Show POLITICAL landslides the recent republican victory is in political parlance called 9 landslide such occurrences says the sun are peculiar to american polities politics they have not hot been frequent in ti times ines gone by but henceforth we may mav look for one every two years when republicans in gt get tired of rejoicing over their recent national victory and democrats grow weary of wondering lion low how it all happened they cin find rest and amusement in comparing it with a i similar event which took place two years ago and others fifty four and forth two years ago C respectively they chev will find many interesting coincidences when t they 1 icy come t to 0 compare these great events in amican politics politic one of the first they will notice is that benjamin harrisons grandfather william henry harrison arrison II was elected president in 1840 by a landslide as bi big as the one that mat defeated the grandson in 1892 twelve years later the second great lahd landslide slide occurred martin lartin van buren who was regarded as something of a politician ican in in i his day was wason on the wrong side of the slide that carried grandfather harrison arrison II into the white house lie ile afterward became a sort of standing anding sl cond condi candidate date for president but never again got an election vote lie he was nominated by bv the free soil party four years later any by the know nothing or american party narty eight years afterwards but failed to carry a single state either cither time thue gen NV winfield infield scott went down under the great democratic landslide of 1852 along with the whig party the political landslides land elides of 1810 1840 18 10 and 1852 differed from the 0 one ne of 1892 in that the candidates in those elections got comparatively ively small majorities of the popular vote while they had four fifths of the votes in the electoral college the political leaders of 1840 and 1852 were surprised as much at at the result in twofee years as chairman carter was when lie he ikeard heard that ohio had gone democratic or wilson when he heard beard from west virginia there were J votes in the first elet electoral toral colle college M the one that elected george washington president the first time twelve candidates for president were voted for and washington got 69 votes voter on the first ballot in some soine of the states tile the electors were elected by the legislatures there is no record of the popular vote tote in 1792 there were no conven mentions vent ions platform sor nominations washington got of the electoral votes that year the election of a president was without special interest inhere st until 1800 when thomas jefferson and aaron burr received an equal number of electoral votes and the election was thrown into the house of representatives ta tives which elected Jeff jefferson after ag ballots in ISO 1801 thomas Jef jefferion Je ferFon got 10 of the electoral ballots this could not be called a landslide because his opponent was a fedei federalist aliet and that thai party was then ery cry weak and electors were chosen by the leg legis gie lasures latu resin in six states state s ill I 1 1820 the federalist party hai bad practically to ef dyitt it t and am james monroe had bad no appos opposition ile he got every electoral vote except one alle which was ceet for fer john quincy adarno the airet formal 1 political roli con mentions vent ions to nominate candidates for president were held in 1812 1832 the democratic convention met in baltimore on march alarca 22 of that year and nominated andrew jackson and made a platform tile tho whir whig 7 party convention nominated henry but adopted no platform tile the party parly was then in its infancy and jackson received of tho the electoral votes in ili the whig party held no convention andrad and had alir three c candidates for president the democrats nominated martin van buren but adopted no platform van buren got electoral votes and was elected hut but his majority of tile the vote over W V 11 II harrison Harr was less than four years vears later in in 1810 1910 18 19 10 came the first real landslide in american politics the whigs had 15 grown much stronger ler by th that at time they nominated william NV Illiam henry hardson who had bad commanded the american Ameri caa army in the indian wars tyler of virginia was the candidate for vice president tile the chies again all adopted opted no platform the democrats nominated martin van nan buren for president and adopted ft a platform which declared against internal improvements against 1 national binks banks and in favor of efa a tariff for revenue only the famous tippecanoe and tyler too cr log cabin campaign that followed is within the memory of many men now living but the result was a surprise to the politicians tic ians harrison swept the country getting of the electoral votes voted C of the popular vote however he be received only van buren getting four years later james K polk and henry clay were tile the opposing candidates for president polk got electoral votes and clay in the popular vote folks plurality over clay was only this was largely due to the great personal popularity of clay it in 1848 the whigs bics elected zachary taylor by a small majority because he had bad made a splendid record in the Alex mexican ican war four years later came the second great landslide in american doli politics the democratic and whig parties were supposed to he be about evenly divided the democratic convention met in baltimore on june 1 1852 and after a session lasting four days nominated franklin pierce of new hampshire for president and IV K R king of alabama for vice dent both candidates were obscure men they were comparatively unknown in politics or public life and their greatest recommendations ions appeared to be that no one knew anything against them the whigs nomi nominated gated gen winfield scott who was commander in chief of the american army in the Alex mexican ican war both panties pai ties adopted long platforms the only essential differ ence in the platforms was eliat the democrats a again M ain opposed internal improvements and tariff protection while the whip platform m favored both the free soil party entered the r ight that nominated bated john P hale of new hampshire for president the campaign 0 was without special features but when the returns from the election came in it was found that a greater landslide had occurred than the ono one in 1810 1840 there were then thirty one states stales in the union and votes in tile the electoral college or of these pierce received 2 34 a and nd scott 42 that was the greatest landslide on record and it proved the death blow of the whig party but great as a was pierces majority in the electoral college in the popular vote lie he ran only a little more than votes ahead of gen scott the popular vote of the two candidates was pierce 1 scott 10 four years later millard fillmore the whig or american candidate for president got only 8 electoral vote vot in that year the republican airty developed unexpected strength and gave john C fremont its candidate for fer president ill electoral votes owing to the peculiar political conditions existing in this country in and 1872 the large major icv of the ibe votes of tile the electoral col 1 lege received by grant can not be classed as landslides or political revolutions re the democratic landslide of 1874 which demonstrated the fact that thai there were several hundred thousand more than republicans despite the complexion of tho electoral college gave the democrats control of the lower house of congress hy by a large majority this was also regarded as d a rebuke of the republican party for demone silver in 1873 but the landslide of 1892 was in every way the greatest one on record cleveland was elected by tile crrea 0 greatest test mijo majority rity of both both popular and electoral vote ever received by a candidate for tile the office of president his majority of the popular vote was albota almota ablio zt a million some of the interesting features ot this landslide were that t the democrats carried every state elate that was classed as doubtful and carried tome ionic of the strongest strong sst republican i states in the country divide the states state s into the usual geographical 0 divisions eastern or new england northern middle southern and western states and it will wili be found that the democratic ticket has a majority of the electoral votes of every ever section the democratic ticket had a good plurality of the electoral votes of 0 f all the states north of mason and dix oni oils i line if the democrats had lost tile the four states of new cw york indiana new jersey and connecticut which were regarded added as the real battle ground of the campaign and had always been classed as doubtful states slates cleveland and stevenson would still have had electoral votes voice or ten more than enough to elect them A peculiar feature of this recent land slide is not that republicans have carried ohio illinois iowa or pennsylvania these are always re regarded 0 added as republican strongholds strong holds I 1 nor that they have carried new york indiana or new jersey which have been as often j republican as democratic but hat bat the so eo called solid south is ati braben len L and that tennesee ten and ali cs iri ginia have this year gone reau ali can this country has reached a paint p int i in history where landslides are inevitable and periodical The Thes next wave will be like that of 92 and will I 1 sweep the republican party from power As the world says tim THE NEXT PRE nENT WILL HE BE A |