Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-28
BOOM OF 1910.
"REMINISCENCES OF "TlPPECANGE
AND TYLER TGO."
morable Contest for American
Liberty and Progress,
From the Cincinnati Commemorate Gazette
But everybody said,' quoth he,
That twas famous victory"

| From the Cincinnati Commercial azettel
But everybody said," quoth he,
That twas a famous victory"
.southey.
The nomination of General Benjamin
Harrison, the grandson of "Old Tippeca-
noe" to the highest honor in the gift of
the American people, evokes memories of
the stirring political events of 1910.
1t is universally conceded that never be-
fore was the American Republic so thor
oughly aroused in politics. The excitement
of this period was brought about by many
complicated affairs Of State. For ten years
the Wing party, which as yet had never
succeeded in controlling Presidential
election, had labored for the recharter of a
National bank. In 1886, early in the Van
Buren, Administration, general suspen-
sion of the banks, deprecated currency
and the insolvency of the Federal Treas
ury, involved the country in panic of
irresistible force The general stagnation
of business, which ensued after the banks
suspended specie payment, diminished the
current receipts from land and customs,
and caused an absolute deficit in the pub
lie treasury. However, this great financial
crisis originated from an unfortunate mis-
| take Of President Jackson. In the sum-
mer Of 80 he signed bill passed in Con-
greSs for the distribution and deposit of
public land money with the States, whose
faith was to be pledged for its return. The
Wing party looked to the financial failures,
which followed during the Van Buren, Adj
ministration, as stepping-s stones to success
in the campaign o. 1910.
The year 1910 was conspicuous for the
number of its great men. The leaders in
Congress were no mean rivals of Pitt, Fox
and Sheridan, of the English Parliament.
There was a notable absence of that mod
ern invention, "the little great men,"
wheos Introduction of factions, and double
dealing has subjected us to home and for
eign caricatures and corrupted the poll
tics of our later times But. notwith-
standing the existence of so many able
statesmen. the Wing Convention, which
met at Washington in December, 1889,
deemed availability, as in the case Of Jack
son, the surest passport to popular favor.
nominated Il soldier for the Presidency.
! General William Harrison (the defeated
candidate of 1856, and for the Vice Pres-
dency, John Tyler. Martin Van Buren,
whose administration had pleased the
| Democratic party, was re-nominated for a
| second term, thus making the two candi-
dates for national favor the same that
were in the field in 1886. The result of
! these two Conventions left the whole Wing
party and large league of suspended
| banks, headed by the Bank of the United
States, which, in its efforts to elect a
| friendly President, was making 4 last
struggle for a national character. arrAyed
against the Democrats whose hard
money policy and independent treas
ury schemes met little favor in
the then depressed condition of
the country. Immediately was opened
the bitterest, longest and severest
political contest ever known in the United
States. Many Of the personal chickering's
characteristic of political struggles were in
dulged in by both parties Reflections
made by the Democratic party on General
Harrison's humble origin but added fuel
TO the wild excitement of the campaign
Referring to his life on the frontier, they
said ''that he was better fitted to sit in
log cabin and drink hard cider than to
rule in the White House" The value of
steam for locomotion had then been
prophesied, but had as yet attained no
practical form. The mode of travel, by
coach or horseback, necessarily made the
progress of the campaign slow. Log
cabins on wheels, with barrels Of hard
cider iii the open doors, and walls hung
with coon skins rs trophies of the chase.
and filled with enthusiastic Wings, made
their way into every town. The simple
beverage which moistened the parched
lips of the Indian fighter while laboring
on the frontier, gave to the struggle the
name of the Hard Cider Campaign"
When the national canvass had fairly
opened, the excitement in Ohio was in
tensified by call to the Whics to meet
in convention at the capital on the 2lst
and 22d of February, 1910, to nominate q
candidate for Governor Of the State.
For weeks before the time appointed for
the Convention the citizens of the capital
made extensive and hospitable preparations
to entertain the vast crowds which were
sure to be drawn to the city. As early as
Thursday morning, February Goth, the
delegates from all parts began to pour into
the town. | wish You could have seen
them come in carriages and wagons. by
coach and on horseback; spattered with
mud and soaking wet from the rain, which
poured necessarily throughout the day,
and made the roads almost impossible. In
great crowds, from Licking county and all
her old towns-from Washington, Athens
and Meigs they come singing as they pied
through rain and mud The streets are
mass of moving, excited faces, whose ardor
cannot be dampened by any freak of the
elements.
All through the still hours of the night
is heard the tramp of incoming legions.
From Ross, Pike and jackson counties
they come. and from the west they come,
gayly singing as they plod through the
mud of the National road. From the
north, hear the iubilant cries of eight jolly
Yankees, their colors flying from full
rugged brig drawn by six spirited horses
From the shores of Lake Erie and the
fertile banks of the Ohio Scioto, Miami
and Maumce came the river men and the
tillers of the soil, making procession OF
log cabins two miles long In the rude
cabins are the primitive weapons and en-
blems of pioneer life-the gun, ak, deer
skins and other spoils of the hunter,
"who follows the stag to her slippery crag.
And chases the bounding roe"
In the open doors st.nd barrels of hard
cider. and within there is plenty of ginger
bread, hoe cake and bacon, on which the
hardy veterans feast with great good will. !
And as they make their way into he heart
of the town, listen how Justify they sing:
We have had hard time on account of the |
load
But We looked not behind, for our cause was
good,
The object of our journey is plain to discover,
lis to row Mat. Van Buren, way up the Salt |
river,
o ching ring, ching, o ching ring ching |
When this grand delegation all reach the Con-
yention,
Then we II learn more fully General Harrison
intention.
Well compose such body that the locos will |
lcok sour,
For they viii know we are come to see their
last hour,
o ching ring, ching, o ching ring, ching |
The procession is forming. From private
dwellings and public houses gay banners
and floating ribbons haunt OH the breeze |
The house-tops are black with people |
From every direction come bands of music, |
to the number of twenty, in gorgeous gilt
cars, with splendid trappings, each drawn
by six beautiful white horses, and to martial
strains, escorting various military COM