The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-27

toll, the quilt was finished. and she
consented TO 20 to "meeting." On
the way to the church she heard .
great piece Of news. When che cot
to the meeting she rushed 70 the
'MeuFnees' bench," kpDlt for .
spAee II prayer end then arose.
shoutths: GLORY to God. NJ Quilt
u finished; my soul % eaved; and
Ttppec@noe 10 elected"
10 the Wings Of 1e4e souls al
walton and the election Of William
Henry Harrison were matters Of
equal importance. The campaign
was not 90 much . political cam
patgn as It vas . HelleluJah chorus
sung by the triumphant wings. II
was the most exciting political race
OF our history. and It ended By the
overwhelming election Of William
Henry Harrison q Be president,
end John Tyler to be vice presi-
dent. It was the hrst campaign in
which cartoons, emblems, popular
slogans and political songs had a
vogue, and 1t was the FIRST in which
q candidate for president took the
stump to appeal y the voters di.
rectiy:
And have you heard the news from
Maine?
How 1t went,
Hell-hent,
For Governor Kent,
And Iippecanoe and Tyler, too.
For TlppecaR0e and Tyler, tool"
That was one OF the many great
Wing songs Of the campaign. It
has lived because Of the ai!iterative
Tilt OF the refrain Fer Tippecanos
and Tyler, too" and because of the
memory of the tornado of enthu-
siasm which greeted its appearance,
1t was in September Of the cam
paign. Harrison was well in the
lead, but the Van buren, admins
trattoR and the old Jackson ma
chine were straining to stem the
Wing uprising. The September
elections in Maine we're then as
now, taken az stravs to show the
trend of the political air currents
Horace GFeeley entered the arsn.
of national politics n this var IL
started a csmnaien n.n.r IN Nv,
York called eThe Lor Cabin IN
every issue it printed from fen to
twenty campaign sones IN ,ho
day it presented the rfnr,ous ns-s
of the s'redemption OF Maine" fer
Maine had been q strong Demo
cratic state, IT also published the
words and music of the SONG "Tip-
pecanoe and Tyler. too"
The Taunt That Turned.
The campaign of 1910 ia called
the LOG Cabin and Hard cider
Campaign" II ali came about be-
cause Of the comnIacent superior-
| ity OF the Democrats. Van Ruren
had beaten Harrison in 1873 and
when the Whias turned down thar
great Clay. and asain nominafed
the venerable Harrison. the Demo-
! Gratis could do aothtnr but lauTh.
Having beaten Harrison once. thew
reasoned that it was utterly impos-
sible for them to he beaten nv Har-
risop. The sneers at the Wing can
didate appeared in every> Demo
cratic paper, but it remained for
the Baltimora Republican to SAY:
Give him Q barrel OF hard cider,
; and settle a pension, of $4,000 a year
on him, and, my word for 1t, he viii
sit the remainder of his days in his
log cabin, BY the side Of . sea-coal
fire, and study neral philosophy =
That paragTaph was not 20 cruel
perhaps, as the New York Evening
Posts appeal to the ladies' to send
in secondhand shoes and hats So
that the poverty-stricken Harrison
might appear in decent clothing be-
fore the people, but it struck -the
Wings as utterly contemplate
Therefore, they turned the tables
took up the hard cider" and "los