Show Luck I In Names me Every native-born native citizen of the United States 35 years of age of sound mind and not disqualified by byr r- r crime is eligible to the Presidency residency tH i provided he has been 14 years a atT tT 1 resident within the country The millions of Americans f ing lag th these se requisite attributes and j- j qualifications will be interested in ini inthe inthe the following curious facts regarding the Presidential office i To begin at the beginning beginning that is with Washington Washington the Father of His 1 Country had 10 to letters in his surname surname surname sur sur- name and no one of his successors has used up so much of the alphabet t i 1 as he did in spelling it His name Vf was what may be called a ten tenstrike F- F strike and he stands not only first firstin f. f in m war first in m peace and first in the I hearts of his country countrymen men but first I t also in alphabetical distinction 4 Next to Washington in this re respect re- re speet stand Jefferson and Cleveland names of nine letters letters each each and by a aJ J singular coincidence each ach had two i terms Another point of similarity ty v both caused talk of a third thud term There have been six Presidents V each with eight letters In m his name Here they are Van Buren Harrison Fillmore Buchanan Garfield and 1 then then gain again Harrison The Presidents J dents with seven se letters to their if credit were Madison Jackson Lincoln Lin Lin- coIn coln and J Johnson The letter five-letter executives s were the elder and young younger is er Adams Tyler Grant and Hayes i There has been only one President with four letters letters Polk b An analysis of the preceding list listI I discloses the fact that that the eight eight- f letter men were victims of misfortune misfortune 6 tune in one way or another Van VanBuren F Buren for instance failed of a re re- re election The first Harrison who f defeated him died in office a few i weeks after his ina inauguration Fillmore Fill Fill- i- i more when he ran for lor th the Presidency Presidency dency in 1856 on the ticket carried only one sta state e. e Bu Buchanan Buchanan Dub Du- Du b chanan has been blamed whether t j or not for having brought on the Civil War Wai Poor Garfield was wab assassinated and Harrison was beaten beat beat- en cn b by Cleveland for years ago James Monroe one one of the four foury y six-letter six Pre residents Presidents iden ts was lucky luck while in in office but the closing years of his life were clouded by f tune tunc When he died he was practically practically cally a dependent for Cor his support on ona ona ona a relative Taylor Tayl r the second of the six letter Presidents died in office Pierce may be set down as a failure and Arthur failed to to get the ther r nomination he coveted 1 fi The Presidents Preside ts that had five fi letters i in their names were the two t x both of whom failed of re-election re A Tyler who betrayed the party which elected him General Grant Giant and Hayes Hajes f This brings the record down to f four letter Polk No man with only three letters in his name has ever ever become although at least two received votes in the Electoral College Among them was the great John Jay Henry Lee w was s a c candidate candidate candi mH- r date for the Vice Presidency in 1833 but his ticket got only r I n t 1 votes f C. An extraordinary fatality has ate at attended at- at e 7 tend tended d the men with four our letters in m f their names name who have been been candidates candidates candidates candi candi- dates for the presidency and vice presidency Polk is the only tion and and even he was beaten more than once before he succeeded First of all comes the bad but brilliant Burr Burr In fn S Burr tied Z Jefferson for the presidency cy in the Electoral College The election was thrown into the House use of Representatives Burr i was beaten winning only the vice presidency for which he did not not care Before I that Burr had been twice beaten for the second place Rufus King was beaten by George Clinton for the vice presidency in int t 1808 In 1816 and in J e 1804 again agam and was he ran for the presidency whipped by Monroe Daniel D D. Tompkins defeated James Ross in inthe inthe m la later later later la- la the same election and four years ter Rush received only one vote ink in inthe k the Electoral College Clays Clay's career is a record Henry r of calamity He Ie was first beaten for the presidency in 1824 and again in 1832 and a third time in in 1844 another presidential I J- J Wirt was failure Then Ihen came ass Pass who tho was h slaughtered Dy y Taylor in m 1848 in for o a wonder e was s Vi William Villiam lia R. R King yo r p I elected Vice President on the Pierce ticket in 1852 John Bell w was s beat beaten en for the presidency in 1860 and so was Joseph Lane who ran with Breckinridge ge for the vice presidency To this long list must be added the name of Whitelaw Reid To come down to the letter four presidential candidates of the present present present pres pres- ent time this is an ill rec record record record rec- rec ord for Thomas Bracket Reed of Maine aine David Bennett Hill of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania who is s in the hands of his friends What will be their fortune the fortune the exceptional good luck of Polk olk or the I luck ill of Burr Bur and of f all the others with syllable one-syllable surname surnames Another analysis of these presidential presidential and andice vice ice presidential names shows that the can candidates having as final inal n in their names h hive have ve been Amon Among them may be named V Washington ashington T Jefferson efferson Clinton Madison Jackson Calhoun Van VanBuren Duren Buren Richard M. M Johnson the two Harrisons Buchanan Buchanan Lincoln Hamlin Andrew Andre Johnson Wilson and Logan McClellan however I was vas out of it New h.-New New York Journal |