History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . nvention in which they haddeclined to participate. That, too, in the face of the fact that, fouryears before, they had objected to Van Buren because he was nominatedby a convention. Nevertheless, they submitted and entered with a willinto a campaign of conventions, catchwords, and emblems, the mostbrilliant and spectacular, as well as the most stubborn and determined,that ever occurred in the State. It was in this campaign that the Whigleaders established, and Allan A. Hall edited. The Spirit of yd, the firstcampaign paper published west
History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . nvention in which they haddeclined to participate. That, too, in the face of the fact that, fouryears before, they had objected to Van Buren because he was nominatedby a convention. Nevertheless, they submitted and entered with a willinto a campaign of conventions, catchwords, and emblems, the mostbrilliant and spectacular, as well as the most stubborn and determined,that ever occurred in the State. It was in this campaign that the Whigleaders established, and Allan A. Hall edited. The Spirit of yd, the firstcampaign paper published west of the Alleghany Mountains. JeremiahGeorge Harris promptly followed it with a Democratic campaign papercalled the Advance Guard of Democracy. Harrison and Tyler carriedthe State by a rousing majority. 336. Continuation of the Political Contest in 1841.— The strugglefor supremacy between the Whigs and Democrats of Tennessee from Judge N. Baxter, in The Christian Home and Common Sense Farmer^Livingston, July 15, 1891. igo History of 1834 to 1844 was really but one continuous contest. The smoke of onehard-fought battle had hardly cleared away before the stout-heartedleaders of either party were organizing their hosts for the next. Assoon as the returns of the Whig victory of 1840 had been received, Robertson, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, cameforward with a new plan of campaign for the following year. Polkwas a candidate for reelection. None of the old Whig leaders seemedwilling to meet him on the stump. In their desperation, the Whigsnominated James C. Jones, a man of yesterday unknown to fame. 337. The Canvass between Polk and Jones.— The canvass betweenPolk and Jones in 1841, repeated with litUe variation in 1843, was themost unique, and is the most celebrated, that has occurred in the annals of Tennessee. Jones was rearedon a farm, and his political expe-rience did not extend beyond a singleterm in the lower house of the Gen-era
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