OCR Text |
Show The Herald quotes Murat Halstead as saying "the great hereafter is republican," repub-lican," and adds; "Ohio, like Maine in the days of Governor Kent, went that way a couple of weeks ago." For the edification of its young readers, if it has any, the Herald should have added a ..iia.if0a jifty-one years ago and Governor Gov-ernor Kent's connection therewith. It was in the noted campaign of song, log-cabins, hard cider and coon skins, when William Henry Harrison swept the country as a presidential candidate, can-didate, that not long prior to his election elec-tion Maine went whig for the first time, electing Kent governor. The whigs turned almost everything into rhyme and song that j-ear, and the following composition appeared directly after their victory in Maine: "Say, have you heard from Maine, Maine, Maine She's gone h 1 bent for Governor Kext, And Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." |