Evening star., 1936-08-09
Monroe and Madison Picked
By Jefferson as Successors
Carried on His Dynasty for "a Years.
First Threat of Split Within Party.
Peace AdrOcate Declared Var of 1912.

rec had pol1d three votes for Vice
President.
When the elections OF 1912 had
rolled around. war had been declared
on England. but the country was poor
ly equipped for fighting either by land
or sea.
Madison Peace Advocate.
Madison, along with jefferson, had
been an advocate of peace. They had
assailed the war and preparedness
policies of the FederalistS. A short
time before the Republican caucus to
choose a candidate, a delegation of
Republicans in Congress. headed by
James Fisk of Vermont. called on
Madison and informed him that un-
less the country went to war the Fed
eralists might win the election and
that If he did not adopt that policy
the Republicans would wipe his name
off the ticket.
So Madison called for war. He was
unanimously renominated for Presi-
dent. John Langdon was nominated
for Vice President but refused to run
because of his age and Elbridge Gerry
of Massachusetts, took his place on
the ticket.
Despite the apparent unanimity Of
the proceedings, there was a growing
feeling against the caucus method Of
picking candidates. AS many men,
bers attended the meeting from Vir-
ginia as came from the five New Eng
land States and New York all to-
gether.
Outside, over the country. feeling
was running SO high for and against
the war that in Boston ships set their
flags at half mast when word came
of the declaration. A mob killed a
Federalist editor in Baltimore. Un-
measured epithets rained down upon
the administration.
First Serious Split.
Out of the war and the controversy
over it came the first serious party
split. Republicans, led by a young
New York politician named Martin
Van Buren,, started beating the drums
for De Witt Clinton of New York.
He was put forward by the Repub-
licans of the New York Legislature
This was in May. In September the
Federalists met in New York and rep
resentatives from IL States picked
Clinton as their candidate, too. They
tackled the vice presidential placard
on Jared Ingersoll of Pennsylvania.
Despite that they slipped little
in the Spring elections the Repubh-
cans came through to victory again,
though with a narrower gap. Madi-
son got 1913 and Gerry 1871; Clinton,
SO, and Ingersoll, 86. New Hampshire
and Massachusetts, had done little
ballot splitting to give the uneven
figures.
But the peace movement had burned
up the remnants of the FederaliSt
party.
Movement for Crawford.
When the time came for the Re-
publicans to caucus in 1916, a move
ment already had started for William
H. Crawford of Georgia. The opposi-
tion to the caucus system, by which
it was argued that the members of
Congress picked a President, kept
some members away. and Henry Clay
of Kentucky, already Speaker of the
House, offered a resolution that the
caucus not choose candidates. 1t was
voted down.
Monroe was nominated, Crawford
being just IL votes back of him. Gov.
Daniel D. Tompkins of New York
was named for Vice President.
The choice of the electors was made
perfunctorily. The steam was gone
from the Federalists. Rufus King of
New York was the man they talked
of for President, but there was no
coalescing of party fragments.
In the Electoral College, King got
"a votes, Monroe 1888. Massachusetts.
Connecticut and Delaware were still
clutching at the dissolving Federalist
name. Tompkins was Vice Presi-
dent with a vote equal to Monroe's.
-Four States had each voted for as
many separate men for Vice Presi-
dent.
The final meeting of the Federalist
party was accomplished by Monroe.
Despite his authorship of the "Credo
of the Americas" his administration
had been the first since Washing
tons that had not been largely oc-
cupied with foreign troubles.
Called Caucus in 1920.
His party was now beginning to
drop its double barrelled name to be-
come the Democratic party. It
called a caucus in 1920, but few at
tended, and they adopted a resolu-
ton that it was not expedient to make
any recommendations
The election could not be called a
contest. There was hardly a man in
public ONCE In any State who had
good words to say about the Federal
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