| Show LUCK IN NAMUa Every nativeburn cltlicn of the Unlted States 35 ear of I oge of sound mind ant not dliquallfled by rrlme U I eligible to the prcildercy provided he hat been 14 years a reiMent lthtn thtt country The mllllont ol Ameilcini imwetlng thcie rcqulilic atlrlbule and qiullflea lion will be Interested In the following curious licit regarding the preilJenllal office To begin at the beginning that It wllh VaihlnglonthB Father ol lilt Counry hud lO tenors In hit iiunamr and mi one ol lilt successors hit used up to much nl the alphabet ai he did In tpellng lilt Imo U nhat inlght be called a ten tltlke and he land not only first In war flat In peace and tlrt In the heart ol his country tie It but firs alto In alphabetical dlittncilon Next to Wellington In I lids respect stand Jillcnoti and Cleveland nametol 1 nine letters racy and bj a ilngular in Incidence mach had twolcrmi Another Iolnl tlmllarlt loth cauicd talk of a third term There havu been ill president each with eight letters In 1 ula name Mere they arc Van Itiren Ilarrlion Ill snore lluclianin Garfield and then again Ilarrlion The president with even leper In ihelr credit was were I Midlion Jackson Lincoln inl Johnnon The tit letter eaecutlre wen the elder and yoiynger Adam Tyler Grant and I layThere 1 There hat been only one proldent with lour 11111101 An anilyil of the preceding lit dls close he bet that the eight Idler men MerevhHlmiof mltfortun In one way or another Van Hares for Instance failed of a reelection Th first liar MR who defeated hln died In Alec s few week alter hli Inauguration rillmor when he ran for the prel deney In 856 on th Know nothing ticket I carried only one italr llucliinan ha i been blamed whether Justly or not Inr daring brought on the civil war Poor Uirfleld was aiuitln led and Ilarrlion was beaten by Clere lend four yours sgo Jtniei Monroe one ollhe four ill teller tel-ler preilJenli wn lucky while In ollie but the elmlng yeses of hi Hie were clouded by mlifortun When he died In 81 1oult re wa practically a dr prudent for hli support on a relative Taylor the second of Ih ililettered UMlJeurt dleil In iilllee 1leree may M ft down nta allure and Arthur failed to gl the nomination e coveted cov-eted The presidents that had floe letters In Ihelr name were the two Adimeboth of 1 whom failed lor reelection Tyler who betrayed the parly which ejected hlmi General iran and llajei 1 hit bring the record dew to four letter roll Nu man with ruly thre letter In hla name hat ever become pre ldcnl although at leait two recelied vole In the electoral college Among them uas the ureal John Jay Ilinry Iec I ua n candldile for the despee > dency I In it < JJ but hit ticket only got U otei An extraordinary Utility hsa attended Iho man wlthl four letter In their s who hive been candldilei tar the I pretl dcncj and vice pretldcnty Iolk It the only crpllon nnd cvrn he was beaten 1 more thin once before he lucccedid I First ol all come the Ud hut brilliant Hurr In 1801 Iliirr tied Jelfermn for Ih pritld nay In the electural 1 college The 1clln we thrown Into lh home III repreaentallvi and llurr era 1eiten Inning only Iho vice preildeney fur which he did tint care Hefore that burr had 1I been Iwaten for the see and oilier llului King n a beat n by George Clinton for the t uo I pretllency lu I 1804 and again In 1808 In 1816 he ran for tin prthlctt and was whipped by Monroe I Daniel I llinmpkln de tented James lion In site Mine election old Iu years taller Kuth received only 1C vote In the ilccloral college Henry Clay career In record ol ci Until He wat first beaten for the preildcne In iSii and again In l8j and a third II ne In I 184 Vlrl was another prj > llentUI Utlur Ihen rime Cati who tus ilaugliiircl 1 by Tayloi In ISIS Ullllam U King fur n wonder wn elected rice preildrnt on the Pierce ticket In 1851 John tall wat beaten for the presidency In iV and so was Jowl Lest who ran with Ilreeklnrldge fur the nice prcildrncr To ills Hit mutt be added the nanu of Wblclaw Held Tn MnlO dour 10 the four letter prtl 1 denltal candidate nf I the pretent tune this li an III omened record fur Thomn Ilrack It Reed of Maine l > ivl HennrM Illllnl New York and laltlra s > a ley Quay ol IVnntylvnnU wl h I I In the hind of lilt frlendt What will be their forluiiethe n ceptlonil Rood luck uf Polk nr the III luck ol llurr and of 1 ill the ollur with ono syllablc lurnimcil Another ana tli of these pntldenllil and lceprMldenllal nimci show thm the candidatehating nfinil nln their namei line been lucky Among them may be nimcd Waihlnxton Jeffcrwn Clintin Midlian Jacktoit Collioun Van liurcn Richard M Johnson the lave llarrlioni lluchanan Lincoln lUmlln Andrew Jolmion Vlknn and Logan McCIHlin hoHcter WM out t ol ItNew York Journal + |
