Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — Fifty Years Later. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Years Later.

The Republican newspapers 01, Lafayette are already agitating the subject qf a monster Harrison rally sometime during the campaign at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground. The Call says: “The greatest politicalmeeting in the history of this State was held at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground in 1840. In those days, with no accommodations for travelers except the primitive methods of coming in ou horseback and in wagons, a political rally was a great event; and instead of having many small meetings throughout a section, the people would -congregate from miles around at a greajX “rally,” and there would be long' [accessions and a great display of campaign .emblems, and probably a barbecue or ox loast. The meeting at Battle Ground in 1840 was a meeting which, as described by the older residents of this county, was one never to be forgotten. People were in attendance from every part of the United Stateand the crowd was of such immense proportions that no correct estimate of its size could be made. Enthusiasm amounted to a popular craze, and was manifested in every possible manner. Distinguished Whigs from all parts of the country, including General Harrison himself, were preseut at the great demonstration, and all contributed tl\eir influence to the great tidal wave of popular sentiment, which in the fall of 1840 sweptMartiuYunßuren from power That meeting oceured nearly fifty years ago, but its memory is still fresh. The Call proposes to the Republicans of Tippecanoe county ‘ and of Indiana, that another ‘-Harrison meeting” be held at the famous battle field this fall. Let the meeting be, like its great predecessay, one to. which Republicans everywhere are invited. Lfet it be a National ovation to the second Tippecanoe President. If there is to be a great Republican demonstration in Indiana this fall, why should it not be upon the ground indissolubly connected with the bravery and heroism which is always suggested by the name of Harrison V”

‘ “I am glad it is Harrisou,” said a lady prominent in the W. C. T. U. “He is a temperance man and a clean man, andTheresia - nothing stuck up about him. They talk about him as being a kid-glove man, but I have lived near him and know better. He is pleasant, kind and as sociable as auy man. He is not too good to 'ciean his sidewalks .of snow and do- such' work that kid-glove men leave for servants.”