The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26
THE SALT LAKE HERALD, SUNDAY. July %, 1895

VI the several Llncoln songs m bound
to admit that the least neritori0uS was
the most generally sung; as a boy, still
too young to vote. [ remember Joining
in'' the song entitled THE Lincoln Hoss
and Stephan A." sung to the tune of "Du-
da." The following verse will indicate
the literary 90 quality of the song:
There's an old pillow .'Hoss' whose name
is Dug
Du-da, du-da
| He's short and thicl1--a regular plug
Du-da, du-da, day
Chorus:
We're bound to work all night,
We're bound TO work all day,
I'll bet my money on the Lincoln Ho5s,
! Who bets on Stephen a?
The lively air. SO simple that child
! could sing II, and easy to march by rem
! dered this very popular especially in the
west. When Lincoln was reelected in
81 there were few campaign songs in
! the proper sense of the term. But the
war songs. Battle Cry OF Freedom" and
the the enlistment songs. We Are Coming;
Father Abraham were made to do loyal
/ service. The opposition were inspired
! 90 with a very siclziy effort entiLed
"Lincoin's Dodge set to Yankee Doodle,
a satire on I'VE Are Coming, Father Abb
raham," and The Hour and the Man.
set to the air of ''Bonny Dundee" The
one single song of the electioneering type
for Lincoln was a marching song en-
! Titled Then Go for Old Abe and Be
Marching Along"
The royal battle between the Republic
/ cans and Democrats in '6S when U. s.
! Grant was elected over Seymour pro-
/ duced for the latter some Carpet Bag
! ger songs and a Bond Baron's Song,
set 10 the air Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
which scored the loyal gamblers who
had grown rich in bond deals and specu-
lations, and contractors who had fur
/ nished 'shoddy" goods to the Boys in
Blue" For the great general who had
never lost a battle" Marching Through
! Georgia, ulysses the Tanner" Ito the
tune Jockey Hat and Feather'D and
! Grant Boys in Blue ito the air of The
Red White and Blue'O served to arouse
/ the enthusiasm and awaken personal adj
miration for the silent soldier" An
/ illustration of d music dealers enterprise
/ paign is related of a firm who in their
! eagerness to be first in the feld,' and
knowing that Grant would be the preSi-
dental nominee of the Republicans, fore
/ stalled the action of the convention by
/ getting a song written and set up, leav-
I ing vacant space for the refrain; they
also had a Autograph title with a picture
/ of Grant all ready, leaving a vacant space
/ for his running mate, whoever it should
! be. As soon as ColfaN was nominated
! the poet 90 composer finished the refrain
the photographer got to work on the pic
/ ture. An advertisement of 1t appeared
/ in the morning papers which contained
! the news of the nomination and the next
! day the song was on sale in the store!
Grants second election was character
iszed by a. song of THE Old White Hat
/ for Greeley and "Hurrah for Horace
/ Greeley to the time of Dixie the latter
/ having in the north become to be con-
/ sidered a ''rebel' song. The Republicans
replied with When This Old White Hat
Was New" in which ridicule was poured
into the ranks of the enemy" and
| Greeley's former bitter opposition to his
present friends was Sarcastically enlarged
upon.
The Tilden and Hays campaign of '76
was notable for the absence of Republi-
/ can electioneering musical inspiration.
There was one Peter Cooper song, one
greenback song and one very poor at
tempt at satire upon Tilden and Hen
written for Republican club in Indian
apolis. There were two Tilden songs,
enc entitled The Radical Rogues" in
which the sins of omission and commits
sion of the Republican administrator
were numerically elaborated upon and
one "Tlden and Reform commencing
Come, all we honest Democrats, let each
man raise his voice.
Little campGign music was used in the
Garfield and Hancock contest of 1880, and
| that little contained nothing worthy of
'Plumed Knight and THE Sheriff of
Evil" in 'S4 gives us a curiosity in that
the great German war song Die Wacht
am Rhein," makes its appearance with
some clever verses entitled The Plumed
Knight and Black Eagle" the latter be-
! ing the sobriquet of General John A.
Logan. One verse follows:
'They come! They come! The mighty
twain!
Mid storm and sunshine, flowers and
grain;
The Plumed Knight" looks to the skies,
And onward the Black Eagle flies"
The man from Maine was sung to
the air, THE Sword of Bunker HILL" but
the most effective of the lot was 'Hurrah
for Jimmy Blaine set to Marching
Through Georgia.
The Democrats went for their opponents
with a song called Turn the Rascals
Ont ~ CinUla al which will aT.yra
to satisfy our curiosity:
1.-The conflict RACES fercely, boys,
Our chieftain leads the van;
We march in bold array, my boys.
Against the 'Tattooed Mani
From north and south. from east and
All loyal freemen shout;
Wen work against corruption's host,
And Turn the RaScalS Outr :"
The well known college song, Good |
Bye, My Lover, Good Bye" was made to
serve both for and against General Har-
rlson in his campaign against Cleveland. |
The Republican shouters sang:
protection is the peoples wealth,
Good bye, free traders, good byeI
A6 H,do %e shall guard the nations wealth,
while the Democrats retorted with:
"A dollar day is enough for YOU
GOOD pye, Cheap Bennle, good bye!
NO waShee' men in the u. S. crew
Good bye, cheap Bonnie, good byep'
The favorite old song, "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too" was revived again during
this contest; and many an old grizzled
voter who had voted for the hero of Fort
Meigs and Tippecanoe, renewed their
youth and enthusiasm for the Young
Tippecanoe" in the stirring strains of
nearly fifty years previous changed to
Iippecanoe and Morton, Too
song of THE Old Bandanna." in honor
of the Good Old Roman Allen G.
Thurman, Cleveland's running mate, be-
came very popular in the west; while the
the favorite tune '"Tenting Tonight was
made to carry into a brief popularity a
song called Young Tippecanoe."
The last campaign was chiefly inter-
esting musically for the number of labor
thusiasIn seemed somehow to have ex-
hausted itself though "Grandfather's
Hat was praised successfully and Good
Bye Forever to Grover was shouted to
Marching Through Georgia. by the
Travelling Mems Republican club The
rise of the Populists is signalized by
gnumber of songs, however "Labor's
Forty, Good Bye indicating their gen
eral trend. The silver craze" also APP
pears to the air Marching Through
Georgia, commencing thus: Sound the
good old bugle, with a bmetallic song
inns same tune was made the vehicle |
OF democratic ideas, in song commence
ing, Bring the good old frying pan, were
gong to fry some fat" The satire of
this may be judged by one of the refrains
which ran thus:
"Hurrah hurrah! for Dudley and for
Quay.
Hurrahl hurrat! for teaching US the way
To carry any doubtful state on election
whl is we are frying for Bonnie"