The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-03

Harrison eleetor, and Judge 3. b. Hoyt claims
that he used 10 play truant from school in or
der TO witness tho log cabin professions.
THE CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE CAMPAIGN
When General Andrew jackson was elected
president in 1928 there was but one political
party with o successful organization. AS Jack
son YVES citizen Of Tennessee, that state held
tho Same relation TO the union that Ohio did
under Hayes Jackson's friends were in
clover, and Jackson's enemies had but cold
comfort. The rivalry between politicians was
bitterly personal. Next to General jackson,
the most popular man in Tennessee was Judge
Hugh H. White, then United States senator.
Tho two mon were great friends, SO great, in
deed, that by common consent White was
looked upon as General Jackson's political
successor. Tho blunt soldier from Tennessee,
however, was caught in the web by the crafty
Van Buren, who soduced him from his loyalty
to his friend, and ingratiated himself into
Jackson's good graoes, and secured tho sue
cession to the presidency He was opposed by
General ". II. Harrison Henry Clay and
Hugh j.. White, all OF whom received cleo
toral votes, White carrying Tennessee in
spite of the powerful influence Of the presi-
dent. Georgia also voted for Judge White in
that election, and, aS tho ground was covered
with snow, 1t WAS called "White's day."
Van Buren's administration was Us different
from that Of jackson rs could well be
imagined. Jackson was rough and uncouth,
never concealed his opinions, and was always
ready to curse out the man who incurred his
displeasure. He had the raising OF o back
woudsman and tho tastes of hunter. Van
Buren,, on the contrary, was n man of finished
diplomacy, wore 'store" clothes and intro
duced into tho white house spirit
which was totally unlike that which
peryaded it when tho TeInesseans
held full sway. II was n case of city ways
pushing ont the manners of the woods. OF
course this subjected the new president to the
adverse criticism Of the rural population. To
intensity this difficulty, tho commercial diSas-
aSters OF 1887 followed, which so completely
Frustrated the business interests of the
country, Al was laid at tho feet of Van
Buren,. whose foxy ways made his name
by-word throughout the union
TirPEcANoE AND TYLER, TOO.
General Harrison, Henry Clay, Hugh H.
White John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster
aud others, thus drawn together through COM
mon opposition 10 "the succession" organized
as political party, taking the name of Wings.
This name WAS suggested, it is said by Daniel
Webster, and was appropriate to the occasion
which had called the party into existence.
The name was first applied in England to tho
country members Of parliament, who were
sneorod ut by the aristocrats MS buttermilk
drinkers. Van Buren, was tho first American
| president who had made his breeding obnox-
ious TO the common people, and therefore the
name OF whig, rs applied 20 his opponents,
| had historic significance. A convention was
called 10 meet in Harrisburg, Pa, ON the fourth
| of December, 1882 when William Henry Har-
| riSon was nominated for president and John
| Tyler for vice president.
The dainty New Yorker who sat IN the presi-
| dents chair, and who had been nominated for
reelection 10y the democrats, sneerod at this
western rival who lived in an eightoen-foot
| log cabin on the Wabash and who had nothing
| better to drink than hard cider The city
b,oods and the Nj-glNed gentry generally
J joined in the presidents scorn of the back
woolssnan. The whies took up the cry nj
ouco and made moro of it. perhaps, than has
ever been mado cut Of a similar expression be-
fore or since. There were but few cities in the
union then, and the farmers. oven the richest
OF then. had uN advanced beyond the log
cabin era. 4 sheer &C HarriSon'S log cabin,
therefore, became a sucer M every farmer in
the union. and political managers grew clio
queut ~ describing the cabin in which tho
caniidate lived.
Log-eabins were built in different states and
sont on missionary tours Long poles would
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