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Show DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTS LUCKY. Not One Has Died or Been Killed While in OfSce. The Republican party in Its forty-five forty-five years of existence, elected just six president Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Gar-field, Harrison and McKinley. Just half of these Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley were assassinated. The Whig party was in existence just twenty years, or from 1S34 to 1854, and it elected two presidents William Henry Hen-ry Harrison and Zachary Taylor in that time. Both died in office; Harrison Harri-son served just a month, while Taylor was In office a year and a third. The Democratic party has been In existence for longer than the Whig and Republican parties in combination, and it has never lost a president. The Democratic party was born in 1791, in the contest between Hamilton and Jefferson, Jef-ferson, both members of Washington's I cabinet of the time, on the question of the establishment of a United States bank. Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, proposed the bank, while Jefferson opposed op-posed it, but the bank bill was signed by Washington. j For 110 years the Democratic party, 1 (called the Republican party by Jef- j ferson, but known as the Democratic party ever since Jackson's days) has been in existence in the United States. For about half of that time it was the dominant party. It elected nine presidentsJefferson, pres-identsJefferson, Madison, Van Buren, j Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and Cleve-i Cleve-i land. It elected five of these Jeffer-j Jeffer-j son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and Cleveland for two terms each. Y'et not one of these died in office. There were tempestuous times during dur-ing the service of many of these Democratic Dem-ocratic presidents. Jefferscn was io of-i of-i fice during the days of the assaults of i both George HI and Bonaparte on the ! United States commerce on the high i seas. Madison was in the White house during the war of 1S12. at one time in which the national capital was captured by the British and some of its public buildings were destroyed by them. Jackson precipitated the convulsion caused by his destruction of the United States bank. In Van Buren's time occurred the panic of 1S37, which was the most calamitous that the country coun-try ever saw. In Pierce's days took 1 lace the Kansas-Nebraska fight; Buchanan Bu-chanan had the panic of 1S57, the Le-compton-Kansas struggle and the Charleston convention split of ihe Democratic party in 1SH0, while Cleveland Cleve-land had the panic of 1S93-1S97, the Debs rebellion of 1S91 and several fierce fights with the silver section of h's party. Yes every Democratic president served out the time for which he was elected. T-he contrast between the fatalities fa-talities among the Whig and Republican Republi-can presidents and the immunity or the Democracy, a party which has existed ex-isted almost twice as long as its two great opponents in combination, is one of the ironies of politics. Leslie's Weekly. I |