| Show FR M W KINLEY It Votes OW b Which the Presidents ofa of the United States Have a Been hoen ANY of ow bust have hAv deprecated the b on oft recurring election a as dl dla In the bol r I and s a yenta ot In rho Iho t n Uon course of general pro prosperity On the other olber hand thOle thew orver observers err not few who declare that thue lie quad occurrence are sr or highest effort serving sg AI of C Cy the J prinell 0 et what whal I la y r nsw new recognised re ae II the met mast powerful and popular government ott earth eartha a l Indeed If we were to follow fellow the I x I ample of at certain other nations and ar sr lIon don of some real or virtue orne positive polUn foret fora for chars ter hr Aal ht he feu trot not Bien bit wt t upon a of lIe superiority to ap api i roach which those who placed him then hue have to prostrate and u at ti fa the ca case with royalty lie has hal always atwal been lIHn one ot of the PlOP people Ie their exemplar and aa hi his ex example 1 ample and lid character have hav generally teen In Ina tu to effort ort and of emula mul tin Character not or of birth has hal been th the touchstone touch tone for pr tiel preferment Irl in this and n a wAlk over but at the second elec ele Lion 1792 2 when and Ad urns Federalist were reelected bl bj end and 77 vot votes r their Jet He opponents w were In 1197 the nomination for tor a third term tenn there thereby by bJ a precedent whIch has haa thus far been rigidly observed th the venerable patriot John Adams IU heir to his hla honors If He WI was elected as ae a 1 with 71 votes with Thomas Republican at as rice Ice president with K yot votes No one esp 4 at this of 0 time will yen tun to Impugn the purity of the UtI Adams mII In fact flet tb the vb cb jeo ton urged a Mm I was wa that It he had sot turned Ue the o opposition out hIRlton t year er term Irm he removed only nine per from of Ate and Adam Adm the name me In hie hi one on term In all I CUM cases for some cause nonpolitical As the people tO le who wanted to get In exceeded In number those who wire were and let get out the nit inevitable result followed and nd Air fr Asians wu was not hon honored erred ored like Ilk his hla with lIh another I I A I t l lI t t I 4 e j S a as at k t w e r e s w k kS I S r t t 1 4 S f f T P tl 1 7 n i y t Q rt n l 1 i ir S Photo by Su tw YOlk r t Ii WILLIAM t regale to ourselves th the progress or of Ih tits world frond during the continuance of oC our I er as eon n n national entity we would uld lJ Ise In claiming for Americas I pres ru era ora much that makes make for Cor real greatness and worth durIng the century ry 0 now drawing to Its lis close For exam pie the English are fond of alluding to toone toone one of oC the most mOlt Important reigns In their his history tor as the Elizabethan era ra and to the latest and longest a as the bestowing upon each the name of the tho sovereign who ho happened to tobe tobe be upon the throne while the great Ireat event were tran which made England what It Is 18 And It they can claim as owing to the greatness of Elizabeth the genius of a Bacon a a and to the vir tues toes of Victoria the accomplishments of a Palmerston a Pitt Itt a II a Tennyson a Dickens A Thackeray and the tho great creat host hoat of at mn men who have hi I made their country famous Camou despite their in tUlar environment then urel we may lay claim to a moiety or of the heritage accruing from the achievement of oC this century jut just ending Tb The truth le II probably that neither nor Victoria had muCh more morl to do with the innate development of oC till the geniuses born and nd flourishing In their time than a chip hating on OD the sur surface face or of a stream has h to do 40 with the POWerful current curren I I that hat turn the wheels of and factories along its Ita banks 1 It 1 however the term troy may h bt applied t ear II a legitimate ed our ur en ra hu her surely been the longest In y lb the mat Important and Ito fro of oC the greatest rood good to the number for tor we cn can point to 10 a government J of more than a hundred year eara the constant nil alga Of which h has been n tb he betterment of mankind and the improvement of the nil t the h eras ra cIted the soy 0 erel s mentioned merely happened to be lis is power 0 And very nry little tIC et their 0 own n volition to the S Y meat ot of th their lr ul except In a neg Wayby not an example i bad In the United States I on OJ the contrary every v president ha I been elected on account of tb the posse tI result has hns told In the I I id duct In the spiritual Inc man Ilan I II Few indeed hue have reached the I by UI the Immortal Washington our drat president who whose lofty Ideals have bave been of to this country than the possession of untold material wealth anti who I le held It if possible In veneration u as the years roll by si l occupy a position of peculiar veneration I Irrespective ot of hi his numerous virtue and high endowments Looking ba back k to the time when he was IIa called by Ih the peoples IIII to the omee e It their gift we find that thaI It was 11 with great Ireat reluctant reluctance that hi he a accepted hi his evident destiny He was u inaugurated at t New York on ont t the he lOt h of oC April 1711 and ud before for be beI had well warmed UI the 11 chair I the were wre upon him first hI his whIch the they denounced as al aping royalty then aa a athe the subject became familiar even enn ac acI I hIm of fraud anti and corruption Hut But under hla hie auspices I saw I a national government es menacing controversIes with forel nations settled the war debts funded credit restored commerce and agriculture flourishing l and aad tb the re n of the country to be exploited a ad time to toI I the he presidency he followed strictly trieU the lilt lines which hI his had suggested during the IrM Aret It n was la in the a autumn of oC U tN that Washington delivered red treat that molt meet mm mem memorable of tate stale paper pape It his famous farewell add address and In the follow following In InI I spring retired to private lit ills Duri the first ao 30 years or no J ot of the tho republic tb the record of et the he l popular votes ot received for tor p tt and ami vice president are bit the elec electoral electoral toral votes ha have been Prom From th these w t r find that George Oeo and John Adam In 1711 re N and 34 e and these thue the two numbers cut cillo they WI were Netted ced At l this first election the a nt cuell candi candidates dates datu had bad what I U known nl ash i term The opposition had hern Ira growing fur Cor years PIr so M far Car bark bak as 1793 1113 J arty lines been by bf th the schism In cah ah Int Inel and In 1100 just years ra ago 10 th the triumphed In the Uti election or of Thomas lie He and Aaron both Re Republicans having each ach received 73 vot votes lb the choice chote wu was thrown into the house hoUle ot of tIet thes elected Jefferson u a president 1 dent and Burr as vice 1 president Ington had bad been inaugurated In Nw New York and anet Adams Adami In Ph Philadelphia II ph la but butu It Ita u a the seat Hat of at go w was removed rd ed to Washington Jefferson w was In Inaugurated there Whether h he rode alone alon to the he capitol and nd hitched his ho lions to ta A fence I is yet a matter of con controversy but there I la no DO doubt whatever er r that h he lived simply Imply and nd received un Ike ant Adams b be wu was the great natural leader of hit hili pa patty hi his political A sagacity has never been bleh surpassed and anet as the framer of tb he of nee enc lit he will live In the ot of our people eOple I so long II as this nation huts lUlS 1 a name Until ISO 1101 the law wu was that eACh elector should hould vote ote for two candidates the on one receiving the hl number of votes to be deClared president and the next highest vice Ice precedent but In that year ar the having been Jeen a amended a arate arat role Ote was cut cast for Cor each ach officIAl Jefferson was Willi again chosen choan president and Georg Clinton vice president by bythe bythe the votes of electors Both Were The next year during the st of the Ninth congress the party dropped the designation nation and took that ot of but until General Jack eons administration the terms wire were often otten used Interchangeably At the end ot of his hla second term terO J Jefferson seemed as much gratified at t the prospect of retie III lug to U as was a Washington when he finally sought the 1 of Mount Vernon After 17 11 years of fled he passed paled awe aw the same lame day John dams Fourth of oC Jul July luta day made by th the Declaration of Independence which both had signed 50 years be before tore fore foreIn In the election ot of 1101 Jam James Madison received vot votes for tor president and Clinton as vice Ic president those being the highest numbers cast castIn In 1812 Madison was BY reelected 11 by 12 US electoral votes otes his hili coadjutor as vice Ice precedent being Gerry with votes All the abate were wre Republic Republicana ana ans Whit James Monroe who wu was chosen president In 1818 together with D 1 D Tompkins as lee Ioe president both by voted was Inaugurated the era ra of good feeling and the policy probably wag Wat conducive to their se reo election In 1920 1810 The electors of that year R gave him votes 01 for president and Tompkins both as on the for former mar mer O occasion as I Republicans In U for Cor the first time reliable reo n turns turne are Bre available and they show that Andrew Jackson JacklOn receIved a popular vote of while John Q Adams Allam his hIli opponent tl Is credited with 1221 but no candidate having n a majority ot of the electoral totes otell the choice tell fell to 10 the house hOUN ot of representatives which elected Adams lams All the parties we were Including John C Calhoun chosen choNn vice president by on an electoral vote ote ot of m mAt At the Hie election ot of 1958 Adams only popular vote voles against 31 cut cart for tor Jackson who received votes ot and anel Calhoun also alo a Democrat as vice Ic president Of OC the and aal aspiration ot of those thON times lime three the quarrels of Clay and Calhoun and the attitude of Jack Jackson son Aon t there I is not space to treat It Ia ell 11 known however that President J entertained views Sw on r and partisan rewards Opposed to those thOle of Adams dam lie Ile lieI I reelected In 32 by a po popl dar ar vote voto f C defeating hI his opponent Hen Iten HenI I Clay who ho had ball NOl In III the cite t f Val ral college they Ibey rt received Iw and 19 9 votes otH Martin Van all Huron la as Jacksons runnIng milt mate and Ind In Inh h ire election of 11 1914 was s chosen hi his po heir belr u as a Democrat b by t tea a greater number than those cat cast for all 1111 opponents combined If He r rr I elved no electoral votes ot anti H M 1 as vIce rice president though I as there here was waA no choice for the latter laller he wu was elected by br the senate naIl When tho he election of 1840 arrived public opinion was Wall In favor tavor of the old soldier General W n II Harrison as aM president and John T Tyler ler a as vice lre pres dent popular vote Yote was I at the first NIt to reach the million mark being against 11 for tor nn Buren Du Bu Duren ren tie and Tyler bath as Whigs reo re each ach 3 electoral yot votes Harrison did 1 not live to redeem his 1118 Shoring Popular anti anel Cut lor the Chief of McKinley and II I Bryan and Eow enu B 1 r I J f i iI I skates itaiM with 1111 Hr of Voter I I r J P Filp afar lAr I Popular r ea I fi it I T Yes 1 h A bawl 11 1 I i n 11 I 8 1101 8 A Ar II 1 g a 1 1 I 1001 I Olond I 1 11 I t 1 6 Delaware elf a a I 1 ate j I 1177 orilla 11 1 4 Me t o I 1 i N I II 11 t I I Illinois 1 tI i II I 51 I lIB 1715 Will 16 15 I IU 1 ow II ep M 1 II 13 1 powe 11 10 II 1 iN Aea tt t y sq u j J 1 I I Loul IR If S I Mae 1 I Ee UHf 11 1 II I I I 1 1 1 e s rel I lit I I fI H 11 I IotA otA 3 I 81 r I I I eve f HJ ef 11 1110 eve 10 10 fI i I ew Wyart York I M is SI i is II lei 4 11 orth Ii I I meth 39 1 11 tI 77 I 1 1 u III a at 11 li 4 1 iti t ni 0 0 jI glI 9 0 del Boa A 1 1 11 l M U lr 12 l 1 Texas TeJu 1 J 41 1 I 6 11 Utah 18 Sy 8 3 rl n J I 61 6 1 1 4 10 O 1371 Is 11 1 It 11 PI II 4 1110 9 J p UA H t e 6 e 1 1 U M l 1008 I 10 1 2 I M rn pledges of t reform but died a month after Atter he was inaugurated sad wu was mac by Tyler T r who was wall thus the first to be seated In the presidential chair through the Ibe death of the Incumbent In 1941 1841 the he pendulum swung un back again to the Democratic side and Jamo If IC Polk wu was elected by votes vote over Clay Clar who hall had In Inthe Inthe the electoral r w rc received liO the number Itt for tor O G A ADallas 11 Dallas tor vice president In 1148 another soldier General Zeh Zach cry ary Taylor like Harrison also allO a Whig led at the h polls with 1101 votes ot hi Ida chief adversary Caw Democrat re re receiving Ife received elec electoral Ic toral votes IPA as did tb the Wb candidate for tor vie via The parallel between Harrison and Taylor WI was completed by br the death ot of II the let lal tr tar In July 1160 and the succession ot of Fillmore The mall made their power man u test again In when Franklin fierce Wit was elected by votes th he Whig candidate General Scott re fl Pierce Md had til else Itc toral vot votes cast call for Cor him and W It Icing the same am number as al vice Ice Prill lent dent Again In ml 1861 the Democrats orata w were victorious Jm James Buchanan se rl votes otea And the candidate John C Premont In the electoral college l r rOt Totes Ot w were cat cast for a as president dent and J 3 C as al vice I president It WI was durIng the die Buchanan Schuyler Cot Colfax the candidate for tor vice president 11 Tot votes Grant Orant was IoIe In 1311 1111 by OiO vot votes the leader amon isle hili opponents Horace tire LIberal Demo Demorat Democrat rat crat receiving Th The victor ani and the vice nominee henry received lit electoral votes In the presidential contest of oC 1876 1178 A complication arose which recalled the difficulty In n 1 1100 between and hurt Burr According to till the returns return Sam Samuel uel J Tilden the Democratic candidate ed a J popular o vote vot ot of or It a plurality of oC 1609 over hia opponent Rutherford U D for whom rote ot 91 were act eal 10 P pass N upon the returns return those thOM ot of Florida Florid Oregon anti and South Carolina been disputed an electoral Will wab created by act ot of congress approved 1 Jan Do 29 1877 1177 b by which four justices of th the supreme court were meds with power to select a thin With these were to sit It live Ave members of the senate nate and five Ave or of the hou house ot of representatives To ToI I this bl commission was delegated tit the power In the he premises of the two hou house acting or together and Its decisions WN were to h he reverted reversed only II by th the concurrent action ot of both house The Th commission was MII com composed Old of seven lIeven I Clifford and Stephen J FIeld of the h court Senators Thomas 1 F and Fran cle ci am and II 11 n 11 i as al tan rd b In t I l Iii and 1 J Ived 51 w bl 47 re votes ot In loge I tile Ic I I JoU 1111 y 14 1 1 toral eel 1 Were chosen lIy by m rei J lobart 01 Sewell Sewall It 19 1 There are at It II I Voters In th and In n the election cUon ur or irn 1 M It r to the 1 d Ih i their privilege morn I then hR 11 r f be net essa to I maul I Tb The whole number t I or lot t r oral college this II Iii I el 1 year ear i 11 II H to a choice i 1 t 1 a are t t 11 1 fW ts S ir The kaiser kalter u am all ti II t I certainly dot does nut n I k I i dance and has haa thus thu i II 11 I la regards tt ot of 1 a great t nation t I kl ht t n II U r ot of have hao mut II i 1 1 people 8 Speaking I 10 I I s I I t r ral rarely fan fall for words worda uM and un nn I al tar far beyond hat 1 I HI I t rr Ir tended to say lay 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