Show VICEPRESIDENT A POWER Of course at the beginning of the Government who there were only thirteen States In the Union and the Senate was far smaller than Jt Is now ties In the ote of its members were I much more frequent than they are today to-day The Vice President nevertheless as In the case of the lorlft of 1816 whloh I was put on the statutabook by Dallass cHHtlnf voto has often In later days than Uiow of Adams In that olllco had I a powrrful Influence on hglslatlon I Morrov the deference which tho S President and the leaders of his party paid to the late Mr Hobart and the Influence which he was known to have had Indevlslng and pushing legislation show that the VIcePresident when ho Is the right sort of n man Is a power In the Government Four VicePresidents Tyler PhI mor Johnson and Arthurwent to the Presidency on the death of their chief Three VicePresidents Adams Jefferson I son and Van Buren wore made Prcsl dents subsequently by election At the beginning of the Government the ofilce of VicePresident was looked upon as a steppingstone lo that of President The I election to the second once aided Adams and Jefferson In getting the first ofilce Van Buren who had been Governor Gov-ernor of New York then as now the first State of the Union United States Senator Secretary of Stale and Minister Minis-ter to London deemed his election as VicePrcsident to be n promotion His acceptance of that post unquestionably cemented the friendship between him and President Jackson and did much to make him Jacksons successor four years later I Some of the leading statesmen of their day have held the ofilce of Vice 1 President among them exclusive of the seven men who have been mentioned being Clinton Gerry Calhoun Richard M Johnson Brecklnrldge Hamlin Col fax and Wilson A recent and distinguished distin-guished Governor of Now York LevI P Morton held that post Many others oth-ers accepted the candidacy for the office of-fice Everett Pondlolon Logan and Thurman among the number though they failed of election Hamilton said in the Federalist that tho VicePresidency would usually be I filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue I was the Litton I tlon of the framers of the Government to make this office really second only to that of President In dignity and power No man ought to got It they believed and no man would get It unless he was of full Presidential stature There has been a disposition In recent years to I rale the ofilcc of VicePresIdent much I lower than the history of the post and tho opportunities of Its Incumbents I warrant In the possession of the right sort of a man the office would quickly be brought up to Its former prestige and Influence Leslies Weekly |