The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-01
Presidential Campaigns
H---The JacAson.Adams Race of 1928

By Fredric J. Haskin.

State. This portion of the sbargain and corruption" charge was never proved, but large majority of the people in the country however, firmly believed that 1t was true, and 1t al- ways weighed against MT. Clay's as- pirations.
 Clay issued a pamphlet in 1928, urg- ing the people to vote for Adams and denying the charges made by Jackson and his followers. In that pamphlet he proved by the Marquis de Lafayette, by Senators. barkeepers and every sort and condition of man, that he had always said that he waN against Jackson, and that he would rather see either Adams or Crawford elected than to see Jackson in the White House. Lafayette declared that Clay's fear of Jackson was the fear of military dictator, the fear of an unschooled man at the helm of the ship of State. and the like.
 Jackson's great popularity as war hero gave him the plurality of the votes in 1924. Four years later he was still the hero. and he had the added strength of the popular belief that he had been cheated out of the Presidency Adams had little sincere following outside of New England, he was miserably poor politician. and even Clay could not do anything to rally the popular vote to his standard. But the Adams appeal was made altogether to the conserva- tive element in the country.
 Jackson was declared to be a man of blood and carnage" Against his vic- tory over the British at New Orleans was set the fact that he suspended the writ of habeas corpus in that same city. Jackson's summary execution of six militiamen was the excuse of food ing the country with circulars and car- toons. showing the murderer Jack son gloatfng over the six collins of the innocent victims of his thirst for blood
 On the other side. all the old charges against Adams were brought up in Sd- dition to the Corrupt bargain" issue. He was accused of being an aristocrat and of seeking to perpetuate his fam fly in the office of President; his Uni- tarian religious beliefs were attacked as being infidelism. and his loyalty du- ring tho war of 1912 was again Ques- ttoned. And all this i:. spite of the fact that Adams wes one of the best and purest men who has ever occupied the White House, the most scholarly of our President ad a true patriot.
 The Jackson supporters made the most of the hero business. "Old Hick- ory' was their ideal and they sang: In storms its boughs have sheltered
 thee:
 OCT Freedoms s Land it's branches wave, Twas planted on the Lions Crave"
 The lion. of course, was the British lion, for in those days the King of Beasts was always used to represent ''perfidious Albion" and his only occur patton in the United States was sub uniting himself to the operation of tail twisting.
 The question of nomination of candi dates did not enter into this campaign. Beth Jackson and Adams were nomins ated by various State Legislatures. but at a matter of fact the two tickets. Jackson and Calhoun, and Adams and Rush, were nominated by common con- sent.
 Jackson and Calhoun in this cam paign were the first regular Tammany Hall nominations for President and Vice President. Of course, the Hall had taken great interest in national politics from the beginning of Washington's second administration, but this was its first regular" year. It is interesting to note by what a narrow margin Tam many Hall became Democratic instead