Show MR JEFFERSON I 1 yew new york rort sun I 1 cries in politics are momentous A Afir fir strate cry seems good for votes any time it is essential to a good od political cry that it express some wing ging trivial in itself but profoundly proto significant ant something whose significance is is palpable to the plainest understand in ing h the e first issue of this sort in america was mr jeffersons red breeches washington had had bad a court stately in laced c oat coat he had received homage with the abe ceremonial of a sovereign congress at its opening dutifully pre dented him with an address following the procedure of parliament mr jefferson would have bave none of it he sent his own message to congress by the hand of a plain messenger while in the white house he preserved t the he habits of a country gentleman he rode daily and on his return hung his bridle over a post and he wore a pair of red small clothed clothe 3 all of this was disgusting to the nabors nabobs and big mate wigs of the federalist party and they marked div d their sentiments by disparaging pa raging allusions to mr jeffersons red Etee breeches ches to the plain people who adored jefferson for his part in abolishing the th old feudal constitution of virginia and securing equality in the one adopted for kentucky the red garment b became came a symbol ot their dearest rights they we rallied to the small clothes and the te democracy democracy everywhere understood what the red breeches stood for in in I 1 political clinical cli controversy with the advocates 0 of property gratification and a sedition act ct for foe the suppression of free speech the next issue of this order was that implied in the war cry of old hickory testifying to enthusiasm for gen jackson in allusion to his walking stick what it stood for was the popular estimate of that heros resolute uncompromising and entirely candid character his disregard of all politic arts and his thoroughgoing partisanship the man mhd hb never gave up a friend nor quailed before any combination of enemies was summed up and symbolized by his bis favorite cane old hickory proclaimed a 4 harmless oid and indifferent personal habit but it stood food tor or much yet came c a seemingly rw I 1 v ridiculous me parade PM of 0 a what the to cabin stood for was far enough from ridiculous the country was tired to death of a wrangle protracted through years over a tariff schedule the fight over the principle had bad been fought out and settled protection had been accepted william henry harrison had been nominated he stood for nothing in particular but rest and peace his opponent opp anent stood for nothing in particular but his bis su supporters were profoundly dissatisfied with one another at this juncture some one was injudicious enough to sneer at the western candidate for having lived in a log cabin where he had nothing to drink but hard cider gentlemen worthy to guide ulde a nation it was assumed drank ladeira madeira or french brandy here was the cry the log cabin and hard cider stood not only for one of the plain people but it stood for a term of tariff peace and quiet and a chance for the country to pull itself together after the revulsion so harrison was elected amid one enormous show of enthusiasm for a log cabin and a drink of only moderate intrinsic popularity next came the mill boy of the slashes when men wore coonskin caps in in parade and carried poles with uneasy live coons fastened atop all of which stood for henry clay who had been turned down when his party thought it need his personal personal perso naf magnetism and was at last put up to save it when its opposition to the annexation of texas which had for admission left it nothing else to stand on before the people parties had learned by previous experiences that the time had passed when it would do to make the lowliness of a states mans origin a matter of reproach to him in fact that some lowliness has become something to trade on henry clay had been born bom in the slashes of virginia in the humblest humbles t circumstances and it is fact or fable that he had once been a mill boy so much for his name his adopted state of kentucky idolized him and the popular notion of the kentuckian of the period was a person clad in buckskin bea bearing ng an exceeding long rifle which none b but t he could balance aud topped off with a coonskin cap the popular woodcut of daniel boone arrays him thus the banded tail of the coon will be observed hanging hangin d down 0 w n from the hind side of the cap I 1 so t the h e cry was for that same old coon for mr clay had been a candidate through the lifetime of a gene generation generate rati 1011 all of the demonstration stood tor for his personal popularity and aad magnetism and for nothing besides except opposition to the popular extension of territory terri territory tor neither mill boy nor same ord old coon worked this time mr clay was beaten four years later when there was a chance to win his party turned clay down again and put up gen taylor the country was fired by war enthusiasm taylors Tay fors opponent was a civilian ta taylor lor was a southern man who could aa and did carry certain southern states against which the whigs had professed ini implacable enmity during the war gen taylor had ridden a white horse old zach and old whitney made a famous cry white horsetail horse borse tail hairs represented to be authentic were beheld with reverence persons then in the tenderness af pf youth may remember h h handled aa it oled one not without awe fmc achand h wa old atoo stood d I 1 for the war enthusiasm and va elected were next the whigs tried to re repeat eat th canvass of 48 by trading on the tee tho san feeling and putting up taen gen scott same th raft real military figure of the mexican the but he was nicknamed fuss and way war F pe and having rea a once begun a des de patch with the words after a ha plate of soup the expression was anad a text for much clumsy but effective rid ridi cule the people were not in the ha of taking the habit soup practice marked market persons sophisticated by the habits wealth but there was more in pi off and feathers though anable an able soldier a patriot and no mean diplomatic scott ct was TOO a CT vain man and 4 had bad 1 HOC i not hala hart the art to conceal the weakness be 4 sides the fugitive slave law had becu to annoy squatter sovereignty of the missouri compromise repeal and tension w of slavery were in in the ine air sw scott ex was a virginian and the tariff had bad bee beeh dug up again there was a landslide for franklin pierce some had nick named him frank penguin with bothin nothing a against 1 ast him beffie this time the aoa tco wora doughface ugh face had come into w use term of reproach for what was deschi described as be a d as a northern man with southern caples in this campaign etwas it was bandied prin drin freely next came the candidacy of fremont the pathfinder against again james buchanan the old public functionary W swords by bv which he once alluded to himself in state paper to the Fremont cry it was appropriately retorted that he pathfinder who always lost his was a wa retort it with the barbed sting of truth way in a the country had the canvass canvas old abe honest abe the rail splitter tr of r the reply was black republican variant on the red republicans of th french revolution Miscegenation is and do you want your sister to man a both were effective marry taft rail splitter ang got ot less than 40 40 per cent of the vote and the retorts had contributed to dervent his getting more it will bi be 0 recognized that this canvass represented pass passions loris in an acute stage frenzied anaf only just articulate then then U US S grant was unconditional surrender grant words aptly fittin fitting hi initials quoted from his reply t to 0 a fla asking terms for the surrender of FO fore donaldson early in the war ah his I 1 so bents were copperheads Copper heads public feeling 91 1 wasat till far from amiable it was made one of grants merits that he had kiwe anc taken to tanning though he had not made a good I fi tanners farmers Hurni humility nty d of origin or of of career was abill not to be b despised as a source of power with tho people for hayes there was no cry that coula be raised and so he was ads defeated securing the results of the war wit was the nearest approach to one but considering si the feats of the carpet bagger it seemed a sarcasm garfield was believed once to have driven mules on the towe path of a canal though this campaign issue may have helped him some it does not take historic rank with mr jeffersons nether garments mr clays apprenticeship ship in the flour mills or mr Lincol ns nw feats with the beetle and wedge 1 i mr blains blaids ap apotheoses as a wl white te plumed knight after so questionable a cha character pr as henry the areat an and lo 10 navarre his personal CP popularity and maguey magBe oma ism his candidacy caud 1 acy its impossible condi conditions conditto tio ns recalls that of aay gen en harrisons hammons Ham sons first canvass was ared under his grandfathers hat the first fio witty I 1 image a e of 1 the entire series he in spite ite 0 it his second was type won op of ice cart for fied fled by the substitution band wagon laigon a second exhibition slang g the ibe wit with this hibi tion of genuine exception the canvass now closed went off without popular shibboleths that meant the war cry of no force bill anything ing athing no figure of speech but the explicit statement was of the dominant and winning issue |