Show TILE THE OBSCURITY OF OP A VICE PRESIDENT In one of its happy happ moments the th Chicago Record Herald says Levi Lev P. P Morton is eighty live years of ot age This includes the four tour years ears ho he spent spen In fn the tha vice presidents president's office Which Is clover clever And yet et somo some of ot tho the eminent an J ant effective men of the nation naton have havo occupied occupied oc- oc tho the vice presidential pre chair John Adams himself himsel was wa the tho first to nil fill fl the office and he was lucce succeeded by y Thomas JeCter Jefferson on Aaron Burr who helped in more ways than on onto one oneto on to make malce United States history the history bf boat best st hated man ever in public life lf life life- was another John C. C Calhoun who whose sagacity and Influence did much uch to 10 secure Texas Texa and whose whoso labors 1 Included In- In eluded the tho saving of ot the Oregon cou coutry countr coUrT coUrT- try tr was os once on co second to tho the Preside of the United States Martin Van Buren was tho the eighth vice Ice president and anc John Tyler wl who VhO succeeded tho the first Harrison w was elected to the tho lesser place And 1 heis he Is 18 ono one of oC the tho men who did not not us not not-IR did John Adams succeed Adams succeed later to II the Presidency Millard w was Ilard second In tho the government 1 lie lie- fore foro lie he became first And Andrew Andre Johnson like Iko Tyler ler was waR one of th the tho accidental Pre Presidents He wa was elected with wih Lincoln and succeeded t to 10 assassination c o othe at atthe first un jn the frs place nt the Great Emancipator Chester A. A Arthur was forced Into int tho second office by Conkling and hi bin hI friends in 1880 and a n little later when GuiteaU killed President Garfield Gar Gar- field eld Arthur took tool tho the first office and held It worthily to the tho end of th the term lerm Thomas Thoma A A. Hendricks though thougla a Democrat was one ne ne of at tho the greatest men of tho the naton nation yet et ho lie nevi achieved higher office than vice Ico pre pre- ed Ident dent and Mr r Roosevelt Hoose eJ Is one ono o oho of ho the few strong to overcome he tho traditions of tho the place Ev Evon r though hough elected a vice president lit he he was vas was at nt tlc tic conclusion of or tho the term h In which he h succeeded to first ph e strong trong h h TO fa tho the Preside lal tal nomination And there thero is nc uc doubt he could havo been nominal t gain again in 1908 If I he had consented Besides there there thero Is Schuylor Colfax Colta a strong character in American merican history and Hannibal al Hamn HomIn Ham Ham- Hom- Hom un In n the tho as ola o of Lincoln In thc tho thC fIrst term Henry t Wilson and Wil- Wil lam am A. A were wele both strong stron character an fill cUll 1 not even the po Ha n of or tho the vice dency ncy could entirely obscure them The nation noton is proud of ot tho the men who have o ha ivo lie he i d the tho position as It has a n aright right t to bt be |