The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-25
Farewell, dear Van,
You're a used-up man.
Van! Van! Van!

That Matty loves the working man,
No working man can doubt, sirs;
For well he doth pursue the place
That turns the worker out, 'sirs.
He turns them out of Wing employ,
He turns them out of bread, sirs
And middle men doth he annoy,
BY striking business dead, sirs.
For Matty Is a Democrat
Sing, Yankee Doodle Dandy"
With spoons of gold, and English
COACH
And servants always handy!
1t was that same campaign which
produced the one song with a
line in it that the American people
still remember; "Tippecanoe and Ty
Ter, too" But the phrase has not
lived siXty-two years without help. A
revival of logged the public memory
in 1888, when Tippecanoe's grandson
Benjamin Harrison, was elected to the
Presidency. The song, which was bas.
ed on General Harrison,s victory over
the Indians under the Prophet" by
Tippecanoe River, ran as follows;
What has caused commotion, motion,
motion,
Our country through?
It is the ball a rolling on, for Tippe.
canoe and Tyler, too
And with them we will beat Van
Van is a used-up man!
Let them talk about hard cider, cider,
cider,
And log cabins, too
1t will only help speed the ball for
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too
The latchstring hangs outside the
door, door, door.
And it is never pulled through,
For it was never the custom of old
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
Another verse of the same cam.
paign which was sung with great gus.
to by the crowd that seemed to think
that Van Buren, was too elegant was
Tippecanoe has no chariot to ride in
No palace of marble has he to reside
in,
No bags of gold eagles, no lots of fine
clothes,
But he has a wealth far better than
those
The love of nation, free, happy
and true,
Are the riches and portion of Tippe-
canoe!
Down in Maine, in a Governorship
fight they blended state and national
affairs in these lines:
She went boil tcnt
FOH Governor Kent,
For TipEecanoe and Tyler too;
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
The familiar up Salt River" phrase
a leftover from the Clay-JaCks on fight
of 1886, was also revived for Harrison.
That had it's origin in a trick played
upon Clay. He was going somewhere
on the Ohio River in a rowboat to
make an important campaign speech
But his oarsman, who was a Jackson
man, rowed him up a small branch
stream called Salt River and made him
miss the meeting. AS revised for 1910
the song went:
Our vessel is ready, we cannot delay,
For Harrison's coming and we must
away
Up Salt River! Up Salt River!
Up Salt River! oh heigh-ho!
The dinner pail, full or empty, as a
argument, is nothing new.
It got into song in the Polk-Clay cam
paign of 1914 as bait for the labor
vote"
Here's a health to the workingman's
friend,
Here's good luck to the pillow and the
loom!
Him who will not join in support of
our cause.
Nay light dinners and ill-luck illume!
And this one:
The gallant Wings have drawn the
sword,
And thrown the idle sheath away;
And onward is the battle word,
For Home Protection and for Clay!
Here's something intended to be Sc
ious:
The great, the wise, the viTtuous, all
they say
n Times dread progress, die and
turn to clay;
dying Nation shall the comment
give
The turns to Clay-but turns to Clay
to live!
But, as everybody knows, Polk won.
his story has nothing to do with
songs, but when Polk was
President a New England minister
yho did not like the President, was