The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
CAMPAIGN SONGS N 1900
OUTPUT THIS TINE Is SLIM. AND
NINE-TENTHS ARE DEM
OCRATIC
FREE SILVER GENERAL NOTE
Republican Songs Marked by APP
peals to the Great Statesmen of
the Past-PrOhibitiOnist
Excel Rs Poets.
FREE SILVER GENERAL NOTE

Perhaps the apathy which characterized
this campaign until few days ago is
accountable for the fact that this is
the poorest year for campaign songs since
the Civil war, writes the Washington Ger
respondent of the New York Times
Whatever the reason, it is the fact
Every campaign song which has been
published is at the music department of
the congressional library, and 1900 makes
very slim showing.
OF what songs there are, about nine
tenths are Democratic The Republican
output is so slim that it IS hard to find.
The music department is full of Republic
an songs of past years, particularly of
1865 and 1896, which were great years for
Republican songs, but it takes persistent
search to find Republican songs of 1900.
Campaign songs contain short state
ments of the cruder arguments used in
each political battle, and a study OF
them shows what sort of appeals were
most popular in each campaign. The
songs of 1853 for example, We're all APP
peals to sustain the work of the Civil
war on the Republican side, and green
back appeals and denunciations of the
RAIDS on the Democratic side The. So
berer arguments of that campaign have
no place in the political lyrics.
Looking over the songs of 1900 to find
out the nature of the popular appeals,
the future political student will get some
interesting lights on the present cam
pafgn. One is that there have been few
campaigns in which there have been so
many appeals on both sides to the great
men of the past, such as Lincoln and JEFF
ferson. Here is a Republican song emit
tied THE Voters Dream:
l had dream the other night.
L cannot tell you why Sir:
L dreamed l saw Abe Lincoln's ghost
shining through the sky, Sir
Our starry flag was in his hand
A crown was on his head Sir
A smile was on his haloed face
And this Is what he said, Sir:
Chorus
Mckinley Mckinley.
Loyal votes shall win thee
-FOUR years more on the White house floor
Hurrah for Bill Mckinley!
The Bugle Sounds Again is Chi
cago song, which is described as "a red
hot Mckinley and Roosevelt CAMPAIGN
song, and to further emphasize its red
ness It's title is printed in flaming red
letters. 1T begins:
The grand old party bugle is sounding far
and wide @oi
Mckinley and Roosevelt on our elephant
are aStride,
And straight to the White ho,1sa i, No
Vember they will 60
While Bryan on the jackass will founder
IN the snow.
Several of the Republican songs give
Gov Roosevelt credit for winning tine
sHEIe1l WIN spain; Here is one, entitled
mckinley and Roosevelt
In Cleyeland's days we had TO rest, no
labor could be found;
1t did not matter where we'd 90 above
or under ground;
But when Mckinley took his place he
MADE the chimneyS- smoke
AND all the mills throughout the land
with one gigantic stroke.
Then let US praise McKinley's name from
Mexico to Maine,
And Teddy Roosevelt just the same for
whipping treacherous Spain
Another entitled "Great Combination.
Mckinley and Roosevelt Iauds the Re
publican candidates in . similar fashion:
Many battles have we fought on land and
sea-
And come out victorious when it came 20
victory
Old England, Mexico and Spain we
whipped deservediy,
So now all nations look to us and think
we are the stuff
Since we showered out the metal with no
pretenSe at bluff;
And RooseNelt's rough riders whinned tho
foe decidedly,
While the chieftain of this nation stood
by you and stood by me.
Mckinley and Roosevelt great eombi-
viii always work for you and your re-
And ev'ry other fellow. be he white,
black, red or yellow
If lie stands by Uncle Sans Republic I
Nation.
DEMOCRATIC SONGS.
Tt is a curious fact that while the Dem
ocratic songs do not show the same wild
enthusiasm for free silver that the son.Fs
of 1896 show. free coinage is still the pre-
dominant note in all of them. There are
no songs for anti-imperialism; all are for
Bryan and silver. Among the Democrat
ic songs is the famous Nebraska Lily
of which the chorus goes:
Billy! Billy. Billy! BilIyi
O thou dear Nebraska lily,
We will knock Mark Hanna silly
And will make his pals feel chilly
In November!
With cur Billy. with our Billy, Billy
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