The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-08-31
The Campaign Song.
[The Christian Science Monitor I

The Christian Science Monitor
In other days no presidential campaign
was complete without its campaign dit
ties. They were held to be as essential
to the proper conduct of the contest as
the campaign biography and the cam
paign torchlight procession. The civil
war ushered in so many popular songs
and airs adaptable to campaign necessi-
ties that the campaign song of the regu-
lation make went practically out of ia
vor. ''Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" had
vogue in William Henry Harrison's time
that carried the song we'll into the anti
slavery period. The candidacy of Lincoln
proved an inspiration for campaign song
writers. There was one with the refrain:
Hurrah for our cause,
OF all causes the best,
Hurrah for old Abe,
Honest Abe of the West.
And another with a string of verses of
this character:
Our Lincoln is the man,
Our Lincoln is the man.
With sturdy mate
From the Pine Tree state,
Our Lincoln is the man,
This was in the contest with Douglas,
when Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was the
candidate for the Vice Presidency on the
Lincoln ticket.
In Grants time the marching songs of
the war were made to do service, and
there was no noticeable revival of taste
for the old-fashioned campaign song in
his second race, or in the Hayes-TiIden
campaign. When the third-term move
ment went down, however, and the Ohio
Canal Boy" became the Republican
tended to meet the political situation as
broken with Grant and had taken out of
the Republican party great number of
citizens of German extraction. This will
serve to explain reference in the fol-
lowing sample verse:
There were men for Grant and men for
Blaine,
And Edmund's men and shermans,
And men who wanted somebody
To reconcile the Germans.
And when the Blaine men could not win,
On any fair square field,
They rallied round Ohio's fig
And nominated Garfield,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
They rallied round Ohios flag
And nominated Garfield.
In Cleveland's third campaign his fol-
lowers INDUCED in a marching chant, the
burden of which was:
Four years more,
Four years more,
Four years more of Grover,
and that sufficed. 1.-The Full Dinner
Pail' of McKinley's first campaign did
good service, but, strange to say, neither
Roosevelt nor Taft-nor William Jen-
nings Bryan -impelled the citizenry to
burst forth into:song. For that matter,
we are unable to recall wherein the lyric
muse took even passing notice of the
candidacy Of Woodrow Wilson four years
ago, but it is possible, in view of the at
tention already received in this particular
by Charles Evans Hughes, that this
neglect will be compensated for in the
campaign now approaching.
The Hughes campaign song is said to
be literally "stuffed with melody and
is reported to be set to an air that con-
stitutes one of the trickiest exercises a
piccolo ever engaged in. All we can do
here, however, is reproduce verse and
chorus of the exhilarating production:
The rank and file of our country
Stand firmly by Charles Evans Hughes.
So surely our leader we'll make him.
Sustaining its honor and views.
We know he's decisive courageous,
And stands for the red white and blue,
So then we shall know, to the White House
he'll 60,
And the stars of our nation renew.
CHORUS
For Charles Evans Hughes cast your ballots,
Republicans, Democrats too.
Progressives, and all vote together
Next November to carry him through.
We've chosen the man of the hour
Proclaimed North, South, East and West,
To the polls we shall 20 and our loyalty show
And let Charles Hughes. our choice, do the
rest.
There are some political considerations