Show hi Campaign Is h hand Coming and it will vill bring Songs as and arod 9 SONGS THEY SANG IN OTHER OTI-IER PRESIDENTIAL YEARS By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ADZES ADms and gentlemen of ot America I IU IThe The greatest show on earth Is U L about to b ln I Io No o this announcement hasn't any any- anything anything thing to do with 1 I T Barnum the brothers Buffalo mil Bill Coll Cody or any of or the others who have made circus history I f i This greatest show liow how on earth Is v t the lime lie quadrennial drama of ot a Hal election So hold your Jour horses UC UC A campaign Is coming with Its songs Its slogans Its symbols Its and and Its slanders IThe IThe I IThe The singing Is already under way The other night S Senator William E Corah Borah orah of ot Idaho Idalio ap ap- appeared appeared In Brooklyn rooklyn to make a sp speech ech which it was commonly agreed was his opening bid for Cor Corthe forthe forthe the Republican nomination At that meeting his followers sang to the tune of ot U 8 S That Us the following Borah Corah rah rah rah rahi lUng fling out hIe his name far Car and wIde wido Borah rah rah rah Join I the tho jl cheer e that h swells the countryside Let all the nation hear his call deal for Cor nil all A fair Calr air deal a square Borah rah rah rah The choice of oC Americans all And now that the singing Is started Its It's safe to predict that It t will continue right up to November 4 For In campaign year America has hns always gone lyrical It started away back at atthe atthe atthe the b beginning Qt if the republic when George Wash Washington ington was the Inevitable choice for tor first President u dent of ot the United d States At that time everyone 0 joIned In singing George Washington the heros hero's come I Each Kach heart heart exulting hears the tho soun sound Thousands to their deliverer throng And shout him welcome all aU around around I All of ot which adulation for tor the man who was wast t First In War First In Peace and First In the then n Ile of ot Ills his Countrymen 1 l was very tery fine One but ot urse politics being what they were even eten evenIn y In tr se early times limes It just couldn't last Washington's Wash Wash- WashIngton's Washington's ington's second term was far tar from being a happ happy one for tor by the time he left office there were two parties the Federalists and the Republicans ancestors of ot the lie Democrats today engaged In Inn Ina Ina n a bitter contest for tor power John Adams was the Hie candidate of ot the Fed Fed- Federalist Federalist aristocrats and Thomas Jefferson of ot common Taxes states rIghts and other issues over oter which there was was a 0 W I t 1 i tI 19 tr fa J Q y 1 t 9 k 0 Pr j r NY tJ f I j J lai oj I I II I t i I B B 7 a aIn r t J N Y t F 1 t o L 0 lI i z In Praise of a Famous Kentuckian sharp division dl of ot opinion were reflected In the songs sung during the campaign of ot The Republicans resenting time the efforts of ot the Feder Federalists to build up a stron strong centralized gOH govern government rn- rn m ment nt san sang my Jo Bunkers No taxes well we'll pay a pardon for Cor or Wheeler Shay Parsons and Day FIx green b boughs In your hate hat and renew the L old cause Stop the courts In each county and bully the laws In the next nut election the Republicans prophet prophet- prophetically sang song Lord how the Federalists will stare At Jefferson In Adams chair For Jefferson did defeat Adams and there were ere eIght years of ot Democratic though that may sound I rule But Dut that didn't mean any lessening of ot political par par- partIsanship partisanship The Embargo act act which had nearly ruIned New I England trade had made Jefferson very unpopular so BO that the Federalists during the campaign of ot 1803 1503 san sang The motley band or of o demagogues who rule thIs happy nation nalton Has Mae made an end of oC o foreign trade and topped stopped our navigation Embargos Embargo's horrid name has hal drowned the noise of oC dance daneo and tabor And snatched the morsel from Crom the hun hun- hungry hungry hun hungry gry mouth of ot labor So the Republicans had hed some difficulty In elect electing ing James Madison Jeffersons Jefferson's choice to succeed him but they did manage to do It and ond lie he re n re rosined In the White house eight years ye ire He lie was followed by James Monroe and anel the famous era or of good feeling In which political partisanshIp died down only to be lie revived when John Quincy Adams the son of ot the second President was elected In 1821 1321 It flamed up even more fiercely In 1828 1825 when the opposing candidates were Ad All- Adams Adams ams seeking re-election re as us the standard standard bearer ot of the naw National Republican party and An An- Andrew Andrew Andrew drew Jackson the candidate of ot the new Demo Demo- Democratic cratic party Old Hickory's partisans recalling his vic vie victory victory tory at New Orleans sang lustily We Ve are a hanly hardy born free born race Each man to fear Cear a stranger the game Kame we wo Join In chase Despising toll and danger An And If IC a daring foe Coo annoys his strength and forces Well We'll show him hill that Kentucky boys bOYI Are alligator horses I I J spose youve you've read nad It In the prints How Ilow attempted To make mako Old Hickory Jackson wince And soon his schemes repented For we with rifle ready Thought such luch occasion lucky And soon around the general The Tho hunters hunten of oC K Kentucky This campaign n however eve was as ns nothing compared com com- compared pared pard to that put on by the singing Whigs In 1840 In support of their candidate Gen Cen William Henry Harrison In his Ills race against Martin Van Luren Curen the D Democratic occupant of ot the White While WhiteHouse House Harrison Harrlson was literally sung Into the Presidency Early In the campaign a n Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic editor had made the mistake of ot saying about Harrison Harrlson Give him a barrel of ot hard cider and a n pension of ot two thousand a n year year and our word for tor It he will sit the remainder ot of his days In a n log cabin by the side of ot a 8 sea coal conI fire and study moral philosophy ph Immediately the lie Indignant Whigs sprang sprong to the defense of ot their candidate They made much ot of the fact tact that the lie Democrats under the lead lead- leadership leadership of ot the clad broadcloth clad aristocratic Martin Van an Buren of ot New ew York had deserted the com mon and were casting costing slurs upon their General Harrison Old Tippecanoe who was n plaIn man and a poor man So they began to sIng Let Van from his coolers of ot silver drink wine And lounge on his cushioned settee Our man roan on his buckeye bench can recline Content with hard cider Is he Then a I shout for Cor each freeman a shout tor for sac State To the plain honest husbandman t true And this be our motto the motto of oC fate Cate Hurrah for tor old Tippecanoe And on thIs tills wave of ot singing hysteria another military hero was swept Into the Presidency Four lour years later Van Buren Duren was seeking the Democratic nomination again but he was turned down and the prize given to the first dark horse In political James hIstory history James K Polk of Tennessee Even before beCore thIs tills happened the WhIgs had nominated Henry Clay of ot Kentucky who tad had tried twice t before In In 1824 1324 and again agarn In 1832 to be the Democratic standard bearer standard Theodore of ot New ew York was nam named d as his running mate so again the Whigs swung vung Into a singing campaign shouting Hurrah hurrah The country's For Henry Clay and The D Democrats were capable of ot doing a bit of vocalizing themselves so they sang right back Farewell oh farewell Carewell to thee lhee Clay of ot KentuckY Well We'll leave thee theo to wander by Salt Rivers River's shore V W Ve well might have known that thy cause was unluckY For the Democrats beat thee so eo often oCten before That song was a n true prophecy for the Demo Demo- Democrats Democrats Democrats did beat hat Clay again and elected eJected Polk But the Whigs had their revenge four tour years rears later when again they nominated a n military hero and began singing the praises of ot Old Zach Taylor bold and steady Sometimes Rough but always nea Ready neady y For his running mate they named Millard Fillmore of ot New ew York One of ot their songs de- de de declared dared The ball Is opened on both sides The parties now have hav made their choIce Cass Cau s on tho the Loco donkey rides The Tho WhIgs for Cor Taylor give their voIce Pull boys all pull steady For Fillmore and for Cor Rough and Ready The Democrats who had nominated Lewis Cass Cassot ot of Michigan for President and Gen William 0 Butler of ot Kentucky a Mexican l war hero for tor vIce president roared back at them They come como In Democratic van From old Kentucky and Michigan Within the nations nation's seat neat to shIne In eighteen hundred and nine forty forty For every state slate declares It so That Cass and Butler In must go Next Fourth of ot March will prove It so For thus have Creed freedmen men willed It H ohl oh But ut the Whigs were better prophets when the they sang Hes He's on victory's track and he cant can't be put back For Por the people have havo said eald that they trust In old Zach So our brave Rough Plough and Ready In triumph shall run Till tho White House Is le reached and our victory won re pc 0 G CABIN C A By y i Y t tt f I IY tr troa o oa C OB J e TI Z r u wu r aj KAun wa w I CEH Vf Y 11 IS V w W RAYNER cr C r OT y Jr rM Jl o I b A Campaign Song of 1840 So Old nou Rough Bough h and Ready was sun sung Into the tho PresIdency just as Old Tippecanoe had hind been heen The campaign of ot Franklin PIerce'S Pierce fierce vs S Gen Winfield Scott In 1832 was n a comparatively ely col- col colorless col eol colorless orless one but was another case of ot whoop It up with song ong and shouting The slavery question was the hl big Issue The Know Nothing Know party formed largely of ot slavery pro Whigs nomi nominated Fillmore The Democratic party nominated James Buchanan of ot Pennsylvania and the new Republican can party In Its first national convention nomInated Gen Con James C Fremont Fromont the so called so Pathfinder Thousands of or Free Free Sollers with an almost religious zeal sang All hall hail to Fremont swell tho the lofty acclaim LIke winds from Crom tho the mountain like prairies aflame Once n JT nore ore the tho Pathfinder Is forth Corth on his hunt Clear the way for Cor free tree soil soli for tor tree free men m n and Fremont However the Pathfinder couldn't find the tho way to the White House for tor Buchanan was elected When the next campaign year came camo around another candidate came out of ot the West Westi S i ar- ar arx arl x 7 l a a 4 r n ty wn K A 8 f fJ t v J iSa iti ai 8 g iary i This This Helped Elect Old Rough and Ready with the affectionate and vote gathering char char- characterization characterization of ot old old Old Abe Abc Lincoln the illinoIs rall rail rall liter So the Republicans sang Hurrah for Cor our couse cause Of OC all causes caules best Hurrah for tor Old Abe Honest Abo Abe of ot the tho West Went And right back at them the Democrats sang derisively ely Say hes he's capable and honest Loves his country's good alone Never drank a n drop of ot whisky Wouldn't know It from Crom a stone Any lie you tell well tell well we'll swallow swallow- swallow swallow-Swallow Swallow any kind of ot mixture Dut But oh we dont dont don't we pray and beg you you- you Dont Don't for Cor Gods God's sake show his picture Ulysses S Grant re regarded as the savior or of orthe the Union didn't have much difficulty In wInning the election of ot so no songs of ot any Importance Importance Importance tance came out of that campaign Four years later when Horace Greeley gave aYe him more opposition opposition opposition one of ot the songs which his supporters sang declared that General Grants Grant's the tho man manTo manTo manTo To work for Cor Uncle Sam He lie will lead lend the van And beat the Greeley clan Well We'll trust him still to rule the nation Rule the nation rule the nation Well We'll trust him till still to rulo rule the nation He lIo saved our glorious Union During the na Hayes es campaign of ot even the tile little children were familiar with the song that declared Hayes rides a white horse Tilden rides a mule Hayes Is a gentleman Tilden Is a fool The Cleveland Blame campaign of ot 1831 ISSI wa was noteworthy for Its songs the most famous being the Democratic hymn which declared that From Maine to California The rhe people loudly shout Well Vell vote for Cor Grover Cleveland who Will turn the rascals out outi The Bryan McKinley campaigns saw a revival ot of the Mayes Hayes Tilden doggerel with McKinley rid riding hog ing the white horse and Bryan Dran riding the mule When Alton B Parker and Theodore Roose Roose- Roosevelt Roosevelt velt elt were the opponents in 1004 the Democrats came out with the lyrical prophecy that He will always keep the nations nation's credit sate safe and sound And will oust dishonest men wherever they are found found- found He lie will bury Teddy under forty Corty feet Ceet of ot ground Alton B D Parker Is his name But ut he didn't For to the tune of ot that popular popular lar mar Spanish American war song Therell Therel Be De a aHot aHot aHot Hot Time In ID the Old Town Tonight the Rough nough RoughRider RoughRider Rider went back to the White House lIous again During the next two decades campaign songs were not BO so potent as were slogans and catch catch- catchwords that words words that Is until 1028 28 when Al AJ Smith was the Democratic candidate Then The Sidewalks ot of New York a n song of or the gay nineties was revIved and It swept the country co country into a n frenzy or of singing But nut It didn't sweep It Into a frenzy ot of vot n voting for tor the Democratic candidate I Even ven though Who Hoover 1 as M n a good campaign ballad couldn't compare with the Sidewalks Hoover was elected nevertheless As for tor the last campaign everyone every one remembers remembers bers how the American people wanting to be- be believe be believe lieve sieve that the depression was over joined lustily In singing Happy Days Are Here Again and andin andIn In sending the smiling prophet of ot that belief bellet to the White House What will be the outstanding song of ot time tile l 1030 campaign That question can be answered better on the tho morning of ot 1 Iv 1 5 than It can cnn be lie now l 1 Ci 0 Western Newspaper |