The Jasper news., 1908-12-03

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the Presidency, with Richard M. johnson
as running mate. The opposition adopted
the ridiculous device of nominating no
candidate, leaving the voters each to
think that the electors of the Wing patty,
as it now called ITSELF would vote for his
own particular candidate. The combina-
ton carried I24 votes to I7o for Van
Buren. johnson failed of majority, but,
according to the Constitution, was chosen
by the Senate. ssss
In IS4o, bank panic having occurred,
by William Henry Harrison, who had
been his leading opponent. The vote was
a34 to 20. John Tyler was elected Vice.
President, and. the. President dying a
month later, Tyler succeeded to the Pres
idency, He soon broke with his party
and, before. his term was out, went
sQuarely to the. Democrats.
In 1874 James K. Polk was elected
President and George. M. Dallas Vice
President by the Democrats over Henry
Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Wings.
The vote was I7o to los.
In IS48 the Democrats nominated Cen
eral Lewis Cass for President and Will
lam O. Butler for Nice-Presidcnt. Gem
eral Zachary: Taylor, d recent war hero,
was the Wing candidate and was elected
by vote of I63 TO I27. The Democratic
defeat was brought about by the candi-
dacy of ex-President Martin Van Buren
as a candidate of faction of the DEM
ocrats who were dissatisfied with the
party's position on the slavery question.
The President dying, the Vice President,
Millard Fillmore, became President lit
tie more than year later.
In 1889 General Franklin Pierce of
New Hampshire and William R. King of
Alabama were the Democratic candidates,
General Winfield Scott of, New Jersey
and William A. Graham Of North Caro-
lima being the Wing candidates. Pierce
and King were elected by vote of 234
to AZ, the Wings carrying only Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Kentucky and Ten
members going into the newly arisen Re
publican party, into the American or
knownothing party or, in many cases, go
ing over to the Democrats.
In 1856 James Buchanan was named by
the Democrats with John c. Breckenridge
as Vice-P President. Opposed was the
party which opposed the extension of
slavery and which had taken the name
Republican in order to attract the votes
of Democrats who were attached to the
older name of their party. The candi-
William L. Dayton. Ex-President Fill
more as the candidate Of the American
party received the vote of Maryland
eight votes Buchanan had ia, Fremont.
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In 1860 the extreme pro-slavery sle-
mcnt of The Democratic party bolted the
convention and nominated Vice-President
Breckenridge for President, the regulars
nominating Stephen A. Douglas Of Hi.
nois. The Constitutional Union Party,
composed chiefly OF old Wings, named
John Bell, who carried four Southern
States. The Republican party named
Abraham Lincoln, with Hannibal Ham
lin for Vice President Although the di-
vided Democratic factions cast vote
greatly in excess OF that of the Repub-
licans, the latter had I8o electoral votes to
seventy-two for breckenridge, thirty-nine
for Bell and twelve for Douglas The lat
ter had popular vote nearly equal to
In 1864, at the height of the civil war,
Lincoln was renominated, with Andrew
Jackson, Tennessee Democrat, for Vice
President. The Democrats named Gen.
eral George B. Mcclellan and George II.
Pendfeton. The electoral vote was 2I2 to
II in favor of Lincoln
The President having been assassnated
by a. crazy actor named Booth, Johnson
Z succeeded. Attempting to carry out the
known policy of Lincoln in-refcrence to
the readmission of the States, Johnson
came into conflict with the leaders in
Congress Iii their determination to get
rid of him, they attempted to do so by
impeachment but failed by one vote of
the necessary two-thirds in the Senate.
In 1858 it became very probable that the
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