The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-30

Sono minus 10 the SemPSA8A
In the nominations for President and Vice
President the interests of the stump orators
have been better looked after than those OF
the campaign poets. When the late Horace
Greeley said, sarcastically, to Thurlow Weed
after the Convention of 1860. LET me write
the campaign songs of party and don't
care who makes the nom nations" there was
more poetry than truth in the Sage of Chap
paqua's remark. The founder of the Irib-
une wrote some verses in his youth, but
never claimed to be poet He was, how
ever, fond of singing
What means this great eommotion,
Motion, motion.
The whole land through
ending up with "Tippecanoe and Tyler too. :
And as he hummed into Mr.. Weeds ear
For Van
is used up man,
we have no doubt the latter turned away in
disgust. Turning from those musical men,
cries Of the log cabin and hard cider time to
the cacophony of "Tilden and Hendricks"
and the rhyming difficulties of Hayes and
Wheeler" we shed tear for the campaign
poets Of our day. The bowling radical upon
the stump can divide the unmusical demo-
cratic ticket on his lips if he cannot conquer
it at the polls he can roll out "Rah for
Hayes and Wheeler" like q bugle blast The
whooping democrat can put Samuel j."
before his Tilden and Thomas A." before
his Hendricks, though he may not put either
in rosy light before his hearers. But the
poets alas they must double and squirm
around their respective tickets to project
them into the heaven Of verse, as the salmon
takes his tail in his mouth to jump up .
waterfall.
For the past ten days the republican poets,
although hard at work, have been unable to
grind out Hayes and Wheeler" refrain.
Rhymes for Hayes they found plenty as
blackberries, and, despairing of finding q
decent rhyme for Wheeler, they have let
loose upon as an avalanche of poems-bless
the mark which ran from "blaze" until they
ended in ''craze." There has been perfect
fog of long "a" rhymes since this Scotch Hayes
has covered the land. Now, however, with
two tickets before the people, the poets are
on their mettle We have received two
poems already on Tilden and Hendricks,
which we publish as terrible examples to
warn our poets forever from wrestling with
such jsw-breaklng subjects for verse. One
is from . republican; the other is from .
democrat. They are equally infamous The
republican monster writes
The fight they'll all get killed in,
Tho they dodge about and blend tricks;
Well scalp old Sammy Tllden
Ana likewise Tommy Hendricks
The democratic demon utters the follow
ing discordant Shrek
Our ticket wants no gilcin
In the game we'll take the ten tricks.
Hurrah for Sammy Tiiden
And tiger for Tom Hendricks.
The last line Of the democratic horror be-
trays its source. The Tammany tiger was
all along for Hendricks, and Is now repent
ant enough to hurrah for Uncle Samuel
Another democrat has lodged the full names
syllable Of our respected Governors name.
1t is altogether too free and easy, and takes
the liberty of speaking for Mr.. Tilden in q
manner he could not approve. 1t begins as
follows -
I'm happy rs a clam;
My name is Uncle Sam,
And don't care button
For Wheeler or tor Hayes.
Now for our hints. We advise the poets
not to put either the easy rhymed Hayes,
the sinister rhymed Wheeler, the mutilat-
ing Tilden or the impossible Hendricks at
the end of their lines Hide them safely
where quantity alone is to be wres-
tied with. Unfortunately, they must be
crammed in somewhere, or Hamlet would be
out of the play and the poets lose their occu-
patton. Let them, therefore, fasten like bar
nacles upon some catching. sonorous word to
rhyme with, and then they need not trouble
about putting any sense into their verses.
At tremendous outlay of handkerchiefs to
mop our forehead, with three small boys
gracefully waving enormous fans and q
swift succession of cooling drinks, we have
evolved the following as hint to the DEM
ocratic poets. We give them their catch
word. It isl
Reform Reform
Give il 'cm warm.
Tilden sweeps the l. nd like q storm
Chorus IL boys, from the Eas, 10 the West,
Tdcn and Hendricks, that tickets the best
On TO the White House we'll mar h in swain,
Singing for Tildcn and shouting sReform !"
We would willingly have furnished sim
liar specimen for the republican poets, but
the handkerchief and small boys have given
out, and further iced drinks might defeat
the very purpose we have in view.
New York and Paris.
The bill allowing Paris to raise loan Of
twenty-fo millions of dollars to improve
the city has passed the Senate This seems
to be large sum, especially to saddle upon
city that has been burdened like Paris
Then one would think that the French
capital was already SO beautiful that further
expenditure would be gliding refined gold.
But the French are wise ! The alert men
who govern that wonderful land know that
every dollar expended upon the improve