November 8, 2016

Rutherfraud B. Hayes and the (S)election of 1876

Rutherfraud B. Hayes and the (S)election of 1876


U.S. Hotel - 1880 Built by George Holt for his fiancee Madame Jeanne De Reboam. The first guest was President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Courtesy Dolores Steele



This is the United States Hotel in Jacksonville, Oregon. It was built in 1880 and one of its first famous guests was President Rutherford B. Hayes. President Hayes, however, was one of the most infamous presidents in American history. He only served one term, but it was how he became President that made him truly infamous.

The election of 1876 pitted Democratic Party nominee Samuel J. Tilden, the distinguished Governor of New York famous for exposing William "Boss" Tweed as a corrupt leader of the Tweed Ring within Tammany Hall, which was an engine for graft and corruption in New York City during the Gilded Age, against Republican Party nominee Rutherford B. Hayes, the Governor of Ohio who was the choice when the convention had stalled after six ballots. According to historian Henry Adams, Hayes was chosen as, "a third rate nonentity, whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one" and "necessary for party harmony." When all the votes were counted, Tilden had clearly won the popular vote, 4,284,000 to Hayes' 4,037,000.

But as anyone who followed the hanging chad cliffhanger in 2000 knows, U.S. Presidential elections are never decided by popular vote, but through the electoral college. Tilden was ahead of Hayes in that arena, 184 electoral votes to 165. However, there were 20 electoral votes unresolved. In three southern states, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, each party declared that its candidate had won the state. There was also a dispute in Oregon because one of the state's electors, deputy postmaster John W. Watts, had his vote declared invalid by Oregon Governor La Fayette Grover. Grover, a Democrat, declared that Watts, a Republican Hayes supporter, violated the rule prohibiting electors from holding a federally appointed office.

So what does the U.S. Constitution say should happen when there is not a clear winner in the electoral college? This was clarified by the 12th Amendment ratified in 1804, which states that if no candidate has a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote, chooses the President and the Senate, with each Senator having one vote, chooses the Vice President. But instead of following this Constitutional procedure, Congress passed a law on January 29, 1877 forming a 15-member commission to settle the result.

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November 8, 2016

Rutherfraud B. Hayes and the (S)election of 1876

November 3, 2016

The World's Shortest Railway

While my wife and I were in downtown Los Angeles recently, we visited the Angel's Flight railway. The railway is the shortest (315 feet or 96.01 meters) but the most traveled funicular per mile than any other in the world.

It's a long walk to get up there, but the view just got prettier the higher we climbed!

October 27, 2016

Trump: 'We should just cancel the election' and declare me the winner

Source: CNN

Toledo, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump, trailing his opponent in key battleground states polls less than two weeks from Election Day, said Thursday he'd like to "cancel the election" and be declared the winner.

"Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump," the Republican presidential nominee said during a rally here on Thursday.

"Her policies are so bad. Boy, do we have a big difference," he added of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/politics/donald-trump-cancel-election/index.html

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The Onion headlines and real life headlines are too damn similar.

October 27, 2016

The beautiful Bradbury Building in downtown LA.

It’s rare that a building can make you feel like you’re encased in a time capsule from the past – yet at the same time make you feel as if you’re looking at a vision of the future. The unique and fascinating architecture of the Bradbury Building has that effect.

If you've never seen it before and you're in downtown Los Angeles, it's definitely worth checking out!

October 20, 2016

So many places to buy food - but no place to eat!

The Grand Central Market in downtown LA is a great place to get a bite to eat. But not on a Saturday afternoon! It's a really cool place with 99 years worth of history. My wife and I were in the area and thought it would be the perfect place for lunch. There are so many places to choose from, but all of them had huge lines and all of the tables and seats were taken. We couldn't even a wall to stand against except near the bathroom downstairs!

It's an extremely popular place - just a little too popular for comfort on the weekends for our taste.

October 13, 2016

Facing the end or coming back? The Last Bookstore.

I find it sad that so many brick and mortar bookstores have gone out of business over the last decade. I'm no Luddite - nothing wrong with Kindle or buying books online - but there's something about going into a bookstore to browse or buy that is a lifelong pleasure for me. With the demise of the chain bookstore which Barnes & Noble seems to have a monopoly on, I think that independent new and used bookstores have become more popular. Certainly that is the case with The Last Bookstore in downtown LA. It's a two-story building of 22,000 square feet that not only houses 250,000 new and used books, not only contains a great selection of vinyl records, but it also houses an artist collective on the second floor and the place is filled with amazing sculptures, paintings and other artwork.

The only other bookstore I've seen that I think is more impressive is Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. If anyone else who loves bookstores has a recommendation, I'd love to know what others are worth checking out!

October 6, 2016

OK, who else this summer engaged in the guilty pleasure of going to the county fair?

I'll testify: I went and I loved it! Every year, my wife and I trek out to the Pomona Fairplex to attend the LA County Fair. It's great for the reasons every county fair is great - watching people get sick on crazy spinning rides, seeing lots of animals, eating deep-fried decadent deliciousness - and a whole lot more. There were some really great exhibits this year for us to see, both for art and sports. We also like going there to do wine tasting, even if we don't always like the wine!

So how many people here enjoy going to the county fair each summer? What do you enjoy most about it?

September 29, 2016

Does anyone else like exploring abandoned places?

My wife and I usually like doing this when we go on vacation. In particular, we like old western ghost towns. But in the Santa Susana Pass in Simi Valley, California, we found the remains of an abandoned western movie ranch that was also an amusement park, Corriganville. This ranch named after western actor/stuntman/Man in a Gorilla suit actor Ray Corrigan, was open to the public as an amusement park from May 1, 1949 until 1966 when Bob Hope closed the ranch.

This is our most recent video of what we found:

We found out about Robin Hood Lake when we stopped off at the Santa Susana Railroad Depot just up the street from Corriganville. They had a wonderful exhibit that showed how Corriganville used to look back when it was a working movie ranch and amusement park. They even showed us a movie about it too!

September 28, 2016

Conspiracy History is for the Birds