Definition of turnbuckle. : a device that usually consists of a link with screw threads at both ends, that is turned to bring the ends closer together, and that is used for tightening a rod or stay.
Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
HENRY CLAY/THE CORRUPT BARGAIN. 4 main Republican candidates in the election of 1824: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay. No candidate won the majority of electoral votes. Clay convinced the house to elect John Quincy Adams as PResident. Adams agreed to make Clay the Secretary of State for getting him into office.