Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-25
BY Frederic .. Jisskin.

BY Frederic .. Uaskin.
Washington, ID. C., Sept. zs.--A fbig
meeting Wns in progress ia GILES county,
Virginia, in November, l84O. The circuit
riders were assisted by earnest cxhnfcra
and there were many profceeions II con
version. One old woman IN the nelghi,yr-
hood had held out against the Efforts n
the church. She was piecing a qult-a
quilt Of ten tbo,isand pieces. AZ last. after
two years Of toll, the quilt was finished,
and she consented 10 70 70 meeting"
On the way 70 the church She heard
great piece of news. When she rot 10 the
meeting she rushed 70 the "moumorr'
bench" knelf for space IN prayer and
then arose, shouting: "Glory b. God.
my quilt is finished; my soul is saved. aud
Tippccanoe ~ clectcdi'
10 the Whigs Of 1910 souls salvation
and the election of William Henry Hari-
son we're matters Of equal importance
The campaign was not - much political
campaign az IL was a Hslleluiat cborts
sung by the triumphant Wbigs. u va
the most exciting political race y orr
history, and IL ended by the overwhelming
election of William Henry Harrison tO
be President, and John Tyler b. he Vice-
"
which cartoons, aynblcms, popular Ei0-
gsns and political songy bad a vogue, ands
IL was the first IN which a candidate f1r
President took the stump n appeal b.
the voters directly.
"And have you heard the news from
Mainc2
How Il went,
Heil-bent.
For Governor Ken.
And Tippecanoe and Tyler. too.
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, tO0"
/ That was one q The many great Vtir
songs of the campaign II has lived b.
cause Of the alliterative lilf n the refrain
''For Tippecanoe and Tyler too trd
because a the memory a the tornado RI
enthusiasm which greeted iis appearsnce
IL was IN September u The campaign
Harrison was well in the LEAD but the
Van Buren administration and THE old
Jackson machine were stralnIng - stem
. the Wing uprising. The September elec-
tions in Maine were then. ~ now, taken
/ as straws 20 show the trend u the polifi-
cal air currents.
Horace Greeley entered tho ar~ra ~
n ational politics in this year he started
a campaign paper N New York oailei
"The Log CABIN" IN every isssle if
printed from ten 70 twenty Why cam
paign songs. On the day Il presented the
glorious news Of the redemption ~
| Name" for Maine had been a strong
Democratic state, Il also published The
words and music Of the song "IIppecanoe
and Tyler, too"
THE TAUST THAT TuRSyD
The campaign of 1870 = called the
log CABIN and Hard Cider Campaign
II an came about because u the COM
Il - Z
Van Buren had beaten Harrison IN 1925
and when the Wings turned d1ur thor
great Clay, and agaIn nominated the
venerable Harrison, the Democrats could
do nothing but laugh. Having beaten
Harrison once, they reasoned ttat it Was
utterly impossible for them 20 tls 1eefen
by Harrison. The snee-s % the Nhir
candidate appeared IN every Democrafic
paper, but i renamed for the Baltimc-s
Republican 70 saw:
Give him a barrel of hard cider and
settle pension Of $4,000 year Or him.
and. my word for IT, he viii 81 the r.
malnder Of his DAYS m his log CABIN. bv
the side Of a sea-coal lre. and study
moral philosophy" That paragraph wa
not so cruel. perhaps, as the New York
Evening Pests appeal % the ladies fo
send In secondhand shoes and hats 20
that the poverty-stricken Harrison might
appear IN decent clothing before the
people, but IL struck the Wings ~ utterly
contemplate. Therefore. they TUNED the
tables, took up the hard cider and Ing
CABIN" sneers At their candidate and pro-
claimed 10 the world that, - true demo
Gratis, they were supporting a man VIM
lived IN a log cabin ayd drank hard cilier--
q third CIncInnatIIs
The Wings, and their predecessor. N
- - naM Na.H
excellent opportunity 90 judge % the
efficacy OF the hero IN pohtics. For four
presidential campaigns Andrew Jacsson
had been unoonquerable with the peupie
In 1896 HsrrIson had been a candidate.
but there was little reference o. be war
record. But IN 1910 he Wa put forth bF
ms ardent followers A. q real true AMI
Genuine War Hero. he was the hero of The
Battle Of the Thames. oi the Battle 1i
Fort Meigs, and he had 0vercome The
mighty chleftaIn, Tecllmseh, at the Battle
OF TIppeeanoe- The Democrats cal-
didate for Vice President Richard 81
johnson of Kentucky, had slam Te-
cumseh with his own hand. and a few of
the younger Democrats tried % retalate
with Johnson as a hero. But it didn
90. johnson was not popular % beEIn
with, and 1910 was distinctly not DcEno-
cratic year.
HARD TiNES HELPED.
The panic Of 1887, brought on by over
speculation and too much confidence n
the great governmental prosperity a. "a
prop for individual prosperity, bad reduced
the nation 70 poverty. Men were Gus oi
work, bank deposits had been lost n
bank wrecks. and the country was IN
terrible condition. Whether rightly 1r
wrongly, the party IN power Was held to
be responsible and the Whig landslide was
inevitable.
When the Nhigs met st Hanishurg
there were three candidates: Henry Clay
the real soul Of the party, William Henry
Harrison, and Winfield Scott. Thaddeti-
Stevens made his first entry into the realm
Of pfactical-and dirty politics in this
convention. He was an anti-MaSon ana
he soon convinced the convention that t
would be impossible % get the anti-Mason
vote for Clay, who was a ROYAL Arch
Mason. Clay eliminated. the race was
between Scott and Harrison, beth hcrocs
of the War OF 1872. Both were born n
Virginia, as was Clay, and curi0uslv
enough, il required the vote Of the Nir-
ginia delegation % settle the sSuc.
Thaddeus Stevens was for Harrison b.
cause he had A letter from H4rriarn