The advocate., 1892-01-27


dinner, the sizes being divided into soup,
dinner, luncheon, and dessert plates. Mrs.
Harrison designed the plates, which are the
handsomest ever used at the presidents
table, the pattern on the two larger sizes
being golden ears of tasseled corn upon
background of imperial Prussian blue which
forms the rims of the plates. EncirclinG
the inner edge Of the rim and enclosed by
gilt band are forty-four gold stars, while In
the center of each plate is the coat OF arms
of the United States. Photographs were
made of the famous war eagle Uncle Abe,
of Wisconsin, to furnish the pattern for the
national bird, beneath whose Outstretched
pinions Is the motto "E PluribuS Unum"
in raised letters of blue. Upon the outer
half Of the rim of the luncheon and dessert
plates the corn pattern is continued in gold
upon q white back ground while the other
half of the rim is band of Prussian blue
containing the same number of stars as are
shown in the larger plates, the coat Of arms
being the only ornamentatlon in the center.
Owing to the fact that questions have been
frequently asked by guests at White House
dinners as to the history Of some OF the
tableware used and under whose admins
tration it was purchased, Mrs. Harrison had
stamped upon tho back of each piece OF
this crockery in gilt letters, Harrison,
1892" None of the other crockery hitherto
used at the executive mansion has been thus
designated, the backs of the plates and
dishes being merely plain unornamented
surface.
A GLANCE BACK TO THE ELDER HARRI-
SONS TIME.
Whoever may remember the presi-
Dental campaign of 1910, when William
Henry Harrison, the grandfather Of our
Benjamin, succeeded in defeating Presl-
dent Van Buren,, will scarcely be liable
to forget the famous speech Of Hon.
Charles Agile, of Pennsylvania, In which
the main matter alluded to was the gold
spoons in use at the presidential mansion.
This cry with log cabins and the hardest
kind of hard cider, waited into power the
Harrison and Tyler ticket, 1t having re-
ceived 234 electoral votes while the Van
Buren and johnson presidential elect
ors numbered go, distributed in seven
states. At that time the four states OF
Maine, New Jersey, New York and Penn
sylvania, had, in the aggregate, ninety
electoral votes, and the majority for the
Harrison and Tyler electors, in these
states, went up to the amount of 1887
votes.
In the following presidential election,
Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for
president, managed to obtain the seven
electoral votes of New Jersey by 67s
majority,-out of the above named list
of four states-and, probably that was
saved by reason of state pride, Theodore
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, having
been on the Whig ticket for vice presi-
dent.
William Henry Harrison and Henry
Clay, who were respectively from Ohio
and Kentucky, and who were proiessed
believers In the so-called American sys-
tom, would have stood sghass at the
protection" that Is given under the Nc
Klnley act, to certain "iyantiIe indus
tries" 30 that millions In dividends can
be annually absorbed by protected
manufacturers to the manifest detriment
of the always unprotected plain, common
people Of our great American nation.
Would the wife of the elder Harrison,