Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
nouncing Washington as a despot. one
speaker at a
Censure for party banquet
responded to a
AuVmdS SOucT6VU. toast 1.-The gull

CenSure Tor party banquet
Thomas Jefferson. toast ..The gull
lotine-may it have an attractive virtue
to draw despots to it, But If Wash
ington was thus denounced, Jefferson had
his share of 1t. too. One authority said
Jefferson had disproved the deluge and
refuted Moses, and had speculated pro-
foundly upon the cause Of the difference
in the odor given off by negroes and
white people. Another said he was a
coward, who had run off ingloriously and
surrendered his state to the Hessians,
and that he had said it neither picked
his pocket nor broke his leg If his neigh
Dor believed there was no God or TWEEN
ty gods. Still another said that about
the best thing he would be capable OF
doing as President would be to invent
a whirligig chair.
The third election ball was set rolling
when the federalist members of Congress
met In caucus and nominated Adams and
Pinckney as their ticket. The republi-
cans chose Jefferson and Burr in SIM
liar manner. The electoral tickets IN
the states choosing electors by popular
vote were selected in different ways. In
Pennsylvania the republican members Oh
the legislature invited party leaders from
over the state to meet with them ana
they nominated a ticket headed by
Thomas Mexican. The federalists chose
one headed by Israel Whelen. and called
it the Washington ticket. 1t was charged
that the republicans had spent $lOOOOO
in Pennsylvania alone for hand bills, post
bills, pocket bills and broadsides. New
England was charged with trying to de-
spoil Pennsylvania Of millions of acres
Of land and then asking 1t to vote for
New England's candidate for the Presi-
dency.
In the third election the French min
lister tried to influence the election in
favor Of Jefferson by indicating that the
French government was sick and tired of
the federaiist policy. He also issued an
order pompously requesting that ali
after wear the tricolor cockade. His ac-
tivity did much to defeat the result it
sought to accomplish, and justified the
prediction of the Hartford Courant that
after that Jefferson would not get vote
east Of the Delaware river.
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There was much juggling of the re-
turns in Pennsylvania. William Brown of
Much Juggling Lancaster county
OF the MOUTHS. having failed to re-
ceive~a single vote
LOT electOT. w Heu 1Ot. 6Ol ditcI
the election officers they admitted that he
had led the ticket. 1t was that way all
over the state, and voters were likewise
imported into western Maryland in favor
of Adams.
When the vote was counted 1t was found
that Adams had seventy-one and Jeffer-
son sxty-eight. It was agreed that II
there had not been political jusglery In
Maryland and Pennsylvania. and If FL
bridge Gerry in Massachusetts had not
voted for Adams over Jefferson. the lat
ter would have been President. A little
incident shows how much of patriot
Jefferson was, although one might not
infer it from his treatment OF Washing
ton. There was dispute about the YER
mont election-and, strictly construed. its
vote might have been thrown out. But
Jefferson declared that surely, in so
great a matter. substance and not form
should prevail. I pray you declare upon
every occasion my preference for the
choice Of the people. substantially ;. ex-
pressed, and to prevent the phenomenon
Of q pseudo President at so early day.
And this declaration was made in spite
Of the fact that 1t was against his own
candidacy.
But If the three republican electors who
voted for Adams against the candidate
Of their own party had not 'insurged, -
John Adams never would have been
President, John Marshall never would
have been chief justice, and the fabric
of the American republic as we know 1t
the widest imagination.