Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-28

was again the choice of the Democratic
party. Governor Shannon was an able
man, and popular with his party, and in
F, the conflict which ensued it was regarded
as a meeting of "Greek with Greek"
To clear the path to victory the early
incidents of Carwin's life as in the case of
General Harrison, became the peoples
watchword. In great armies eloquent
statesmen, enthusiastic Wings, made their
way in log cabins, over wretched roads
and through dense tracts Of forest. into
every town and hamlet in the State.
Through the long summer months the
campaign was pushed with unbounded en-
thusiasm, and finally eliminated in the
fall In famous victory for the Nation and
! the State
From this eventual period sprung many
maxims aHd phrases which have since be-
come the traditions Of our history. To one
OF Ohio's latter-day Governors was added
a nickname which cling to him TO his
latest day. In the national political strug-
| gle OF '36, William Allen stated. 1T & no
lltical meeting ut Columbus, that 1T the
close Of the war OF ~, when the ladies Of
Chillicothe voted Major Croran A sword
they presented General Harrison with 4
pettlcoat rs reward for his military
proves. This charge was revived in 10
and the Wings, in their indignation. had
many spirited tiits with the giraffe Young
Statesman. In the papers of the day this
card appeared:
TO Aqjor .fHca-SrR: publish yGu :, Iiar n,.,i
a scou1drel tor having stated ..t y pup-c a> can
Dig at columbus. on the Sjh a.; june IS36 that
the ladies of Chillicothe voted General Harrison
q pettcoat, as reward for bis military proves.
NJ. S. MURPHY"
The Democrats, for proof of their charge.
referred the exasperated Wings TO Mrs.
Crissand. who, they claimed, had quilted
the petticoat. But the Wings finally de-
stroyed this proof by securing the accused
woman's death-bed affidavit, in which she
stated that no petticoat had been quilted
by her The charge was thus siienced.
but not the name, and forever after the
young statesman was known rs "Petticoat
Allen"
To the American Nation, with its char
acteristic paste, the English vocabulary
owes the greater part of its abbreviated
terms. During these times of which |
have been telling, the Governor of Penn
sylvania wrote to an old German, living in
a remote district Of that State, to know
how the election was progressing. The
German, with foreigners love of the
phonetic method Of spelling, replied "Ev-
erythlng is oil korect'" The letter was
copied by the press of the country, and
everything that met appreciation was i'm
mediately signed O. X. What symbol is
now more eloluently used in commercial
life? But when the Democrats were
finally defeated, O. X. took another mean
| ing" out kounted" With noir+ad M
litical significance the newspapers Of the
day became flooded with the Old Germans
invention. 0. X. X" orful l,rushed
konsniracy;" K. K" kant komet; K. K.
r. X R." Kinderhook kandate kant
kquite; G. c. T.-'cober cecond thought
spoke volumes 10 our grandfathers.
The light Of 1888 is on. Let the descend
ants of the log cabin, coon skin and hard
cider see that in November next the ban
dana Is " out kountcd" and victory Is Sc.
cured to young Tippecanoe and Morton.
too!-Lieia Rose -NeLabe in TIE Cincinnati
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