The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
MUSIC AND POLITICS
HOW GREAT PRESIDENTIAL CAM
PAIGNS RUN TO MEL
ODY.
THE SONGS OF PARTISANSHIP.
SOME ARE GOOD-NATURED AND
OTHERS ARE BIT
TER.
BITS OF HARMONY
From the Time of Wash
fnston Down to Mckinley
and Bryan,

tnStOn Down to Mckinley
and Bryan.
So far as is known, nobody has ever
been sung into the White house. Sew
eral candidates have been borne to-
ward it more or less on the crest of the
wave of melody, and this was notably
so In the campaign Of 1840-the hard
cider and log cabin campaign. Hard
cider was supposed to be the ~favorite
tipple of Gen. William Henry Harri-
son. The great popular song was
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" 1t was
sung to the tune of 1.-The Little Pigs
TAIL" and a man named A. G. Ross,
of GAINESVILLE, composed the words. The
refrain of another song was:
Well beat the Dutch.
Hurrah for Tyler!
Well beat the Dutch
Or bust our biler.
Harrison was elected, but as his op-
ponents had rather a wider variety
and quite as inspiring songs it proved
nothing.
But probably the most earnest and
desperate attempt to sweep a man into
H"S PAOoA0OAAI4oA S41oA4 q 141dOS ny
the friends Of that brilliant Kentuck-
ian n uncompromising Wing Henry
Clay. The songs in his praise during
the exciting campaign Of 1874 would
fill a good sized book, for it was large
ly run on the minstrel plan. Clay was
crushed, however, by Polk, and cam
paign melody, as we'll as the Wing
party, received a serious setback. Thus
1t appears that prose and reason have
lone more to make presidents than
music and ryhme. But campaign songs
have their use and their place. They
solidify n strengthen. They serve as
a vent to pent up enthusiasm. They
possibly bear the same relation to pol
itics as they do to religion.
OF course campaign songs did not
begin with Clay or Harrison. George
Washington was elected president the
first time to the rather dignifed
strains Of
Great Washington, the hero's comet
Each heart eXulting hears the sound.
Thousands to their deliverer throng
And shout him "Welcome!' all around.
CHORUS.
Now In full chorus join the song
And shout aloud for Washington.
The campaign of 1904 brought out
the grave but stirring song Of JEFF
ferson and Liberty" and that Of 1908
was responsible for the extremely
Island" AT this campaign the cele-
brated Rag, Tag and Bobtail' songs
appeared, in which the Jeffersonian
Republicans defended themselves from
the stigma cast upon them by the
upper ten, or silk stocking, cult Of Bal
timore, -
When ST take the responsibility
Jackson was elected, In 1882, the first
states rights song made it's appear-
anoe, and another which gained great
popularity was called The Brooches
of Blue" The gist of the latter was
Well put Old Zach In the White house. boy,
And Old Whitley In the stable.
Old Whitley was the name Of Gen.
Taylors war horse. But other songs
became popular in this campaign, and
among them were TOE h Mark"
Ready"
THE Freeman's Glee Book" which
furnished musical inspiration for the
first national campaign Of the Repub-
lican party, was about the first as 1t
was the most ~pretentious publication
of the kind ever issued. Indeed up to
this time campaign singing a been
mostly Of the spontaneous and volun-
teer order, very much as music Is re-
lated to religious revival meetings.
But as ele%ctioneering methods devel-
oped there was a demand for regularly
organized glee clubs and male quar-
tettes. The political rally was carried
out after a formal programme-first
the calling of the meeting to order;
then singing by the glee club or the
male quartette; then the local orator;
4Io~ H. ~1+0~ ~ tho %I>yo
more melody. And the singing proved
quite as inspiring as the speaking, ex-
cept in rare cases of unusual eloQuence.
The popular glee club song of Ere
mont's campaign was Fremont and
Victory" to the tune of The Mar
seillaise:
All hail. ye gallant freemen true.
United heart and hand.
Who In the noble cause of right
Have fearless vowed to stand.
Unfurl your banner to the breeze
And wave it Ger the sea
And herald wide, Free soil, free men,
Fremont and victory"
Oh, by the blood your fathers split
Fair freedoms pearl to gain,
By that high principle within
That spurns oppression's chain,
Arise; your country bids you rise;
Her faithful champions be,
And herald wide, Free soil, free men,
Fremont and victory"
In that campaign frequent reference
was made to Fremont's wife, Jessie.
and a song, We'll Give EN- JESSIE"
was adopted. 1t was, of course, very
eulogistic Of Mrs. Fremont.
In the campaign Of 1860, which re-
suited in the election of Lincoln, special
use was made of music. Indeed, since
~"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" no cleo
ton had produced so many songs. The
quadruple character of the contest. in
Guiding, as it did, two Democratic tick
ets-Douglas (regular) and Breckin-
ridge (secession)-with Bell and Everett
on neutral ground, no doubt contribut-
ed to that result, and the tremendous
issue stirred the patriotic impulses of
and prejudices.
Bell and Everett had two songs,
neither of which gained popular favor.
The Breckenridge wing Of the Demo-
cratic party had one song to the tune Of
AUD Lang Syne," while the Douglas
shouters aroused enthusiasm singing
the song Douglas and His Men" to
the air "Dinna Ye Hear the Slogan"
The other song used by them was en-
titled "Lincoln's Picture" and was in
tended to be funny.
OF the many Lincoln songs the one
most generally sung was entitled 1.-THE
Lincoln Hoss and Stephen A." sung to
the tune of "Du Da." The following
verse will indicate the literary quality
OF the song:
There's an old plOw boss whose name is
Dug"
Du da, du da.
He's short and thick, a regular plug,
Du da, du da day.
CHORUS.
We're bound to work all night;