The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1896, Page 15

14 NEW YORK'S MANY POLITICAL FEUDS, Some of the Great Quar- rels Between Gotham's Party Leaders. Conkling’s Sarcastic Shafts and Blaine's Model of Exco- riation. Greeley’s Difference With Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward. Grant and Bristow. Although the South and West have con- tributed their quota, New York can ]ml}y lay claim to the greater number of polit- ical feuds, pursued as relentlessly as th‘e Corsican vendetta. The whole country is familiar with the story of the great \Vh}g— Republican triumvirate composed of Will- iam H. Seward, Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley. Thesethree men worked log_en}er asradical Whigs until 1854, when the junior member of the firm withdrew, accusing his partners of sacrificing him to their 1_ust _oi power. The friends of Seward maintain that Greeley seceded from the alliance be- cause he was disappointed as an ufll?e— seeker, but whatever the real cause suffice it that Horace, the editor and spokesman of the plain people, nursed his.grievancgs and redressed them too, for, like his former partners, he went into the young Republican party and achieved a leader- ship that was national in its importance and influence. Seward and Weed, how- ever, obtained control of the party ma- chinery, and although they consented to allow Greeley to lead forlorn hopes they balked his plans whenever success seemed probable. Greeley was very anxious to go asa dele- gate to the National Republican Conven- tion 1n 1860, but Seward interposed and he was defeated. At that time Greeley was opposed to Seward, but his friends say that he would have contented himself with registering his vote against the New York leader if he had been permitted to attend as a representative from his own State. Indignant at the treatment ac- corded to him he went to Chicago and was substituted for an absent Oregon delegate. His newspaper bad given him a National fame, and as a proxy for this Western ab- sentee he undermined the works thrown up by Seward and did more than any other man to secure the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. The diiference between Grant and Bri tow can scarcely be called a feud. Benja- min H. Bristow was nominated for Attor- v-General by the soldier-President in 3, but powerful agencies secured his re- jection. Grant was bent on honoring the Kentuckian, and he named him for Secre- tary of the Treasury on June 3, 1874. Shortly afterward the war on the Whisky Ring was inangurated, and, although Bris- tow was the moving spirit in the prosecu- tions, many claimed that he was only an agent of tne President. About this time insinuations began to crop out in the newspapers that Grant was protecting the whisky men, and the friends of the Presi- dent attributed these attacks to followers of Bristow, if he himself were not directly responsible. These charges were indig- nantly denied by the men affected, but certain it is that the friction grew, and after the ring was broken up in June, 1876, Bristow retired from the Cabinet, osten- sibly to attend to private business, but really, it is said, to wage war against the antagonistic influences in the party. He was a candidate for the Presidential nomination that year, backed by the re- form element in his party, but he mus- tered merely a respectable following. Hayes was nominated, and Bristow began the practice of law in New York City. An Ohio feud that has attracted consid- erable attention was fought out between Allen Granby Thurman and Henry B. Payne. This led to the celebrated Coal- Oil-Rag-Baby campaigns. Thurman had had undisputed swing in Buckeye Dem- ocratic politics after the war, and he might have retained this ascendency had he not advocated fiat money and joined the forces of greenback Democracy. His opponents have always claimed that his financial views were responsible for the challenge to his leadership, but his friends maintain that the great eorporations that had been brought to book in the United States Benate furnished the sinews of war for his enemies. Be that as it may, from the date of Henry B. Payne’s entrance into Congress a fierce war was waged for supremacy in the party. It has been held that this fight insured the retirement of Thurman from the Sen- ate and the election of James A. Garfiela in his vlace, and four years later Henry B. Payne was made a United States Senator, Now comes the most bitier political feud in the history of American politics. ‘When Ira Harris retired from the United States Senate his seat was taken by Ros- coe Conkling, a great nian, proud to a fault, generous to his friends, and a foe o be feared. He was the intimate friend of Grant, and ome of his most trusted counselors. Just as Conkling’s star began to shine with National brilliancy, James G. Blaine was attracting the attention of the whole country. These two men had served in the lower house together, but they represented opposing interests in the party, and were personally uncongenial. Conkling, great in many ways, could not resist the temptation of sending sar- castic shafts at the Speaker whenever oc- casion offered, and Blaine answered in kind. The final clash came over the case of General Frye, who had incurred the enmity of the Benator from New York, and the latter worked bard to secure his dismissed from the service. With that generous desire 1o help the under dog, which was one of Mr. Blaine's noblest characteristics, he took up the cudgels for the friendless but gallant Frye, whose character was vindi- cated by the War Department in three well-deserved promotions within a short space of time. s In the course of the fight over this case Blaine, stung to the‘quick by an ungener- ous and unjust taunt of his New York en- emy, burst forth into that terrific on- slaught which stupefied the Speaker, wrought the House into a hizh pitch of excitement and marked the beginning ofa fierce struggle in the Republican party that ended in the humiliation ot Roscoe Conkling and the defeat of James G. Blaine for President of the United States. ‘Here are the words and they are charged with ridicule and are a model of excoria- tion: 'As to the gentleman’s cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. The .con- tempt of that large-minded gentleman is 80 wilting, his haughty disdain, his gran- diloquent swell, his majestic, superemi- nent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity for me to venture upon a controversy with him.” Referring then to a chance newspaper companson of Mr. Conkling to Henry ‘Winter Davis (which he interpreted sar- castically), he continued: “The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity. The resemblance is great, it is striking. Hyperion toa satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profana- tion of that jocose satire.”” After this there was no chance of recon- ciliation, and the battle was to the death. Defeated in 1876 and threatened with de- feat in 1880, Blaine sent his men to the standard of Garfield, who was elected. I wish to emphasize my understanding of the position of the Republican party upon this question—that it favors such a system of revenue as respects foreign imports, as will discriminate in favor of our laborers and against laborers pro- ducing the same things in other countries. The position of the Senators from Missours and Illinois favors the unimpeded importa- tion of these competing articles without re- straint and without Wmitation. A wayfar- ing man can see that if that is done it will be but a brief space when our laborers will be reduced to the level of the laborers of other countries.— WILLIAM B. ALLISON. CONVENTIONS AT ST. LOUIS. Although This Has Been Her Greatest Year, the City Has Had Many Gatherings. Although the year 1896 is the greatest convention year St. Louis has ever had, the city has entertained an immense num- ber of National Conventions of different character during the last thirty years. Between 1866 and 1876 St. Louis had three conventions—River Convention in 1867; National Commercial Convention in 1872; National Railroad Convention in 1875. In 1876 the National Democratic Conven- tion was held in St. Louis, the Merchants’ Exchange Hall being fitted up for the pur- pose. The Exchange floor made a very excellent Convention Hall. The dimen- sions are very generous. 1t is 221 feetlong, about 100 feet wide and nearly 80 feet righ. In 1881 another important River Convention was held, and since then the cattlemen, who electrified the public | with their “Cowboy Millionaire Band,” the National Meaical Convention, the Knights’ Templars’ Triennial Conclave, the Bicycle-makers’ Convention and the Grand Army Encampment have been held | there. In 1888 the National Democratic Nom- inating Convention was again held in St. Louis. It was preceded by the Saencger- fest. For this gathering the north nave of the Exposition building was rearranged and converted into an auditorium, with seats, platforms and appurtenances.” The local committee of the Democratic con- vention arranged to secure the use of the fixtures, and the Democratic convention was held in the hall. The arrangements generally were satisfactory, but the acous- tics were admittedly bad. Itwill be re- membered that it was proposed to hold the Republican convention this year in the north nave, but to fit it up in a muchmore satisfactory manner. It was found, how- ever, that it would be necessary to make a number of structural alterations at a heavy expense with very doubtful resuits, and hence the building of the Convention Auditorium on the south half of the old ‘Washington Park. In 1889 there were several comparatively small conventions, and it was not untii toward the end of the year that National gatherings of magnitude were held. The Silver Convention in the Exposition puild- ing in November, and the Farmers’ Alli- ance Convention the following week, were the most largely attended of gatherings of this kind during the year. In 1890 the Ancient Order of United Workmen held their convention in St. Louis, and in June the Young People’s Scciety of Christian Endeavor held a very large gathering. In the following year there were a great number of conventions, the most impor- tant gathering being the meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, with representatives from all parts of the United States and Canada. In 1892 no effort was made to secure either of the great National Nominating Conventions. During the spring the Peo- ple’'s party held aconference which was really of greater importance than its con- | Other conventions and annual | vention. meetings held during the year included the Nicaragua Canal Convention, the Re- union of the Army of the Tennessee, and National conventions of agricultural im- plement makers, electricians, florists, builders, canners and others. The Elec- trical Convention attracted exceptional interest, and Tesla’s demonstrations at- tracted such an immense throng to the Exposition building that great difficulty was experienced in handling the crowds. In 1893 the Interstate Sunday-school Convention was held in the Exposition building, followed by large gatherings of the German benevolent societies, the Southern wholesale grocers and other or- ganizations. Last year the American In- stitute of Architects and the National Music Teachers’ Association held their annual conventions in St. Louis. This year the conventions of importance, whica commence with the Republican National Convention, 1nclude conventions of the People’s party, the Silver party, the Direct Legislation League, the International Co- operation Congress, the Knights of Friend- ship, the Knights of Father Mathew, the American Bankers' Association, the Na- tional Association of Democratic Clubs, the National Vehicle Builders’ Associa- tion, the American Street Railway Association, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and some five or six others, I have no disposition, nor would it be Just, to shicld the Republican party from fair and searching eriticism. It has been called to meet questions novel and most dificult. It has made many mistakes. It has stumbled and blundered; has had some bad men in it; has suffered from the corruption incident to a great war; and it has suffered rebuke and partial defeat in consequence. But has it been singular and alone in these respects? With all its Jaults I fearlessly challenge, gentlemen, to compare it with any party known to our politics. Has the gentleman shown that the Democratic party is its su- perior either in virtue 01 intelligence?— JAMES A, GARFIELD. THE FAMILIES OF THE PRESIDENTS, Many Chief Executives Were Not Blessed With Sons. Martin Van Buren's Son Became Famous as “ Prince John.” He Danced With the Queen of Great Britain—The Distinguished Tylers. The fact that the incumbent of the ex- ecutive chair of the Nation is the father of three daughters calls to mind that the descendants of America’s chief €xecutives are nearly all girls, Jefferson, Monroe, Fillmore and John- son were blessed only with daughters, and a number of the early Presidents who hoped for an extended family tree were sorely disappointed. During the social season just ended, the daughters of three Presidents of the Unitea States met at a reception in Wash- ington. They were Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of General Grant; Mrs, Stanley Brown, daughter of Garfield, and Mrs. McKee, danghter of Benjamin Harrison, It is a somewhat remarkable fact that the chief magistrates of the Nation had few male children, and those who had sons were bereaved of them early in life. Presi- dent Buchanan was a bachelor, Pierce’s two children, both boys, died before they reached their maturity. Two sonsof Abra- ham Lincoln died young, leaving Robert, who also lost a son, but has another one living. Benjamin Harrison’s son has a daughter, and his daughter bas a son, but there is no male child to perpetuate his name, The first President of this Republie, George Washington, was without male is- sue, and so anxious was he to give life to the Washington family tree that he adopted the grandchildren of his wife, whose family name was Custis. But even | his adopted son had no male child, and his daughter was married to General Rob- ert E. Lee. Washington’s brothers had sons galore, and their children and chil- dren’s children are scattered throughout the Old Dominion and other parts of the United States. The Adamses were more fortunate, and maintained their place in politics and his- | tory through many male members. John | Quincy Adams’ son was Minister to Eng- land during the Civil War, and was a can- didate for Presidential honors. Charles Francis Adams had four sons, two of whom served in the late war. One of them was twice nominated for Governor of Massa- | chusetts, another is now Mayor of Quincy, | Mass.,, and a third of Boston—Josiah Quincy. Jefferson had four daughters to peroet- | nate his race, but the name so far as his | own individual family tree is concerned diea out. When Aaron Burr brought James Madi- son to see Dorothea Payne Todd at her home in Philadelphia she was a widow with one child, who in manhood was rather wild. James Madison and Dolly Todd were married, and when he attained the pinnacle of his ambition in his election to the Presidency the wife of the chief ex- ecutive gave her social nowers full swing and changed the even tone of Jeffersonian simplicity to more luxurions ways. But no son came to bless the union, and the disappointment was all the greater to the mother at least, for her owa son, Payne Todd, had gone to the bad. James Mouroe and his wife had no sons, Of their two daughters one was named for the Queen of Holland, Hortense Beau- harnais, with whom Eliza Monroe had been in school in Paris while her father was United States Minister there. The famous Gouverneur family in New York. Monroe died in their house after he had lost his fortune. Andrew Jackson’s romantic union with Mrs. Robards, which followed upon a sen- sational suit for divorce by her husband, was also sonless. This circumstance greatly embittered Jackson’s life. He had made many sacrifices for the woman he loved, fighting a duel with Dickinson on account of casting insinuations against her charac- ter. Deprived of parental hope, Jackson adopted a boy, to whom he gave his name. This adopted son married Sarah Yorke. fhe result of the union was a son, who be- | came a colonel in the Confederate army. | The young lady whom he called daughter, and who presided at the White House after the death of his wife, was his niece Emily. Martin Van Buren was one of the excep- tions to the line of sonless Presidents. His four sons took up their residence with him in the Executive Mansion. The one that was known as *'Prince John’’ became a famous man. During a visit to London he attended a grand ball at Buckingham Palace, and danced with the young Queen Victoria. This gave rise to & proposal of s union be- tween the English Queen and an American Prince. His title of ‘‘Prince John” stuck to him from that time on. Some of the descendants of Van Buren went to Paris and died, while quite a number of them reside in New York, South Carolina and other States. When President Benjamin Harrison vis- ited San Francieco in 1891 his son Russell and the younger members of the Presi- dential party were entertained by the Bo- hemian Club, and in presenting Russell to the company the chairman of the evening facetiously remarked that the young man would never attain greatness, as Provi- dence had a habit of skipping a generation in pestowing its honors on the Harrison family. This allusion to the fact that Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of ‘William Henry Harrison, although it pointed out great promise of ‘‘Baby” McKee, was not so apt as it seemed to be to the Bohemians and the guests, for John Scott Harrison, the son of William Henry, and the father of Benjamin, was a man of some prominence and served his native State of Indiana in Congress during the '50's. William - Henry, John Scott and Benjamin, the Presidential line, were all of the Western branch of the family, while the Virginia Harrisons, who reside in the neighborhood of the old paternal estate, Berkeley, near the banks of the James, and elsewhere in the Old Dominion, are descended from the first Benjamin, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governorof Virginia, the father of William Henry and two older sons. John Tyler was married twice, ana seve- ral children were born to him, some of THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, second daughter married a member of the FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1896. whom are living to-day. The Tyler fam- ily is considered the most illustrious in this country, for with its Monroe and Har- rison connections it has produced four Presidents. John Tyler's romantic marriage to Julia Gardiner of Gardiners Island, while he was still President, was fraitful of chil- di One of these is Lyon Gardiner Tyler, president of William and Mary College. His brother, Dr. Gardiner Tyler, represents the Second District of Virginia in Congress. Dr. Lachland Tyler is & physician in New York. President Polk had no children, and Zachary Taylor, who followed him, lost his only son by death. His eldest asugh- ter married Senator Jefferson Davis, and Winnie Davis, the Daughter of the Con- federacy, is Zachary Taylor’s grandehild. His daughter Betty contracted two mar- riages, one with Major W. 8. Biiss. While married to him she became mistress of the White House, taking upon hersell the duties which her mother found too diffi- cult to perform. R tu, ete, RI tu, ete. " CAMPAIGN BALLADS OF YORE—RHYMES THAT AWAKEN OLD-TIME MEMORIES. In the early days of the Republican party the campaign poet was strongly in evi- dence and produced words fitted to popular tunes. One poet distinguisbed bimself by producing a parody on “Villiking and His Dinah,” which ran this way : One Ab'ram there was who lived out in the West, Esteemed by his neighbors the wisest and best; And you'll see, on a time, if you follow my ditty, How he took s straight walk up to Washington City. His home was in Springfleld, out {n Tllinols, ‘Where he’d long been the pride of the men end “the boys,” But heleft the white house with no sign of regret, For he knew that the people had another to let. 80 Ab’ram he trudged on to Washington strajght And reached the White House through the Avenue gate, 01d Buck and his cronies (some chaps from the South) Sat round the east room, rathor down in the mouth. | AIDED AMERICAN SHIPFING Under a Protective Tariff Commerce by Sea Thrived and Prospered. “If the shipping in our foreign trade had grown in proportion to the increase of the cargoes provided by our foreign com- merce,”” says Congressman Dingley of Maine in an article concern- ing the American merchant marine, | “we should have had a most magnificent | fleet of vessels engaged in transporiing our exports and imports. The aifficulty [ has not been in a want of cargoes, but in |the fact that foreign rather than | American vessels have taken these cargoes, simply because our ves- | sels could not successfully compete with foreign vessels, which have all been ad- mitted to participate in the carrying of our exports and imports on equal terms | | Millard Filimore’s career was full of RA tu, ete. with our own yenols since January 1, 3 sadness, His wife died three weeks after & th | when the United States entered into re- 01d Abe selzed the knocker and gave such a thump, | ciprocal maritime arrangements with Great he entered the White House, and & year later he lost his only daughter. Hranklin Pierce's residence in the White House was also sad and lonely. Two of his sons died in early youth, and the third was killed in a railroad accident two months before his father’s inauguration. Abraham Lincoln bad three sons when he took up the reins of government upon the retirement of the bachelor President, Buchanan. Of these Robert Tod Lincoln survives. The three sons of Andrey John- son are dead, while the Grant cbildren are all alive. Rutherford B, Hayes’ residence in the White House was blessed with unusual calm. Happiness and health attended his four years of government. Following in the footsteps of his father is James Rudolph Garfield. On the four- teenth anniversary of the day on which Guiteau shot his father down in the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Wash- ington he was nominated for State Sen- ator from the district in which a similar honor was conferred on James Abram Garfield in 1859. Young Garfield is now a member of that body and looks forward to a nomination for Congress. He and his elder brother, Harry, who confines his attention to politics in the municipal field, are practicing law in Cleveland, although James still retains the old home- stead at Mentor asaresidence. Miss Belle H. Mason was married to Harry Garfield in 1888, and two years later the marriage of James Garfield and Miss Helen Newell took place. The Garfield grandchildren number ten. Harry has three sons and a daughter— James, born October 28, 1889; Mason, Oc- tober 5, 1892; Lucretia, January 18, 1854, and Stanton, August 3, 1895. The three children of James Garfield are John How- ell, born February 3, 1892; James Abramn, April 15, 1894, and Kenneth, August 1, 1895. Three little ones born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brown are Rudolph, April9, 1889; Ruth, August 3, 1892, and Margaret, October 2, 1895. Irvin Garfield, the fourth child of the muraered President, and a nephew and a niece were born on August 3. Chester A. Arthur’s two children have rlever married. Alan Arthur spends most of his time in Europe, while Miss Nellie Arthur resides with her aunt, Mrs. McEl- roy, in New York. RI tu, ete. Ri tu, ete. Ri tu, etc. Ri tu, ete. Ri tu, etc. Ri tu, etc. Visit to the White House.” CHORUS. 8o it ain’t no use for to blow— Dat little game of brag won’t go. He can’t get de vote 'case de tail ob his coat Is hung just & little too low. What the sensaticns of Stephien A. Douglas were when these words atr\?f:k_ his ears is not a matter of record. But he got more, and worse, to the tune of Ugolo Ned,” when the followingz was sung by the glee clubs of the army of “Wideawakes" : We've & noble rail-splitter, and his name is Honest Abe, And he lives in Illinois, as you know; And he has all the tools there to carry on his trade, And the way he piles them up isn’t slow. CHORUS. So lay down your Democratic hoe-0-0, And hapg up your Democratic bow-0-0; There’s \no more hard work for poor old Jim, Kase he's gone where the Locofocos go. But the people said to Abe, lay your rail-splitting by, For we want to try your muscles on the course; Here's a Locofoco giant forty-seven inches high, Who imsgines he can travel like a horse. CHORUS—S0 lay down your Democratic hoe-0-o0, ete. But we think the chances slim for tnis little Giant Doug, For the rail-splitter runs like & hound; ‘Then he has to paddle through all the Democratic mud, With his coat-tail so close to the ground. CHORUs—So lay down your Democratic hoe-0-o, ete. Then there is Breck from Old Kentucky, who is right on the track Where the Little Giant wants to pass along, And he says he will never carry Stephen on his back, For he don’t feel himself very strong. CHORUS—S0 lay down your Demoeratic hoe-0-0, etc. Bo they had it up and down while the rail-splitter run, Till the White House appeared in his view; Then said Old Buck to Abe, why the 'nation did you come? ‘Why, said Abe, I had nothing else to do. A CHORUS—S0 lay down your Democratic hoe-0-0, etc. The spirit of the time was at once jovial and earnest, and the following effusion was laughed at and sung from one end of the country to the other to the well-known tune of “Where, oh! where are the Hebrew Children?’; Where, oh! where is the lordly party? ‘Where, oh! where is the lordly party? ‘Which so long has ruled the nation, ‘Worse and worse from year to year? CHORUS, ‘Torn asunder by flerce dissensions, Torn asunder by fierce aissensions, Torn asunder by fierce dissensions, Leaders sll—*‘gone to the grass.” Where, oh! where is the valiant Stephen? ‘Where, oh! where is the valiant Stephen? He who fights the administration, Reckless now of victory ? CHORUS, He “went up” in the row at Charleston, H ent up” in the row at Charleston, . . H ent up” in the row at Charleston, Chosen there to stay at home. _ Where, oh! where is *Jimmy” Buchanan? Where, oh! where is “Jimmy” Buchanan? e ‘Who went up to the Fed'ral Mansion, Placed there as the people’s choice? CHORUS. He has lost all popular favor, He has lost all popular favor, = He has lost all popular favor, Boon he'll go from whence he came. Here, oh! here are the people’s champions; Here; oh, here are the people’s champio Leaders iold of the opposition, Lot In the {all to sweep the land. - - CHORUS. Honest Abe and Hannibal Hamlin, Honest Abe and Hannibal Hamlin, Houest Abe and Hannibal Hamlin, Theirs the lead, we follow on. There were poems of more serious character, some of which bore the name of 80 noted a writer as Edmund Clarence Stedman, but it was the more rollicking that took the public fancy more. The old “Camptown Races” furnishea a theme for inspiration, and the following came out and was variously warbled from California to Maine: There's an old plow horse whose name is “Dug,” Du da, duda; i He's short and thick—a regular “plug,” Du da, du da day, CHORUS. ‘We're bound to work all night, We're bound to work all day; T’ll bet my money on the “Lincoln hoss; Buck thought the stato ship had run into a stump; He trembled all over and turned deadly pale, That noise,” said he, “ must have been made with s rail.” # Run, Lewis, run, Jerry, and open the door ""— Ana the “functionary ” nearly fell down on the floor— “ There’s only one man that knocks that way, I'm blestl | And he {s that tarnsl old Abe of the West.” The Cabinet, frightened, sat still in their sests, While Abr’am impatient the rapping repeats; « T hope it ain’t Abe,” said oid Buck, pale and gray, «If it s, boys, there’ll be here the devil to pay.” At 1ast, tho’ reluctant, Buck opened the door, And found a chap waiting, six feet three or four; « I've come, my fine fellows,” said Abe to the ring, “To give you fair notice to vacate next spring.” “ The people have watched you, and made up their mind That your management's running the country behind ; Your're badly in debt, and your plan is a bold one— To make & new debt to pay off the old one. « You and Douglas have so split your party in twain That Spaulding’s best glue can’t unite it again; And both parts are useless, the Country don’t need 'em— For one goes for Slavery and the other ’gainst Freedom.” Then there was another, which was a parody -on “There Was an Old Darky Whose Name Was Uncle Ned,” that ran like this: Dere was s little man and his name was Stevy Dug, To de White House he longed for to go; But he hadn’t any votes through the whole of de Souf, In the place where votes ought 1o grow. CHORUS. 8o it ain’t no use for to blow— Dat little game of brag won’t go. He can’t get de vote "case de tail ob his coat Is hung just a littie too low. § His legs dey was short, but his speeches dey was long, And noffin but hisself could he see. His principles was weak, but his spirits dey was strong. { For & thirsty little soul was he. CHQRrUS—So it ain’t no use for to blow, ete. He couldn’t sleep nights for de nigger in de fence, 8o his heslth it began for to fail, And he suffered berry much from de 'fects of a ride Dat he got on & Lincoln rail. Crorus—So it ain’t no use for to blow, ete. fle shivered and he shook in de cold North blast And de wind from the Souf dat blew, But de Locofoco ship hove him overboard at last, So his friends had to ell heave to. i | Britain. “This brings ont the fact that while on | the one hand our thoroughly protected | merchant marine in the coastwise trade | has prospered because it has not been brought into competition with foreign ves- sels, on the other hand our shipping in the foreign trade, which has been brought into free and open competition with for- | eign vessels since 1850, has been gradually | driven from tne ocean. In other words, protection—protection to the extent of prohibition of foreign competition—has eaved our shipping in the coastwise trade, and made it the most magnificent howme fleet in the world; while free trade in the business of carrying our exports and im- ports has well-nigh ruined every Ameri- can ship-master and ship-owner in this trade. ;i “A more complete demonstration of the wisdom, aye, the necessity of protecting all our industries against free competition | of similar foreign industries employing | cheaper labor could not be had. Free { trade as a theory seems very plausible | on paper; free trade in its practical re- | sults may be seen by any one who looks | for the American merchant marine in the The preceding was sung with a will under the title of “Old Abe’s Preliminary 3 foreign carrying trade, which has been struggling a:ainst foreign competion on free-trade principles for over thirty years. “The decline of our merchant marine in the foreign traae is a humiliating fact which has justly attracted widespread at- tention within a few years, and has caused an earnest discussion of the causea and the remedies which should be applied to reccver our position in the deep sea carry- ing trade. ““This topic is rarely alludea to by a free- trader in or out of Congress without the assertion that the decline is the direct re sult of the national protective policy of the country adopted by the Republican party in 1861 and maintained since that period, and the additional declaration that up to 1861, when the revenue tariff policy of the Demoeratic party was over- thrown, our merchant marine was experi- encing great and increasing prosperity. “The conclusive reply to this free-trade assumption is that the decline of our for- eign carrying trade, as the official figures already given show, did not commence with the adoption of the protective tariff.” Who bets on Stephen A.? The “little plug” has hed iis day, Du da, du d He's out of the ring by all fair play, Du ds, du da day. We're bound, ete. He tried his best on the Charleston track, But couldn’t make time with his “Squatter Jack,” Du 4a, du da day. ‘We're bound, ete. *0ld Abraham’s” a well-bred nag, Du da, du da; His wind is sound—he’ll never lag, Du ds, du da dsy. In 58 he tried his gait, D da, du da; He trotted Douglas through the State, Du da, du da day. In '60 now we’re going to trot, Duda,duda; So plank your money on the spot, Du da, du da day. The “Lincoln hoss” wilt never fail, Duds, duda; e will not shy at ditch or “rail,’ Du da, du da day. The “Little Dug” can never win, Du ds, du da; ‘That Kansas job’s too much for him, s 3 Du ds, du da day. One stanza of & song to the air of “A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea” ran like thist I hear that Dug is half inclined To give us all leg bail, Preferring exercise on foot To riding on a rail; For Abe has one already mauled Upon the White House plan; If once Dug gets astride of that, He is a used-up man. This palpable imitation of the older campaign doggerel— Van, Van is & used-up man, ‘Was followed by the following, which may well provoke s smilet Come, Granny Buck, you's better go ‘While you can see the WAy For I fear your nerves won't stand the shock On next election day. Bo take your hat—What's that you say? You are so cold you shiver? Why, that's the way you'll feel, my dear, When sailing up Salt River. e e 5 7o P 6 A2 i et T, 1~ "SRR S The following of which Stedman was the author was the most ambitions, froms literary point of view, of all the earlier Republican campaign songs: Air—“Star Spangled Banner."” 0, hark! from the pine-crested hills of old Maine, Where the splendor first falls from the wings of the morning, And away in the West, over river and plsin, Rings out the grand anthem of Liberty’s warning! From green-rolling prairie it swells to the ses, For the people have risen, victorious and free They have chosen their leaders, the bravest and best Of them all is Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West! ‘The spixit that fought for the patriots of old Has swept through the land and aroused us forever; In the pure air of heaven a standard unfold Fit to marshal us on to the sacred endeavor! Proudly the banner of freemen we bear; Noble the hopes that encircle it there! And where battle is thickest we follow the crest Of gallant old Abe, Honest Abe of the West! There’s a triumph in urging a glorious cause, Though the hosts of the foe for & while may be stronger, Pushing on for just rules and holier laws, Till their lessening columns oppose us no longer. But ours the loud paan of men who have past Through the struggles of years, and are victors at last; So forward the flag! leave to heaven the rest, And trust in O1d Abe, Honest Abe of the West! Lo! see the bright scroll of the Future unfold! ¥ farms and fair cities shall crown our devotion— i Free labor turn even the sand into gold, And the links of her railway chain ocean to ocean; Barks that float on the dark river waves _With a wealth never wrung from the sinews of slaves; . And the Chief, in whose rule all the land shall be blest, | Is our noble Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West. [ Then on to the holy Republican strife! And again, for a future as fair as the morning, For the sake of that freedom more precious than life, Ring out the grand anthem of Liberty’s warning! Lift the banner on high, while from mountain and plain The cheers of the people are sounded again; Hurrah! for our cause—of all causes the best! Hurrah! for Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West! e