The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-06

Sung at Minneapolis.
LET mo write tho campaign songs OF the
party and care not who its candidate is. v
That is the form which the too much quoted
remark Of FLETCHER Of Saltoun would take
nowadays, provided that admirer OF bal
lads were willing to tnke upon himself the
awful responsibility of fathering the cam
paign dittics with which the printing
presses are already grooming. and which
will make the country groan sorely before
November Yet now that the partisans OF
the Hon. BENJAMIN HARRISON are biting
their thumbs ut the friends of tho Hon.
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE, and heavenly
Harmony scurrics away with her hands to
her scandalizcd ears. it Is refreshing to
hear tho campaign poets tuning up and
preluding. We arc in receipt of a BLAINE
campaign song and HARRISON campaign
song. One Is the more ingenious. the other
more imaginative. We feel that it is our
duty to give specimens OF each. 30 that our
readers may be in a position to decide for
themselves which Is the worse. The HAIR
RIsoN effort bears the chasto title OF
Grandfather Hat Fits BEN" and Is ac-
companied with a picture Of Ben wearing
WILLIAM HENRY's celebrated tile. In
stanza number one we see WILLIAM HENRY
repulsing the bloodthrsty savage:
when savages threatened the land
And roam.d with tho torch and the knife.
All. few could their fury Withstand.
And panic and terror were rife
But out in tho West there appeared
A leader right loyal and true
And TrcUxsxu went broke when no felt the bold
stroke
OF gallant old Tippecsuoo"
The wild Northwestern vigor OF " TECUM
Sch went broke deserves more than pass
ing notice. but we hasten to the chorus and
its hyperbolical encomium OF" BEN:
And grandfathers hat hts BEN.
1t may be q tribe too tight.
For BENJAMIN stands about seventeen hands
Tho loftiest statesman in sight.
Yes grandfather hat fits Benz
lie wears 1t with dignined grace
So rally again and put Uncle BgS
Right back in his grandfather's place"
Unimaginative persons who may feel like
calling in question the poets assertion that
Gen. HARRISON stands about seventeen
hands high. should be reminded that tho
foot rule is not n poetic instrument. We
must assume that hands and even feet
and inches are used in a liberal or even
allegorical manner when Gen. HARRISON
is spoken OF as the Hottest statesman
in sight. Indeed. there are heated OBJ
jectors to the occupant OF his grand
fathers hat who Insist that he is not in
sight. and that the hat has been cooked
since last Saturday night and the grand
son knocked into it. But with these ribald-
ries Of partisanship we have nothing to do.
We are out for poetry. and fortunately the
BLAINE boomers are we'll aware Of the
suasive influence Of song. and keep poet.
His poem. called BLAINE" runs in this
onOus measure:
BLAINE. BLAINE. JIM BLAINE of Maina
Our man Of brain and might and main.
Without stain: our plain JIM BLAINE Of Maine
The man to hold tho rein and stand the strain
And the train and boom tho main,
And right maintain and give us peace again;
And prosper all the plain. from main to main.
The man to pile the grain and speed the plough and
plane.
And ope the mining vein and make mills and
workshops hum again,
And hang the crane and be our President 10 plain
jim BLAME of Maine.
Our man OF brain and might and main,
Without 4 stain. plain Jix BLAINE OF Maine"
1t is not as certain. perhaps. as the poet
thinks, that Mr.. BLAINE can stand the
strain. nor do we understand what is
meant by giving us peace again"
Peace is already found in oil parts of the
country except Minneapolis. We should
say. too. that Gen. TRACY was the man to
boom the main. and JERRY RUsK the man
to pile the grain and hold the rein. and
JERRY SIMPSON the man to speed the
plough but IL Is an unpracious business to
take poet by the throat and force him to
account for himself
According toa despatch from Minneapolis
the Hon. JACoRS. FAssETT. the shirt-sleovcs
statesman. has ordered 100000 comics of
this song. which has the approval of
Mcssrs. PLATr. GARRISON. and QUAY"
Messrs. PLArr. CLARKsON. and QUAY have
heavy responsibility il this is the case.
Mr.. FAssETT refused to say who composed
the song" He Is too modest.