Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-26

patch with the words, "Aitef a has,y
plate Of SOUP" the expression was made
a text for much clumsy but effective ridi-
culc The people were not in the habit
OF taking soup. The practice marked
persons sophisticated by the habits oi
wealth. But there was more In Fuss
and Feathers" Though an able soldier,
n patrio, and no lean diplomatis,,
Scott was vain man, and had not had
the art to conceal the weakness. be-
sides. the Fugitive Slave law had begun
to annoy. Squatter sovereignty, repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise, and ex.
tension OF slavery were in the air. Scott
was Nirginian. and the tariff had been
dug up again. There was a landslide
for Franklin Pierce, some had nick.
named him Frank Penguin, with nothing
against him. Before this time the word
"Doughiace" had come into use as a
term oil reproach Tor what was described
as a Northern man with Southern prin-
oipies. In this campaign II was handled
freely.
Next came the candidacy OF Fremont
the Pathfinder, against lanes Buchanan,
the old Public Functionary, words BY
which he once alluded to himself In n
State paper To the Fremont cry Il was
appropriately retofted that he was a
pathfinder who always los, his way-a
reton with the barbed sting of truth in
il.
Then the country had the canvass OF
Old Abe. Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter.
The reply was Black Republican, a
variant on the Red Republicans Of the
French Revolution, Miscegenationlst,
nd xf,i M a.
a Niger |" Both were effective. The
rail splitter got less than 10 per cent. Of
the vote, and the retorts had contributed
TO peryent his getting more. 1t will be
recognized that this canvass represented
passions In an acute stage, frenzied and
only Just ariiculate.
Then u. S. Grant was Unconditional
Surrender Grant. words aptly fitting his
initials quoted from his reply to a flag
asking terms FOR the surrender OF Fort
Donaldson early In the war. His oppo-
nenis were Copperheads. Public feeling
was still far from amlable. It wns made
one of Grants merits that he had once
taken to tanning, though he had not
made good tanners. Humility OF
origin or OF career was atill not to be
despised as a source Of power with the
people.
For Hayes there was no cry that could
be raised, and so he was delicate d.
Securing the Results Of the war was
the nearest approach TO one, but, con
sidering the feats Of the carpet baggers,
1t seemed sarcasm.
Garfield was believed once TO have
driven mules on the towepath of a
canal. Though this campaign. issue
may have helped him some, Il does not
take historic rank with Mr.. Jeilenon's
neither garments, Mr. Gays apprentice
ship In the -four mills or Mr.. Lincoln's
feats with the beetle and wedge.
Mr. Blain's apotheosis as white
plumed knight, after so questionable q
character as Henry the Great and OF
Navarro, implied his personal popularity
and magnetism. His candidacy under
Us impossible conditions recalls that OF
Clay.
Gen. Harrison's first canvass was
figured under his grandfather's hat--,he
first witty image OF the entire series. lie
won In spite OF H. His second was type.
fled by the substitution Of "ice cart" for
the slang "band wagon" a second ex.
hibition OF genuine wit. With this ex.
ception the canvass now closed went of
without popular shibboleths that meant
anything. The war cry of No Force bin
was no figure of speech, but the explicit
statement Of the dominant aud winning
issue,