The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-03-14
FIFTY YEARS AGO !
BY UNCLE sILAs.
No. H. Continued.

by Andrew. Jackson, and under Mar
TN Van Buren, fhe sub-treaSury scheme
OF that party had been put in force.
At the same time banks had been
established in every town, where q
dozen men could be found, who were
financially able to pay for the printing
Of a cart-load of paper money. Bills
OF the sizes of 81 cents. 125 cents, %
cents, so cents, and one dollar were
loaned to any one VINO could produce
any suspicion of security, and circu-
lated until they became as plentiful
as caves on the apple trees. Previous
TO this campaign, however, the under
pinIng of those banks was knocked
out and the whole wildcat scheme
came topping down. Every man had
plenty OF money, and could not pur-
chase a pound of coffee. A similar
case was experienced al the collapse
OF the confederacv.
Farmers and others however had
cribs full of corn, bins full of wheat,
and pens full of hogs, upon which
they could live, but the values of
whlch fell so low that a whole years
harvest would hardly fill an ordinary
pocket book.
Pork sold for II cents per pound,
and corn delivered on the river bank
near Louisville, Kentucky, some of it
hauled IN wagons, for Is miles, brought
III cents per bushel.
As q matter of course wages of La
borers came down to the same level,
and il wage Garner on a farm was glad
to realise from 500 90 to 1925 90 for
II Years steady work.
At the very commencement of the
campaign the Wings seized upon the
above facts. and charged that dismal
state of affairs to the Locofoco Party.
and what made it so much worse for
the Locofocos, the charge was un-
dou5tedly true.
They we're right in charging their
opponents with this weapon, all along
the line, but when they went so far as
to promise, as a result from the sue
cess of Harrison, 1.-TWO dollars a day
and roast beef" to every laborcr they
hurled a Boomerang into the air that
came flying back into their faces at a
later period.
Tie whole campaign opened with a
boom from the Atlantic to the Missis-
sippl rlrers-from CANADA TO the Gulf
Of Mexico. Never was such an array
~oratorical talent thrown into mo-
tIun.
The Wings IN the East were led by
Webster. Choate, Evans, Everett and
In New York w. H Sc
ward, Willard Fillmore, were in the
idvance. In the Southern States were
Nan@nm, Archer, and a host of others.
In Mississippi Prentiss. then the great
orator of the age was heard from
every cross road.
Tennessee with her Henrys, her
Tones aroused the people to action:
Kentucky with Henry Clay, John J.
.Jrittenden, Tom Marshal and many
whose equals upon the stump
we're never found.
North of the Ohio river were Tom
Corwin, 'the wagon-bov of Ohio.n
schenck, Joe Marshal. Henry S. Lane.
The terrific ard sudden attack of the
Wigs all along the line seem to have
and terrified the Loconcos.
Although they brought forward such
'raiorlchl giants as Woodbury., Silas
Wright, Buchanan. Calhoun, Douglas,
ave Johnson and others, the attack
'ould not be sustained.
The L%ocotocos charged Harrison
With being Il mnm candidate, belittled
nm as Il soldier and, tried every
means to divert the minds of the vo- 1
erS from the real issues.
Most of the State elections We're
leld in August, and when the returns
in by the slow process of the
i'll those days, the fate of the
-ocofoeos was toretold, and they al
most abandoned the field to the Wings
or the rest of the campaign.
The Wings Y ceased their labors
lntil the ides of November arrived.
he Wings meant business from the
Mass meetings, and Bar J
We're held in every town: and
IMMENSE poles were raised all over the !
country from 80 to 200 feetin height.
It the top Of which floated in The
Freezes the flag of the party, and upon
II! such occasions speakers were on
Iahd 10 arouse and enthuse the audi
noes
And those audiences were not small.
Wing that could do so would
urn ont at such gatherings, and travel
'ften ten, twenty or thirty miles.
YonnG men and women formed elee
IN every neighborhood, whose
were lnterspersed with the pro- !
.eedings ut all assemblies,
The Wing candidates were known ;
Is sold TlUnaPanoa and T,-Ia, too,tf