Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-10-18
Grover! Grover.
Four years more of Grover,
Then We'll be in clover.

-Four years more of Grover,
Then We'll be in clover.
How sapless these lays of later days
compared to outpourings of times when
| every citizen, if not a "king,' was in the
most personal sense a politician. Rivalry
arrived with the retirement of Washing
ton. A very lively Jingle was sung by
Jefferson's supporters of 1900
The federalists are down at last,
Ihe mOnarchists completely cast.
The aristOcrats are stripped of power,
Storms DER the British faction lower.
Soon we republicans h see
sons from bondage free!
Lord! How the federalists will stare
AT Jefferson In Adams chair!
Campaign literature was little enriched
by song writer's In the campaigns of
James Madison and James Monroe. But
Andrew Jackson stimulated them to ener-
tetic verbosity. His military record was
his principle political asset at first, so
they made much of it. Several stanzas
celebrated his victory over Lord Paken-
ham at New Orleans
You've heard, I s'pose, of New Orleans,
ITS famed. for youth and beauty;
There are girls of every hue, it seems,
From snowy white to sooty.
Now Pakenham had made his brags,
If he that day was lucky,
He'd have the girls and cotton Gags
but Jackson, he was wide awake,
And was not scared at trifies,
fOr Wen ne Knew kentuckY'S bows.
With their death-dealing rifles.
He led them down to cypress swami,
The ground was low and mucky;
mere stood John Bull in martial pomp,
And here stood Old Kentucky.
For Gen. Benjamin Harrison, a candi-
date of cold manners, republicanashouters
of 1888 parodied the song that gave his
grandfather's, William Henry Harrison,
reputation more enduring than any chron-
icle of the historian. 1t was the song of
"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" with play on
Harrison's victory over an Indian army Of
the prophet" in the battle of Tippecanoe
river:
motion,
Our country people through?
1t is the ball a-rolling on, for Tippecanoe
Oh, yes. with them we will beat van!
Van is q used-up man!
Let them talk about hard cider. cider,
cider,
And log cabins, too
1t will Only help speed the ball for Tippe-
canoe and Tyler, too!
The latch-string hangs outside the door,
And It is never pulled through,
For that is not the custom Of old Tippe-
canoe and Tyler, too!
The vested interests and the 'peepul'
were not yet named. but the issue they
y PCAoOAAAAC0 was OTdWu. IL IlDDcs
canoe was the champion of the common
man., Martin Van Buren,, who desired q
second term, must be a soulless servant
of the rich,-
mat Matty loves the w~orkingman.
mo w-orktngman can doubt. sire:
for well he doth pursue the plan
NO workingman can doubt. sirs:
He turns them out of whig employ.
he turns them out Of bread, sirs;
ana middiemen doth her annoy,
by striking business dead, sirs!
For Matty is a democrat.
sing. Yankee Doodle Dandyi
win spoons of gold, and English coach,
ana servants always handy
Clay's followers announced their organ
t1ation as the same 'old COON that had
Won four years before
The moon was shining silver bright
2 stars with glory crowned the night,
Hlgh on 9 limb that same old coon
vas singing to himself this tune
Clear the track for old Kentucky.
When Polk won, his supporters ceie-
orated with q parody of 1.-The Burial Of
Biz John Moore
Not a cheer was heard. not a single shout
As away to the ditch they hurried;
No band-paid orator rose to spout.
Ger the hole where tina coon was buried.
30 rapidly tumbling him all alone
With his tails wounded stump quite
they raised a faint shout, .twixt a cheer
And left him alone in his glory.
Not content with clubbing him ..the
E~afnninder Of the Rockies supporters OF
: Sohn g. fremont delighted to describe him
q the mustang colt" that mus distance