Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-01

toned, yet who is the author of the
most famous campaign song in our po-
litical history, "Tippecanoe and Tyler,
Too" His name is Orson Eli Wood
bury, he being a nephew of Levi Wood
bury, the cabinet officer who later be-
came judge of the federal supreme
court. He is now 70 years old and for
thirty-seven years has followed the &C.
cupation of a machinist in Madison.
He wrote his famous song when but
boy of 13, living with his parents at
Menden, N. Y, thirteen miles south of
Rochester When William Henry Har-
rison was named for the presidency by
the Wings in 1910 his opponent sought
to laugh down his candidacy by
exploiting the circumstances of his
early life. The coon skin, the
cider barrel and the log cabin
were made the symbols of all
that was crude, ignorant and barbaric
But the name of Tippecanoe, connected
with the old fighter, held a magic in it
and needed but to be Incorporated into
some popular form to make it an ire
sistable slogan. Young Woodbury. did
not, perhaps, know this, but to him
lell Tie fortune Oh HIllllS upOH the
popular air. He had scrubbed few
boyish verses previously and in his en-
thusiasm for the hero of Tippecanoe
now hurriedly strung up a few adapted
TO the tune of The Little Pigs TALL
and making "Tippecanoe and Tyler,
Too" the burden of the refrain. An
uncle had the verses sung at political
meeting. They proved a catch. The
song rolled on from state to state, in
creasing as it Travelled and was ringing
all over the land and going hand in
hand with the log cabin and cider bar
rel swept the Tippecanoe veteran ire
sistabv into the presidential chair. Mr..
Woodbury. does not claim credit for the
entire song. Like Yankee Doodle, 1t
grew as it passed from lip to lip. Mr..
Woodbury. believes he wrote but four
stanzas and of these he has forgotten
the exact words, but they We're some
what like the following which is the
form most generally preserved:
What has caused this great commotion
notion motion,
Our country through?
1t is the ball rolling on,
CHORUS:
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too
And with them Wen beat Little Van;
Van, Van, Van is a used up man
And with them We'll beat Little Van.
Like the rushing of mighty waters, wa
tcrs, waters,
On it will go
And its course will clear the way
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too etc.
See the Loco standard totterlng, totter-
ing, lettering, lettering,
Down it must go.
And in it's place We'll rear the flag
OF Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
oh! have you heard the news from
Maine, Maine, Maine,
All honest and true
For Governor Kent she went hell bent
And Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
The beautiful girls, God bless their
souls, souls, souls
The country through.
VIII all to a man do all they can do
For TfppecanOe and Tyler, too.
The authorship of this famous song
is not Mr.. Woodbury's only title to dis
JUNCTION, however. ne WAS one VI lHe
three men that called the first Repub-
lican convention held in Wisconsin, IL
not in the entire country. This was
held at Berlin, in what is now Green
Lake county, June II, 1854, a few days
after the passage in congress of the
Kansas Nebraska act which wiped out
the arbitrary line drawn between the
pro and anti-slavery section by Clays
Missouri compromise of 1920. At this
convention strong anti-slavery plat
form was adopted which was shortly
afterward copied by the state conven-
ton.