The Washington herald., 1908-09-02

North. OF had been in State elections.
and Calhoun was leading the anti-Jackson
fight IN his own State. where the doc
triue OF nuUifcatioa was already being
preached. The end Of the bank question
and the cELsis in the nullifcstion busi-
ness were 20 come in Jacks0n's second
administration. but Of course. thar was
not known The fact that Clay. Mason,
was conuiving with the anti-NIasous.
and that Clay. the author Of the Amer
lean system q protection and the tariff
OF denominations was in c0Ilusion with
Calhoun, the chief OF the nuIlihers. added
% Jackson's s strength The triple unholy
alliance Of ClayiSu. nullifcation and
auu-Alasolry' was the way the Jackson
orators described the opposition
On tre other side. every effort was ex-
pended 20 induce the people 70 wake up
T. 10 the dangers OF the sp0flS system as in
troduced by jackson. His Cabiuec and
his no less important and much more
notorious kitchen cabinet came IN Tor
their share of the fighting The Wings
sang
k--s Aal-=r had frs frosty squtrua.
Whoa he held Lis lid 20 do:
Hc aiso Lal three r1Ia- fish
To ElTe tie SHARKS Llflr Gre
ILe-e lLar- and Lon and Tsck Ard Lev
And kasar ~ Tsrev hle.
And Blair the COX AID ke1dgu chisf COX
A-1 lsaas. s---auel tie true
a bad song maybe. but st told about
Martin Van Buren. Louis EcLane. John
Branch. Levi Woodbury.. and Roger b
Ta-ey. who were IN Jackson's oflciaI Cab
I met. and also about Francis P Blair.
editor of the Washington Globe: amos
kendall, and Isaac Hi. the three
friends of the administration known as
Z the Kitchen cabinet" because Jackson
used 20 lei them in al the back door Of
the White House.
The campaign ne had quite a r-1u
that year, 100. For f=stance, al the
Western newspapers opposing Jackson
printed a story that the members of the
Wing national convention had chartered
a steamboat 10 go from Washington 20
. Mount Vernon When the boat reached
tlere, John a Washington. then owner
OF the Mount Vernon estate, refused 10
. .eC the Wings land After much .rnpor-
tlllity. he permitted them 10 60 10 The
grave OF his great-Uncle, the Father Of
HIS Country. bUt would not permit them
/ 70 come near the mansion house. Mr..
. " asningtca's discOurJesy was due 50
( declared the Wing papers. 20 the pres
ence az the DaEsiOu az that time OF Isaac
HlA and Amos Kendall. OF the kitchen
cabinet with their families.
To this story the Jackson press replied
BY publishing de1iaIs from Mr.. Washing
ton. Mr- Kendall and Senator Hill. Ken
dau and Hill proved alibis After de-
nounc-1S the Wing press IN vitriol.c
terms. the Jackson papers would quote
/ from the Official proceedings Of the Wh5E
convention, 10 Wit: Resolved, That the
. thanks Of the convention be presented 10
John A. Washington. esq. for the polite
manner IN which he yielded 10 the wishes
Z OF the convention
Then, on the other side. the Jackson
men tried 20 meet the charges OF bloody
murder made against their leader by
telling tales Of the duels in which Mr..
Clay had figured There were enough Of
them that really happened. goodness
knows, but more were invented by Dame
Runor 20 be spread through the Jackson
press Senator Benton. % Missouri. Jack
sons right bower in the Senate. had shot
Jackson in the shoulder In street fight
( in Memphis many years before. While
this campaign was on the bullet was cut
out. Benton standing by the operating
table The story was printed IN three
lines, followed by a whole column about
the dCeling prOpensiUes OF Mr.. Clay.
abusing the great Wing leader for fight
ing when he accepted challenges, and
deuouncinS him as a coward IL cases
where he declined 10 fight
The fear OF the taint Of graft was not
so potent then as now. Witness the naive
publication OF the correspondence between
President Jackson and a mail contractor.
over whose fortunes the President had
direct control in those early days. The
Nashville Republican tells Of Gen. Jack
son s departure from Nashville for Wash
ingtOn in September. when the campaign
was getting hot Il said: Previous 20
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bic mail contractor very politely rendered
him the use Of his elegant and weIl-con-
strUcted post coaches. but the President
preferred 10 travel IN his cwn carriage,
as he had 10 take his horses TO Washing
ton" All OF which was il a paper which
carried at the head of its columns the
line. Printer TO the state and Publisher
Of the Laws Of the United States" All
OF which would seem very strange in
these days Of anti-Pass laws. when public
printing scandals have been forgot be-
cause the Public Printer IS now a gov
eminent official and not a private con-
tractor
Everything went merrily on TO the end
The people voted for electors in all States
but South Carolina and in all States but
Maryland the system Of choosing electors
by districts had given way TO the State
wide general ticket plan-thanks 70 the
political sagacity Of Mr.. Van Buren.
Jackson got 219 electoral votes. Clay lg
Floyd il. and Writ :. The jackson vic
tory was overwhelming. and the Demo
cratic papers ali exclaimed: The bank
veto has been sustained" Jackson three
times received the plurality Of the pOpu-
lar vote fer President d record caaaied
only by Grover Cleveland in the whole
history Of the country.
Copyright lss. BIZ Frederic J. HasknJ
TO-m0rrOyT-Presfdeu Campaigns.
1F-Ihe Van Buren-Harrfson Race
of 1885.