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evils that grew from the saloon, which years ago I held, and still hold, was and ought always to be a defunct institution in this country, by application of the democratic principles of local self-government and states' rights, we can secure real temperance, respect for law and eradication of the existing evils."

Gov. Smith is the third member of Tammany Hall to be a candidate for President of the United States, although a fourth, Aaron Burr, sought to gain this high office by intrigue in 1801. Burr, it will be remembered, was on the Democratic ticket with Thomas Jefferson that year and received the same number of electoral votes as did Jefferson, although it was well understood that the people were voting for Burr for Vice-President. The election was thrown into the House of Representatives by the tie vote and Burr sought to contest the Presidency with Jefferson. Public opinion, however, compelled his withdrawal.

Both the other Tammany candidates for President, were, like Alfred E. Smith, governors of New York. The first was Horatio Seymour, who ran against Gee. Grant in i868-the year the agencies of Tammany naturalized so many aliens in New York through fraudulent means.

The second official candidate was Samuel Jones Tilden, who lost to Rutherford B. Hayes in the famous Electoral College contest of 1877. Tilden,

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