El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-19
WASHINGTON IS
CALLED 4 DESP0T
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claimed that he had never repented but
once his acceptance of a second term,
and that was every moment since he
had done so; that he would rather be
dead than in his present situation; that
h would rather live in retirement on
his farm than to be emperor Of the
world. and that yet they charged him
with wanting to be a king.
Washington Denounced.
In Wythe county, Virginia after de-
bouncing Washington as a despOt, one
sneaker at a party banquet responded
ia a toast. 'The guillOtine-may 1t nave
an attractive virtue to draw despOts to
81 . But if Washington was thus de-
,ounced. jefferson had his share OF 1t,
too. One authority said Jefferson had
disprOved the deluge and TeIuted Moses,
and had specUlated profoundly upon ghe
cause of the difference IN the odor
Tiven off bv 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 II neither picked his pocket nOI
broke his leg, if his neighbOr believed
there was no God OF 20 gods. Still an
other 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 Federallst members OF con
press met in caucus and nominated
Adams and Pinckney as their ticket.
The Republicans chose Jefferson and
RI,rr in a similar manner. The electoral
tickets in the states choosing electors by
Dopular vote were selected IN different
WAYS. In Pennsylvania the Republican
members of the legislature invited party
leaders from over the state to meet with
them, and they nominated ticket head
ed by Thomas Mexican. The Federallsts
chose one headed by Israel Whelen, and
called it the Washington ticket. 1t was
charged that the Republicans had spent
100000 IN Pennsylvania alone Tor hand
bills. post bills, pocket bills and broad
sides. New England was charged with
irving to despOi Pennsylvania Of mil
lions of acres of land and then asking it
to vote for New Englands candidate
Tor the presidency
France Enters Contest.
In the third election the French min
ister tried to influence the election IN
favor of Jefferson by Indicating that
the French government was sick and
tired of the Federalist policy. He also
issued an order pompOusly requesting
that all Frenchmen in the United States
thereafter wear the tricOlOr cOckade.
His activity did much to defeat the re-
suit it sought to accomplish, and Iusti-
lied the prediction Of the Hartford COu-
rant that after that Jefferson would
not get vote east OF the Delaware
river.
There was much Juggling of the re
turns IN Pennsylvania. William Brown
OF Lancaster county was certified as
having failed to receive a single vote Tor
elector. When governor MiffEn got
after the election officers. they admitted
that he had led the ticket. 1t was
hat way all over the state, and voters
were likewise imported into western
Maryland IN favor OF Adams.
When the vote was counted it was
found that Adams had Il and Jefferson
68. 1t was agreed that if there had not
been political juggleTy in Maryland and
Pennsylvania, and II Elbndge Gerry IN
Massachusetts had not voted for Adams
over Jefferson, the latter would have
been president. A little incident shows
how much of a patriot Jefferson was,
although one might not infer 1t from his
treatment of Washington There was a
dispute about the Vermont election
and strictly construed, Its vote might
have been thrown out. But jefferson
declared that surely, IN so great mat
ter. substance and not form should pre-
vail. I pray YOU declare upon every
occasion nv preference for the choice
of the people, substantially expressed,
and to prevent the phenomenon of a
pseudO-president at so early q 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 can
didate Of their own party had not SIN
surged" 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 it today never would have existed
in even the widest Imagination.