Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-01
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,
Some presidential Election Years

Some Presidential Election Years
AS the year 1920 is to be the scene
of many elections, beginning with
coroner and going upward to presi-
dent. the interest of the public will
not be allowed to lag or wane, as the
months roll on, until the first Tues
day in November, when the last of
the elections, state and national, will
be over.
My mind goes back to the year
1896, when Mr., w. j. Bryan was
nominated by the Democrats and Mr..
VIM. Mckinley was elected by the
Republicans.
Many of our readers will remem-
Der the famous speech about cross
of gold and free silver coins--that
carried the Democratic convention up
into higher regions--like the modern
airplane eIeVateS the air-naviSator
out of himSelf-in the ether OF the
In the election of 1896, Mr.. Bryan
carried all the southern states eX
cept Kentucky-22 in number. Mr..
Mckinley carried rs states: An old
views lies before me and, l see the
map of our United States as it divid-
ed politically in the 1896 election.
The border states of Delaware, Mary
land, West Virginia and Kentucky,
gave pIuralities for the Mckinley
ten of the western states. Only Cal
ifornia and Oregon went Republican.
Approximately thirteen million
votes were cast. Of these. McKin-
ley received over seven millions.
Mr.. Cleveland had served his two
terms in the White House. He, like
Mr.. Wilson, was a popular idol in
the southern states with the organ
lied Democracy when he was first
elected. When he went out of the
presidents office, March 4, 1897, his
greatest foes were of his own party.
long interval of political loyalty to
the two great organized parties of
Democrats and Republicans.
President Wilson and President
Cleveland have been the only Demo-
cratic presidents since the Civil War
of the sixties. Each will have served
eight years, on March 4, 1921. The
conventions to be held in Chicago
and San Francisco may furnish some
startling surprises before the ides of
the coming November. The plain
people of our country will be i'm
mensely pleased when the presiden-
tial election is accomplished and off
their hands, no matter what the out
come may be. We can, [ think, rely
upon the essential conservatism and
sagacity of the American people.
l was full grown and tWenty-one"
when the campaign of Abraham Lin
coin ended in victory. 1t was i'm
possible to expect success with those
three opposing tickets in full sway.
That one fact alone defeated the
Democrats of the nation. Stephen A.
Douglas had a running mate in Her
schel V. Johnson, of Georgia, on one
ticket. John c. breckenridge, of
kentucky, headed another ticket, and
there was still another. The Bell
and Everett ticket.
The Democratic party in the north
was divided beyond hope of recon-
Citation. James Buchanan, the
president went out of the White
House with his strongest enemies
and bitterest foes in his own party.
The Taft administration went out
in the same manner. Mr.. Taft car
ried number of counties in Georgia,
when he was first elected in 1908.
Nevertheless he ran so behind in the
north, in the campaign of 1919, when
he sought reelection that he carried
only two states out of the forty
eight; only Utah and Vermont
Mr.. Cleveland was importuned to
seek a third term, but he emphati-
cally refused to entertain the idea.
He moved to Princeton, n. j..
where Professor Woodrow Wilson oc-
cupied the chair OF jurisprudence in
princeton university. 1t is q SlnSu-
lar coincidence that both of these
Democratic presidents were neigh
bors and living in the same town
twenty-four yours ago.
1t is predicted that President
Woodrow Wilson will seek a third
term and nomination at San Fran
cisco next June. We shall see what
we will see, in a little less than
two months from this writing"
There are nearly 100000 Indians
in the United States, 10000 in the
British possessions, 100000 in Cen
trail America and 100000 in Mexico.
Most of the sands found on beaches
and other places are the ruins of
rocks which have come apart, usually
by the action of water.