Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-29

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OF 1852 marked the end of the Wing
party as q factor in national affairs. For
the third time that Organization placed
expediency before principle to nominate
a war hero for President Winfield Scott
was the hero Of the War OF 1872 and OF
the = with Mexico He had been de-
fested in the convention by narrow
margin by WILLIAM Henry Harrison when
1t was necessary to choose hero candi-
date to oppose van Buren, in 1910 That
was Tippecanoe against Lundys Lane
and Tippecanoe won. AS viii be remem-
lbered, Scott was defeated in 1910 by q
letter written to secure abolition support
IN New York Writing letters was the
one great business of General SCOTS
life. He wrote letters TO everybody.
about everything, and at all times. His
letter ruined him and his party and
when the votes were counted il was
found that he. had been overwhelmingly
defeated by the Democratic dark horse"
Franklin Pierce. Scott carried only four
States In the Union, receiving but forty
two electoral votes to Pierces 254.
When President Taylor died he was
succeeded In the White House By Willard
Fillmores AS has been the case In every
instance in which a vice president has
become chief magistrate with a single
exceptionl the policy of the AdminTstra-
tion was reversed. Taylor had permitted
his policy to be dictated by the con
sentative Wings. Fillmore was Liberal
AS a, result Of the right-aboutfa atti-
tude taken by Daniel Webster. who~went
over to the non interference with Slavery
side in his speech Of March Z. and Of
the succession Of Fillmore, all parties
were enabled to get together once more
on a compromise basis.
HENRY CLAY AGAIN
MAKES PEACE
1t was Henry Clay. the Great Pacii-
Gator, whose compromises had kept him
out of the White House, who was once
more called to the front In his old age
to bring about peace. The Compromise
Of 1880 was arran ged. 1t included sew
eral measures The most important was
the admission of California as free
State. as that broke the balance OF power
between free and slave States in the
Unieed >States Senate. II was the ons
concession to the North, hut itNwas Of
far greater Importance than the South
realized. To the other side the conces-
sions were a stringent fugitive slave law.
the maintenance of slavery In the DIS.
trict OF Columbia, the payment TO Texas
of S10,000oO0 for yielding its claims 20
New Mexico. and the organization Of
Utah and New Mexico as territories with
out restrictions as 20 slavery. BY this
compromise, Henry Clay united the WAY
ring elements Of the Democratic party
and destroyed for all time the party
which he organized, and had captaiped
for so many years. -
President Fillmore was a candidate FOR
:
Webster were the other aspirants Mr.
Fillmore had urged the compromise
through Congress and had approved IL.
He wished the whole country to accept
It as the hnais disposition of the whole
slavery question. The country, for the
most. part, wished to accept it as such.
iThe Democratic convention approved
The wings had to do So. To swallow
the F.llmore-Clay compromise the North
ern Wings were forced, but they would
not swallow Fillmore So they took
Scott, whose sympathies were believed
to be with the ant!-slavery wing Of the
party.
General Scott was nominated on the
ffty-third ballot in the convention, after
heated sessions In which a delegate
would now and then arise TO spriug
a letter from Scott. When the nomina-
ton was made Senator Jones OF Ten
nessee, the Lean Jimmy Jones who
had twice defeated James K Polk for
Governor. leaped to the platform with
letter from General Scott. II was let
ter OF acceptance couched in less than
hundred words, but pledging loyal
and exclusive support to the platform.
That all too sudden letter helped TO do
his business in November.
GENERAL SCOTT
SCORES DEFEAT.
General Scott had in years gone by
affiliated with the Nativist party in
Pennsylvania to the extent of writing