Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-19
For the Herald.
A Coalition ballad.
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Ab'-"In Good old Colony Times
BY c. IL. BALLARD.
In these Republican times,
When Democracy is scarce.
sore Head" few, with great ado.
Are enacting ludicrous Farce.
At first they worked alone.
But they all recalled. at length.
( fragment of truth they learned in youth
That sin Union there is strength"
SO TO Cincinnati they went.
All clamoring for "Reform,"
/ But Protection arrayed against Free Trade
! Made contest wordy and warm.
/ But, by labOring day and night
! As busy rs busy could be.
/ Platform was made on which Free Trade
And Protection could stand and agree
! And next for Il Candidate
Ihey searched their ranks quite freely
And the man best fit against Grant to pit
Was the bidia RuJJerman-H GREELEY
\ second they speedily chose,
OF questionable removing
For they saw in a trice that, of all men for
rice.
The fittest is b. GRAFT BRowN!
but tLc long Iheg began To sec
That a speedy and fatal distress
Was sure to bcfall them, one and all.
Unless they could coulesce.
So all resolved to unite
With whatever could help them throu,,b.
And this, in a word, is what we heard
From the little ''SOrc-Head" few
"Old Party lines are destroyed,
Democracy is dead
And epublicanism is rent by schi-m.
And can never more lift its hcadi
Let's be Liberals one and all.
And the world will behold. ere long.
y Great Tidal Wave which shall prove a
grave
FOR Grant and his mental thromg,"
Then Democrats rose from the Dead.
And exclaimed, IL is 5to1c, or ncrer!
Let us all go in. and, after we win.
This new relation wen sever:
But We'll hang together awhile.
TIL we beat the Usurper, Grant,
when this Rubber manifest part of the
plan
VIII prove just the thing we want -
So TO Baltimore all repaired.
And adopted the ''sore-Head" scheme:
And felt as il struck by a streak of-good
luck.
Yet they feared it might prove but Il
dream.
Then sore Heads began to boast.
And to tell what are shall do.'
But the strife waXed warm through a real
Reform.
When Republicans rallied. too.
That Great Tidal Wave" didn't start:
Fhe North state" gave them the slip.
And their Merry Man looked like GREELEY
booked
70 embark on his salt River trip,
But the Democrats shouted l.. Fru,oE -
And -'Sorc-Hcads'' shouted it. too:
For none can deny that puppies viii try
To do us the old dogs do.
And they said 1T VIII prove disgrace
To give up the battle so.
There are other States where the contest
waits,
And, first, to Vermont Wen 20.
And while we arc well aware
That, to carry il, is absurd.
1t viii be of much use if we can reduce
lis majority say one third.
And GREELEY must steal into Maine.
While taking that long-promiscd ride.
Where his old mother sits. and patiently
knits,
By the door at cventidet
And there he must read a speech.
To make Democrats all feel sure
That he viii be fair. and give them their |
share.
Thus Maine wilI-Ierhaps-be secure"
But alas! both Vermont and Maine
Responded in clarion notes,
And the ''SOre-Head" ranks-front. rear /
and TANKS
Were riddled with Loyal Votes,
But the Coalition now say.
In view of their total rout.
That they only meant to gain a .Dey ceaf' I
And are busy figuring it ont.
And TINS the Farce proceeds.
And Democrats cling and wait,
Though men Of honor, like CHAs. O'CoN-
NOR.
Don't bite at the 'sore-Head' bait.
And the States that are soon to vote
In bright and sunny October.
IIi vote in way, ] venture to say.
That viii help keep "Sore-Heads" sober
But when November comes.
And they suffer Il crushing defeat:
" hen the Coalition, in deep contrition,
Around their Departed meet:
And when the train shall have moved.
And GREELEY shall have assembled
Ear mp salt River" ont of sight forever
The Farce will then have ended.