Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1908 — HAS VOTED FOR 17 PRESIDENTS [ARTICLE]

HAS VOTED FOR 17 PRESIDENTS

Uncle Simon Phillips Has a Record In That Rfispect Equaled By Few Men. Uncle Simon Phillips cast his 17th vote for president Tuesday. He began voting in 1844, voting at that time for the democratic candidates, James K. Polk of Tennessee, and George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania, for vice-president. Both were elected,, having 170 votes In the electoral college, against 105 for the Whig candidates, Henry Clay and Theodore Frellnghuysen. But on the popular vote it was quite close, the Democratic ticket receiving 1,337,243 votes to the Whigs 1,299,068, a difference of only 38,175. Mr. Phillips has voted for every president since that time, but in 1848 changed to the Whigs, and has since supported that party and its descendent, the Republican party. Few men have ever voted for so jnany presidents as this, and while Uncle Simon has reached an age where he ought to know better than to vote the republican ticket, as that party a is now made up, we hope that he may live to make the number an even twenty.