The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-08-26

come my brother Democrats and listen f,
to my lay,
We joined the Radical Party fol- l could no
longer stay
With independent Conservatives who had
no better pay
han Il military appellate, that's picked up
every day.
And I'm gone to the Party of RAIDS
I'm IL full iledged jumped up Rad.
You need not look so very sad,
AS I've found they don't she'll bad.
Tor breckenridge l yelled and fought, Sc
cessiouist clear through,
Ind at the Battle of Shiloh full MANY u
Yank | slew;
But since that time. I've changed my mind. /
the Yanks and | are friends.
the road to the Supreme Bench, | find
l must wax my ends"
And now I'm a jumped up Rad
All the past Is very sad.
But when | reach the Supreme Bench,
Don't you think that Ill feel glad?
As o knight Of the "Whitc Camelia," l bel
lowed long aud loud
But it didn't pay, and so ono day l joined
the radical crowd
They've promised NE If I'd lead the Nigs.
and not let them divide.
They'd place me on the Supreme Bench in
spite of time and tide.
SO You see I'm Il new born Rad,
Tin IL low down crawling Rad ;
But when | get to the Supreme Bench,
Oh, won't i then DC glad!
I'm the very one tits hard to believe,
But yet | swear it's so-who ordered the
Radical Sheriff to leave
This town of Thibodaux.
Observe! Ex-Sheritf, Rulical fool is writing
and lying for me-,
And that he is my willing tool, each OF you
a plainly see.
Chorus.
While he swears I'm a glorious Rad.
But he gnzzles his beer so bad
That when Iclimb to the Supreme Bench
III kick out this soft Dutch lad.
Ana now SOIIlc pcIbOIhl IlstoIS 1 / pIUCCCu
to relate
How l fell ont with my uncles i'll Old Ken.
lucky State.
| They called me "One great unwashed fool
and sWore that | Was u econ
Who'd be stamped to death by the Union
mule, if l didn't change my u
Chorus.
So I'm changed to be n Rad,
A Republican Radical Rad Bench
I've changed my tune for the Suprem,
And.you needn't look SO sad.
Then l went TO Missouri, and there l drop
ped the "y."
And put a Dipthong in it's place-and "hov
Was that for high y
"What's in IL nalne,'' said Shakespeare
WHATS in a name," say |;
But when l sit on the Supreme Bench, 20
can make lie" or ~"
Oh, you see m u duck of a Rad,
A tricky ambitious Rad ! fBencf
Aud lin bound to 60 to the Supreml
No matter who's sorry or glad.
1 made the bargain hard and fast with WI
Pitt Kellogg,
l was tired of shouting Democrat and bein
bump on a log.
l want to &c the Supreme Bench and l thin
Pve found the way,
My Governor" yell was all a "blind' and
care not what you say.
Chorus.
I'm a new born Radical Rad,
l1n ,r,ot,b1n D,J
I've set my face for the Supreme Bencl
: And I'm going there, by CAD.
I've said I'll .'crawl so rcry low for po,rcr
| my hands,"
And when | sit rs Supreme Judge, look OF
; for tax-sold lands.
! But yet, my brother Democrats, shake n
! your locks ut me
: Thou cans not say l did it, just lay it
Z Big Boss P.
Chorus.
y For Tn a new found Rad,
A Presidential Rad
I'm on my way to the Supreme Benc
ri No matter who's sorry or glad.
In Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Eight
t expect to flop right back
And then III tote the negro vote to a Der
cratic track.
Whichever's the strongest political side
{ oh, that's the side for me-.
1t matters not what horse | ride, if the ri
. brings pelf to me.
y Chorus.
Il I'm a Louisiana Rad,
;, A cunning unprincipled Rad tBcn(
Bnt my eyes are fixed on the Suprcl
And I'm going there, good or bad.
L n secret society, after the ia
= hion of the old Kslow-Nothing
u ganization, called the Americ;
. Alliance, has been gainil
: strength in the North for mont.
III past. The Alliance claims to
T" the result OF all the native Anne
IL can orders, the combination ha'
!! ing been perfected at Philade
IL phia May 10, 1876. The MOTTO
81 the order is "American and P
'e teStants should rule America
IL The members ore known only