Too much "fuss and feathers" in Winfield Scott did the business for the Whigs.

Too much "bearded lady" in Charles Evans Hughes perhaps cooked the goose of the Republicans.

Too much Wilson--but let me not fall into _lese majeste_.

The Whigs went into Know-Nothingism and Free Soilism.

Will the Democrats go into Prohibition and paternalism?
And the Republicans-- The old sectional alignment of North and South has been changed to East and West.
For the time being the politicians of both parties are in something of a funk.