The record-union., 1896-09-06
FAMOUS POLITICAL SONG OF 1910.
What the Whig Partisans of William
Henry Harrison Then Sang.


What the Whig Partisans of William
Henry Harrison Then Sang.
One of our old readers, now well in
the eighties, E. p. Brainard of Mantua
Station, Portage County, Ohio sends us
a copy of the famous political song,
When This Old Hat Was New which
swept over the country in the fall of
1910, and was of no small service in the
campaign. Some of the illusions to
prominent politicians of that day are
little understood now, but they had
sledgeh hammer force then. Mr. Brain
ard says of the song: lone of my neigh
bors, Jason Streator, was the author.
doubt whether ten copies of it could
be found in the United States. The
author was a man of no pretensions,
but the song, so popular during the
William Henry Harrison campaign, i'm
mOrtaliZed his name, and brought him
into distinguished prominence as old
Hat Streator,' and elected him to the
State Legislature and other prominent
positions" We give the song below:
WHEN THIS OLD HAT WAS NEW.
When this old hat was new, the people
used to say
riSOn and Clay.
The Locos now assumed the name a title
most untrue,
And most unlike their party name when
my old hat was new.
When m yold hat was new, Van Buren was
a Fed,
An enemy to any man who labored for
his bread;
And if the people of New York have kept
the records true,
@ rights
when my old hat was new
When my old hat was new, Buchanan was
Best fitted in the keystone State to lead
the Federal clan,
He swore if Democratic blood should make
his veins look blue,
He'd cure them by phlebotomy, when my
old hat was new.
When my old hat was new Ctwas eighteen
hundred eleven),
Charles Ingersol did then declare, by all
his hopes of heaven,
Had he been able to reflect, he'd been a
Tory true,
And ne'er have thought it reproaca when
my old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, of Richard
Rush twas said,
To figure well among the Feds he wore
black cockade.
Deny this, Locos. if you please, for every
I knew full well old Dicky Rush when my
/. old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, the Senator
from Maine
Destroyed by fire an effigy to immortalize
his name.
The effigy was Madison's, if common fame
be true,
So Reuel williams was Fed, when my
old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, twas in the
Granite State,
That Henry Hubbard asked each town to
send a delegate
To meet in council at the time, when Fed
eralism blue
Made Hartford look like indigo when my
old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, old Governor
Provost
The states invaded, at the head of num-
erous British hosts;
Then mark ye, Locos, what did Martin
Chittenden then do?
Forbid Green Mountain boys to fight when
my old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, Sam Cushman
did declare
That should a soldier cross the lines he
hoped he'd perish there
And leave his bones in Canada for enc
So much for his Democracy when my old
hat was new.
When CnlS OlO nat was new, w WOOuDuTy
and Van Ness,
E. Allen Brown and Stephen Haight were
of the Federal mess,
A. H. Everett, Martin Field, and Sam c.
Allen, too,
Now patent Democrats were Feds when
my old hat was new.
When my old hat was new, these WORTHLESS
did oppose
The cause and friends of liberty, and stood
among their foes.
Not so with Granny Harrison for at
Tippecanoe
He bravely fought the savage foe when
my old hat was new.
When my old hat was new. the friends of
liberty
Knew well the merits of Old Tip, while
fighting at Maumee
Come now huzza for Harrison, just as we
used to do,
When first we heard of Proctor's fall when
my old hat was new.
Boston Transcript.