West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-01-09
a LESSON IN POLITICAL HISTORY.
A CrRIors MISTAKE

Of 1910, but strangely II bore the names Of WIZ
lam Henry Harrison and John Tyler. We have
some very distinct recollection Of that LOG cabin
and hard cider campaign. but we cannot bring
ourselves 20 believe that those names ever
graced a Democratic ticket. Our young ncigbbor
has been duped by sonebody-tKeyser Echo.
Bro. Thompson was slightly off
his base when he wrote the above.
He may remember the hard cider
part of that campaign, but he does
not to remember the evolution
Of politics since then. If he and the
reader will kindly refer to this arti-
Gle, published IN the ARGUS Of Nov.
Fl, they will find that we did mt
call the said ticket a democratic
ticket. We simply said the ticket
we published was an exact copy Of
one used in the presidential cam
paign OF 1910. The name Of the
man who voted it was written on the
back of it and he is still living here
in the county and is one of the best
democrats we have and was, We sup
pose at that time, a wing.
The ticket was headed "Demo-
cratic Ticket, "and we just publish
ed it ~Uerbatin ct Hteratim. without
pronouncing on it, calling it, or
christening it.
Times change and men change
with them, and the old whig party
of that day has merged into the
democratic party of to-day. VIM.
Henry Harrison and John TYLER
were the candidates Of the whig
party in 1910 and were elected as
It's standard bearers, but it is hardly
proper to call them wings. Harri-
son died~in Office before he had
time to show his hand and TYLER
became President, being the first
Vice President who succeeded to
the office by the death Of the chief
magistrate, and very rapidly set
himself in opposition to the party
that elected him, and in fact iden-
tilted himself with the democratic
party, for four years later, upon
being nominated for tho Presidency
by a convention assembled i'm Baiti-
more, he accepted the nomination.
but subsequently withdrew, and
threw his influence to the support
OF james i. Polk, the democratic
candidate, who had been nominated
the same day by the democratic
convention. The Wing National
Convention had met about Il month
previous to this, in Baltimore also
and nominated their greatest leader,
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, for the
Presidency, and Theodore Frcling-
huysen, Of New Jersey, for Vice
President. This was the only time
i'll the history of the party, that it
yentured to nominate Il genuine
wing statesman on a genuine whig
platform. This campaign was u
very close and exciting one, and
Clay's followers gave him their en-
thuslastic support, but he was
defeated and when the next presi-
dental campaign came around, the
wings adopted their old tactics and
for the second time turned from
their statesmen and leaders-from
the men whose names gave the party
dignity in history, and we're identi-
fed with its politics, to take up a
military man, whose opinions on
public matters were unknown. In
the convention which met at Phila-
deiphia on the 18th Of june, 1913.
Zachary Taylor, of louisiana. was
nominated for the presidency on
the prestige Of his military fame,
Git being then in the zenith OF its
glory.) The convention adopted
no platform, and it was not known
up to It's very meeting as to whether
General Taylor was a whig or a
democrat. When the republican
party, proper, became the great
party TO compete with the old. reli-
able democratic party, all the south
ern and most Of the northern mem
bors Of the wing party joined the
democratic party.
We did not claim that Harrison
and Tyler were running on the
democrat ticket, but if we had we
would not have missed 10 much. for
if the wing party belongs to either
OF the great parties OF to-day. it is
to The democratic party, and was
Che Prodig3l Son Of the Democrat