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Walshville: Walshville reports a total of 83 annual members.
Butler: Butler has 115 annual members, making a total of 127.
Fillmore: Fillmore reports 307 annual men- bers, and S subscribing, making a total of 315 members.
Raymond: Raymond has 193 annual mem- bers, 13 subscribing, 1 contributing and 1 life member, making a total of 208 members.
Woodside: Woodside had 99 annual mem- bers and 2 subscribing members, making a total of 101 members.
Waggoner: Waggoner reports 112 annual members, 4 subscribing and 1 sustaining, making a total of 117 members.
Irving: Irving has 109 annual members, 5 subscribing and 1 contributing member, mak- ing a total of 205 members.
Donnellson: Donnellson has 127 annual, 3 subscribing and 1 contributing members, making a total of 131 members.
Harrel: Harvel reports 91 annual members, 12 subscribing, and 1 sustaining member, mak- ing a total of 106 members.
Witt: Witt has 559 annual members and 18 subscribing, making a total of 577 members.
Coffeen: Coffeen reports 148 annual and 5 subscribing, making a total fo 153 members.
Farmersville: Farmersville has 318 annual members, 6 subscribing, 1 contributing, 1 sus- taining and 1 life member, making a total of 327 members.
Hillsboro: Hillsboro has 1,306 members, four of these are life members, 38 subscribing mem- bers and 8 contributing members, making the total membership in the county (except North and South Litchfield) 4,282. Litchfield reports 1,260 members giving Montgomery County a total of 5,552.
Y. M. C. A. WORK.
The moral and educational interests of our boy's in arms are not being neglected. The Y. M. C. A. and other organizations are doing a vast amount of work to provide the boys with moral, social and religious influences and among those engaged in this work. we are pleased to mention Prof. George Trimby, of Hillsboro, who received a call from the above named organi- zation to go into camp and organize the boys into musical societies and religious clubs and generally aid in maintaining a high standard of moral life while the troops are engaged in de- fending their country during the present war.
CHAPTER XV.
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
OLD TIME ELECTIONS-FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELEC- TION-SUBSEQUENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS- NEW ISSUES-MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOTE- SENATORS-POLITICAL LEANINGS.
OLD TIME ELECTIONS.
The contests between political parties are to- day sharp and spirited, but devoid of bitterness, as they were in the olden time. The once enter- tained opinion, and oft expressed fear that, if
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the opposing party wins, the country would sure- ly be doomed to ruin, has given way to the more liberal and sensible feeling that we are all American citizens and equally anxious for the country's success. In the early days scarcely an election was held without one or more fists fights in every precinct. Today if wrong is perpetrated it is for personal advantage and not over political differences.
That corruption is present at many elections especially in the large cities, cannot be ques- tioned, but we think that the present indica- tions are favorable for a higher appreciation of the priviliges of citizenship. The worst debauch- ery of today is manifested in the gambling spirit, which as a relic of the past, has not yet lost its power over the conduct of depraved humanity, We give the result of the various elections in this county as fully as we have the data at hand.
FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
The first presidential campaign in which Mont- gomery County was interested as an independ- ent factor, was that of 1824, when John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun were the successful candidates, being elected on the Republican party ticket, against the military prestige candi- dacy of Andrew Jackson; William Harris Craw- ford, the congressional caucus candidate; and Henry Clay the loose constructionist candidate. Party feeling ran very high and much bitterness was engendered. Although a candidate himself, Henry Clay cast his influence in favor of John Quincy Adams, and it was his support which gave Mr. Adams the electoral vote necessary to secure his election.
The presidential campaign of 1828 resulted in the election of the Democratic candidates An- drew Jackson and John C. Calhoun, over the National Republican candidates, John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush. The tariff question assumed formidable proportions in this cam- paign, the Democrats winning on their platform of "tariff for revenue" only.
In 1832 the Democrats were again successful, electing Andrew Jackson to succeed himself, and Martin Van Buren for vice president. The National Republicans had Henry Clay and Sar- geant at the head of their ticket, while a new party, known as the Anti-Masonic party, put William Wirt and Amos Ellmaker in the field. The new party only carried Vermont.
Once more, in 1836, the Democrats were suc-
cessful, electing Martin Van Buren, the former vice president, president, with R. M. Johnson as his running mate. The National Republicans in this campaign became known as the Whig party, and it chose William Henry Harrison and Francis Grangers as its leaders. Although de- . feated, the party so gained in strength that it came into power at the next presidential elec- tion. Daniel Webester, a Whig, received fourteen electoral votes of Massachusetts, thus splitting the Whig strength.
With the accession of William Henry Harri- son and John Tyler to the presidency and vice presidency on the Whig ticket, in 1841, came a change in administration that might have con- tinued had General Harrison lived to fill out his term. With his death, John Tyler became the chief executive and was not strong enough to hold his party in line. The Whig ticket defeated the Democratic ticket with Martin Van Buren and R. M. Johnson, and the Liberty or Abolition ticket, with James G. Birney and L. W. Tazewell as the respective leaders.
It was during this campaign that the Aboli- tion party came to the front. While this party was never strong enough to place its candidate in the presidential chair, recruits from it later united with the best elements in other parties to form the Republican party that for so many years controlled the destinies of the nation.
In 1844 the Democrats returned to power with James K. Polk and George M. Dallas as the suc- cessful candidates, over the Whig candidates Henry Clay and T. Frelinghuysen, and the Lib- erty candidates James B. Birney and Thomas Morris.
The campaign of 1848, brought much friction and bitterness, and resulted in the election of the Whig candidates. Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Against them were the Demo- cratic candidates, Lewis Cass and William O. Butler, and the Free Soil candidates, Martin Van Buren and Charles F. Adams. It was dur- ing the campaign of 1848, that the Free Soil party came into existence and was the natural outgrowth of the Abolitionist party. Of this party the Liberty League was the radical wing. The work of the Free Soil party was of a preparatory nature. Composing it were men of high principle and radical opinions who were willing to sacrifice material prosperity to advance their cause. Their immediate influ- ence was not great, but their work had its ulti- mate effect in securing freedom to the colored
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race, and the prevention of the extention of slavery.
Although during the campaign of 1852, the Democrats split, one wing adhering to the reg- ular platform, and the other becoming what was known as the Free Democracy, the Demo- crats elected their candidates, Franklin Pierce and William O. King, against the Whig candi- dates, Winfield Scott and William A. Graham, and the Free Democracy candidates, John P. Hale and George W. Julian. The Free Demo- cracy party registered itself as against the "Fugitive Slave Act" and espoused the princi- ples of the Free Soil party, to which in part it was a successor.
The campaign of 1856, was one of the bit- terest the county had yet known, and resulted in the election of the Democratic candidates, James Buchanan, president, with J. C. Brecken- ridge as vice president. The notable event of this campaign was the formation of the Re- publican party with John C. Fremont and Wil- liam L. Dayton as its leaders. Although a new party, it demonstrated its strength by securing 114 of the electoral votes as against the 174 electoral votes of the successful party, and the eight electoral votes of the American or Know Nothing party, also a new party, which had Millard Fillmore and A. J. Donnellson as its leaders. The remnant of the Whig party had no ticket in the field. The majority of the Whigs joined with other men of their princi- ples from other parties, in forming the Re- publican party. In all of the political con- tests this county in its early days, voted a ma- jority for the Democratic party, but with the advent of the Republican party and its ad- vocacy of the freedom of the slaves, the tide began to flow in its direction.
With the opening of the campaign of 1860, the people of the North realized that they were confronted with the most serious prob- lem ever brought before them, and that the defeat of the Democratic party probably meant very serious results, if not war, and yet so imbued were they with the justice of their principles, that they elected the Republican candidates, Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin president and vice president. The Democrats had split over the issues of the day, one wing with J. C. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane upholding the straight Democratic plat- form, and the other, known as the Independ- ent Democrats, with Stephen A. Douglas and
H. V. Johnson, advocating the doctrines held by the southern states. A third party, known as the Constitutional Union had John Bell and Edward Everett in the field, and its platform rested upon the constitution of the country, the union of the states and the enforcement of law. Montgomery County proved its interest by the strength of its vote. The fears of the North were realized in the secession of one after another of the southern states, and the firing upon Fort Sumter in the month follow- ing the inauguration of the new president of the new party, in 1861. Fortunately the wis- dom of the leaders had put such a man as Abraham Lincoln at the head of the Republi- can party. Probably no other one man could have so handled the situation as did he. Dur- ing the four stormy years of his first ad- ministration, he proved his worth and ability, and when he was renominated in 1864, his elec- tion was an assured fact, Andrew Johnson be- ing his running mate. Against him were the Democratic candidates George B. McClellan and George M. Pendleton. John C. Fremont who was the Radical candidate, withdrew in Mr. Lin- coln's favor. The South had its own ticket with Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Steph- ens at its head, and they were elected to con- trol the Confederacy.
During the period that followed the close of the war, the thoughts of the people naturally turned to the great general who brought peace to a tortured people, and Ulysses S. Grant was the logical candidate of the Republican party. With him was placed Schuyler Colfax for the vice presidency and as the Republicans were largely in the majority, these candidates won with an electoral vote of 214. Against them were the Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and F. P. Blair, Jr., who received eighty electoral votes.
In 1872, General Grant was elected on the Republican ticket to succeed himself, and Henry Wilson was elected vice president on that ticket. The Democrats and Liberal Republi- cans placed in the field a ticket headed by Horace Greeley and H. Gratz Brown. The Straight out Democrats had as candidates for the two highest offices in the land, Charles O'Conner and John Quincy Adams. The La- bor Reform party put David Davis and Charles O'Conner on their ticket. During this cam- paign there came into public notice a party that since has had considerable influence, that
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voicing the Prohibition movement. This party had James Black and John Russell as its lead- ers. They obtained no electoral votes, but thus began the fight that has resulted in a rapidly increasing sentiment in favor of the principles this party has always advocated and the ad- dition of state after state to the "dry" ranks.
In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler were the Republican candidates and came into power with a large majority.
Against them were the Democratic candidates, Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks ; and the Greenback candidates, Peter Cooper and Samuel F. Cary; the American National, James B. Walker and James Kirkpatrick ; and the Prohibition candidates, Green Clay Smith and Gideon T. Stewart.
In 1880, the Grant admirers endeavored to have him renominated as the candidate of the Republican party, but owing to the prejudice which exists against a third term for the chief executive it was deemed best to compromise on a "dark horse," and James A. Garfield was nominated, with Chester A. Arthur as his run- ning mate. The election and' inauguration of these two, was succeeded in July of the fol- lowing summer, 1881, by the assassination of President Garfield, and at his death, Chester A. Arthur became president. Against the Republi- can candidates were the Democratic candidates Winfield Scott Hancock and William H. Eng- lish; the Greenback candidates, James B. Wea- ver and B. J. Chambers; and the Prohibition candidates, Neal Dow and H. A. Thompson.
For the first time since 1856, in 1884, a Dem- ocratic candidate for the presidency was suc- cessful, and with Grover Cleveland, Thomas A. Hendricks was elected. They defeated the Re- publican candidates, James G. Blaine and John A. Logan; the People's party successor to the Greenbacks' party, Benjamin F. Butler, and A. M. West; and the Prohibition candidates, John P. St. John and William Daniel.
The Democrats remained in power only four years, Benjamin Harrison, grandson of Gen. William Henry Harrison, being the suc- cessful candidate of the Republican party in 1888, with Levi P. Morton as vice president. Against them were the Democratic candidates, Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman; the Prohibition candidates, Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks; the Union Labor candidates, Alson J. Streeter and C. E. Cunningham; the United Labor candidates, Robert H. Cowdry
and W. H. T. Wakefield; and the American candidates, James L. Curtis and James B. Greer. Montgomery County's vote at this elec- tion was as follows: Harrison and Morton, 2,875; Cleveland and Thurman, 3,608.
In 1892, Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson were the successful candidates of the Democratic party, against Benjamin Har- rison and Whitelaw Reid of the Republicans ; James B. Weaver and James J. Field of the People's party ; John Bidwell and James B. Cranfill of the Prohibition party ; Simon Wing and Charles H. Matchett of the Socialist La- bor party. Montgomery County's vote at this election was as follows : Cleveland and Steven- son, 3,707 ; Harrison and Reid, 2,935.
In 1896, the Democrats split over the cur- rency question, one wing favoring the "free and unlimited coinage of silver" and the other adher- ing to the gold standard. This split undoubt- edly gave the Republicans their victory, and William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart were elected president and vice president. The sil- ver Democrats placed William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall in the field; the Gold Demo- crats had John M. Palmer and Simon B. Butler as their candidates. The Prohibition party placed Joshua Levering and Hale Johnson at the head of their ticket, the National Silver party also had Bryan and Sewall as its candidates. The Socialist Labor party's candidates were Charles H. Matchett and Matthew McGuire; while the Free Silver Prohibitionists placed Charles E. Bentley and James H. Southgate in the field. Montgomery County voted as follows: Mckinley and Hobart, 3,622; Bryan and Sewall, 4,104; Palmer and Buckner, 19.
In 1900, William Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt led the Republican party to victory, against William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic candidates; John G. Wooley and Henry B. Metcalf, the Prohibition candidates; William Jennings Bryan and Ad- lai E. Stevenson, the People's candidates ; Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnely, the can- didate of the Middle of the Road party; Eu- gene V. Debs and Job Harrison, the Social Democrat candidates; Joseph E. Moloney and Valentine Remmel, the Socialist Labor candi- dates ; and Seth H. Ellis and Sam T. Nicholson, the Union Reform candidates. Montgomery County's vote at this election was as follows: Bryan and Stevenson, 4,078; Mckinley and Roosevelt, 3,583.
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With the assassination of President McKin- ley, vice president Roosevelt became the chief executive, and in 1904, he was nominated by the Republicans with Charles W. Fairbanks to head the Republican party, and they were elect- ed over Allan B. Parker and Henry G. Davis, the Democratic candidates; Thomas E. Watson and Thomas E. Tibbles, the People's candidates ; Silas C. Swallow and George W. Carroll, the Prohibition candidates; Charles H. Corregan and William W. Cox, the Socialist Labor candi- dates; Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford, the Socialist Democratic party candidates; and Austin Holcomb and A. King, the candidates of the Continental party. Montgomery County's vote was as follows: Roosevelt and Fairbanks, 3,489; Parker and Davis, 3,181.
William Howard Tatt and James S. Sherman were the successful candidates for the presi- dency and vice presidency in 190S, being elected on the Republican ticket. Against them were William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern, candidates of the Democratic party ; Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford, the Socialist candidates; Eugene W. Chafin and Aaron S. Watkins, the Prohibition candidates; Thomas L. Higgins and John T. Graves, candidates of the Independence party ; Thomas E. Watson and Samuel W. Williams, the candidates of the People's party ; Daniel Braxton Turney and S. P. Carter, candidates of the United Christian party ; and August Gillhaus and Donald L. Monro, candidates of the Socialist Labor party. Montgomery County's vote at this election was as follows: Taft and Sherman, 3,782; Bryan and Kern, 3,909.
NEW ISSUES.
New issues had sprung up during the pe- riod between 1908 and 1912, and as a result a split occurred in the Republican party. The straight Republicans nominated William How- ard Taft and James S. Sherman to lead them, while the Progressive Republicans, later known as Progressives, and popularly as the "Bull Moose" party, nominated Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram W. Johnson; the Democrats nom- inated Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall and were successful at the ensuing election. The other candidates in the field were: Eugene V. Debs and Emil Seidel, Socialists; Eugene W. Chafin and Aaron S. Watkins, Prohibitionists ; Arthur Reimer and August Gillhaus, the Social-
ist Labor candidates. The Populists did not nominate any presidential ticket. The Mont- gomery County vote was as follows: Taft and Sherman, 2,195; Wilson and Marshall, 3,705; Roosevelt and Johnson, 1,476.
In the campaign of 1916 new conditions arose, that made the outcome more problematical than usual. Mr. Wilson had announced that he fa- vored the one term system, but as his official term progressed his party realized that their success depended largely on his popularity and he very willingly aided the efforts which made him again the Democratic champion. The Re- publicans early saw that their success lay in uniting the Progressive vote with theirs, and this made necessary a candidate acceptable to both Republicans and Progressives. Sponta- neously the tide of public sentiment cencen- trated on ex-Gov. Charles E. Hughes, of New York as the ideal compromise candidate, and accordingly he was nominated. The war in Europe in the meantime brought on a remark- able stimulation in manufacturing enterprises in the United States, and in consequence labor was in great demand and at higher wages than ever before known. This condition so over- shadowed the old issues, such as protection to American industrics by tariff, and others that the campaign became localized to the im- mediate questions of the war in Europe and the near war in Mexico, and the personality of the candidates. The outcome of the struggle was that Wilson and Marshall proved victors over Hughes and Fairbanks by a remarkably close vote in several states; so close that it took the official count to determine which set of electors were elected.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOTE.
The vote in Montgomery County was as fol- lows : Wilson and Marshall, 4,499 men, women 3,403, total 7,903; Hughes and Fairbanks, 4,100 men, women 2,695, total 7,065; majority for Wilson and Marshall, 833. The Socialists polled 607 votes. The Socialist Labor, 218 votes and the Progressive candidates for Congress received seventy-two votes.
The vote in the county on state and county officers was as follows: for governor: Edward F. Dunne, Democrat, 4,167; Frank O. Lowden, Republican, 4,409; lieutenant governor : Henry W. Huttman, Democrat, 4,408; John G. Oglesby, Republican, 4,185; secretary of state: Lewis G.
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Stevenson, Democrat, 4,468; Louis L. Emmer- son, Republican, 4,143; auditor public accounts : James J. Brady, Democrat, 4,396; Andrew Rus- sell, Republican, 4,211; state treasurer : Arthur W. Charles, Democrat, 4,448; Len. Small, Re- publican, 4,163 ; attorney general: Patrick J. Lucey, Democrat, 4,404; Edward J. Brundage, Republican, 4,122 ; for trustees of the University of Illinois: Edward Chilton Craig, Democrat, 7,822; George T. Page, Democrat, 7,824; Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, Democrat, 7,842; Mary Busey, Republican, 7,087; William L. Abbott, Republican, 7,083; Otis W. Hoit, Republican, 7,059; for representatives in Congress, state at-large : William Elza Williams, Democrat, 4,487 ; Joseph O. Kostner, Democrat, 4,438 ; Me- dill McCormack, Republican, 4,132; William E. Mason, Republican, 4,147; for representative in Congress, Twenty-first district : Thomas Rees, Democrat, 4,404; Loren E. Wheeler, Re- publican, 4.237; for member of State Board of Equalization, Twenty-first district: Alexander W. Crawford, Democrat, 7,962; Joseph F. Bunn, Republican, 7,008; for state senator: Stephen D. Canaday, Democrat, 4,443; S. Elmer Simp- son, Republican, 4.244; for representatives in the General Assembly : H. A. Shepherd, Demo- crat, 5,35216 ; Truman A. Snell, Democrat, 56911/2 ; Otto C. Sonneman, Republican, 7,607; for circuit clerk : A. E. Neal, Democrat, 4,499 ; James F. M. Greens, Republican, 4,220; for state's attorney : J. Earl Major, Democrat, 4.596 ; Frank M. Ramey, Republican, 4,278; for coro- ner: C. S. Norvell, Democrat, 4,606; C. O. Tray- lor, Republican, 4,105; county surveyor : D. M. Starr, Democrat, 7,864; William R. Baird, Re- publican, 7,193. We hardly need say here that all of the state officers were elected from the Republican ticket. The Republicans also elect- ed the congressman from this district. The Democrats carried the senatorial district, elect- ing a senator and two representatives, and the candidates on the county ticket elected were all Democrats by an average majority of about 250, which may be assumed to be the normal Democratic majority of today.
SENATORS.
Montgomery County, together with the rest of Illinois, has been represented in the United States Senate since 1821 by the following men : Jesse B. Thomas, Democrat, 1818-1823; Ninian Edwards, Democrat, 1819-1824 ; Jesse B. Thomas,
Democrat, 1823-1829; John McLean, Democrat, 1824-1825; Elias K. Kane, Democrat, 1825-1831 ; John McLean, Democrat, .1829-1830; David J. Baker, Democrat, appointed to serve one month of unexpired term, 1830-1830; John M. Robin- son, Democrat, 1830-1835 ; Elias K. Kane, Demo- crat, 1831-1835; John M. Robinson, Democrat, 1835-1841; William L. D. Ewing, Democrat, 1835-1837; Richard M. Young, Democrat, 1837- 1843; Samuel McRoberts, Democrat, 1841-1843; Sidney Breese, Democrat, 1843-1849 ; James Sem- ple, Democrat, 1843-1847 ; Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat, 1847-1853; James Shields, Democrat, 1849-1855; Stephen A. Douglas, 1853-1859 ; Ly- man Trumbull, Anti-Nebraska Democrat, 1855- 1861; Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat, 1859-1861 ; Lyman Trumbull, Republican, 1861-1867 ; O. H. Browning, Republican, 1861-1863; William A. Richardson, Democrat, 1863-1865 ; Richard Yates, Republican, 1865-1871; John A. Logan, Republi- can, 1871-1877 ; R. J. Oglesby, Republican, 1873- 1879 ; David Davis, Independent Democrat, 1877- 1883; John A. Logan, Republican, 1879-1885; Shelby M. Cullom, Republican, 1883-1889; John A. Logan, Republican, 1SS5-1SS6; Charles B. Farwell, Republican, 1887-1891; Shelby M. Cullom, Republican, 1SS9-1895 ; John M. Palmer, Democrat, 1891-1897; Shelby M. Cullom, Re- publican, 1895-1901; William E. Mason, Repub- lican, 1897-1903; Shelby M. Cullom, Republican, 1901-1907; Albert J. Hopkins, Republican, 1903-1909; Shelby M. Cullom, 1907-1913; Wil- liam Lorimer, Republican, 1909-1912, election declared void; L. Y. Sherman, Republican, 1913-1921 ; J. Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, 1913- 1919.
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