The Irish standard., 1908-06-13

however, this blank made very little
difference. johnson received nearly as
many votes for vice president as Van
Buren did for the higher Office. and
each was Overwhelmingly defeated by
his Whig adversary. That was the
"Tippecanoe and Tyler. too," canvass.
and, for the moment, the Whig party
was in the ascendant. That canvass
too. put up to the voters of the coun-
try a contingency which they had not
considered along to that time-the
possibility that the president might die
in Office. and the second man on the
ticket might be compelled to take his
place. Harrison died month after
lie entered the White House. and Tyler
become president for the remainder
that Tyler would not have been nomi-
mated by the convention if Harrison's S
death had been foreseen, Nevertheless,
he made a fairly good president, but
soon got into a conflict with great
majority of his party friends in con-
gress. led by Clay. Tyler aspired to
reach the presidency by election. but
the Wings had expelled him long be-
fore the end of the term, and the Dem
ocrats, with whom ne had originally
affiliated, put up Polk in 1874.
Slavery tho Issue.
The second man on the Polk Demo-
cratic ticket of 1874, George M. Dallas,
like the second man of the Clay Wing
ticket of that year, Theodore Freling-
huysen, had good deal of political
experience, although nobody had ever
coupled the name of either prominently
with the presidency. After the Whig
defeat in that year many of Freling-
huysen's friends said that if had been
at the head Of the ticket the result
would have been different. They said
this because Clay's concessions to
slavery in the Texas annexation ques-
tion, in letters which he wrote during
the campaign. defeated the ticket
They defeated it by sending many
ntislavery Wings over to Birney, the
presidential candidate Of the abolition
party and thus gave the, e4,decisive state
OF New York to Polk. The Whig
Taylor in 1s4s had as his running mate
Millard Fillmore of New York, man
who had had wide political experience,
but who was opposed by the younger
element of the Wings in his state. led
by Seward, who was then entering
politics on the national stage. In, that
exigency it CHANGED that the Southern
man and Shareholder, Taylor, was less
disposed to make concessions to the
slavery interest than was his Northern
associate. Thus when Taylor died
and Fillmore went to the presidency y
the Clay compromise scheme of 1850,
several planks of which Taylor op-
posed, all received Fillmore's sigma
ture. Fillmore was denied the nomi-
nation, however, in 1852, chiefly
through the opposition of Northern
delegates, and Gen. Winfield Scott,
who deemed to be more radical on the
slavery issue. was put up for presi-
dent. That CHANGED to be the last
canvass which the Wings, as a great
party, ever made. They carried only
four states-Vermont, Massachusetts.
Kentucky and Tennessee-all the rest
cf them going to Pierce, the Democrat
ic candidate, who was one of SCOTS
subordinates in the Mexican war of
four or FIVE years earlier
It CHANGED in 1862 that the man who
was in the second place on the DEM
ocratic ticket was a much larger per-
sonage, politically and socially, than
was the person who headed the ticket
William H. King Of Alabama, who was
the vice presidential nominee with
Pierce, had been in the senate nearly
thirty years and was one of the best
known men of the country He was
old, however, and in illhealth, and
died a few weeks after his term began
Dayton, of New Jersey, who was nom
mated by the Republicans in 1856, in
their first presidential canvass, had
been in public life longer than FIRE.
mont, who headed his ticket, and was
a parsonage of some ability and con-
sequence. Fremont's reputation though
as an explorer and pathfinder in the
wilderness. had captivated the popular
imagination, and the almost complete
absence Of a political record in his
case was not disadvantage. At that
early stage of the Republican party's
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