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Show ETDE-STEPPINQ THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Most not the Vice-President ofttlmes In reminiscent mood be pained as he recalls . the fact that five of his predecessors died . In office rather than endure it. while Uncle Un-cle Joe Cannon burrowed himself out of . sight Into the butt end of the English language and ate smokeless tobacco until the party leaders had kidnaped Fairbanks and placed him In cold storage to await the action of the recent Republican con-j con-j ventlon? Nor could he overlook the fact ' that the only demonstrably great man, John C Calhoun, who was chosen Vice-President Vice-President under our present system, covering cov-ering the hundred years between Aaron Burr and Theodore Roosevelt, resigned and went home that he might return to the Senate, although his studious nature might well have enjoyed a functlonless lso. And in the 104 yeans between Jefferson Jeffer-son and Roosevelt no Vice-President except ex-cept Van Buren was elected to the Presidency, Presi-dency, and only one other, John C Breckinridge, Breck-inridge, was nominated by his party for . that highest office, and he only by, the southern wing of the Democracy in' 1M0. Fillmore was taken up by the thira-party know-nothing movement in 1856, and our Vice-Presidents have generally, by common com-mon consent, been bundled off Into that sort of a crowd. Leslie's Monthly. |