Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-04-26
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THE "LOG.CABIN" Oa "HARD CIDER''
CAMPAIGN OP 1910.

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The election nf 1910 was n remarkabI,
one. William ii. Harrison and JohI
Tyler were nominated hv Whig con
vention which as semhled at Harris
hurgh, Pennsylvania, Decemher4, 1889
The candidates of the Democratic party
in competition with this ticket, wer,
Martin Van Buren, Of New York anC
Richard Nj. johnson, of Kentucky
Gen. Harrison-although a native o
Virginia-was "An Ohio Man" to al
intents and purposes, and the Wes
was beginning to assert herself. Aftel
the nomination of Harrison a Wash.
ington correspondent Of q Baltimore
paper, who subsequently became 6
Harrison man, referred to the Whie
candidate as one whose character and
habits would secure him the highest
happiness at home in a lOg-cabin, with
an abundant supply of hard cider
This illchOsen and hapless phrase was
seized upon by the Wings and made to
form the keynote of the campaign.
Log-cabins, constructed in the
| frontier style, their walls Ornamented
with coOn-skins and abundantly
| furnished with hard-cider, which was
generally drunk from gourds, constitut-
ed the "wigwams" the Wings, where
all the indoor gatherings were held. In
Columbus, the space now occupied by
the Grand Opera Huuse, was ornament
ed by one of these log cabins, built by
Alfred Kelley, Thomas Ewing, Noah
HI. Swayne, DR.. Goodale, Michael Sulli-
want, William Neil and Others. On
the eve of Washington's birthday, 81,
lS40, the Whig campaign was opened
in Columbus by an illumination of all
the Whig buildings in the Capital
Columbus then had population Of six
thousand, but the number of people in
town was swelled to three times that
number, the largest crowd that had
ever been massed in the small embryo
city. The weather was unusually in
clement and the mud reached on an
average to ones ankles. The C0nfeder-
ate and Old School Republican, pub
lished at Columbus, gave q glowing
description of the opening of the cam
paign, the procession of the model of
Ft. Meigs, which Gen. Harrison had
held in the war of 1923, and many
other interesting circumstances, includ-
ing the celebration Of the seige of Ft.
Meigs, June, 1873" Gen. Harrison's
speech was more than usually elegant
and scholarly. Colonels Tod and Clark
son. of Kentucky; Hon. Thos. Ewing,
Gen. Woodbridge, of Michigan; Gen.
Ford, John r. Osborne, of Norwalk,
were the leading speakers. Rev. Joseph
Badger, the chaplain at Ft. Meigs,
eighty-five years old at this time, offer
ed the opening prayer. The military
were out in full force, even to COM
pany of "Log Cabin boys" in primitive
uniform from Geauge county, and an
Indian company. The leading COM
panies were Buffalo IN. Y "Flying
Artillery" Buffalo City Guards, Lafay-
cite Guards, Washington Guards, Fre-
donia Guards, Toledo Guards, the
Cleveland Greys and the Summit
Guards. The crowd of people was
variously estimated at $1,000 to 40, 900.
Suffice it that it was the most imposing
had occurred in the United States. The
ground on which it was held and many
of the distinguished actors were as
sociated with some of the most interest
ing events recorded in American his
tory.
MEMBERS OF THE SECOND coNsT1TU-
TIoNAL, MARCH 10, 1851.
S. J. Andrews, VIM. Barbee, Jos.
Barnet, Da> id Barnet. VIM. S. Bates,
A. I. Bennett, John HI. Blair, Jacob
Blickensderfer, Van Brown, r. w.
CahilI, L. Case, David Chambers, John
CLANCY. H. D. Clark, George Collins,
Friend Cook, Otway Curry, G. Volney
Dorsey, Thos. w. Ewart, John Ewing,
Jos. NJ. Farr, Elias Florence, Robert
Forbes, H. N. Gillett, John Graham,
Jacob Green, H. H. Gregg, w. s.
Groesbeck, G. S. Hamilton, D. D. II.
Hard, A. Harlan, VIM. Hawkins,
James P. Henderson, Peter Hitchcock,
J. Mccormick, G. w. Holmes, Geo. b.
Holt, John J. HOFFMAN, V. B. Horton,
Samuel Humpreyville, John E. Hunt,
B. B. Hunter, John Johnson, J. d.
Jones, James b. King. s. J. Kirkwood,
Thos. J. I1arsh, VIM. Lawrence, John
Larwill, Robert Leech, d. P. Leadbet-
ter, John Lidey, James Loudon, H. S.
Manon, Samson Mason, Matthew H.
Mitchell, Isaiah Morris, Chas. McClOud,
s. F. Norris, Chas. Orton, WIS. C. Otis,
Thos. Patterson, Daniel Peck. Jacob
Perkins, Samuel Quigley, r. P. Ran
ney. Chas. Reemelin, Adam N Riddle,
E. G. Roll, VIM. Sawyer, Sabirt Scott,
John Sellers, John Smith, Geo. Smith,
B. P. Smith, Henry Stanberry, B.
Stanton, Albert V. Stebbins, f. T.
Stickney, Harman Stidger, J. Struble,
J. r. Swan. L. Swift, James w. Taylor,
Norton S. Townshend, Elijah Vance,
VIM. M. Warren, Thos. A. Way, J.
Milton Williams, Elsey Wilson, James
t. Worthington, E. B. Woodbury., HI.
G. Gray, Edward Archbold, Reuben
F. Case, Joseph Vance,
Richard StilIwell, Simeon Nash, Hugh
Thompson and Joseph Thompson.
VIM. Fl. GILL, VIM. MEDILL,
Secretary. President.
MEMBERS OF THE THIRD CoNsTFTU-
TIoNAL CONVENTION, MAY IA, 1874.
Chas. J. Albright, 1. N. Alexander,
S. J. Andrews, LIewellyn Baber, James
w. Bannon, David Barnet. Thos. Beer,
r. M. Bishop, John H. Blose, Perry
Barnabus Burns, A. P. Byal,
J. L. Caldwell, Jos. P. Carberry, Har-
low Chaplin, Samuel w. Clark, Mil
ton L. Clark, Adam Clay, John B.
Goats, Asher Cook, d. D. T. Cowen,
Thoe. E. Cunningham, r. De Steigner,
A. w. Doan. G. Volney Dorsey, Thos.
Ewing, M. B. Foran, julius Freiberg,
Mills Gardner, T. J. Godfrey, Jacob j.
Green, Seneca o. Griswold, Harvey
Guthrie, John c. Hale, John w. Her
ron, G.. w. Hill, P. Hitchcock, Geo.
Hoadly, Jos. ID. Orton, James c. Hos
tetter, s. Humphreyville. Samuel F.