El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-19


w the presidential election Of
! 1900 that may find counterparts in
! the present campaign and the COM
/ ing election. To begin with, the Fed
! eralists had been in power for u years
! and there We're many signs of a swing
/ of the political pendulum. Adams, who
/ had appointed the cabinet of the last
/ Washington administration. later sDIft
! with his advisers, because they needed
J the advice Of Hamilton more than Of
| their chief So the Federalists became
! divided into two wings and were pop
/ ularly referred to as the "Adamites'
/ and the ''PickerOnians." The Pick
| erOnians" were the extreme FederaIists.
] to whom the policies of Adams had
/ givei offence. They determined to
! try to elevate Pickering to the presi-
/ dency and to degrade Adams to the
/ second place. They never publicly pro-
/ claimed that purpose, for it would
/ have defeated its own ends. The lead
I er of the conspiracy was WolcOtt, still
| reained by Adams as secretary Of the
! treasury.
Administration Unpopular.
The administration was unpopular.
| Not only had it divided the party into
( factions, but had not it cursed the
/ country with such a rule that four
/ more years of imitation of England
! might make the memory of the reVO-
/ luuOnary war vain thing? Did it
! not have an increasing debt, q stand
/ ing army, q permanent navy, a Sedl-
I ton bill that took the right Of free
] speech from the people, a window tax
/ that would keep the people in win
/ dOWless houses, an excise and a stamp
/ taX2 Not content with stealing our
! sheep and our artisans, by buying up
] the former and shipping them Slaugh-
/ tered to the West Indies, and by in
/ ducing English and Irish WOrkmen to
/ return to England. have they not set
o. mis- =sar 4 n Z n
/ held out glowing promises to the Men
/ nOnites of Pennsylvania to lead them
| to migrate to Canada, and would not
/ Mexican, If elected governor of the
state, send $4,000 Irishmen among
[ them and force them into the church
/ Of Romeo And had not IL families
already emigrated under these British
/ promises and threats, with many more
: preparing to follow
Has not one man heard the Duke
Of Braintree," as Adams was called,
declare that the people of the United
] States would never be happily until
/ they should have a hereditary ruler;
/ another that If Hamilton had been
/ given command of the army it would
/ have taken another army to get IL
/ away from him?
Wanted washington to Run
With all this against Adams's ad-
/ ministratiOn many party leaders
! thought he stood small chance OF re-
! election In this pred1cament they
/ sought out Washington, and COVER
nor Morris wrote him q letter telling
him that Adams could not be elected
again, and that there was but one
name in all the country that could
reviVify the waning fortunes Of the
party. and that was the name Of Wash
ingtOn. But the Father of his COun-
try was in his final illness when that
letter reached him, and it never was
/ answered No one knows exactly how
Adams and PinCkney came TO be the
0 Trr1 Of g
party. Hezekiah Niles, whose Regis
! ter" is a famous repository Of facts
I of our early history, says ne tried 10
find out but failed There was sort
of Federalist caucus which might have
been the nominating power, but the
/ evidence is not clear.
! Jefferson ard Burr got their nOml-
| nations for president and vice preSl-
| dent respectively. although Burr eX-
/ acted a promise from the party leaders
that they would eudeavOr to make his
vote equal that of jefferson as con-
/ ditiOn Of his acceptance When Jne
campaign got to going there were all
/ sorts of 1ntrlgueS- hamilton wrote
/ governor Jay, of New York, In the
I hope Of saving the state to the t.eder-
I alists, to summon the retiring 1eSlS-
I lature, which was Federallst and lei
/ il select Federalist electors jay II
I filing it away unanswered, endorsed
the letter proposing a measure Iol
party purposes which 1 think 1t would
not be becoming Of me to adopt
FeGeraiists's Faces Long.
In Pennsylvania there was a Repub-
liCan assembly and a Federal1St senate
J On Joint ballot 1t would have beer
Z Overwhelmingly Republican, While or
] q concurrent vote il was q tie The
senate won out and divided the cleo
I toral vote eight for Jefferson anC
seven for Adams. The IS Federalis1
LEGISLATORS in the Pennsylvania senate
who took the choice Of electors away
Q on
lature into giving seven votes to Ad-
( ans were hailed as the immortal Is
which they took as a fine omen Fol-
had not Is colonies declared their IN
{ dependence, and did they not IS years
later set up government under thal
{ glorious constitution which the j,
Pennsylvania senators had saved from
JaCObin hands Massachusetts and New
| Hampshire followed Pennsylvania II
DISTINGUISHING the people IN TINS cleo
/ ton, but ii all went for nauEht 1Ol
/ the returns showed the dOwnfau Of
! the Federalist party. Dickey Strop.
I informed his friends that he would
have to raise the price of shaving the
Federalists as the election had made
I their faces so long
But when the returns showed tha'
/ I jefferson and Burr had tied, Jeffer'
} I son announced that the house would
a plan of tying up the election 10y
deadlOcking the house until the 4ti
/ of March That would have PLACED
5 the duties of the presidency upon the
shoulders of the president of the SEN
ate who would have to call anOthe-
election. But there was such a gen
eral howl over this program that +
was abandoned. The Federalists were
slow in deciding to support Burr over
jefferson. To begin with Hamilton
showed his patriotism by trying t.
! avert the election of Burr. He declared
that personally he was friendly witt
Burr while ifu there was any man il
the world he ought to hate it wa
jefferson, and yet the public EOOC
should outweigh every private feeling
and interest. Speaker Sedgwicl1, hail
ing from Massachusetts, declared thu
electoral system a failure. since +
mas, at one election. placed at tn
/ ( head of our government semi-mania,
who, in his sOberest senses is tn
greatest marplot in nature, and at the
next one a feeble and false, but enthu
siastic theOrist and a prOfligate with
out character and without property
bankrupt in both
Hamilton Averted Torrent.
Hamilton wrote James A Bayard the
1 Federalist leader in the house, haiIins
from Delaware, appealing to him Il
prevent the election of Burr. BayarC
replied that he was Obliged to yielC
to torrent which could not be Op
posed, although it might be diverted