toward the tightening of party discipline in local elections. The 1808 gubernatorial contest between Simon Snyder and James Ross promised to be a vigorous one, and both parties responded to the challenge with similar techniques. The partisans of both the Federalists and the Republicans adopted the

presidential elections of 1808 and 1812 substantiated this claim. The State maintained an unbrok- en loyalty to the national administration throughout this period. The first decade of the nineteenth century was marked by a suc- cession of Democratic Governors, United States Senators and Con- gressmen; and the

and Ellen Jenkins, the daughter of William Jenkins. This is the home which Eliza E. Smith gave to the City of Lancaster for a public library, May 9, 1898. LANE-BUCHANAN FAMILY Elliott Tole Lane, d. 1841, m. 1813 to Jane Buchanan, sister of James Buchanan. Their children: James Buchanan, Nov. 16, 1814

his splendid present. Complements to our Club — as the proper organization of the Demo- cratic party of this city — are always considered by us as complimentary to the great worth of our noble candidate, the Hon. James Buchanan, whose election to the Presidency, on the 4th of November, will be pro