Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-05-24

jefferson was doing all he could to
make the administration 4 failure.
hence he viewed every proposition Of
jefferson with suspicion and constant
| ly quarreled with him. Hamilton and
| Jefferson were the very antipodes in
thought manners and theories of gev-
! ernment. There is no doubt Jefferson
was jealous of Hamilton's renown as
statesman. and he attempted 10
thw'art everything favored by the sec
rotary of treasury. Henry Knox was
| secretary of war, disliked Hamilton al
most as much as Jefferson did. and
was jealous of Hamilton's influence
with Washington.
Adams had stormy time during his
term. His cabinet was much more
harmonious than that of Washington
but his troubles with congress were
more than doubled, much arising from
his irascible temper. jefferson quar-
relied with several senators. especially
with Dewitt Clinton of New York and
John Smith of Ohio. The original
cause of the quarrel with Smith has
been lost but jefferson pursued him
with such bitterness that he finally
secured an effort to expel him on a
charge of being in sympathy with the
supposed movement of Burr. This
failed but Senator Smith. tired and
worn out with the struggle resigned
his seat few days after his acquittal
by the senate. Jackson had more bit
ter antagonisms than any of the 9TH
ers. Two or three times his cabinet
was disrupted and in the senate he
was pursued with the most intense bit
terness of Clay and Calhoun. They
secured the passage OF a resolution
censuring in the strongest terms the
conduct of the president in removing
deposits from the United States bank.
This was afterward expunged afta- a
bitter fight. Two or three times Jack
son attempted to get some senator to
introduce resolutions of expulsion
against Clay and Calhoun but none had
the courage to obey the behest of the
fiery old warrior. Jackson also fell into
q rage with the senate for refusing to
confirm Van Buren, as minister to
England and for time sundered all
social relations with several who had
formerly been most welcome to the
White House. Tyler had trouble with
the senate and individual senators,
Clay leading the attacks on him. Clay
was ruler of the senate and time and
again charged Tyler with breaking
faith with his party. and there is no
denying that Tyler did play fast and
loose with his pledges. He was for a
bank, then a bank in modified form,
then opposed to a bank in any form.
The same was true with him in the
matter of the sub-treasury. the annex
alton of Texas with the protective
tariff. He was a whig but Joined in
everything with the democrats. The
wings elected him vice president and
he became president on the death of
Harrison. During the last three years
of his administration no whig senator
or representative entered the White
House. Polk was elected on a plat
form favoring all the contentious of
the United States in the Oregon boun-
dairy question. His troubles began
within a week after his Inauguration
and continued to the end of his term.
He abandoned the doctrine of the
whole of Oregon or none and brought
on himself the most scathing denun-
Citations from senators of his own par
ty. Senator flanagan of Indiana bit
terly denounced. him. as follows: go
long as one human eye remains to lin
ger on the page of history the story
of his (the presidenD abasement will
be read, sending him and his name to
an infamy so profound, a damnation
so deep. that the hand of resurrection
will never drag him forth" The sem
ate has witnessed few such stormy
scenes as followed the reading, OF
Folks message wherein he stated that
war existed with Mexico, brought on
by acts of Mexico. Wing senators bit
terly assailed him.. denouncing the
statement as false and charging that
he had brought on the war by his un-
lawful acts. Buchanan had a long
struggle with Stephen a. Douglas.
senator from Illinois and tried to bring
about his defeat by using patronage.
He removed all of Douglas adherents
from office. Among those removed was
the United States attorney for the Hi
nois northern district. to which place
he appointed a young lawyer named
Fitch, a son of an Indiana senator.
The appointment was obnoxious to
Douglas and he bitterly denounced it
in the senate. Senator Fitch replied in
like terms. Johnson had hardly taken
his seat when war broke out between
him and the senate. He picked out
several senators as special objects of
his wrath among them the late Sen
ator Morton OF Indiana. In six months
he removed every Morton man who
held office and where he could not APP
point an anti Morton man he appoint
Der the fight between Grant and Sum-
ner. The Massachusetts, senator OPP
posed the annexation Of San Domingo.
a pet scheme of Grant. The president
was strong enough to have Sumner
displaced as chairman ofNhe foreign