Show dy 0 to tales and Y traditions row I 1 1 9 american au political 1 aal history ay FRANK C HAGEN T IMS ELMO SCOTT scon WATSON WATON ROOSTER CROW THE THE gooding tavern tavern in i green 1 field ind has long since disappeared but it deserves tobe remembered as the birthplace of a familiar emblem of one ot the major political parties a symbol that is still in use after nearly a century back in the thirties it was owned by joseph chapman an ardent democrat who had the habit of imitating a rooster when exulting in gover over victories by his party so when his political enemies won they taunted him by shouting now nov crow chapman crowt crowl in 1840 chapman was a candidate for the state leit legislature slature from hancock county in that year democratic prospects were far from bright the country still remembered the panic of and blamed president van buren for it moreover the singing whigs were making a powerful appeal to the voters with their shouts shout of tipp tippecanoe and tyler tool and their log cabin and hard claer cider symbols in the midst of the campaign george pattison editor of the indianapolis di constitution wrote a letter to william sebastian of greenfield in which he said 1 I have been informed inform edby by a democrat that in one part of your county 30 van buren men have turned for harrison please let me know if such be the fact I 1 think such a deplorable plo rable state of facts can not exist if so I 1 will visit hancock and address the people relative to the policy of the democratic party I 1 have not time to spare but I 1 will refuse to eat or sleep or rest so long as anything zad an be done do for heavens sake stir up the de 1 mo cracy see chapman tell hint not to do as he did heretofore he used to create unnecessary unnecessary alarms he must crow behave much to crow over over I 1 will insure ty to alve a de democratic m at c majority of votes sp spare at ole n 0 pains this letter accede accidentally ad tally t fell into the hands handa of the whigs and was published in an indiana indianapolis olis paper with a view to ridiculing the democrats but itar it proved d to be a boore boomerang rarig for the wigs whigs crow chapman crowl crow became the slogan of the indiana democrats and spread all over the country when the indiana sentinel was launched inlall it carried at the top of its front P page age the picture of a proud rooster and under it was the slogan crow chapman crowl crow other democratic newspapers began carrying the same picture and slogan and soon the rooster crowing proudly whether in victory or defeat became the accepted symbol of the democratic party despite the later popularity of thi the donkey it is still a favorite symbol thanks to john chapman of greenfield ind who taught his fellow democrats how to crow WINNING WITH BUCKEYES HEN martin van buren WHEN bosom friend and successor to t 0 fiery andrew jackson undertook to succeed himself in the white house in the race of 1840 something new in political history was the result van buren not only was defeated he insured the election of gen william henry harrison of ohio and he endowed ohio with the name of the buckeye state which flourishes today it all came about when the cry was taken up by van burens campaigners paig ners that harrison was more perfectly fitted to live tn n a log cabin and drink hard cider than to go to washington as the nations head I 1 what a boomerang that proved to bel the only background for the at 1 tack was that when the hero of tippecanoe retired from baltic he selected a site overlook overlooking the ohio fiver river in the southwestern part of the state built a double log house and finished it with shining naturally resented the slur on i their ameir habits of living including the char charge 9 e of tippling miniature log cabins symbolic of pioneer lite life and the vigor which pushed civilization westward from the mare more effete east made their appearance throughout the state these cabins were reproduced from buckeye logs so were vere the canes carried by thousands of march barchers marchers mar chers rs who participated in parades to advance the candidacy of harrison the cabins were mount wagons and an d within each was a thorny handed frontiersman quaffing quaff ing hard cider 1 van buren wa not fiot neglected while this was wis going on he was attacked by the ohioans as a snob witha with a penchant customs by th time the ahe 1 fluckey t parades popularized and spread east ofte alleghenies van burens Buren Sj i managers realized their mistake and tried in calfi costern to stern the tide it was toolate gen harrison Harri won the elect election ion hands down and aid ohio has been known ever since as the buckeye state c western Nawt paper union |