New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-26
FOR THE POLITICAL DODG EKS'
ASCOT ALTON.
Biographical Sketches OF the KoEus
Family.

Biographical Sketches OF the KoEus
Family.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
Along with work, announced completed
in former number of your paper, have
compiled set of biographical sketches OF
little individuals composing the bogus
family, who linked together ny kindred ties,
and that fellow feeling which make all such
like kin, and hoping that, in the moral
progress of the times, when low cunning
and dishonest trickery is getting played out,
that people will look on the characters
herein given as something which their mem.
CRY recoils from, and whose presence IN
future they will shun. The first one given
is Jack Scratch. beginning from the time
he Clipped bad egg in the wilds of Galway,
until taking down the family sign for sud
den use "a caubcen) he managed to sneak
his way to America, where he became
Jeremmy Didler-make shift, diVersifying
his various trickey occupations by becoming
newspaper hack, where he was known as the
One. Eyed Reilly of the local column anonym-
ousl AS these dogs always hunt in couples
the other one that follows, though not SO
notorious, is full as little by snarling for the
other when he is afraid to do it himself, and
both behind fence where they may be
heard but not seen! I'll throw poetical
leash over the neck of these ours and in.
t.oduce them by way of preface:
4 tinker and member Of old hats
Put their block-heads together,
And tried to tell their fellow, Pats,
They didn't care for leather.
One boasted having lots to eat
A new thing without stealing,
The tinker ceased his hammers beat
To keep "caubeen" from failing.
SAYS Tinker, hand in hand we'll 60
Through politics, like brothers;
Your clique can do the mean and low
By spying upon others
And il your "sheebeen" house comes down,
I'll make braZen budget;
For you with birds eyechawin brown
Once more to gaily trudge it!
Saws Cdubeen, anything We do,
In any line of cumming,
From Pimp, to everything untrue,
To" coming sir! I'm coming"
What characters have we to lose,
With any man or woman!
Why he who honestly made shoes
Would scorn such soulles5 bunantH.
l know il, Tinker tho am,
And YOU nv caubeen know il!
He has the soul to scorn sham
And has the pluck TO show It;
No perjury can mark his name!
No bribery can stain him;
No blood drops, branding with their shame,
Mark things he'd scOrn 10 gain 'em.
But caubeens | no more vii. mend,
Though not much Of thinker,
Ny sneaky qualities befriend-
| Not honesty. friend Tinker!
And with our Counts and no accounts
The storm wen try to weather;
| On patronage the turnkey mounts,
| So keep your club together.
| There, will give you "Jack Scratch tb'
| first, for this reason: When procession o
! scoundrels are marching to execution, tn
greatest rascal goes first. Jack Scratch vii
be followed by an essay On bad potatoes
particularly that fungi root known as III
"potato president" with its tuberal of
shoots, and how rottenness sets in. TIL
biography of the Count will be prett
protean story, but am afraid when the ex
ecution of all is over, it will but leave som
| dirty memories behind, ard these they hav
| left already. Yours,
THE SHOEMAKER.