Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-21

I OF the F00ox0llSt DayyY, dGZekla0
Niles, whose Register Is a famous re-
pository Of facts Of our early history,
says he tried to find out but failed.
There was a sort Of F'ederalist caucus
which might have been the nominating
power, but the evidence IL not clear.
jefferson and Burr got their noIni >
nations for president and vice presi-
dent, respectively, although Burr ex-
acted a promise from the party leaders
that they would endeavor to make his
vote equal that Of Jefferson as a con-
dition of his acceptance. When the
campaign got to going there were all
sorts of intrigues Hamilton wrote
Governor Jay Of New York in the
hope of saving the state to the FEEDER
alists, to summon the retiring legisla-
ture. which was Federalist, and let it
elect Federalist electors. Jay, in fill
ing it away unanswered endorsed the
letter proposing a measure for party
purposes which I think It would not
be becoming of me to adopt" In Penn
sylvania there was a Republican as
sembly and a Federalst senate. On
joint ballot 1t would have been over
whelmingly Republican, while on a
Note IL WAS Il Tie. lie sen
ate won out and divided the electoral
vote eight for jefferson and seven for
Adams. The 10 F'ederalist legislators
in the Pennsylvania senate who took
the choice of electors away from the
people and forced the legislature into
giving seven votes to Adams, were
hailed as the immortal 49, which they
took as a fine omen. For had not IS
colonies declared their independence.
and did they not 10 years later. set up
government under that glorious con-
stitut!on which the 10 PENNSYLVANIA
senators had saved from Jacobin
hands. Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire followed Pennsylvania in dis
franchising the people in this election,
but 1t all went for nought, for the re-
turns showed the downfall of tho Fed
eralist party. 'Dickey Strop' in
formed his friends that he would have
to raise the price of shaving the FEEDER
alists, as the election had made their
faces so long.
But when the returns showed that
jefferson and Burr had tied. Jefferson
announced that the house would have
to settle II The Ecaora,ists had a
locking the house until the 4th of
March. They would have placed the
duties of the presidency upon the
shoulders of the president of the SEN
ate, who would have had to cal, an
other election But there was such a
general howl over this program that
it was abandoned. The Federal;s.s
We're slow in deciding to support Burr
over Jefferson, To begin with uamil-
ton showed bis patriotism by trying
to avert the election Of Burr. He de-
clared that personally he was friendly
with Burr. while IL there was any man
in the world he ought to hate 1t was
jefferson, and yet the public good
should outweigh every private feeling
and iisterest. Speaker Sedgwick, hail
ing from Massac huse declared the
system a failure, since it has
at one election, placed at the head Of
our government a sem,-maniac who,
in his soberest senses is the greatest
marplot In nature, and at the next one
a feeble and false, but enthusiastic. !
lheorist and profligatc without char
acter and without property, bankrupt
IN both"
Hamilton wrote James A. Bayard.
the Federalist leader In the house. |
hailing from Delaware, appealing to
him to prevent the election of Burr.
Bayard replied that he was Obliged to
yield to a torrent which could not be
opposed, although it might be diverted.
That he afterward did divert II the
show.
There were great doings in wash.
Ington when the house took IN tia
election Of a president. Although the
to washington was tiresome
md expensive. people fastened there
oy the hundreds. In one boarding
house 50 men slept on the floors he
cause no beds were to be had. After
he electoral count the senate retired
md the house got down to its serious
business Sumpter OF South Carolina
vas sick, and 40 was Nicholson o.
Maryland, but he was carried to an
adjoining committee room on a he'd
rhe gallery was cleared. the doors