The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-01

of whig and Republican. In 1924 Tammany supported William H. Craw. ford and had a plurality in the Legis- ltaure which selected electors. A com bination between the Adams and Clay men kept Crawford out of the votes of New York and Tammany was sore"
 Having been organized in the first place as a Democratic opposition to the aristicratic Society of the CtncinnatL' the Tammany braves were naturally on the side of the '1ow-brows." But they had supported the Virginia aristocraic clique and had followed Crawford When Crawford was ended. Martin Van political strength of Andrew Jackson and took the upstate Crawford follow ing into the Jackson camp. persuading Tammany Hall to come along.
 If the people had been permitted 10 vote for electors in New York in lS24, or if the three Clay electors had stuck to their instructions in that year, Tam many Hall might have followed Adams and Clay in the big split of the old party, and thus have changed the whole future of American politics.
 The Jackson newspapers played the very limit of hero-worship. They pub- lished what purported to be General Jackson's address to his troops before the battle of New Orleans, in which Jackson was quoted as referring to the British troops fresh from the field of wellington's victory over the great Napoleon" The same error has been made many times since. despite the fact that the battle of New Orleans was fought six months before Yelling ton defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
 This adulation disgusted the conser- vatives. One Adams newspaper spoke of the vulgar and illiterate Jackson IA ae. eSfh1a fnr etV- ilization to be civil" It was the first time the people of New York had voted for President, but the State was looked upon as doubtful and interest centered there. as 1t has in every cam paign since. Therefore, the New York newspapers for the first time became more important politically than the Mississippi or New Hampshire pa papers. One effect of that was 10 produce the first pert paragrapher. He was Mordecai M. Noah of The New York Enquirer. a Jackson man and the Tammany nominee for sheriff. He was the only Tammany nominee who got beat, but he wrote some stinging paragraphs. He took hot shots at the Adams aristocrats on all occasions and was not sparing of personalities.
 The electors were chosen in various States at different times, beginning as early as the middle of October in Ohio and ending in November in New England. The election lasted three days in New York and Virginia and two days in New Jersey. In many States the electors were chosen by districts. In New York they were elected by districts and the district electors were empowered to choose two electors for the State-at-large. Jack son got twenty and Adams sixteen votes from New York.
 Jackson's majority. both popular and electoral, was so large that people In New York and Washington knew he was elected within less than two weeks after the last elections--a re- markable thing in those days before the telegraph and the railroad were dreamed of. In 1924 the total vote cast for all four candidates for Pres ident was only 352,000. In 1928 the first red-hot party campaign had so aroused interest that the votes polled amounted to an aggregate of 1,156,000. Jackson's majority was about 10000. Jackson's success was celebrated with great glee by the proletariat all over the country, but the conservatives shook their heads and expressed a doubt as to whether the Union could survive so great calamity.
 Copyright, 1908, by Frederic J.
 Haskin.)
 Tomorrow Presidential CampaiRna,
 HI. The Jackson-Clay Race of 1882.
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