Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-08
TILDEN,S LAMENTATION.

AFTER HAVING HEARD HENRY VIII.
s. Wolsey Tilden-farewell, long farewell to all
This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow opens,
A bar'l o. money; and the next day offers
hundred thousand for the Presidency;
The fourth comes a journalistic tiend,
And-when he thinks, good, easy man, full
surely
Put on to him, as l have! have ventured
Like wanton Peter Cooper on his cushion,
This many summers in q sea of glory.
(Enter William Cromwell Pelton, amazedlyO
Why, how now, William
Pelton-l P!I have no power TO wt speak, vod sII;
A great man should decline? Nay, an you
weep,
lam fallen indeed!
Pelton- lis not weep, U, Sammy,
'Tis the hay-fever runneth down my nose,
Six towels have used this very morn
How dost your brevet excellency?
Never so truly happy, snufing William,
l know how tbs myself: At last, indeed
keenly sympathize with Billy Tweed.
And very much like him feel within me
still and quiet conscience. BY the way,
Perhaps It's dead! had not thought Of that?
For years it stiller than mouse hath lain:
der.
TildenNit was the ,oait that pulled me down, oh,
Marble hath gone Beyond me. All my faith
In his coparceny is lost forever.
Why, mark you, William, how that drivelling
First teieraphed to me and then to you,
al must have half hundred Thousand best .
United States docs to buy some son @ votes withai'
And sent it in cipher 80 wide open
That you could drive a double mule-team
through
q, the fooli The stupid traitorous fool!
Lopsided lecherous and loquacious lout,
And lethal loon and leprous lubberhead!
o, Kearney come faint! o, hither come
And lend to me thy rich vocabulary
Wherewith may touch up the photograph
OF -this-tbis-
tFants. Pelton administers three "Tilden
pills and he revives.)
Therel l am better! / remember now.
Gol Out of sight! You've shot your grand
Get OUT Move on! Kneel at John Kelly's
And set up pins for him! Neglect him not.
He is the rising son. Perch9nce thou mayst
Humbug him even as thou dldst me.
Look out for number one. ,,.,,
| Pelton- Boohoo! Mine uncle!
And must leave thee? 'Tis a bitter draught
| ! made $1,000 on the last election
| By crooked ways of which thou taughtest me
fear me shall find no other teacher
| So skillful at all iuggleries as thou.
William, did not think to shed a tear
But thy speech forces me to play the woman.
Thou Thou fiStter'st me Am indeed so cute2
| But-when am forgotten. as shall be-
And sleep with dull, cold Marble, where no ci
Can haunt me in the Tri6uHe-say taught
| thee;
Say, Sammy, that once rode the ways of glory
| And sounded all the currents of dishonOr.
| Who tricked the treasury agent of his income
And hocus-pocused mining books at Marquette
He taught thee some successful subtertuges.
(Smiles through his tears.l
William, charge thee fling away that cipher
1t fooled old Sammy Tildeni how canst tho'
| then,
The image of thine uncle. hope TO win by't2
Construct another. Use at least fourteen
| Different dictionaries. Jump ten pages.
Let every message be inscrutable
| Till it has been translated fourteen times.
Corruption wins far more than honesty;
Don't let them stuff thee with prate of virtue
Still on thy right breast wear the badge " Re
| form"
To silence envious tongues. Play the righ
| bower;
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy party's
Thine own and Tammany's, then-hist! Nose
comes;
Hand me my sword-quickl
(Seizes the weapon and dodges behind the doc
10 wait till the doomed man gets fairly 4
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