The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-08

peared when the Wing party came on
the scene. The National Republicans
formed the nucleus Of the Wing party,
and they were Reinforced By the anti
Masons. the party which supported
Writ for President in 1852. and which
was strong in New York. Pernsyl-
vania and some OF the New England
States for several years before and
after that date. But q larger section
OF the Wing party came from factions
Of the Democracy. which Jacksou's
strenuous government repealed Some
OF these seeded from the Democracy
on account Of Jackson's nationaliZing
ideas. as expressed in his proclsma-
ton against the nulliiers. and his de
termination TO put them down, even II
he had 10 use the whole military
power of the United States in the ef-
fort These seceders were ultra State
sovereignty men. who united with the
National Republicans. who were anti
State-righters. Another Democratic
element which entered into the coali-
ton were friends Of the United
States bank, which Jackson assailed.
and which he killed by preventing the
granting to it OF a new charter. Other
| Democrats in large numbers turned
! against Jackson because OF what they
| believed to be q dangerous assertion
OF executive power on these and other
( questions. All these elements united
with the National Republicans. and
/ the fusion, which had for several
years no bond of union except hatred
| for Jackson. adopted the Wing name
| in 1884.
Owing TO the strength which its Ma
tional Republican element gave it in
the North, and to that which its Dem
ocratic ingredients contributed in the
slave States. the Wing party for a
time blotted out out the sectional line.
The Wings carried several Southern
States in 1886, in canvass IN which
they did not unite on any one candi-
date, but had four tickets in the field.
| each strong in particular locality.
| William Henry Harrison, for example
beat the Democrats in Delaware, Ma
! ryland and Kentucky, besides carry
| ing Vermont and New Jersey. Hugh
| L. White won Georgia and Tennessee,
and Willie p. Magnum carried South
/ Carolina, while Daniel Webster held
| his own State of Massachusetts. In
the election of 1910, in which the
| Wings concentrated on Harrison, they
wiped out the geographical line so
completely that they left only seven
New Hampshire. Virginia, South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas and
Illinois-out of the twenty-six States
to President Van Buren,, the Demo
cratic candidate for reelection. In
the election of 1874, in which they
were defeated; in that of 1S4S, in
which they were successful. and in
the last national campaign in which
they participated as great party,
that of 1852. the Wings broke the
sectional line. In the canvass of 1852
Scott, the Wing standard bearer, car
ried only four States-Vermont. Mas
sachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee
but half of these were in the North
and the other half in the South.
The appearance of the Republican
party, which was created by the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise by
the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. i'm
mediately put the geographical line in
politics in a more portentious shape
than ever before. Most of the West
ern States had been in alliance with
the South in the Democratic party in