European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The election that went to the House John Quincy Adams. House elected him sixth president in 1825. Andrew Jackson had most popular and electoral votes but lost. William h. Crawford ,. Came in third in four Way election. Page 12 Henry Clay. Ran fourth and Wai eliminated from House Vot. The stars and stripes by Arnold Sawislak up staff a the fact of or. Adan teen votes was and. Some clapping and place Hen ing thirteen Annaly the tellers tation took place in the some slight hissing followed the suspended its proceedings until series were Conor debates vol. 1, p. 526. B that entry in the forerunner Day s congressional record do the Climax of a unique and Contr chapter of american political his1the election of John Quincy Adamel sixth president of the United stat Adams was elected feb. The votes of 13 slate delegations House of representatives. He last chief executive chosen under vision of the Constitution Calli selection of the president by the when no candidate has Recei natural majority of the electoral in the general election. The men who wrote the constr trying to provide for any Snag that develop in their new blueprint Ern rent established the House institution to break an elect passe. But one of the founding himself the beneficiary of a pres election in the House made Lei the method was far from satisfy in a letter aug. 17, 1823. Thorn Ferson wrote i Hae Ever cons the constitutional Mode of elect the legislature voting by state most dangerous blot on our constr and one which some unlucky Chain someday hit. The unlucky Chance Jed feared occurred within 13 months. Adams became president despoil fact that Andrew Jackson had r More popular votes More Al votes and carried More states 1824 election. What happened House blighted Adams single the also built up such a sur fee of Safor Jackson that he swamped and the next election. I. Hat election 111 years being recalled because something same kind could happen a Jain this while the Odds against the Eledio ing up in the House still Are very the entry of a shorn third party a Date against the major parly no makes it proposition in Loiis is Sirn former gov. George. Wallace Bama can Siphon off enough a a votes to deny a l to vote mar either the Democrat u nominees this fall tin decided in the House Inin 1824, there were total of 261 votes needed suits of the general e were Jackson i to i i electoral ,71 1 pop Royal 11. Crauson votes 41 electoral to Henry i electoral the election House which 2 i year. Gleckl through 36 a least or reps election january m states votes. Osvin t. Eikon t Vota in votes -.-17.135 f and Over a la a cell emf i Riri period trying to break Ine us Public acts he said. Mel Ane s proposition brought a num or of members into the debate. James Chanan of Pennsylvania later to be president himself said in electing a president of the United states we Are peculiarly the representatives of the people. On that important occasion we Snail emphatically represent their majesty Pennsylvania had cast its 28 a i s for Jackson Hamilton declaring that the first of Tiou which a human being owes is j i his own conscience said no inem a l 1 should vote for a candidate he con Sal. A dishonest or unworthy. It while 1 Lay Down this primary principle thus broadly 1 am As equally " is u d that in the present election which belongs peculiarly to the people Nellu h has come to us on a forlorn and los Sirous contingency if to have no objections to the person who the candidates is preferred by particular people we represent Here vol Are bound to surrender our Mere personal preferences and prejudices a a to Endeavor to carry into effect 26, 1968 their honest reasonable wishes Ham Ilton said. M ii gave the longest single speech of the debate noting that if a member of Congress supported passage of a bad Law he could later vote to repeal it. But if it should happen on this or any future occasion that this House should elect a president from selfish or corrupt motives where is the remedy he asked. There is none. The deed is done. It is evident therefore if we do not recognize the right of the people to control our votes by instructions we act wholly without Willie p. Mangum of North Carolina who was to receive 11 electoral votes for president in the 1836 election Dis agreed with Mcduffie even though his state also had gone for Jackson. Man gum said the founding fathers could not have meant to bind House members to vote As their constituents had and at the same time directed the House to break an electoral impasse. If that was the Case he said the Constitution then holds out to us bread and gives us a Mangum warned that if the House could not choose a president the Constitution empowered the vice president John c. Calhoun had a Clear electoral majority in 1824 for the office to act As chief executive. And that he said would put in the White House a Man who has received not one single vote in the United states for the John s. Barbour of Virginia one of three Kinsmen representing the state in Congress offered a kind of Compromise to the two conflicting views if each representative shall Here speak the sense of his constituents and that should not disclose on the ballot a majority of the whole i take it that his duty would require of him by All exertions to give effect to their but said Barbour should this be unattainable and the last Ray of expectation be extinguished in the gloom of despair he should cast from him the expired Hope and yielding to the greater principle which makes the safety of the nation supreme Law he should make president of one who upon the Best evidence before him operating on his honest judgment appeared to Combine the largest share of Public affection an National later that Day the rules for the election were adopted and while eliminating the provision that would Wavelet one state s demand Clear the galleries the House rejected Hamilton s proposal that the vote of each state be publicly disclosed As it was counted. The rest of the rules were adopted without controversy. They provided forthe House upon formally learning that no presidential candidate had an elec toral majority to set itself by delegations in the chamber and for the Mem Bers to cast their ballots naming one of the three candidates in separate boxes provided for each state. These were to be counted by the Dele gation and the candidate with a majority not just the largest number of votes was to become the state s Choice. If 3 and that he said., Ifould put in the White House a Man who has received not one single vote in the United states for the presidency " the delegation had no majority the state s vote was to be cast As when the voting within the delegations was completed each state was to fallout duplicate ballots giving its result and drop one copy in each of two boxes distributed by the House sergeant at arms. These were to be taken to Sepa rate tables and tallied independently. I the results at each table were the same., the ballot was official if not it had to be done Over. This ritual was carried out on feb. 9, 1825, in the House chamber. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and John Randolph of Virginia announced the separate tallies which corresponded Adams 13 votes. Jackson. 7 votes. Crawford 4 votes. The election was Over. A month later the fourth candidate in the election of 1824, Henry Clay re signed As speaker and a member of the House from Kentucky and accepted dams appointment As Secretary of state. Jacksonian charging that Cla threw his own support to Adams and helped round up votes that should have gone to the tennessean denounced the outcome As the corrupt Jackson s supporters rallied behind this slogan to make some important changes in american politics. The con Gressional caucus for selection of presidential candidates was dropped in Favoron nomination by state Legislatures. This method soon gave Way to the National conventions. The single political party of the Era of Good feelings split into the Jackson dominated democratic faction and theadaus and Clay led National republicans. The National republicans quickly merged with the whigs and when that party faded in the 1850 s. Elements of the faction went into the new Republican party. In the 1828 election Jackson carried15 of the 24 states with 647,286 popular votes and 178 electoral votes. Adams got 508,064 popular votes. 83 electoral votes. The people perhaps agreeing with Jefferson had spoken decisively. Thomas Jefferson the unlucky Chance had occurred. The stars and strip1-s George Mcduffie opposed election of president by House. 13
