they have a lot of candidates and one of those was actually william crawford, who had been secretarythe treasury, if i recall, and crawford gets what's called the king caucus endorsement. the king caucus was essentially a meeting of each party's congressional delegation to determine who should be the party nominee. it is kind of derogatorily referred to as king caucus because people from outside washington were saying, wait a minute, you mean these congressional members get to elect the king? how is that? we are in a democratic country. you have this sense that the fix is in. william crawford gets this nomination, which might not have been so bad but for the fact that he had a very debilitating stroke and he was partially blind and mostly paralyzed. yet he still wins the caucus endorsement. the idea that all of a sudden, the presidency is going to somebody who was basically unable to fulfill the duties of the office raised the hackles of many other individuals, including andrew jackson, the war hero from the war of 1812 and his battle of new orleans fame, who basically is looking at