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Congress, Indiana 3, and Illinois 1. All of the 18 representa- 
tives and 6 senators were Jeffersonian Republicans. 
The election of John Q. Adams by the House of Representa- 
tives in 1825 led to the formation of the Jacksonian party 
in the Northwest, and created party alignments which lasted 
for many years. In 1828 there was no issue beyond the 
“wrong’' done to Jackson, a man of the people, and the rugged 
westerner to exonerate his hero organized a personal prejudice 
into a political force that was positive, aggressive, and effec- 
tive. Sharp as the resulting warfare became, state politics 
in the Northwest frequently refused to be dominated by 
national affairs.^^ As a result of the convention struggle 
and the Jackson issue, the factional groupings in Illinois 
politics were further complicated. Eventually there emerged 
three parties: the “Whole Hog” Jackson party; the “Milk 
and Cider” men, also for Jackson; and the Anti-Jackson group 
composed largely of the northern antislavery elements. The 
first and last of these represented in embryonic form the later 
Democratic party and the National-Republican- Whig party, 
while the “milk and cider” men divided, going both ways.^^ 
From 1826 to 1828 many changes took place in state politics 
which in turn affected national politics. The Crawford men 
went over to Jackson as did a majority of the Clay and Cal- 
houn leaders. 
The advantage which the Jackson party had over its op- 
ponents lay chiefly in its organization, which extended from 
the township assessors to state committees of general super- 
intendence. It was this organization that made it possible for 
the Jackson men to carry nearly all of the elections in Indiana 
regardless of the fact that the state, on national issues, was 
opposed to them. The Adams forces depended rather upon 
their platform, the eloquence of their speakers, and their 
appeal to the “better classes”. The interest of the Northwest 
in internal improvements and the tariff was so great that 
discussion of these issues was carried into the state legisla- 
ture. On these questions the Adams men had felt that they 
had the advantage, and their reiterated cry was “measures. 
This is well demonstrated in the Indiana election of 1825. James B, Ray, who 
had been a Clay partisan in 1824, then pronem speaker of the Senate, filled out the 
term of Governor William Hendricks, and became a candidate for election. In the August 
election, he received 13,040 votes to 10,218 for Isaac Blackford, who had been an Adams 
elector, Indiana House Journal, 1825, p. 23. 
Thompson, Illinois Whigs before 18^6, 31. 
