The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-30

Songs Popular in 1896.
Songs in 1886 were popular along with
buttons There We're something like hair
thousand varieties of campaign buttons
that year and half as many songs that
had more or less patronage William T.
st. John, who was treasurer of the ma
tional committee of the national silver
party that year. bought 10000 copies OF the
Bryan Marsellaise" and distributed them
throughout the country, advising that
they be freely purchased. The song ran
like this:
1.-The warriors brave of Seventy-six
Had only England then to fix,
But now we must fight Wall Street be-
sides.
gigantic combination,
Well wipe them off creation
With the surging of Noyember's silver
tide.
Our natural rights demand it.
Our fathers would not stand it,
And branished freedoms sword in days OF
old.
We will win this fight surely,
If we fight as they did, purely,
And save cur precious land from hoard
ed gol1.
CHORUS:
Bryan. Bryan, the boys are cryin';
'Tis sixteen to one Wen have our way.
You are the peoples candidate
They'll vote you in from every state,
You'll win the battle on election day.
The republicans likewise had song writ
ers in their ranks and some of the songs
were fairly good. The words and rhyme
were not always of the best, but the
excitement that year overlooked this.
One of these productions submitted to
the national committee that year, but
not endorsed, was in part as follows:
I'm this, or glorious country, there's
conflict near at hand,
But loyal hosts are marching on, the evil
to Withstand;
And as they come a mighty cry is sound
ing through the land,
Prosperity Protection and Mckinley!
CHORUS:
'Hurrah hurrah a better time we see;
| Hurrah, hurrah, we march to victory;
And hurrah, hurrah, we march to victory,
| And hurrah, hurrah, we march to victory,
| And as we fight for home and right,
| Our battle cry shall be Prosperity,
Protection and Mckinley,
| And as we fight for home and right,
Our battle cry shall be for Prosperity.
Protection and Mckinley"
Argument For Song.
what is more potent than good cam
/ paign song wrote the author and pub
| Usher of a song to Chairman Cortelyou
"Oratory. fireworks, torchlight process
| sions, etc, are very good in their way,
he continued. but nothing will win ano
| enthuse the people like a song, the words
and music are suited to each other and
| both good. Use a part of your campaign
| funds to distribute this song among the
| people and put 1t into the hands of tho
| Glee clubs, and you will be doing yeomar
| service for your cause"
! The buttons in 1896 were interesting ever
! before the nominations for President were
| made. The contest for the republican
nomination was somewhat spirited and
| the partisans of Mckinley, Reed and
| others wore buttons in their coats. One
| OF the Reed buttons that year contained
/ the face of the Maine statesman, witt
| the words 81 am for Reed. Are YOU
| The Mckinley buttons bore some refer
| ence to protection, with which the Ohioar
| was so Intimately associated. There was
| one also with this printed upon it, there
being no portrait. Hes all right, Who'
| Mckinley"
| After the two parties had made nom
1 nations. buttons were everywhere.
| Among the republicans and gold demo-
| Gratis an exceedingly popular button nae
| nothing on 1t but a bug, in gilt. That
/ carried to the silver men the announce
/ ment that the wearer was horrible
gold bug. Besides the cross OF gold anc
| crown of thorns' button the silver mer
| had pretty buttons representing the daisy
There were sixteen leaves around the
edge in silver with center of gold. and
the figures '16 to l." The faces OF the
candidates that year were likewise plenti-
| full on buttons.
copyrighted 1904 by the Washington
Press Association