The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-13
NATION NJ ELECTIONS or PAST.

II o. a prevalent ana an erroneous
suppositlop that the United states has
always chosen IFS presidents and N.C".
the Christian Science Monitor. The
constitution ct las, laid down certain
fundamentals IN his a. In other rec
spocts Under the provisions of Ia" or.
gauic law. each state rs directed to
chuose a number ~ presidential clcc-
tor equal To- the uumtor IT is repre-.
|s.ntntivcs N both branches 81 COM
%gr.ss It was originally The plan. or
the thought behind iho plan that bv
choosing the highest officer OF the Tee
public and his possible successor
trough electors named Ny tho voters
OF the several states. thee" electors
would Dee guided and influenced to
,huoso for chief magistrate he per
son best fitted Tor the Office I'm pr,c-
ti,ll operation however tbs clcctora
newer have been ana are not now
privileged to use their discretion.
I'N 'Nf NFN'h NN'N' ~ I'H''H
10 vote for .ert'in candidate for th'
presidency nud the iCc-prc~idcuc. At
present, residential electors arc u0iH-
mated hy the political PARTIES and
are chosen ~ the respective stt',..
Ay popular vote Ia the earlier DAYS
Of tho nation. electors were chosen In
many states by the legislatures. buV
ithis plan WIS gradually abandoned.
Iuutil ~ 1872. South Carolina was he
only state adhoring to tho practice Ia
lNc, south Carolina swung into line
wlth the sister states IN tins respect.
lu lN"3 Michigan reverted - the dis
trict system, dividing It's electoral vote
Up to 1904, zach rlcctor chosen bS
tho popular college, voted for two
on, receiving the largest number u
I'lv toial votes MAS declared president.
lti" uu' receiving the next target am
GER was declared Nic"-ptesiiut In he
urst electoral ,ot, Tor president the
count stood George Washington OF
Nirsinia. 90. John Adams, OF Massa-
cnusotts. - John JAY ~ New York.
z? r. H. Harrison OF Maryland. -.
John Eutlege of South Carolina, 6.
John Hancock Of Massachusetts,, =;
lGcorge Clinton OF New York. g. sam
uel Huntington ut Connecticut, >.
Holm Milton, OF Georgia, p James
Armstrong of Georgia. Benjamin Lin
coin OF Massachusetts. and Edward
ITelfair OF Georgia. ! vote each George
Washington and john Adams were de-
olarcd president and Nic"-presldcrt.
Partianship entered into The secon
ELECTION George Washington and John
Adams, both Federalists, being re-
Nominated. II will De noticed that Viz
lpinin had no second choice FOR the
presidency In the first election; Thorn
as Jefferson. of that state was named
I'm the electoral poll rpur years later.
but he received only four votes. Ia
the latter poIl Aaron Burr. % New
York first appears as "A possibility. o.
land eight years later ne received, as
la Republican. 73 votes Here a t'
vote appeared between jefferson an,
Irurr. and the house ~ representa-.
lives was called upon TO break II. 1
did 30 by declaring jefferson presI
ldcnt and Burr VICE president
Following this incident. the cons,l
Hutton was amended, and the clector
four years later. In 1904. voted FOR
Iprosident and a vice. president dis
, lunCtly instead Of Tor two candidate
tor president. Thomas Jefferson Wa
re-clected. as 20 Republican. an
Goorgc clinton. also a Republican
was chosen Nlcc-pr,-idcul The -y.
Item. from THIS time uunl l,-i opor
lated smoothly In that y.1r Audr"'
jackson 81 Tennessee, Republican. Io
polved 90 votes John quincy Adam
. IL Ma-achusott,. Bepuohcuu. 81
T., Henri clay OF k'HturIr R|cpuhu.'l
william ~ Crawford # G,or,
~E,pu.Ilau A. The amended SHn-'
tIl.u a. W1udvd Then as ID aH"s dow
IT, the day that the successful CANA
date arall have a maJDri'f n 4ii pa
t.tos cast Andrew Jackson hnd M
Is |tiscs, uumho, II votes, and IND,
Tho rule previously IN for-o. w"uI
tay" been declared president. Soy
'l huwcr,r. there was no chico. and ~
io l-, uI representative again 'alle
e upon 10 act declares John Quiu'
Ne Adams president John e. Dalh'l
- u,gam" yi,'-pr'sideut
~ Following this second break ~ II
as electoral golleg, procedure OF naiuir
Us The hiot magistrate. there was I
ul further interruption uf y cstaOl,sh'
IN |ru.tIuo until the Moves and Ttld'
contest 81 1870. when "a deadlock Z"
urr'I 100 the electoral vote hy r"ns'
We af e dispute over Tho counting of y1t
Ir u certain of the rceonstru,ted stat
l4 .- t4.sf. M. s..I.y.f LAtl.Y