The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-21
CANDIDATES WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND Men Who Ran for Presidency
 and Failed MOST OF THEM FORGOTTEN Clay Is Better Known Than "Jimmy" Polk But Most of the Also
 Rams" Have Been Lost
 in obscurity.
MOST OF THEM FORGOTTEN

in Obscurity.
 From the Washington Post.
 Few name are so familiar to Ameri- cans as those of their Presidents though probably not one person in thousand can name them in their order, or one in ten thousand name the Vice Presidents The defeated candidates, with possibly the exception of Aaron Burr, Henry Clay Stephen A. Douglass, Fremont and Me- Clellan. if one goes no farther than Iin- colns time are quite forgotten. Yet the fame of the defeated candidate has in at least one instance long survived the memory of his successful rival. Every body has heard of Henry Clay. His name is one yet to conjure with; but the whig query of the campaign of 1S4l "Who is Jimmy Pollz?" though 1t can be ans wered, must be answered boo.1 in hand.
 When New York ratified the constitu- tion in 17sS, the federaists in the city flung out a great banner displaying the faces of Washington and Hamilton, and motto: Washington, the Nations
 
 thought of in 1879 or at the second eec- tion in 1792. Yet Washington was the object of bitter and currilous abuse from his political opponents.
 Though John Jay was never a candi- date for President or Vice President New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia cast nine votes for him in 17S9; Connecticut five in iI96, and Rhode Island one in 1S30. So. too, at the first election, votes were cast for George Clinton, of New York: John Hancock and Benjamin Lincoln, of Massachusetts; Samuel Huntington of Connecticut; John Rutledge of South Carolina; John Milton. James Armstrong, and Edward Telfan, of Georgia, and Robert H. Harrison, of Maryland. Near ly all of John Adams competitors were veterans of the Revolution. and Benjamin Lincoln distant liinsman of a more famous Lincoln. was ons of the four ablest soldiers of the wa.
 Five Lucky Men.
 The five candidates among whom the vote was divided in 1792 had a unique po- ltical fate. Three of them, Washington. Adams and Jefferson. became President. and four became Vice President: Adams with Washington: Jefferson, with Adams; Burr, with Jefferson. the first term, and George Clinton with him the second. It is the only instance in Amer ican history of all the candidates reach ing ultimately or immediately first or second place. Burr missed Q Presl- dency almost by a single vote. and Clinton was reelected Vice President with Madison in 1908.
 When the electoral vote was again counted, the Sth of Febrpcry, 1I97, it was found to have been distributed among thirteen candidates: Adams, of Massach chusetts, receiving n, Jefferson. 6S; a. and Aaron Burr, of New York. 30
 Charles c Pinckney was the Federal candidate again in 1894 and 1908, but the honor was supported by only IA electoral votes to 162 for Jefferson in 1o04; and by 47 to 122 for Madison in 1908. Rufus King received the same number as did Pinclxney at these two elections
 Declined Many Offices.
 Few men of his generation, and fewer in later times, declined so [ any and so great offices as did Pinckney. He was Westminster boy in London; graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford, where lie heard Sir William Blackstone lecture; a student of law at the Temple, a student at the Royal Military Academy at taen. His speech in the Federal convention up- on the general character of the constitu- tlon required by such a country as the United States places him, in the judg- ment of many eminent critics among the foremost of American statesmen. His (reputed) reply to the French directory, Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute, Is known to every school boy.
 King was no less, famed. He was graduate of Harvard and served in the old Congress-. He moved the adoption of the famous clause in the ordinance of 17S7 forbidding slavery. He was prac- tieally the author of the clause in the New York constitution of 1921. admitting free negroes to the right to vote. an in novaton of extraordinary consequences to the American people,
 In 1872 occurred the first curious in- stance of a greater number of electoral votes cast for the Vice-presldent El- bridge Gerry, than for the President, James Madison. The federalists were quite at sea. but q caucus in New York city decided to support George Clinton and Jared Ingersool. De Witt Clinton was the caucus nominee of the New York legislature. He was the first Presiden- tial candidate who, lacking the support of the majority of his own party, the democrat tic-republican relied for his elec- tion on the votes of the discontented of all parties. He received s9 electoral votes. His name, though forgotten in connec- tion with the Presidency, is written for ever across the state of New York. in