Hamilton printed a severe attack
!. on the president and endeavored to
make arrangements for giving
!. Pinckney a majority of federalists
electors that he might be chosen
president and Adams vice presi
dent.
8 1t was a campaign of vitupera'
j ton throughout. One of tht
d stories concerning jefferson charg
y ed that he had obtained his prop
erty by fraud and robbery; that il
4 ore instance he had defrauded an(
o robbed a widow and fatherlesI
Q children of an estate to which b,
Il was executor of 10000 pounds
= sterling" Burr came in for NOR
q than ordinary abuse. The bette
" relement OF the republicans, as vel
: as that portion of the federalist
u saw in his a dangerous man. Ham
= ilton, knowing that Burr's seat il
! the senate had been secured b.
70 means that at least were not fair
70 was the bitter enemy of this Ney
l. Yorker, and although opposed t.
- all Jeffersonian principles, wa
h ready to see the Virginian triumph
# if Burr could be made to suffer de
/, feat at the same time. 1t is on
of the strangest tales that histor!
. has to tell. that Alexander Hamil
d ton was chief influence in MAXIM
n Thomas jefferson president of tn
. United States.
q AS the election drew nearer tn
= result grew steadily more certain
"a that the republicans would be vic
It torious. The federalists wer
h disheartened and foredoomed b.
N the internal dissensions whicI
% :. split their party into fraction
70 more hostile and jealous towar,
a each other than toward the com
le mon foe. Defeat was further in
is sured by the admirable conditioI
u of the republican party. jefferson
q was born organizer and Burr il
n- New York had proved a reall
lie able political opponent. Finall
v election day came, and now th
% last Of the state legislatures ha
ia met and selected its electors-th
lg federalist supremacy was broken
n but the end was not yet. The un
= expected complication-a tie-ha,
: arisen. Thus the country wa
al ushered into a period that seriousl,
Of threatened civil war, and durinI
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