The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26
THE VECE-PRESFDENTS.
Facts About Their Nominations and Their
Careers I'm Offlce.

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Facts About Their Nominations and Their
! Careers In Oflce.
| Old politicians and some OF the younger
| ones can reel off the list OF Presidential
nominees with as much ease as they can say
| the multiplication table, but only the men
who make politics a daily business can
| name consecutively the candidates for the
Vice Presidency.
The first vice-President to be NOM
| mated by a National Convention was Arson
| Elmaker, named by the Anti-Masons'
| Convention in 1891. That convention, how
ever, is not ranked as a political conven-
| ton in the same sense as subsequent con-
| ventions.
| In the same year what was known as the
National Republican Convention met in
| Baltimore, in December. The Vice-Presi-
! dental nominee of that body was John
| Sergeant of Pennsylvania. That was the
| convention which nominated Henry Clay
! for President.
The National Convention system proper,
| as it is now understood and carried out,
! originated in 1882, when Martin Van Buren,
was chosen for the second place. The call
| for that convention originated In New
| Hampshire. Only those who make politics
a business recall readily that sthe Demo-
| cratic party convention idea originated in a
| Northern State.
Its second convention met in Baltimore
| in 1896 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 1910, it was de-
cided TO name no Vice-Presidential can
| didate, but to leave the matter to com
| mittee composed of Democratic Senators
| After the convention the committee de-
| cided to put johnson on the ticket, and so
| il came about that the candidate that year
| for Vice-Presdent was not nominee OF
| the convention by the votes OF delegates.
J The first Vice-Presidential candidate to
I decline nomination was Silas Wright
| of New York, who was nominated by the
Democratic convention that met at Balti-
more in 1874 George VI. Dallas OF Penn
sylvania was named in his stead.
| In 1913, after the Democrats failed
! to renominate Mr. Van Buren, for the Presi =
dency. Mr. Van Buren's friends brought
| Vice-Presidentia candidate on that ticket
was Charles Francis Adams of Massa-
chuSetts.
w. o. Butler Of Kentucky was the VICE
I Presidential nominee of the Democratic
party in 1s4s and W. r. King of Alabama
! was the nominee in 1852. The Democratic
. convention that met in Cincinnati in 1853
; nominated John c. Breckenridge for Vice
| President.
| In 1860 another Vice Presidential nomi-
: nee declined, b. V. Fitzpatrick, who had
| been named in Charleston with Stephen A.
Douglas. Herschel V Johnson of Missis-
sippi was substituted for him. In the
same year, in the same city, what was
. known as the SecederS' convention nOmi-
mated Joseph Lane for Vice-President on
the ticket headed by John {, Breckenridge,
who was the second Vice-Presldential can
didate in political history to he named
| subsequently for the first place by con-
| vention; Mr. Van Buren, was the first
! Other Vice-Presidents had succeeded 70 the
Presidency, but not as convention nominees
George H. Pendleton was nominated by
the Democratic convention for second
place in Chicago in 1884; F. P. Blair was
chosen by the same party for second place
| in the convention which met in this city
in 1858. b. Gratz Brown was nominated
for yice-President by the Liberal Republi-
! can convention in Cincinnati in 1872, and
| indorsed by the Democratic convention in
| the same year. Thomas A. Hendricks was
| chosen for second place in St Louis in
1875; w. II. English In Cincinnati in 1880;
| Hendricks in Chicago in 1884; Thurman ia
| ST Louis in 1898; Adlai Stevenson in Chicago
: in 1892; Arthur Sewal in Chicago in 1896;
| Adlai 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 con-
vention as Vice-Presidential candidates.
| Each was elected once.
Gen. Bucsner was the Vice. Presidential
| candidate Of the Gold Democrats in 1895.
The first Presidential candidate Of
the present Republican party was William
L. Daypn, who was on the ticket headed
by Fremont in 1855, The names Of the other
! Republican Vice Presidential capd' dates are
readily recalled. They We're: Hannibal Ham
| lin, 1880; 1864, Andrew johnson, who after
| ward became President; Schuyler Co!fax, IN
1888; Henry Wilson, in 1872; W. A, Wheeler
| in 1876 Chester A. Arthur, in $780, who after
ward became Pres dent, succeeding Gar
field, who died in the year OF his inaugu-
! ration, Lew L. MOTION, IN 1858, NnlteiaW
/ Reid, in 1892 Carrot A. Hobart, in 1895
Theodore Roosevelt in 1900, who became
| President in 1901.
John Tyler was the VicePresidentiaI
candidate of the Wing party in 1910, and
succeeded to the Presidency short time
after the Inauguration Of the head of the
ticket, william Henry Harrison. by the
latter's death; Willard Fillmore was the
Vice Presidential candidate OF the Wing
| party in 1S48 and succeeded to the Presl-
dency in 1850
In addition to the foregoing, yice-Presi-
dental candidates were named in 1874
by the party that nominated Clay for Presi-
dent: by the Free Soil party, in 1852; by the
American party, in 1855; by the Consti-
| tutional Union party, In 1890; by the Pro-
| hibition party, from 1872 to 1900; by the
| Greenback party, aftsrward the National
! Greenback and then the Union Labor
party, from 1879 TO 1898; by the People F
or Popust party from 1902 TO 1900; by
| the Socialist Labor party from 1892 10
1900 by the Silver Republican party in
1900 by the National party, afterward
the Liberty party, In 1895; by the Anti
Fusion party, in 1900; by the Union Re-
form party, In 1900; by the Social Dem
| ocratic party. in 1900. and by the United
Christian party: In 1900.
The following recapitulation Of Vice
| Presidents who became Presidents will be
Of interest DemocratVa Buren,; Wing
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