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Show !;' , '4 . f . .1 V''.'I ' .';-.':x-'t ,. ? i j i ; . i 1 vY- v- -n (" , 1 t By ELMO SCOTT WATSON S TUK line for Itio Itcpub-i Itcpub-i Ixan li.Hloiial coinelith'ii 111 f kV Kunsa City on Julio 1- nu.l VIA lt: 1 Vl'.HHTatiO r.l.--t 1 1. III 11;;sTo! ou June '.M. drawn I y'J Hear li w.iru t!e i'p!i ft Hi nation tint they arv fifl --aiii about to I'o ea hrvllcd t V In the ln-.it of another I'reit-l.lec.ti.il I'reit-l.lec.ti.il i:ii::j:i!-u. It la In teres:!ris to compare tie campaign of I'.VS Kh that of hundred year iA Although lo oi.o ran :ifelr pror-hecr !.:it tie dominant l-"ie In (t.ij years contest U- nor wheth er IV potential dynamite which now teems to t-e ctioealod In some of the Issues will epiode Into a hltterticvj mhich has liivn laoklii;; In Tw-u:l-th reuturT rai-.ii:i!;ni. It Is ct-rtaln ttiat tLer is lit:!e cl.anc of t!.e il.sru s'.ou pf ca"d:i!a!04 ar. l po!U '.-s rv.n-h-lr.; te d-p:h of vl:uj-ratlon, riuJ-Unirir.s. riuJ-Unirir.s. an-i F-'n-r.:l t :itr-l tK it rtaracterisej the canr,'a!'n of the ji ar cf To uni!-r:anj th.e r-asn for t!i? bitten-.t-ss of t! is rampa!;n. It Is noo-esrr noo-esrr to review brie:!y the prvI'us ore. that of when John yuln.-y Allans was e!ectp-l ITeiJont over At-Jrew Jaokoa. Th.Is rani;a!im of was. In fait, the f.rst real Tn-l-dontfal contest. Heretofore tt:e I'resl-rieiicj I'resl-rieiicj h:; h-.-.-n more or les of a pnn-esh'n to th.e e-:euUve mansion hr Virginia nrUtix'niis (ore W'asli-Inpon, W'asli-Inpon, Ti'on:;is Jeeron. Jjnns iludison. : d Jaii-es Monroe, with one New Fnfiand ar!iocrat. John Aflams. ;ilt'int In for a F!n;!e term. I'.ut hy Ir"J4 t!ie West ha ) tw-?:in to a-rV Itself an. for the f..st time rut forward for-ward nv cutv!!'h:-es. Henry (lay of Ker.iniky ai:'l Andrew J.m kn -i)r1 Hiikory." the military hero of TeMies.e Nf-w Eti;!nil ofTereJ J.itin t.-'iini-y A'Jan'i as l! e ranili'iare of the dy.r.z Fe.:era:is:s. The heir apparent f'f the Vir"'n;a ri.T.n.i'y tvus Wflllam il. Cranfnrtl. jioi-retary of the treasury, treas-ury, r Ceor-i:in. tx.rn In the ChJ lx.i i:,;,,n. At t!al time nominations were Da. i! hy the laui'Us inothoi an'l tills a "lesMno'l to he the last of the kii.d in t!:e country. .-.-pie the ctlli cisi::; of the iurus metiifMl one was hf'hl ur:il Crawford "was roconiiin-n.Ied to the p"p!e of the Unite. Stn't-s. liov. ever, he was ellmiated from the rue when strii-hen with paralyf.'s and raa.Ie speechless, almost liliml. lad helpless. As tiie campaign pro gressed It heoame apparent that J. o k son. wiih John C. Calhoun of South Carolina as the candidate for vice president, was leadi.K. When the returns were all In It was found llnil Calhoun hail liecn f leeted vice presl d"nt with little opposition, hut that Jackson would have W votes In the electoral college. Adams. 84. Cniw f"rd. 41 and Clay. 37. Since none ot the I'residential candidates had obtained ob-tained an electoral majority, under the terms of the Constitution Hie "lection "lec-tion was thrown Into the house of representatives, which would hoose niiion-.' the three highest ci-nlida-es lay. of course, was eliminated. Crawford Craw-ford could also he counted oul. so that the contest narrowed down to Jackson and Adams It poon hecauie Kssi around Washington that Clay's sirenittli would he thrown to Adams and that Adams In return v. ould appoint ap-point Clay as foorelary of state, l-'or weel.s the capital was In a turmoil with charges and counter charges Hy-li'E Hy-li'E thick and fast. The upshot of It all was that In the final tialiotltiL-Adams tialiotltiL-Adams hr,d received 13 votes. Jack 8"n 7. and Crawford 4. (The ballotlm; r?mm' : l -m bIr.R done vtntm ) AJunis wns eli-ol-'J rnsl.lrtil and two days tutor lie d!J ai!nt Cuj aocrotnry of tute. Tte noxt fnur yonrs were years of dStrejw for the r-w prenldeiit. With tl.e war cry of "P.arcnln mid C'orruiv t!on." the Democrats did everytlilnjc In their fMwt-r to etuharmss Adums and the bitterness of ttie canipnlen of 'Ji. hl'"h wai carried over d urine ur-ine t!nse fur jears, pave wumli:? that the campaign of lJS would e even worse. The campaign of ISUS onej with Adams as a candidate lo sneered Mmsetf and Jack.ion, who with his frlen!s were firmly convinced that he had hevti cheated out of The Presidency by the bn renin between Clay nnd Adums and was determined to Justify that belief, as Adams' principal prin-cipal opponent. No better desclp-tlon desclp-tlon of this famous (or Infamous) rnmpain a hundred yenm nco tins ben written than Is the one contained In the book "Presidential Years 17S7 1 "At by Me-ide Minneerodo. pub lishrd recntly hy C p. Put man's Sons. In the chapter "Friends of flen era I Jackson." he charncteri7.es It thus : It wns 8 mcrcM"!". filthy, uravenclnu tampaln In which nothlntf ptTnnnl cnrninc the candidates was dnlpfl lo the acoumulntinK p polls of pub-lhed pub-lhed prl varies from the temporary W-srnl compllrntton In rieneral Jrk-Fon's Jrk-Fon's matrimenlnl affairs to the Millard Mi-llard table, thM piece of "KnmbllnB furnliure." at the White House. The general's private record was shouted through the pamphlets; hlo persnnaltty. his unnodlinefn. his profanity, pro-fanity, hip game cocks and his horne., his duels, his brawls, his feuds, and always the technical Irreculnrity of his marrlaKe coupled, on the one hand, with the most derisive opinions, and. on the other, with the most alander-ous alander-ous untruths about his wife the mni-t-r muHl be referred to, since It furnished fur-nished the principal staple of the domestic do-mestic Ma k on General Jacksnn. ard was Anally responsible to a certain degree, de-gree, for Mrs Jackson's death In December. De-cember. 1 8 S Mis public career was torn Into shn-d. his alleged dealing with Aaron Burr, his military arrears and contempt of court at New t )r-I.-an", his Insubordination In the Florida. Flor-ida. 'his executive autocracy nt Pensa-cola, Pensa-cola, his "murder" of deserting mlliria-m-n' at Mol.H' "S'me Account? of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson." by John 131 nns, posters adorned with tombstones and coitlns and known as the Blnns Collin Hand-blljafrom Hand-blljafrom every quarter, and In every variety of language General Jackson was ridiculed, annulled and exposed. And for Mr Adorns there was nothing noth-ing but libels and falnehoods He was a monarchist and a Federalist, he tad fattened on the public treasury; he whj-a whj-a friend of ducllista an Incongruous-charge Incongruous-charge surely from the Jackson camp, he was corrupt and unprincipled In his distribution of patronap-e, he was an extravagant profligate; while mln- Ister to Buinla h bad, o they did not hf ltot to IniiM, sold an American ervant airl to th cxar; ha was a Maon It was the time of popular ant-mniiity ant-mniiity toward Masonry and when ha ofTlclally denied ha waa a Maaon, It nad no difTcrence, h waa etlll a Mason; he waa riot tins' to announca General Jackson's drath Juit befora th election In order to prevent cltlien from votlnit for him; and. of course, ha had mad a corrupt barraln with Henry Hen-ry Clay. It epenka conplcuouly for the Int'Krlty of his conduct In thirty ycara of dlstlnicul-vhd public Brvlca that the Jack on is n could find no thicker mud to ftlnK t him. The wrecksK was dragged to tha polls and Central Jackson waa elected He had aoma hundred and thtrty-nlna th'u!and more popular votea than Mr Ad.ims, cne hundred and seventy-elRht electoral ballots from seventeen states, as aicalnst elRhty-three from ten. "A movement of th people. a "revolt of democracy acalnst aristocracy" and yet Mr. Channln points out aome curious curi-ous electoral details. General Jackson was elected by the solid South, and, according to the federal ratio In 12 each southern elector represented only 2 :( free persons while his northern coll'-acuea each represented SS'OO. And with the solid South General Jnckon could not have secured n majority of the electoral votes without the reinforcement rein-forcement of Pennsylvania and New York. "It would seem.' Mr. ChannlnR concludes. con-cludes. "That Jackson was raised to the Presidency by the overrepresenta-tlon overrepresenta-tlon of the South comhined with tha employment of the most unjustifiable methods by hlfl partisnns in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania nnd In New York. On the whole possibly It was more honorable to have been defeated In I S 28 than to have been elected." And Mr. McDonald. In his Jackso-nlan Jackso-nlan Democracy remarks that "To personal per-sonal vindication of Jackson was added emphatic popular Indorsement of the social and political order with which ie was identified. In the elec'lon of Jackson the people turned their hacks on their early principles of statesmanship, and Intrusted the conduct of the federal government to an untrained, self-willed, passionate frontier soldier. That he was not of the old school was, In the eyes of his supporters, sup-porters, a commendation A great democracy will never be governed gov-erned for long together by Its best men but by Its average. To the average aver-age voter In 182S, Jackson was a great popular leader because they held him to be also a typical Democrat." It was the end of a cultivated, discriminating dis-criminating era; the close of the succession, suc-cession, whatever the Idiosyn. -racier and limitations, of seemly persons, of capable Intellects. of meritorious achievements, such as the founders ot the Kepubllc had envitaged as destined to dignify the chief magistracy of the nation, o mature Its councils and t grace Its annals. Washington, Adums. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams. The quality of that succession was not, except at rare Intervals, to be attained again by the avernge personalities, th? popular politicians, the convention com promises who were to fol low. It was Indeed, with slight future Interruptions, Inter-ruptions, tis final triumph of democracy. |