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Show LITTLE BAND-WAGON JOURNEYS '"''"'"'liBY L. T. MERKILL'SifflillF3 (, 1928, Wwlcm Newivnper Union.) Jaclrsonian Campaign Methods rpjllCHUMNCE on the national polltt cal stage a century ago of t tint picturesque and robust personality. Andrew Jackson, marked the begin ning of modern style political cam palgns. witli their nurrah and nulla-haloo. nulla-haloo. their parades and mass meet lugs, and the use of caricature us well as the spoken and printed word to advance the fortunes of I'residen tial candidates. Jackson's supporters and his op ponents resorted to methods that were entirely new in America. Up to that lime Cresldetitial campaigns had been conducted with a degree ot decorum and few manifestations of general popular excitement. Jackson changed all that. With a grand llourish he opened his canvass for election in lS'JS with a triumphal steamboat tour down the Mississippi river ro celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans in which he had played the most conspicuous part. An armada of steamboats chugged up the river to greet him and escort him to ids destination. Amid salvos of artillery the "Old Hero" landed on the levee al New Orleans amid his former comrades In arms, and festive days followed. Most scurrilous ot any np to thai time was the campaign which ensued with newspapers and orators throwing an unprecedented vehemence into Hie a'juse of the opposing candidates. Jackson and John (Juincy Adams. Jackson was denounced as a bloody butcher, u duel fighter, a murderer of Indians and Englishmen. To add a gruesome touch to these accusations, handbills were published headed with a collin-lld bearing an Inscription for each of his supposed victims. The ambiguous circumstances of Hit gen eral's marriage unwittingly contract ed before his wife h;d been fully divorced from her first husband were dragged Into public view and dilated upon by merciless scandalmongers. In his political battle with this rude son ot the frontier, lohn (Juincy Ad ams. staid scion of New England nris tncrary. did not escape his full share of abuse. Jackson entered the cam palgn firmly convinced that Adams had heater him out of Hie Cresldenrj four years earlier hy entering Into u "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay, and Jackson men rang the changes on these charges. Oilier p rsonal accusations against Adams were extreme and absurd He was denounce as h monarchist. The allegation that he had -vrlilei. up in pleasant poem about Jefferson a quar ler century earlier was Hung at him. lie rt'as aicusei, of usin, public fun I i to huv a billiard lab'e for bU use in Hie White House. .lacksoiilan en giessmen professed to be honillid at ! expenditure of public monies for "gam i Ing tables and gambling furniture" tho'.gh A la ins vainly denied (hat any such table (the Inventorv placed Its value at SMI) had been bought b't hint. In like vein was the charge that he had been extravagant In re furnishing Hie Fast room .if Hie ex ecutlve mansion, where his good mother had been wont lo hang oul the Presidential washing to dry. Jackson's nickname. " 'Id Hickory." led many f'omoerntlc eni hushiMs par ticulariy Hie young men. to plant hick ory poles In his honor, and numerous were the bloody nose; and broken bends when Hie Adams men. attacking Hip Jackson partisans ns i hey dirueil nroutid these fetishes. Hied to uproot the poles. The new tide of weslern fr.mtlei Pcmocrucy swept the old general to victory, to Hie surprise and dismay of New Fngliinders and dwellers on Hie seaboard. In Hie 'ackson campaign for re-(lection against Henry Clay In 1S.'!'J. Anier lean political caricature mine Into Its own for the first time. The op position circulated pictures of Jackson receiving n .tow! from Martin Van j Buren, the "Utile niaglchin" of New York, and a scepter from Siitan; or represented htm and his olllclal friends ns burglars aiming n monstrous buttering but-tering rain al Hie barred front door of Hip United Slates hank. The J-ii -ksoiilnns did not rely on n return fire of caricature to stir the hearts of the people, but again idled an enormous trrilllc In hickory poles, nnd whooped up Hie. campaign with ranip meetings and torchlight parades The populai fervor swept Jackson into office for n second term But tlds met hod of campaigning could fie used lo as g I advantage by the op position, should the proper candidate appear, as the Whigs ably demoiisl rated rat-ed In the famous "log cabin and hard cider campaign" of IS 10. The Log Cabin end Kard-Ciaer Campaign SOME loose phrase or catchword or chance remark has turned the destiny des-tiny of a Presidential candidate on more than one occasion in our history. Thus It was In 18-10 when Gen. William Wil-liam Henry Harrison, Northwest territory terri-tory military hero In the Battle of Tippecanoe, was the nominee of Lie Whigs, with John Tyler ot Virginia as tiis running mate, againsl the Pemo-cratic Pemo-cratic President, Martin Van Buren. who was seeking re-election. Disappointment that the Whig convention con-vention had passed over a leader ol such brilliant parts as Henry Clay f'-a f'-a relative mediocrity was felt by many. A friend of Clay's was over heard by the correspondent ot a Uem ocratic newspaper in Baltimore to express ex-press his dissatisfaction in the sneer ing remark about Harrison: "Give liiiu a barrel of hard cider, settle a pension of $lM:u a year on him. and. my word for it, ne will sit for tire re mainiler of his days In his log cabin by the side of a tea-coal fire, studying moral philosophy." The Baltimore paper published this remark as an argument against the Presidential fitness of Harrison. Sel dom did such publication become a swifter-acting boomerang. The Whigs seized upon this testl uiony to the simplicity of their leader as a tribute to his rustic virtues. Hie cider barrel and Hie log cabin, with a coon skin stretched on the door and the latchstiing out, al once became the emblems of the campaign. Issuer! were abandoned to the winds in a season sea-son of continual parading and vo'df-erous vo'df-erous song singing. In vain did some of the Democrats, trying to stem the tide, point out that Harrison did not live In a log cabin hut in a comfortable mansion on a J.tH.Hi acre estate; that he was not poor, bul enjoyed a larger than average aver-age Income as a public of.icer In the stale of Ohio. Democratic rebuttal was drowned out by the parading "log cabin men.'' -homing and singing, as tlu-y inarched, to Hie tune of "'The Little Pig's Tail": What has caused this great commo lion .motion uiotioa i lur count ry through ? It is the hall a rolling on For 'I'd pecanoe nnd 'Tyler, ten. And .ttli them well beat I. file Van Van. Van. U a used up man." 'The great processions ot singing Whigs wearing coon si,;u taps un I h-'arin.g alott. as lbc maiihed ant sang pictu.ts showing Heir hero d iiil;:iig a mag ot hard cider were ot ui bcliev able hngt'i. I."g cabin ilo:;i and entices wvte Iruri'iled in the pi i.idcs. au.1 gicat Il.irr.son t-.i::s lu Ii et ill dlartie.er. co cred rtiili u.ol iocs, ln--c:i-tious. ijaot.iiior.s and rimes, were mile. I In Hie pro. esslons i lien f. oni Tow n lo town. The feigned col. tempi ol the Van I'.ureu men for Harrison their claim-hat claim-hat the Whigs shut up theii simple old "ticiicral Mum" and dd nol per mil him k use pen and Ink. ibc.i ret etvni es lo Hie gieat Wing parades as "animal shows." really concealed a genuine coiistt rnat ion. And well might the Democrat-view Democrat-view with alarm" Hie populai ent'ms lasin for "(lid Tip" and popular di trust of Hie aristocratic New Yorke.-Vall Yorke.-Vall I '.ll i '!!. who Whig oiaiors said was accustomed to cal dainty French fare from silver plates wiili gi'iicn forks In the "President s pal.oe" al Washington and w ho rode i I i In h gilded coach lit for a king. By en I rust, sang Whig campaign laureates-: "No milled shirt, no silken hose. No airs does Tip di-play ; Bul like "the pith of worth he goes In homespun 'hoddin gray.' I'pon his board there uc er appeared The costly 'sparkling nine. But plain hard elder such as cheereu In days of old king s. ne." The Whig tide was Irresistible. ,, "Little Van" was indeed a "used up num." Harrison captured 0lec toral votes to Van Boron's T0. Whal must have been Hie emotions of (ho aged Gen. Andrew Jackson he saw Hie Whigs seizing , llsn so effectively the very weapons lie InH forged and employed so succe-sf,, tor Hie first lime to oust fmm t,',. Presidency another aristocratic chicl Magistrate. President John ym,,,., Adams, twelve years earlier. Following the falling fortunes ot his parly with an undimuied Interesi trom his Tennessee homestead ih(. Hermitage, whether l. had r,.', JncksMu, then well p8t ,,,V(, ; and leu, must have r(,Und In n, rn Ing log cabins and elder barrels Hie uproarious songs IUid muss meet'lngs pat hello reminders of p,., uro-covered waistcoats, hickory poles , hll of crowds cheering for Hi,. "(i, ,,r,.. or Now Orleans l ,., ,.,,,,.,;,,.' dozen years earlier. " With election of I IniTbvui d TM,,r the Jncksonlan era was dead 'lt, how short lived was the- elatl,vi, of ,1, victorious Whigs, , (lvo weeks ,, ,r the Inauguration of "(lid 'pi,, , , who hud piiniicd lumultnoiKiy ln J'f'' log cabin and cider denioiiM , at uJl solemnly trudged behind (he leer , I- le.riu- , , ,;; Brino. |