The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02

country. Therefore. he made loyalty to the bank test of party fealty. But there was settled conviction that Jackson was right and the bank was wrong The old corruption and bar gain" cry of four years ago was heard again, but most of the old issues were buried in the new
 The Anti- MaEons were strohg in the North. or had been in State elections. and Calhoun was leading the snti-Jacl- son light in his own State. where the doctrine of nullifcation was already be- ing preached. Tue end of the bank question and the crisis in the nuIlif- cation business were to come In Jack sons second administration, but of course, that was not known. The fact that Clay, Mason. was conniying with the anti-Masons. and that Clay, the au- thor of the American System of pro lection and the Tarln of Abominations was in collusion with Calhoun, the chief of the nullifiers. added to Jack sons strength. "The. Triple Unholy AL liance of Clayism, Notification and An t. Masonry" was the way the Jackson orators described the opposition. On the other side every effort was expended to induce the people to wake up to the dangers of the spells system as introduced by Jackson. His cabinet and his less important and much more notorious Kitchen Cabinet came in for their share of the fighting. The Whigs sang:
 king Andrew had five trusty squlres, Whom he held his bid to do; | He also had three pilot frsh
 To give the sharks their cue.
 Thero was Mart and Lou and Jack and Lev
 And Roger of Fancy hue, l And Blair, the cook, and Kendall ehief
 cook.
 l And Isaac, surnAmad the true" A bad song maybe. but 1t told about 1 Martin Van Buren, Louis McLane, Jonn | Branch. Levi woodhury. and Roger B. l Fancy, who were in Jackson's official l cabinet, and also about Francis P Blair. editor of The Washington Glohs. l Amos Kendall and Isaac Hill, the | three friends of the administration known as the "Kite.len Cabinet, be- cause Jackson used te iat them In at l the back door Of the White House l The .'canipaign lie" had quite run that year. too! For instance, all the l Western newspapers opposing Jackson l printed a story that the members or l inc whie national convention had chartered a steamboat to Ko from Washinrton to Mount Vernon. When l inc boat reached there, John A. Wash ' ington, then owner of the Mount yer non estate refused to let the Wniss I Land. AILeT tnuCH fltAPOtNAAAAS NS F~- l mitted them to go to the grave CT hts great-uncle. the Father or his Country, but would not permit them to come near the mansion house. MT.
 Washington's discourtesy was due, SC declared the Whig papers, to the pres
 once at the mansion at that time or
 Isaac Hill and Amos Kendall. of the
 Itchen Cabinet. with their families.
 To this story the Jackson press re- AartaIa from MT. | Washington, MT. Kendall and Senator Hill. Kendall and Hill proved siibis,
 After denouncing the Whig press in
 yitrolic terms, the Jackson papers
 would quote from the ofiicial proceed
 ings of the Whig convention. to-wit
 Resolved, That the thanks Of the
 convention be presented to John A. Washington, Esq, for the polite man.
 ner in which he yielded to the wishes of the convention"
 Then, on the other side the Jackson
 men tried to meet the charges oi
 bloody murder made against then
 leader by telling tales of the duels
 in which MT. Clay had figured There
 were enough of them that really hap pened, goodness knows, but more were
 invented by Dame Runor to be spread
 through the JacksoR press. Senator
 Benton, os Missouri. Jackson's righi
 bower In Ne Senate. had shot Jack
 son in the shoulder in street fghi lin Memphis many years before. While
 this campaign was on, the bullet wal i, cut out Benton standing by the oper < ating table. The story was printed iT F three lines. followed by a whole col
 umn about the dueling propensities O
 MT. Clay. abusing the great Whig lead
 CT for fighting when he accepted chal
 lenges. and denouncing him as a COW
 ard in cases where he declined tG fight.
 II The fear of the taint Of graft wal not so potent then as now. Witness
 the naive publication of the correspon dence between President Jackson an, , mail contractor, over whose fortune
 the President had direct control il , those early days. The Nashville Re publican tells of General Jackson's de l parture from Nashville for Washing ton in September, when the campaigl , was getting hot. It said: "Previou