Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11
Announcing the Returns.
". 4. Croga in The Graphic.

". 4. CroBM IN The Graphic.
TScene, four o'clock this morning; time. Is Ora
mercy Park present, Samuel j. Tilden, in dis
turbed sleep and night gown, muttering some
thing about Billy. Cipher, Manton and the other
boys who tried in vain to help him in John
Kelley bursts IN the door with yell aud stands
before the bed
THDEN rubbing his eyes and juml i1g up)-Help /!
Help! o. john, it's you Why do hear
Your scream OF triumph bursting mine ear
ing 'bouta
Our goose is cooked we're walloped out and out I?
Get up Put on your clothes What do you lie for
SO late abed Blast your Internal CIPHER
(Sezes the pillow and thrashes the bed with it, to
the terror of its occurant.)
Tilden- Jumping on the hoor)-Tell me the news,
John! Tell me Is it true
That they have put a mansard roof on you
KELLr-It is--too true am no longer King;
Ed. Cooper's gang has gobbled up the
thing!
TMDEN-The deuce you say
do old man, do
And more than thst-we lay it all to you !!
Bringing pillow to shoulder, as If for assault. !
TILDEN-Don't John We'd better join our teams
hereafter;
John Don't deride newly this mocking laugh
ter
You've lost the Mayor, but you have the Judge,
Assembly, Governor and Congress
KELLY Fudge !
You sleepy fool! They've carried everything,
Aud left disaster only to the Ring
The rats have seized the Knickerbocker chair,
Spiked all our guns, elected Cooper Mayor,
Beat all our candidates
TILDEN Excepting Cunning 7
KELLY-IIe's dead and buried, spite of all bis
cunning
10 FASTING ballots.
elected Potterf
KELLY-1hey scslped him, too; it was a-sish
hotter
Than expected.
TILDEN---How in other States?
KELLY-The people broke the democratic states
lrIlden smiles.
Don't smile Old man, we lay il all to you
[Flourishing the pillow and hopping around.l
TMDEN-You keep away Dom; venture to imbrue
Your weapon in my gore. You'd always rue it,
As for the party's fall ildut do III
[Uproar heard without
KELLY-You did
IMDRN--I didn't!
KELLY-You iidl Hsrk Hear that crowd
Their angry menaces they shout aloud
"Oh, put his eyes 10 mourning" Don't you hear !:
Another yells, ooh, stand him on his earl"
These words aude to you. They long this min
ute
To drag you to some pond AMI duck you in it!
TILDEN-ls there no good news?
KgLLY----------None Yes. Let me see
The South has gone for law and libertee.
Winks energetically. Tilden gives three faint
cheers.
The just and righteous Mississippi plan
Has triumphed-we've elected every man;
And where the blamed republicans have had
Their big majorities, we beat EN- bad
TuDEN-Hur-
KELLY---Stop! The outlook is not quite &C
hard,
For Tammsny has swept the old Fourth Ward!
IMDEN-Hur-
kEDLY--Stop Shut up! If that mad crowd
should hear
Your treacherous, feeble, vacillstng cheer,
They'd hang you to door knob just for fun
In memory OF the mischief you have done
With your comparceners and cDhers-
Here they come! Hide yourself, quick
The doomed man gets under the bed, hurredly.
Kelly stands guard. Crowd bursts in the door
Another crowd assemblies under the window with
a rail, singing in a boisterous manner:
GAN together let us MARBLE;
Bring out Tiden, Ptlton, Marble"
This state of things continues at the time Of going
to press.