The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-12
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1T Ii not true, al uns freduentl hears
that presidential elect are always &c

n Il IL ID mot true as one frequently hears 3
that presidential cleo Ions are always a q
tertninea III favor OF the pa tty which v
prevails In the congregational electio y
f,ilc. b,itt the exceptions ars tufnerutis, 1
and some 81 them notable TO 80 !, no
farther back than the Thlrty-fourth Cons
Rress. which, had q Republican plurality
ana 4 Republican Speaker, yet two years
later James buchanan, "a a Democrat was
elected \ President of the United States
When, Lincoln was first elected President
the Speaker OF the then existing Con-
eress was not a Republican, tho,i gh John
Sherman would have beet, the speakke1rsl
lifite had not signed the Y Helper Book Ia
whether the Forty fourth Congress- was
al, exception depends on your politics.
II you are d Republican, you will say u
was All exception, for that Congress-,
chosen In 1874 &wns oyerwfie lmingly Demo-
cratic, though r. b. Hayes was inaugu-ss
rated President III III 1877 /: but X you are
d Democrat yos will hold The Il the con-S
3grcssional election Of 1877 foresi,ado
the result Of tho residential efec tioni ofss
1876, when Mr.. T'ilden got the maj orityss
ana Mr.. Hayes got the Office. n; ss3
IN Certainly the 1orty-sixth Congress vas
an exception. Chosen In 1878, It had e.
craticsmajority, and Samuel y. Ran
dali wax /. It's Speaker. yet Carrie I'D was as
elected Precedent In 1880. There was 4 a.
reason FOR that, t1owe ver---D emo ratio
stupidity. That party ttempted to make a..
tho wrong they said " as done NJ III
den the issue. though they con NJ y
by refusng to make I. Til den the car,
#dIIdate. as IL you could have tho Issue,
without the man why didn't 3 YOU re- re
nominate him, then? was hurled " s at
every Democratic spellbinder who under II
took gto denounce "the theft OF the Spres-g
Eidency. # 81 All IA tt3SS. 3s 4 II. J III
IN 1885 the Democrats elected a. ma
SjorIty OF the Fftieth Congress, and ~ Fl Il.
Carlisle was chosen Speaker. but N. lsss
Harrison was elected al Preside ut " ny
was q 4 notable exception. Since that tn
fine ina ore sid tai elections have 81 4
5ways been 4 forccasted L BY the conKre
stonal elections held two years carrier
When Cleveland was elected In 1892 Crisp 'lsp
g,.a q s caker. $sss hen Nc Klnleyls was was
elected IN 1884,, Reed was Speak When r
SMcKinley " az re. 81 ectcd in 1870, al en- der
son was Speaker " hen roosevelt was
elcc ted In 1901, Cannon was SPEAK t 81.
And It IL very probable that the { fresi-
dent chosen 4 In 1908 will be OF the same
bnoiit,ca as the Speaker OF the sixtietl1i
Congress-. But there are enough excep-8
tons ID the rule to make the thing IN.
certair n. and a az In baseball, the ReleHenl
81 4 chance helps to make polite II fascl-
mating $s,. #55
AS d rule, issues have III oversha q oWe q
men II, American pol ties. The person AZ
Il ties OF Clay and ia ckson did not Wh no..
obscure the issues between thelr respetc;-
tive parties. On the other hand. there lfl
was little In the Repu blican y. q t,ona.
Convention Of 1880 but the personalities
AZ Grant and Blaine, one Standicap ped by
the S,1n popularity OF 81 the third term /, ana
the other loaded down with the "hluilliga z
letters In 1854 the repeal OF VII at n IS
$n,ist1amed the 8 Missouri Compromise.
roally the &" NJ issouri Restriction. was the
Issue, with Know-no thingisH q big side-
show The North went anti slavery. anti mt
Catholic. anti-foreigner, and he Thirty-
fourth Congress was 4 more W republican
than anything else BIZ It In 1895 the Demo
Gratis put that repeal In their platform q
and called IL .popular erelgnt de-
srisiYey stig1natize AZ l e. sov soy,
eighty and carried the country 1t
$ Later. the South waded knee-deep IN
Speydition upon a punctillo. Toombs ana 11a
BENJAMIN both knew that Almighty God
Shad given Kansas a soil and climate
that made African slavery i'm possible
What they were contending for was the
right under the Constitution to plant
slavery there. a man has a right to plant
ar, orange grove In the track Of a. DIE
gard "a out In the hit Dako tas-slaYeryflin
Kansas was the same thing. the same
Impossible thing. but It made the war al
Of 1851 -5 Slavery in y Kansas was the
Issue 4 Of the campaign Of 1855. and the
NORTH again went anti-slayery. III \
Fl IN 1S74 the issue was carpet baggery
at the South and administration corrup-s
ton at Washington. 81 The whlske ley ring
frauds, 6anborn contracts general aver
age" in the custom houses contributed
as much to the Democrat tic victories OF
that year as the negro rule down South
In tho Republican National Converter q
1875 1t was Blaine against the field
Morton, Conklng. Bristow, Hayes and tbs
rest OF them. II the gas had not been
turned OF !, Blaine'S PERSONAL tyi and Bob
$IEgersolrs &declamaton would have swept
things. AS 1t was. the : Plunled Knight
went down with lance 4 shiyered Ike 9
warrior Of the Round Table, 1t took the
whole layout; to unhorse him. We
After the Inauguration OF Hayes the
Southern question bega n to give way 20
economic problems finance and taxation
II there had been no dispute about the
succession whether Hayes or TIL len was
really elected the tariff would have been
as prominent in 1880 as 1T became In
1890. and silver would have had Its day
In politics long before 1895. / The real
Issue IN 1884 was whether the Republican
party had had the presto encys long enough
The country decided Ri that twenty-four
years was long enough. That Is what;
elected Cleveland. though Ben Butler was
running In tho interest OF q Blaine, and
3Tammany4 was giving aid and comfort:
5Rvia 1 98S tha tn riff was paramount. Y and
so continued until the panic OF 1898 dis
credited IN advance tho Nv ilson BILL hen
i1G to ] ca me to the front. KS b gt HI
&5s 1t wassin the midst Of financial panic
and Industrial depression. and Coxey's3
army was In the field: riot,Wa In Chi
cage B. discomfort was everywhere Pol "
tics was chaos, Parties wers sshiyered
Teller and Towne left the hllcans.t
Palmer and Buokner left the Democrats.
The country was in deliriun1 In any
other country, except ours and Eng land,a
revolution and blood would hive followed.