The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06

battle of New Orleans, he was a popular idol and although Chalmette was more than a dozen years in the past in the campaign of 1S2s. he obtained an easy victory over Adams in that year. His victory was large enough to compensate him for his previous defeat. Although feeble in health. his spirit was strong, and he made an aggressive, and, on the whole, popular president. He was so popular that the proportions of his tri- umph in 1892 were greater than those of your years earlier had been. Moreover, il 1882, he was opposed by one of the most popular men of that day, Henry Clay
 Defeat Aids Mckinley
 Another president was made after a previous defeat for that office. That was Mckinley. It may be said that in 1892 when Mckinley received many votes for the nomination in the convention, he was not a real aspirant for the candidacy He would have accepted it. however, had he been selected. Harrison. who was elect ed in 1888, made a fairly acceptable pres ieent. He was not popular with the masses of the party, and many delegates In the convention broke away from him and voted for Blaine, who had been sec retary of state. Other delegates sup ported Mckinley, who had not been men toned in connection with the office, and who was not seeking 1t at that time. Harrison was renominated and was de- feated by Cleveland. The defeat caused very little surprise among republicans. Moreover the Mckinley tariff was one Of the causes of the defeat. The popular dissatisfaction under the tariff which suc- ceeded it. the Wilson-Gorman act, caused revulsion of feeling In favor of Mo Kinley, and he was nominated and elect ed in 1S96 Moreover, he made tolerably satisfactory executive, and, in obedience to the unwritten law of the republican party. he was renominated. The repub- lican party was at a rather high level in popularity al that time, and Mckinley was reelected.
 One president who received only sin gle term obtained that one after a rather important slight. This was Van Buren. He won the favor of Jackson early and became Old Hickory's first secretary of state In that post he further endeaved himself to his chief Then when it became advisable to change the cabinet Van Blu ren suggested that he and the one or two other friends of Jackson should retire from the cabinet, so as to give Jackson a chance to get rid of the objectionable persons in 1t. This move took place. and soon afterward Jackson during a recess of Congress. appointed Van Buren to the post of minister to England. He had been several months in London before the Sen ate had an opportunity to act on the appointment. In the meantime Jackson and Van Buren had aroused the hostili- ty of another element of their party, of wEich Calhoun was one of the leaders, and the Senate rejected Van Buren. It did this by a prearranged vote, which gave Calhoun, the vice president, the privilege of casting the vote which called Van Buren home from England Calhoun had his revenge, but 1t was costly. You have broken a minister, but made a vice president" said Benton, the leader of the Jackson-Van Buren element in the Sen ate. And he was right His enemies did more than that. They made a president. Put in the second place on the Jackson ticket in 1892, a few months after he re- turned from England, Van Buren went to the vice presidency, and he passed to the presidency in 1896.
 Many men received a presidential nom-
 nation after falling in a previous at l temnt though they stopped short of reaching the actual office. Clay lost the nomination in 1S40. when the Whig poll ticians, under the lead of Thurlow Weed 1 juggled it away from Clay and handed il | to Harrison Harrison was elected, but l died a month after entering office. Clay
 obtained the candidacy four years later
 
 Cass was one of the leading aspirants ir 1S44 for the democratic presidential can
 didacy, but was defeated in the conven- tion by the dark horse, Polk. He easily obtained the nomination in 1S4S however
 but in the split in his party in New York through the candidacy of his old rival
 Van Buren, the nominee of the free soil party in that year, he was ten at the polls and the presidency was given tc 0aa fIa Of Iotta ct who had never figured in politics. whose whole life had been passed in the army and who had never voted until that year
 Lincoln's Ultimate Success
 Few persons know that Lincoln has figured, unsuccessfully, in a national con- vention before that of 1860, which gave him the presidential nomination. The convention of 1856, the first ever held b, the republican party, nominated Fremont for president and in looking around fo a nominee for vice president, many dele gates though it might aid the ticket tC put Lincoln on the second end of it. Ht received no votes for vice president. a compared with AS for Banks. the frs republican speaker of the House, wh, held that post at that time. Dayton o New Jersey, however, led Lincoln and hi. ticket. It was said that when Lincolr read of the votes which he received foi the vice presidential nomination he de ciared that 1t must have been a mistake ane that a Lincoln of Massachusetts, oi which there were some of prominence was the man who was thus honored, ano not Lincoln of Illinois. Some speculation was indulged in afterwards as to the ef- feet which this might have had on Lin coln's fortunes if he had carried the vice presidential candidacy. on a ticket which
 was doomed to defeat, The ticket, how
 ever, in that first canvass of the republi.
 can party made better fight than any
 of it's friends had right to expect
 Blaine was defeated twice for the pres | ioential nomination before success came to him. He led for many ballots in the
 convention of lS6 and probably woult | have been elected if he had carried of, l the candidacy but it went to Hayes. ar excellent man. who lacked Blaine's per scnal popularity. Again In 1880 Blains
 vas an active aspirant, but in that year he was headed off by the Grant element l who wanted to give the old commandel third term. The Blaine faction wa. 1 powerful enough to defeat this endeayor although 1t could not put up it's own ia Vorite. Thus the candidacy went to far weaker man than Grant or Blaine This was Garfield. Blaine was successful ir the convention of 1884, but disa ste come to him at the polls. once after ward, though, the prize was within reach | This was in 1888, when he refused tn nomination. Ii went to Harrison after long and exciting fight between man, asprants and Harrison won at the poll bv narrow margin Hancock, aftp