The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-09-06

firm believer in the tenets of Jacksonan
Democracy, Mr.. Key was always in his
element when campaign was on hand,
especially if that campaign resulted in
victory for the party of which he was so
ardent an adherent.
Upon the occasion of the election of
Philip Francis Thomas, in 1913. the lit
tie village of Finksburg honored the
event by an illumination and torchlight
procession, in both of which Mr.. Kew
was a prime mover. During this parade
the happy Democrats, with Mr. Key at
their head, march back and forth
through the village, dragging a six
pound cannon with them, underneath of
which was suspended a coon skin, in de
rison of the Wings, who had adopted
the coon as one of their party emblems.
Everybody was in the best of humor-
good old-time rye whiskey flowed freely,
and as they marched they sang the fol-
lowing doggerel couplet:
"Hegh, high, no! and another such blow
VIII kill all the coons in the country, ho"'
1t was on this occasion that an old
Wing was heard to make the remark,
that he had never committed the un-
pardonable sin but once in his life, and
that was when he went to the Finksburg
illumination.
he following year, 1874, was noted
as being the year of the great Polk and
Clay campaign, campaign that has
passed down in the history of the coun-
try as one of the hottest political contests.
In this campaign MIR. Key played a
prominent part, and upon the occasion
of the great Polk ratification meeting,
which was held in Gibson's woods, now
part of Baltimore City, Just before the
election, he fitted up triumphal car, and
invited a number of citizens of the burg
to accompany him to Baltimore to attend
the meeting, among the number being
the following; Mordeca Stockdale,
Greenbury Williams, Levin Williams,
Charles G. Shipley, George b. Shipley
(the Writer'S father, Thomas Parrish,
ST., Aquilla Parrish, and a number of
others. The car was gaily decorated
with flags and bunting and campaign
colors, and was drawn by ten iron-gray
horses. Along the route from Finksburg
to Baltimore, a distance of twenty miles,
the car attracted great attention from
everyone who saw it. Upon passing
through Pikesville, Mr.. Key halted at
the Sudbrook House. now under the
management of Mrs. Carman as a sum
mering resort, but was then owned and
occupied by William Frush, ST., a we'll
known citizen of Baltimore county and
subsequently Of Baltimore City.
Mr., Frush was also an enthusiastic
Democrat of the old school, being a
Presidential elector on the Polk ticket.
After being treated to cider and apples
by Mr. Frush 1--WE do not know whether
they had anything stronger or not, they
proceeded upon their way. Upon their
arrival at the place of meeting they were
greeted with loud huzzas from the hun
dreds of enthusiastic Democrats there
assembled. They was estimated to be
10000 persons assembled on the
grounds, and the meeting was addressed
by some of the most eminent political
speakers of the country at that period
Eighty-seven years have passed away
since the birth of "The Star-Spangled
Banner - was heralded forth to the
world, and of all the defenders of their
native city that fought under its folds on
that memorable day not one remains
alive at the present to relate the stirring
events in which he participated Over
half century has elapsed since the
! death of its talented author occurred,
but his famous production survives and
/ will continue to survive and live in the
heart and memory of every true Amer
/ lean.
/ lwenty-one years ago, when Balti-
more City celebrated the one hundred
and fiitieth anniversary of her birth, the
writer stood on one of the streets of the
/ city and saw the original banner that in
/ spired Keys patriotic lines borne past
him in triumphal procession, and when
he heard the frenzied yells and hurrahs
that greeted the appearance of the ven
cradle relic, he felt that if ever again our
country was called upon to maintain her
rights and dignity in military conflict
with foreign foe, that she would again
give as good an account of herself as she
did eighty years ago, and that "our flag
would still be there
And that feeling was thoroughly ex-
emplified in the recent conflict with
Spain, when that famous "blue- blooded"
Castilian nation was given a thorough
thrashing in the brief space of one hun
bred and twelve days, as to thoroughly
open the eyes of all maritime nations to
the fact that Uncle Sam was not to be
triiled with when his blood was hot.
PIKESVILLE, Md, SebhcMbty, 1907.
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