Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-18

1917. but N ypu ere a democrat. YOU
Will hold that the congressional elec-
ton az 1874 foreshad0wod the result
Of the presidential election 90 1876.
whom Mr. ridden go, the majority and
Mr Hays the office
o.
some Marked Exceptions.
Certainly the furty-sixth congress
was on exception. Chosen IN 1878. a.
had q democratic majority. and Sam.
uel J. Randall was lts speaker. YET
Garfield wna elected president IN 1880.
There waH a reason for that. how
ver-democratlc stupidity That
party attempted 10 make the wrong
they said was done Mr.. Tllden the IS
sue though they condOnolW Il hy re-
fusing ~ make Mr. Tilden the candl-
ydaie, as " you could have the issue
without the man why didn't you
renominate him. them" was hurled
az every democratic spellblndor who
undertook 20 denOunce "the theft Of
ihc presidency
IN 1856 the democrats elected q ma
iorlty % the hnieih congress. and Mr.
Carlisle was chosen speaker. huf In
1883 Harrison was elected president.
This was n notable exception. Since
that time the presidential elections
have always been foroCamed hy the
congressional elections held two years
earlier When Cleveland was elected
in 1899 crisp was speaker. when
Mckinley was elected ln 1885, Reed
WIS speaker When Mckinley was
reelected ln 1900. Henderson was
speaker When Roosevelt was elected
IN 1904 Cannon was speaker And Il
d very probable that the president
chosen In 1908 will be Of the game
politics ns the speaker OF the sixtiet d
congress. But there are enough ex-
cepilona % the rule ~ make the thing
uncertain. and. as Ia base ball, the
element Of chance helps 20 make poll
tics fascinating
a. rule issues have overshad.
lowed men ln American politics. The
personalities 81 Clay aud Jackson did
not wholly obscure the issues be-
tween their respective parties. on
the other hand. there was little IN the
republican national convention of 1880
hut the personalities Of Grant and
Blaine. one handicapped BY the un-
popularity OF the third term and the
ether loaded down with the "Mulliaan
letters" IN 1854 the repeal of what
o. mlEnumed the Missouri Compro-
mise" really the Missouri RMtric-
ton" was the lHgue. with Know u0ih-
ingism d Dig side show The north
went anti-slavery. and the thirty
fourth congress was more republican
than anything else. hul iu 1856 ,ho
democrats put that repeal ia their
platform ana called q popular soy.
erlKuty' dereivoly s.4gmatizod AZ
"squatter sovereignty" and carried
the country on Il.
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What Caused the Civil War.
Later. the south wadod knee doen
IN porditiun upon punCtill0, TOOmbs
aud Benjamin both knew that AZ
mighty God had given Kansas a soil
aid a climate that made African alay-
cry impossible. What they were con-
Vending fur was he right under the
constitution 20 plant slavery there
A man has q right 90 plant an urgano
grove in The track of "a blizzard, out
Ia the nakutae slavery in Kansas
was the Same thing and the same linz
possible thing, bus it made the wan
uf iAGl-G5. slavery Ia Kansas was
the issue of the campaign Of 1858. and
the north again went antl~slavory.
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The aoroBstructlon Period.
Ia 1874. the issue was carpet bag
gerry al the south and the admlnlsim-
tlou corruption nt Washington. The
whlskyrlug frauds Sanbnrn contracts
general average" IN the CUSTOM
houses contributed as much 90 che
democratic victories q. that year as
The negro rule down south. In ihl
, ropuhlican national convention az 1875
III was Blaine against the field Nor
Nn. Conkllng. nrlstoW, Hayes, and
the rest of them n She gas had moi
been turned OFT hialnea personality
aud Bob inEorsula defamation would
have swept things A. Il was, ths
pumed knight went down with lance
shlvered IKE a wurr.0r of the Round
Table. II took the whole layout q
nnhorse him
After The inauguration 81 Hayes me
southern question began 20 give wab
20 economic pruhlomar finance and
taxation. 10 there had been no dispute
about the auccogsion whether haye.
or rlldon was really elected the tar
no would have been an prominent ~
1880 as ID became lu 1880. ahd slifel
wnul1 have bad lta day in politics
long before 1880. The real issue %
1855 WIS whether the republican parts
had had the presidency long enough
That "a what elected CievelNnd