The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-09-26
CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENCY

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Presidential nominees with as much
ease as they eau say the multiplica-
ton table, but only the men who
make politics daily business can
name consecutively the candidates for
the Vice PRESIDENCY. The first Vice
President to be nominated by ma
tiona1 convention was Amos Ellmak-
er, named by the Anti Masons' Con-
vention in 1891. That convention,
however, is not ranked as a political
convention in the same sense as SUBJ
sequent conventions. In the same
year what was known as the Nation
al Republican Convention met in Bal
timore, in December The Vice Pres
idential nominee of that body was
John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania. That
was the convention that nominated
Henry Clay for President.
The national convention system
proper, as it is now understood and
carried out, originated in 1892, when
Martin Van Buren, was chosen for the
second place. The call for that con-
vention originated in New Hamp-
shire. Only those who make politics
business recall readily that the
Democratic party convention idea
originated in Northern State.
Its second convention met in Balti-
more in 1885. The Vice Presidential
candidate of that convention was R.
M. Johnson, of Kentucky. He made
himself SO unpopular with his party
that when the convention met again
in Baltimore, in I84o, it was decided
to name no Vice: Presidential candi-
date, but to leave the matter to
committee composed of Democratic
Senators. After the convention the
committee decided to put Johnson on
the ticket, and so it came about that
the candidate that year for Vice-Pres-
ident was not nominee of the con-
vention by vote of the delegates.
The first Vice Presidential candi-
date to decline a nomination was Silas
Wright, of New York, who was nom
mated by the Democratic convention
that met in Baltimore in 1874. George
M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was naR-
ed in his stead.
In I842, after the Democrats failed
to renominate Mr.. Van Buren for
the President, Mr.. Van Buren's
friends brought him out as a Free
Soil candidate, and the Vice Presi-
dental candidate on that ticket was
Charles Francis Adams, of Massa-
chusetts.
w. o. Butler, of Kentucky, was
the Vice.Presidential nominee of the
Democratic party in IS48, and w. R.
King, of Alabama, was the nominee
in 1862. The Democratic convention
that met in Cincinnati in 1856 nomin-
ated John c. Breckenridge for Vice
President.
In 1860 another Vice Presidential
nominee declined, D. " Fitzpatrick,
who had been named in Charleston
with Stephen A. Douglas. Herschel
V. Johnson, of Mississippi, was sub
stituted for him. In the same year,
in the same city, what was known as
the Seceders' Convention nominated
Joseph Lane for Vice President on
the ticket headed by John c. Breck-
inridge, who was the second Vice
Presidential candidate in political his
tory to be named subsequently for
the first place by a convention Mr..
Van Buren was the first. Other
Vice-Presidents had succeeded to the
Presidency, but not as convention
nominees.
George H. Pendleton was nominated
by the Democratic convention for Sec
ond place in Chicago in 1864 F. P.
Blair was chosen by the same party
for second place in the convention
which met in New York in 1868. B.
Gratz Brown was nominated for Vice
President by the Liberal Republican
convention in Cincinnati in 1872, and
endorsed by the Democratic conven-
ton in the same year. Thomas A.
Hendricks was chosen for second
place in St. Louis in 1876, w. H.
English in Cincinnati 1880, Hen
bricks in Chicago in 1884, Thurman
in Chicago in 1888, Adlai E. Steven
son in Chicago in 1892, Arthur Sc
wall in Chicago in 1896, Adlai E.
Stevenson again in Kansas City in
1900.
Mr.. Stevenson and Mr.. Hendricks
had the distinction of being the only
two who were twice named by their
party in convention as Vice Presi-
Dental candidates. Each was elected
once.
General Buckner was the Vice
Presidential candidate of the Gold
Democrats in 1896.
The first ice-Presidential candi-
date Of the present Republican party
was William L. Dayton, who was on
the ticket headed by Fremont in 1886.
The names of the other Republican
ce-Presidential candidates are read
lily recalled. They were: Hannibal
Hamlin, 1860; Andrew Johnson,
1864, who afterward became Presi-
dent; Schuyler Colfax, in 1868
Henry Wilson, in 1872; w. A.
Wheeler, 1876; Chester A. Arthur,
in 1880, who afterward became Presi-
dent, succeeding Garfield, who died
in the year of his Inauguration John
A. Logan, in 1884 Levi P. Morton,
in 1888; Whitlaw Reid, in 1892
Garrett A. Hobart, in 1896; Theo-
dore Roosevelt, in 1900, who became
President in 1901.
John Tyler was the Vice-Presiden-
tial candidate of the Wing party in
I84o, and succeeded to the Presiden-
cy short time after the Inauguration
of the head of the ticket. William