The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-09

Inc tSosismsn snd leg sreasurers VIII soon
And the Jog oabsn c.oasdate VIII march 10
washington
Another effective ballad of the caupasxa
sss parody Of The Swiss Boy" II also
appealed 10 state love.
Come arouse ye. arouse ye. my brave
4 axe TIE ak ard 70 Abor away
The sun Is up with rasi1y beam
The buckeye blooms beside tie esresm:
1nen arouse ys. aroase ye. my bold Buck
This necessity for converting the energy
~ enthusiasm into the power Of the ballot
II impressed in the concluding Hires:
To the polls. TO fks polls. then. my brave
buckeye boyE
70 the rescue then hast We away.
Il frssSdshsD '. .saas a sns si tse l@s.
VIII shout. with q shout. go the brave
With Old To 70 the white House away.
The true dignity Of labor and the reward
which invariably attends upon modest pa
fFioiic merit uas voiced In song begin
ming:
In a cabin made OF logs by the river side
There the honest farmer lives.
free from sloth ard pride
TO the gorgeous pz<ace turn.
And bis rival see
In his robes OF regal state and tinseled
flnery.
II was evident that commercial and In
c1stri2l depression was not unknown 20
coon akin days. nor dld the voters hesitate
20 af!ix the blame for drouth. poor crops
and overprodsctlon upon whom Il belong
ed--ths head OF the administration To The
Joyous strains OF .Nalbrook." more IA
miliarly known as we Won't Go Home
TIL Morning" was sung this:
The times are bad and want curing,
They are getting past al enduring.
Let us turn out Martin Van Buren,.
An: put In Old Tlppecanoe.
The best thing we can do.
y 70 pat In Old T5ppecanoe-
It's business al car take part IN
So let US give notice 70 Martin.
That he must get ready for starttng.
For wen put In Old Tippeoanoe-
The song goes on 10 tell that We've had
CT their humbugs a plenty. we've dollar
now where We had twenty. their rcguery
can't be defended. and it's time their reign
bs ended. we shall never see things mend
ed" until old Tppecanoe goes to the White
House.
In the Harrison campaign Of 1870 wher
song first became an important factor IN
political contests. The Old Hat" was vari-
ousiy introduced TO notice. In those days
politicians talked to II. and not through IL.
One popular ballad was circulated as a
broadsids with a picture Of the hat The
verses were:
The best among the Democrats were Har-
rason and Clay.
The Iocos now assume the name. q title
most untrue.
And most unlike their party name when
my Old hat was new.
When my old hat was new Van Buren,
An enemy to every man who labored for
his bread:
And II the people OF New York have kept
kufa -
He voted .gaInst the poor mans rights
when nv old hat was new.
When my old hat was new the friends Of
Knew vel the merits Of Old Tip. while
Come now. huxxa for Harrison just as wc
used 10 do.
| When first we heard Of Proctor's fall.
whom my Old hat was new.
| This is model campaign song. II re-
/ vfies a candidate. gives hts record in Of
fee. fnfames a partisan spirit, brings up
prominent features OF history and con-
| ta!ns the biography of the other csndi-
date. with the list OF his gallant services.
| 1t Is submitted as a pattern for the writers
of the songs OF 1896.
This Harrison presidential canvass
marked an epoch In the history of poiiti-
been beguiled by speechmaking, by argu-
ment candidates had been vflifed or
iauded In prose principally. Thereafter
gses clubs and hands had their part. and
large one. in shaping opinion. The close
OF tho campaign OF 1870 with HarriSon's
triumph. was marked by the inspiration
OF a New England singer. whose words
VIII oufiast the republic. or the state OF
Maine he said:
She went he'll bent
For Governor Kent.
Fer Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
The Clay campaign four years later.
when James X. Polk defeated ''The Mill
hoy of the Siaxhes.'s was the season OF an.
other epidemic OF song. less pronounced
than tho first outbreak. but widespread.
II was IN honor OF Clay, whose history was
uors pgctaresque than hts antagonists.
that most OF the songs were written. The
Polk haliadmongers. instead OF telling
their heros deeds. invented metricsl at
tacks on Clay and prophecies on the re-
suit The auatrain which heads this
article fliad the air In the Polk
districts For the tariff party there
was THE Clay songster" TO draw
from and a single leaf impression
OF THAT Same old Koon Roarer" had a
circulation larger even than that claimed
BY the New York World OF today.
-Four years later. when Zachary Taylor.
Cass and Van Buren, made the canvass
the s'caSs and Butler Song Book" .'T'he
Free sosi Minstrel and THE Rough aaa
Ready Mesodist'. contained me lyrics
None % the songs outlived the OCCASION
and they are 70 be found only occasionally
in earretS ~ farm houses or infreqneniiy
explored library regions.
There was a Scott sonsster printed in
ISIS, but Franklin Pierce. although he
gained the election. does not seem 20 have
in~pired the minstrel 70 any extent. When
Fillmore Fremont and buchanan took
tho raia IN iSsS. n one were go have pre-
tJsssed she result by RE noise. Il would
have b@en Fremont's victory. The Rocky
Mountain Songstsr'' contained yards %
verse laudstory Of the pathfinder ana the
woods and country roads were full q,
singers Fillmore had poet or two under
ray, but the mise 8ta rot work in Ru-
ehanan'x behalf. Yet King Back" gained
the election.
The Rob a. LINK Minstrel" The LIN
colin ana Hauiln Sorgster" and Honest
Ah~ Of the West .aTacienfiy Indicate the
tsssse of their publication Nv their titles
There vas -F.ittIe Giant Song Book
fNes s';a -. LAYS Of the nouEias min
strei bat al the productions were uni
ferrniy bad
Then came the four wears ~ TIE war.
wen Rally Round the FLAG" Tramp,
T.rsrssnf Trknsnsf' ssMarrhfur T-hy,ssarh
Georgia" ~rohn Browns rodv." ana
some others hasa in these times % rain
ara distress stiil live vet in ereaf meas
are because the enasic - stirring ant fhe
wersak are readily paroateA or the songs
e tha Southern cause twe lived longer
than tha war s'Marylan6* ana ssrh.
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