Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-04-14

were addressed BY General Harrison in
person. Miniature log cabins were
drawn on wheels in professions and live
coons p aged fantastic tricks a. the top
of flagstaffs carried by cheering or sing
ing voters. Hard cider nothing strong
err in barrels, kegs and jugs were in evi.
dence everywhere and was sampled'by
everybody, so that the contest took the
name of the Log Cabin, Hard Cider
and Coon Skin Campaign
ITO counteract influence of these meet.
ings and the party paraphernalia em-
ployed by ''Tippecanoe and Tyler too
to captivate the masses, the friends of
Van Buren, also held conventions, and.
invoking the lame and prestige of old
Hickory who supported him for the
Presidency adopted hickory boughs and
the chicken cock or growing rooster as
their party symbols, the former grace.
fully waving and the latter defantly
Tapping its wings and growing loudly
everywhere.
1.-The Harrison and Tyler rally of thous.
ands and thousands of Wings as already
stated was held on the hill east and
overlooking Rocheport, then a town of
perhaps fifteen hundred inhabitants and
of large shipping tobacco manufacturing
and other interests. Three stands for
speakers and temporary plank seats were
provided for the vast c%oncourse of people
of both sexes and Of all ages. v~ariously
estim ted to number eight or ten thous-
and. The weather was ideal in every re-
spect for such an outdoor assemblage
and the resulting demonstration.
'Sam'l Noble, an old citizen who lived
near Huntsville, Randolph county, and
who was with Gen. Harrison at the bat
tie of Tippecanoe, November I, 1911, in
Indiana, rode seated in a canoe drawn in
a two-horse wagon at the head of his
county's large delegation to the conven-
ton, arousing the greatest enthusiasm
among the people along the way.
among those who addressed the enthu.
%siastic and cheering thousands were,
Chiffon Allen of Kentucky, File cher
Webster, a son of Daniel Webster, Col.
James II. Birch, Gen. A. w. Doniphan,
Abiel Leonard, James :. Rollins, Col.
John O'Fallon, James Winston, a grand.
son of Patrick Henry, Geo. c. Bingham.
The Missouri Artist, and others whose
nanies escape me.
"Three passenger steamboats,, crowded
to the guards with passengers, and bear
ing field pieces, banners, flags and band.
of music excited the widest Ell husiasn
on landing. Ths flag steamer of the flee
displayed on the hurricane deck a larg,
bust portrait of Gen. Harrison, ('OlC
Tippecanoe) the sight of which incitet
the assembled thousands on shore to out
bursts of uncomfortable cheering.
'Aimong the exciting incidents of thu
occasion, it may be mentioned, that on
of the delegations which came overland
from Saline county, numbered severa
hundred persons on horseback, and max
ing the welkin ring as they marched, dis
played at the head of the column a ban
ner on which was painted a bust portal
of Thomas II. Benton, from the folds O
whose cravat protruded the corner of
ten dollar bank note, the caricature in
tending to symbolic an alleged indiscre
8 ton of young Benton when a student a
Chapel Hill College, North Carolina
The sight of this banner was a red flag t
the few Democrats who happened to b
present, causing them to denounce tn
c~aricature. in which many of the olde
and more conservative Wings joined, a
, all unworthy exhibition of party malil
nifty.
6 "Among the Democrats present wa
Judge Robbins, of Illinois, a gentlema
of prominence aud a speaker. By som
. means il was noised about that Robbir
was an Abolitionist, ar epithet whic
signifed at that time in Central Nilsson,
the sum of all villainies.' Indeed,
, subjected a man who wore it to the h,
6 initiation of open insult, if not to tn
y perils of personal violence.
Hearing that his name was associate
. with this charge, and observing that
was creating a sensation in the crowd, h
. asked and obtained leave to occupy til
, main stand for a few minutes and IL
nounced the charge as utterly false.
Notr;tl,ctapdiu the great Whis