| Show how f I JhlPhillipr Union (Released by Western Newspaper A ft V two such colorful as Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie as opposing candidates and the third term Issue supplying material foT this year’s heated debate campaign promises to become one of the hottest presidential contests in recent years But it is doubtful if it will be as exacting as the one which stirred America 100 years ago when Martin Van Buren was the Democratic nominee and Gen William was the Henry Harrison champion of the Whigs 1 y WITH Although the campaigns of 1840 and 1940 are a full century apart they offer some interesting paralIn both cases there has lels been a crossing of party lines m of presidential In the selection candidates or vice presidential In 1840 Harrison’s running mate on the Whig ticket was John TyIn 1940 the ler a Democrat vice Democratic presidential nominee is a former Republican and the Republican candidate for President is a former Democrat In 1840 the Democrats who had been in power for 12 years were trying to keep a President in the White House for another four Opposed to them was a years young vigorous party which had been defeated four years earlier who have In 1940 the Democrats been in power for eight years are trying to extend that period to 12 years under the same lead er Pitted against them is a reparty Republican juvenated striving to stage a comeback after two successive defeats A 'Packed’ Convention of For a proper understanding the tumultuous 1840 campaign it is necessary to go back to the 1836 presidential Before race the end of his second term President Andrew Jackson had determined to make Vice President JS- - i'l f'y' ' HU X Martin Van Buren his successor in the White House So “Old Hickory” arranged to have a held a convention nominating year and a half before the election By "packing’ this convention which was held in Baltimore in May 1835 with delegates which he controlled Jackson dictated the nomination of Van Buren for Presidenand Richard M Johnson of Kentucky for vice president despite the opposition of the southern wing of the party This wing bolted the party and nominated Sen Hugh L WTute of Tennessee for President and John Tyler of Virginia for vice president Despite this defection in the party ranks Van Burpn and Johnson managed to win the election of 1836 because the Whigs were also split They had nominated Gen William Henry Harrison of Ohio for President and Francis but Granger for vice president there was another Whig ticket in the field headed by Daniel Webster of Massachusetts for President and the aame vice presidential nominee Francis Granger In the election Van Buren carried 15 states and received 170 electoral votes enough to win lot him over Harrison’s 73 electoral votes Webster’s 14 White's 26 and the 11 of South Carolina which went to Willis P Mangum of North Carolina Aa Unhappy Administration Van Buren’ administration w an unhappy one He inherited all of the difficulties growing out of Jackson's financial policies Then came the panic of 1837 V'hlch resulted from a boom period caused by the craze for internal improvements Despite these troubles and a growing dissension within the Democratic party Van Buren managed to the nomination for in 1840 The Whiga again nominated Harrison and in an attempt to attract the dissatisfied Democrats to their banner they rhose for f v x1 A I J r n Tlf ' ' V? t vi ’ARPISOfJ i! CV 11 £TZ I AY N E K thought it was a fight between philosophies and s stems but what mean is that you could never prove it to me by what comes out of my radio set have spent the whole of 1140 listening to the radio war news and as the situation now st mis the hais aie better off in coconut coveted confov turnery and pait Havana h af stoga s while the dcinoi ru ies aie ahead m point on scalp oils stop vvati es and the bnakfast food t! at has four vita an gi asp nuns fiom lat You vviote me that vout ladio has tell been on tte bum and would you what has been going on so am glad to give vou mv lmpiession Last night hear that the Greek named fellow some dictator Bounds has had a confeienee with thiee Tuikish leadets rich in proteins headed by Meatena over the sinking of a couple of Greek ships It looks named Vim and Vigor like Greece may be taken over and divided between the Tastee Gum Drop nlltanoe and the Open a Checking Account With Us for Any Sum riom a Dollar Up bunch There is not much new from Mussolini has took Fruity rica Bars Blue Owl and Fair Humor by direct assault but the British are and holding onto the Smoothier Glossier Hair Area and Berlin is I don’t know aloof remaining whtther it li aloof of white or rye The thing to svatcljia whether the British lose the Pure and DeliciouJ Suez canal which is rich In those qualities what gives you energy and ambition and a clear complexion on sale at all leading drug stores but pretty vulnerable from the air TROY Title page hr of a Joh campaign Harrison’s running mate the HarriDemocrat John Tyler son’s military record was his chief recommendation as a presidential candidate The son of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia a signer of the Declaration of Independence he had joined the army as an ensign at the age of 19 and had served against the Indians in Ohio under St Clair and Wayne In 1795 he was promoted to captain and placed m command of Fort Washington on the present site of Cincinnati Two years later he resigned his commission and was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory from which in 1790 he was chosen a delegate to congress When the territory was divided in 1801 he was made governor of the new Territory of Indiana and in that position won the victory over the Indians which gave him the sobriquet of “Old Tippe- canoe” At the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was appointed brigadier general placed in command of the Northwest frontier and defeated the British and Indians at the Battle of the Thames at which the famous ShawTiee chief Tecumseh was killed Promoted he to the rank of resigned from the army in 1816 when he was elected to congress After serving three from Ohio years in congress he was elected a state senator in 1819 and five years later he was sent to the In 1828 he United States senate was appointed minister to Colombia but he was recalled when Jackson became President A Candidate Minus a Platform In nominating Harrison for President in 1840 the Whigs failed to provide him with any platform of party principles for the very had none good reason that they to be in except that of wanting as it turned out But power a need platform didn’t they was Despite the fact that there with Van great dissatisfaction largely administration Buren’s foldue to the depression which lowed the panic of 1837 and a Buren Van that growing feeling had become “too aristocratic Demfor the common people the ocrats might easily have won the in election They were the party resources of power had all the leader was patronage and their known as the “Little Magician as a a tribute to his astuteness politician made followers Buren’s Van But blunseveral very bsd poLticral ders and the Whigsof were quick One them to take advantage which of the Whig newspapers about enthusiastic was not very the the party’s candidate printed barstatement that "give him a a and pension rel of hard cider our word of $2000 a year and remainder of for it he will t the side Use his days In a log cabin by mor- of a ‘sea coal fire and study cUdiutf'tbe °feope fact that Despite the o country genlived as a North Bend tleman af hi home Whig industriously h £dtivtd the Idt toiled in the field in a 5nplf tni tht In conU1t to It the piltiJ A hu C 14 hltl1 L Anirarl 'song ot lktft aristocratic Van Buren was said to be living at the White House orators denounced the Whig Democratic candidate’s extravagance They declared he was “maintaining a royal establishment at the cost of the nation Will the people feel Inclined to support their chief servant in a palace as splendid as that of the Caesars and as richly adorned as the proudest Asiatic mansion?” Instead of defending their candidate from such exaggerated charges as this the Democrats added fuel to the flame by the names they called Harrison— ”a old woman” "a pitiable dotard” "a granny” "a general” and "the hero of forty defeats" All of this plus the WTiigs depicting him as a great military hero and a simple farmer served to endear Har” rison to the “common especially the farmers and backwoodsmen The alliterative "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!” became their favonte slogan and when they weren’t shouting that they were chanting "Van Van is a used-uman!” or “With Tip and Tyler We’ll Bust Van’s Biler!” A Stirring Symbol Not only did the Whigs have such effective slogans as those quoted above but they also had a striking symbol for their cause I don’t seem to make much out the situation m France Petain the marshal with that rich creamy quality has named a court to try of six Frenchmen and a whopping stick of chocolate that comes In Th French governthree sizes ment would like to leave Vichy and the watch that is the official timepiece of 11 railroads and move back to Paris and the soup that comes in 11 flavors at 10 cents s can 1 don’t know what will come of it all on account of I use a dollar watch and do not care for soup except vegetable home made I think the situation Personally very confused and that no good will come of it for us no matter what we smoke or eat but I think congress should top stalling and pass a conscription law which has I also at least Vitamin C in it favor letting England have 50 and a case of destroyers Meatena in return for Bermuda a year’s supply of Dr Whozlss’s Tooth Powder and any good peach-nu- t ice cream Yours Luke Is He grabs a train to Buffalo Without a thought about the dough He goes to Frisco or Pen Yan And does it on the credit plan They mounted log cabins on wheels and i drew them through the streets with teams of white At their rallies hard horses cider was freely dispensed— la fact the campaign of 1810 has come down in history as the "Log Cider Campaign" Never before— and never tinea —had there been such a noisy campaign and one so completely And so dominated by emotion was William Henry Harrison borne into the White House on (even this food of ballyhoo though that word hadn’t yet been coined) But it was a hollow vicWithin a tory for the WTiigs month after Harrison’ Inauguration he died— and John Tyler th became President Democrat Throughout his administration ha leaders of the the with quarreled party that had elected him So four year later they turned at last to Henry Clay but he was defeated by James K Polk the ' Democratic nominee and the first '’dark borse” In American political history ppirate J A ylAT ClTtV Sf AH CHITMPI MRS WITH SINWN SlAt Brdford A Rl'Ttl WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 New York Hill Xncioae 10 cents tor Book S Name Address SIAM 7irem INMD1 T''HFKF woii' A those old both with n badly st soaried mnsh "Got them out of my sght1" owner said ‘’I can’t stand C o tl oncht of wood bent and for d into unnatural curies " In the end she did t’et them out id s !t nml used them too ’lie tiuk uis dime vth slp ioers made as shown The one uti see in the sketih e aim’ n s do a r for the li mg it hl loom diissod m loloted iietonne m soft rod and times with doi p wine bind The legs of the chair were mgs sandpapetrd and stained niahoga ny to tone m w dh the The cane 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