Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-07
And middleman doth he annoy.
By striking business dead, Sirs.


Sing. Yankee Doodle Dandy!
With spoons of gold. the English coach
And servants always handy!
The dinner pail arrived as cam
paign exhibit in the Clay-Polk cam
paign, and they sang of protection
then
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!
Clay's followers announced their
organization as the same "old coon
that had won four years before:
The moon was shining silver-bright,
! The stars with glory crowned the
! night.
High on a limb that same old coon
/ Was singing to himself this tune
Get out of my way-you're all unlucky.
Clear the track for old Kentucky.
When Polk won, his supporters cele-
| brated with parody of THE Burial of
Sir John Moore:
| Not a cheer was heard, not a single
shout
AS away to the ditch they hurried;
No bankpaid orator rose to spout
Ger the hole where that coon was
buried.
So rapidly tumbling him all alone
With his tails wounded stump quite
CORY.
They raised faint shout, 'twixt
cheer and a groan,
And left him alone in his glory
Not content with clubbing him "the
Pathfinder of the Rockies" supporters
of John c. Fremont delighted to de
scribe him as 'the mustang colt that
mnSt distance "oI1
nag" And they raised their voices in
a song of considerable vigor:
The mustang colt is strong and young,
His wind is strong, his knees not
sprung.
The old gray horse is a well-known
hack,
He's long been fed at the public rack. |
The mustang is a full-blooded colt.
He cannot shy! He will not bolt.
The old gray nag, when he tries to trot, |
Goes round and round in the same old |
spot
The mustang goes at killing pace,
He's bound to win the four-mile race, |
Then do your best with the old gray
hack
The mustang colt will clear the track,
An old gray hack" was the most
complimentary name the Fremont men
had for Buchanan. One song-writer
painted him in these lines:
The dough, the dough, the facial
dough,
The nose that yields when you tweak
it, SOL
1t signs for the spoil-it sells it's soul
For spoonful of pap from the treas
ury bowl.
For signing the Clay compromise
bill Willard Fillmore was compliment
ed in the following StanZaS:
There lives a man in Buffalo.
His name is Willard Fillmore
Who thinks the unions sunk so low
It ought to take one pill more.
TO purge away the prejudice"
Which true men have for freedom, 0
canting. pompous wretch he is :
Who'll cheat you if you heed him.
DID Willard Fillmore, not another pill .
more,
In our mouth 7
The quaking south
Shall ne'er put a pill more.
Campaign songs of 1860 were mark
d by bitterness. A favorite with the
Douglas wing ridiculed the personal
ppearance and homespun reputation
f Honest Abe:
ell US he's a second Webster,
Or, II better, Henry Clay;
hat he's full of gentle humor,
Placid as a summers day
ell again about the cord-wood;
Seven cords or more a day;
ow each night he seeks his closet, 81
There alone to kneel and pray. r
ny lie you tell, we'll swallow -
Swallow any kind of mixture: -
ut, . don't, we beg and pray you ii
Don't for lands sake, show his Oh
picture. ps
Andrew JOhnsOns Swing around er
e circle" was satirically celebrated of
the tune of Just Before the Battle hs
other:
lst before election, Andy, m
We are thinking most of you: DIR
lille we get our ballots ready he
But, be sure, they're not for you bu
,, dear Andy. you'll not get them, 70
But you'll get your leave of absence eli
AS you swing around the circle" al
CHORUS. ma iG
III have swung around the circle -,
That you ought to swing, It's true: RI,
|, you tried to veto congress-, ye
But, L guess, We'll veto you 7 :
When Grant first ran for president, Va
ardent supporters phrased their iet
'vor in terms of Aud Lang Syne": trI
ould brave Ulysses be forgot, rio
Who worked SO long and well
fields where fires of death were hot az,
And brave fought and fell?
And inevitably they sang of Apo ~,
.ttOX- %
boys. final bumper on,
While we in chorus chant; 11lh
r next president we nominate rai
)ur own Ulysses Grant To-
q II asked what state he halls from, at
This our sole reply shall be no,
0m near Appomattox courthouse, tho
With its famous apple tree. ed
twas there to our Ulysses VIII
hat Lee gave up the fight. .ss
" boys To Grant for president y
md God defend the right wit
was different story when he a.,
nted the republican nomination for il !
1ird term.