The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-24

m-Tas Jaslsaa- Clay Race Of 1852

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'the dgty Of saving Jaek,ae i,
overthrev BY the money 12s..
Clay. the idol Of lie islio..
was confident that he coQld =. -
IL heak question. Hs ~ !.
that the people would Del ss..
70 > RUTHLESS oyeFturpiay & ~
financial system Of the 49,,
aeeefofD he made loyalty Is 4.
kaRk . test Of party resitv
tAsrs was , settled cpnyictica ~
jackson was right and IL ~.
wAs wrong. Ms old "coFrusss.s
and bsFsaip" cry OF fnus va r..
vas heard again. but most 81 4.
cid issues were buried in ths -
The anti-Nasons we're strop, !.
the n0Fth, or had been in stats ~
tions, and Calhoun was lesdiss Il.
entt-Jacks0n fight in his ovp III.
where the doctrine of nulli6e.sis-
vas already being preached =.
end OF the bank question an a.
eftsts In the nullifcation busins,s
were to come in Jackson's 1900
Standardization, but OF course. ~,
was not known. The fact that Chy
. Mason, was connivins VA ~
anti-Aasons, and that CLAY. 4.
author Of the American sypten-
OF protection and the tarif 81
denominations was in collision WI !
Calhoun. the chief Of the nulliafr
added to Jackson's stl ength. sfSe
Triple UnholY Alliance Of Clsyim
Notification and Anti Masonry
was the way the Jackson .orataf,
described the opposition.
The Day Of Campaign SeagA
On the other side every effort N,
expended to induce the people %
wake up to the dangers Of the
spoils system as introduced By
Jackson, His cabinet and his 10
less important and much more 20.
torious kitchen cabinet came in for
their share of the fighting. The
Wings sang:
sKing Andrew had five trusty
sQuires,
Whom he held his bid to do;
He also had three pilot fish
To give the sharks their cue.
There was Mart and Lou and Jack
and Lev
And Roger of fancy hue,
And Blair the cook, and Kendall
chief cook,
And Isaac, surnamed the true"
A bad song, maybe, but it told
about Martin Van Buren,, Louis
McLane, John Branch, Levi Wood.
bury, and Roger P. fancy. Who
were in JaeksoR's Official cabinet
and also about Francis P. Blair,
editor Of the Washington Globe,
Amos Kendall And Isaac Hill, the
three friends of the administration
known. as the Kitchen Cabinet"
because Jackson used to let thsm
in at the back door of the White
house.
Charges Of Murder.
On the other side, the jackson
men tried to meet the charges Of
bloody murder made against their
leader by telling tales Of the duels
In which Mr.. Clay had figured.
There were enough Of them that
really happened, but more were IN.
vented by Dame Rumor to be
spread through the Jackson press
Senator Benton of Missouri, Jack
! sons right bower in the senate, bod
| shot Jackson in the shoulder in
street fight in Memphis many year,
, before. While this campaign VA
J on the bullet was cut out, Benton
standing by the operating table
The story was printed In three
lines, followed by a whole column
about the dueling propensities O
Mr.. Clay. abusing the great Whis
leader for fighting when he accept
cd challenges, and denouncing MN
as q coward in cases where he de-
clined to fight.
The fear OF the faint Of graft wal
not SO potent then as now. Wit
ness the naive publication Of tht
correspondence between President
jackson and q mail contractor. ovel
whose fortunes the president had
direct control in those early days
The Nashville Republican tells Of
General Jackson's departure from
Nashville for Washington in Sep
TENDER, when the campaign va
getting hot. It Said: Previous q
his departure our efficient and in
defatigahle mail contractor very 20
litely rendered him the use OF hls
elegant and we'll constructed pos
coaches, but the president pre-
ferred to travel in his own carriage
a. he had to take his horses 70
Washington" All OF which was "
q paper which carried at the heao
Of its columns the line "Printers -
the State and Publisher Of the Law
OF the United States" This woulo
seem very strange in these days o.
anti-pass laws when public pFlnt
ing scandals have been forgot ~
cause the public printer is nov !
government official and not a pr
yate contractor.
Jackson got 2l9 electoral votes
Clay ~, Floyd IL, and Writ Z. TN
Jackson victory was Overwhelming
and the Democratic papers all q
| claimed: THE bank veto has Deei
sustained" Jackson three time
received the plurality OF the popp
lar vote for president, . recon-
equalled only by Grover Clevelans
in the whole history OF the countf!