44 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS by one of the first settlers of Ohio, but which had long since been covered with clapboards. The re publican simplicity of his home was extolled by his admirers, and a political biography of that time says that "his table, instead of being covered with exciting wines, is well supplied with the best cider." Log-cabins and hard cider, then, became the party emblems, and both were features of all the political demonstrations of the canvass, which witnessed the introduction of the enormous mass-meetings and processions that have since been common just be fore presidential elections. The result of the con test was the choice of Harrison, who received 234 electoral votes to Van Buren s 60. He was inaugurated at Washington on March 4, 1841, and immediately sent to the senate his nominations for cabinet officers, which were confirmed. They were Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, secretary of state; Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, secretary of the treasury; John Bell, of Tennessee, secretary of war; George E. Badger, of North Carolina, secretary of the navy ; Francis Granger, of New York, post master-general ; and John J. Crittenden, of Ken tucky, attorney-general. The senate adjourned on March 15, and two days afterward the president called congress together in extra session to con sider financial measures. On March 27, after sev eral days of indisposition, he was prostrated by a
