Between the Covers

Unbound. First edition. Broadside. Single sheet, measuring 5" by 11" printed in dark blue on recto only. Illustrated with eagle motif engraving at upper margin of recto and typographical union label at lower margin. Two neat folds with a few short edge tears, else about fine. California poet Charles Wesley Kyle, born in 1853, was the author of *Forest Leaves and other Poems*, published in San Francisco by D. S. Stanley in 1894 and *Yosemite, The World's Wonderland* published in San Francisco in 1915. A pro-union broadside in support of William McKinley for president, concluding: 'We'll vote for Protection and McKinley!'. A political song in support of William McKinley, free labor and protectionism, consisting of five stanzas in thirty-three lines, with the refrain: "Hurrah for Protection and McKinley!." The July 8,1896 issue of the *San Francisco Call* reports that this song was sung at a Republican event at the Phoenix Club to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia." The report said "It gives promise of becoming a popular campaign ballad. Unrecorded by *OCLC.*.

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