Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-22

! the college; William II. Crawford u
Georgia, over 1900. and Al in the col
lege. and Henry Clay of Kentucky, over
$4,000, with 81 in the college. inese
votes represented ten states for Jackson
eight for Adams. and three each Tor
Crawford and Clay. The election, there
FORE went to the House for settlement
| as 10 the presidency. JOhn - .diHou,i
| of South Carolina having recelVeu enoush
| for Vice President. Isl, was elected Un-
der the rule Mr. Clay. being the lowest,
was dropped and on vote being taken
! Mr.. Adams was elected, receiving the
votes of thirteen states. Gen. jackson OF
| seven and Mr.. Crawford of four
In the eleventh term. 1S29-33. Jackson
and Calhoun were on the democratic
ticket and Adams and Rush of Pennsyl-
vania were on the national republican. In
the popular vote OF over l,UnUU the
647 900 votes. controlling It's in the col
Iege to So electoral votes for the others.
Popular Vote Grows Large.
In 1899 there were twenty-four states.
with a population of about 1900, 600 and
representation in the House of 24O on
a basis of 1900, and 2SS electors were in
the college and decided the twelfth con-
test. The popular vote was a million and
a quarter. of which Jackson and Van
Buren, received 6S7,00O controlling 219
electoral votes, over Mf. Clay, VINO ndQ
but 40. In 1897 Mr.. Van Buren, had a
plurality of less than $1,000 in the popular
vote. one and half millions giving him
10 in the college of pa over four others
polling 10. In 1874 the popular vote
was nearly two and half millions and
defeated Mr.. Van Buren, by $4,000. and
in the college had 1914 electoral votes to
Mr. Van Buren's 60. On the census of
1910 of over seventeen millions the basis
of ,fnfS 70
25S members of the House. During this
term the day for general election was
fixed for the Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November
Mr.. Polk was elected for the fifteenth
term by 40 electoral votes to 1O5 for
Henry Clay through the electoral col
lege. but in the popular vote of over two
and half millions the plurality was
less than 10000. In 1s49 Gen. Taylor,
with Willard Fillmore, polled over $780,
coo votes and Gen. Cass of Michigan and
w. o. Butler over 1,22O,O1O in the popu-
lar vote for the sixteenth term, apd in
the electoral college received 1853 to 127
votes.
Election for Seventeenth Term.
Pierce and William r. King received
c54 electoral votes on the democratic
ticket, and Gen. Scott and William r.
1TdHdnl ~, anu III the pOpuidI NOlc tHS
former had over 100000 and the latter
nearly 100000. John p. Hale of New
Hampshire and G. W. Julian of Indiana
were also candidates, receiving over 16O,-
700 votes.
The eighteenth census. 1850. showed
over 23.0O0.OOO in thirty-one states and
the basis Of representation was increased
TO $1,000 on membership of 237 in the
House. There were three tickets In the
field, James Buchanan of Pennsylvania,
John c. Breckenridge of Kentucky.
John c. Fremont OF California, w. J..
Dayton of Delaware, Willard Fillmore Of
New York and A. ]. DOnelson of Ten
nessee. The first received nearly 1,84O-
GOO in the popular vote and ia in the
electoral vote. the second over .4OO,OO
and Il electors, and the third about $780,
600 and votes in the college.
Thus, to 1857. the electoral college de-
cided the presidential contests in sixteen
instances. and in two cases, 1901 and 1925,
the House was called on to settle the
contest by votes Of the states.
To be Continued Next Sunday.)