Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
Comparison Of Men
Used in the Campaign.

comparison OF Men people" ex-
Used in the Campaign. e IT'S ,e
that of the court of Van Buren,, with
Its ruffied shirts. its dainty clothes. satin
chairs and damask sofas. Listen to the
fawning minions of power casting sneers
at the venerable hero Of Tippecanoe on
account of his poverty. Hear them urg-
ing against him that he is only clerk
IN county court. He who has fought
more and harder battles than any other
warrior now living in the United States
this notwithstanding Jackson was alive)
who gained more splendid victories than
any other living American. who was gov
ernor of the northwest territory, a rep
resentatiVe in Congress. a United States
has come out of all these offices poor
Had he been as INSCRIPTIONS as they he
might have been as rich as Jackson and
as wealthy as Van Buren,"
In attacking Van Buren, they exclaimed
from every busting: What do you think
OF the democracy Of a President who
sleeps on French bedsteads. walks on
royal Wilton carpets. eats his pate de
foie gras from silver plates, with forks
of gold. dips his soup q Ia Refine with
a gold ladle from silver tureen. and
rides In a gilded maroon coach of British
maker"
The democrats complained that they
could not get the people to listen to ar
into assailing Harrion. Keep it before
the people," they said, that Harrison
supported the odious alien and sedition
laws; that he wore the black cockade;
that he voted for selling white men into
slavery. a law that would make 1t posi-
bic for free negro to buy a revolution
airy hero and to administer thirty-nine
lashes II the latter attempted to escape.
Keep 1t before the people that as Gov
ernor OF Indiana he cut out all citizens
from the right Of suffrage who did not
own fifty acres of land, and that he re-
signed his commission in the army in the
hottest of the fight in the last war;
On both sides there was a world of
campaign lies and half truths, but the
wings had
Lies and Half-Truths the edge on
Used on Both Sides. a ane t u,.ua nev.
er let up. The democrats forced the wing
candidate to take the stump. and thus
started the American custom of presi-
Dental candidates deyoting much of their
time to speechmaking. They charged that
Harrison was a filter subject for a ses-
sion of lunacy commission than for the
White House, and asserted that he was
kept in the background because he would
ruin his cause. If he should open his
mouth. The whole WING party was de-
clared a party Of padlocked lips The re-
suit was that Gen.. Harrison went on
the hastings and won many a vote by his
speeches.
Horace Greeley became editor of the
Log Cabin that year, and his tren-
chant editorials and sharp paragraphs
were copied by whig journals throughout
the country. His paper was reposi-
tory of more campaign slogans and
political songs than any other campaign
paper ever brought out 1t mattered not
that Johnson. the vice presidential can
didate on the democratic ticket. with
his own hand had slain TecumseiI.- the
chieftain for whose defeat Harrison be-
came "TippecanOe." He could not get
into the hero class with Harrison at
friends tried to make the most Of his
feat, the hero-worship still continued
with Harrison.
The triumph of the whig cause in the
the occasion of great rejoicing. In one
great rally a huge ball, ten feet in
diameter. was rolled through the streets
at the head of a procession of young
wings" When it had done service in
Baltimore it was rolled to Philadelphia
1t was supposed to typify the gathering
as-it-goes progress of the wing cause
But in the midst of the Philadelphia pro-
cession it collapsed. and the democrats
promptly asserted that the wing cause
would collapse with 1t.
But as a matter of fact the wings had
sung and shouted themselves to victory
in nineteen of the twenty-six states,
and the returns showed them in posses
sion of 234 electoral votes to 60 for Van
Buren,. and in very truth. Little Van was
a used-up man."