The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-19

toned gentleman. He evolved from JEFF
! ferson's notes on Virginia the appalling
/ truth that the observation-disclosures
candidate for the presidency did not
believe in a universal deluge, He
/ sounded the alarm. A few weeks be-
\ for the election he published pam
phlet entitled THE Voice of Warning to
4 Christians on the Ensuing Election, .
/ in which he reviewed the notes ard in
! ferred from passages that the author
I was a profane philosopher and an in
I fidel." Christians" he exclaimed, ''it
I is thus that man whom YOU are ex-
/ pected to elevate to the chief magis-
tracy insults yourself and your Bib1el"
AS the preacher proceeded. with all the
/ energy of frantic apprehension, the
/ blood gushed from his nostrils, and
! putting his handkerchief to his face
! and resuming his gesture, held the
bloody handkerchief aloft, as if it were
the symbol of the horrors he foretold.
To such point in those simple old
/ days, could campaign falsehood mad
den able and good menl AS soon as
! Jefferson's election became known the
FederaliSts paraded their disgust, and
The Federalists, as party, gasped
after the election of Jefferson and
calm, responsibility and conventional
decorum prevailed until after the war
of 1872. Mr.. Monroe was elected for his
second term without the ripple of po-
J litical wave or the antagonism of an
idea To that point we had come, and
the danger that threatened was that OF
/ dry rot. Then of a sudden our whole
method of political activity was chang
ed. We plunged into the canvass
of 1924 with a watchword, an inspiring
! cry, that stimulated men and made
| them enthusiastic. 1t vitaliZed politics.
! 1t began the splendid series of popular
and healthy turbulences which have
! ever since characterized presidential
canvasses. And yet this inspiring cry
was simply a nickname-"Old Hick-
ory.''
ORIGIN OF THE APPELLATION.
old HICKORY"
"Nicknames, said Napoleon, should
not be despised;" and it is said that
Jackson rejoiced in his sobriquet of
"Old Hickory" Jackson was a firm,
decided, obstinate officer, and was
called odd Hickory" long before he
was elected president. In 1924 the
/ Columbian, his organ in Washington,
had the following motto:
"Freemen cheer the hickory tree
| Whose boughs and branches have shell
tered thee!'
In 1928 John Binns, in the Demo-
cratic Press, which was in favor of
John Quincy Adams and opposed to
Jackson, parodied this motto in the
following way:
SLAVES, bow down to the, hickory tree!
! Its boughs have oft-time waited thee!
| Ger freedoms land its branches wave
To shade the rich and scourge the slave!
1t has also been said that when jack
son was fighting the Indians, his army
became so short of provisions that the
| soldiers were compelled to allay their
hunger by eating hickory nuts. AT all
events "Old Hickory" stuck to him I'M
| til his death, and is one of the few
| nicknameS of the past that have not
| been forgotten. 1t was the first to be
carried into presidential canvass, and
it was potent because it represented an
/ idea Andrew Jackson represented
force, courage, virility, popular govern
ment without the frills and the cere-
monials of the foreign courts, energy
and genuine democracy strengthened
| by experience. This set the sluggish
political blood of that day to dancing,
and this canvass. in which men became
enthusiastic and excited, taught the
politicians of that time that there was
| health and vigor in the stirring up of
men, by appealing as well to their
| sentiments and emotions as to their
reason. Stagnation had threatened us,
but the wild whirl of an exciting presi-
Dental canvass, with Jackson and the
hickory tree, clarified and invigorated
politics. During his presidency the
term Kitchen Cabinet which is quite
common in the nomenclature of
American politics, arose. AT that
period Amos Kendall. postmaster gen
eral, and Francis P Blair, editor of the
Washington Globe, we're leading party
chiefs. and whenever Jackson con-
templated any important measure,
these gentlemen were always first sent
for to hold a private conference over
the matter. In order that they might
consult together with the least pub
licity, it is said that they went into the
white house by the back door, and the
quick witted of the Wing leaders were
not slow to dub such consultation
as a session of the Kitchen Cabinet"
SHORT LIVED POLITICAL PAR
TIES.
During Jackson's administration sew
eral political parties were organized.
The "Nullifiers'' had their origin in
South Carolina about 1880. This party
was composed of those who claimed
that any state in the Union had right
to absolve itself from all obligation to
the federal government The Repub-
licans were called Anti-Federalists at
the time of the adoption of the consti-
| tuition in 1888, bit in 1881 new party
was formed csAsd the National Re-
publican and it was reorganized in
| 1856, making q decided issue with the
| Democratic party on the subject of
slavery The "Locofocos was the
name given to a branch of the Demo-
| cratic party in New York city in 1885,
who were battling for what they called
| equal rights. So named because at a
noisy public meeting, after the lights
! had been put out, they were at once
relighted by means of a .1ocofoco
match" 1t was for some years another
name for the Democratic party. The
| York city about 1881, and was in
reality the National Republican party
| The Barnburners and Hunkers were so
named in 1888 or 1899, and also had
their origin in New York. They were
an offshoot of the Democratic party and
were so named by the Whies. They
were so called in allusion sto the story
of Dutch farmer, related by A. b.
| Dickinson, of Steuben county, N. Y,
who burned his barn to clear it of rats
and mice. "Old Hunker'' is a New
York city term to designate any sue
cessful politician. The word hunk" is
said to be low Dutch. and means per-
manent and abundant maintenance.
The young Democracy who failed to
obtain offices called the old Office hold
! ing set the ''old hunkers," which means
the old fellows who are always making
I themselves hunk on the pos
session of fat offices. The Abolition
lists appeared as distinctive
political party in the campaign
| of 1870 their principle being the