Show succession CESSION BY DEATH THE death of governor washington bartlett of california which occurred at 5 on monday afternoon makes R W waterman the chief executive of the state this method ot rotation was hardly looked for by those who chose those two gentlemen to their respective positions but it is one that happens with remarkable frequency as is readily read fly understood by those who keep track of such things not only oaly in state governments has it happened napp eRed that those who were chosen for the second place in the government have attained to the first through the instrumentality of death but bat in the national government as well three being recorded within the present generation these cases were when millard fillmore as vice president under zachary taylor succeeded to the presidency on the death of the latter on july 1850 andrew johnsons accession to thai that office by the death of abraham lincoln on the of april 1865 und and when chester A arthur was elevated to it by the death of james A garfield on september 1881 there was a good deal of political sagacity if not wisdom shown by the delegate at st louis who seconded the nomination of the late thomas A hendricks for the vice presidency on the ticket with samuel JT stilden J tilden ilden he said we are going to win this time and while I 1 hope bothi nothing n serious may happen to mr tilden something dign t and in that event we want as good and able a man as he is ready to take his place it was also a lofty and well deserved tribute to mr hendricks |