The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26


And make our aristocraey
Ashamed to own its name.
There old curmudceon once
From out the ''rowdy West"
Where he had boated, grubbed split rails,
And worked sans coat or vest;
And he, o, shame to think of It'll
Rose higher than our best.
And blue blood still revolts
Against that "rowdy West"
A common tanner, next behold.
Strides from that vulgar land.
And tans his country's naughty foes,
And takes his forward stand
Nor asks our leave nor heedeth us,
Nor seems to understand
That we would proudly condeseend
To rule the waiting land.
And, Oh! not long ago there came
Another toil-scarred man
"a boatman, teacher preacher he.
Built on that Western plan,)
Who'd scaled our lofty college walls.
Had led tho battles vani-
And he stepped up above us "bloods"
A most presuming mani
And yet another CHAP has risen,
Now in the eastern East,
An East that everybody knows
Is East where East has ceased
To sprout refnements blooming rose.
Or groan with "eulchas" FEAST
And he was toilhg elod,
This naughty lnan from East,
Then could stand no more, no more
Our gentle blood was hot.
And on our long, patrician
We just got up and got"
Three 'smutty tyrants" from the West,
And now, what foulest blot
They thought to give us from one from East.
But our blue blood was hotl
And--softly, softly. now nay deSh,
Smile low-that's quite refined
Behold the work that we have done.
So grateful to the mind
OF every ''culehad" theocrat
By heavenly powers designed
To own and rule these common men
In manner quite refnedl
Twas VIC who leyeled down Jim Blaine
Low in the dying grass.
That bold presuming man from Maipo,
We could not let him pass;
But each young Samson struck him with
The jaw bone of an ass,
And made the fellow walk jaw.bone
In the November grass.
Twas we who lifted Cleveland up,
Although not quite the thing,
Yet touching levers, springing traps
And letting convicts swing
Is not so lowas common toll
Whence food and raiment spring
Which mugwumps all regard, you know.
A most degrading thing.
Once Logan led his hummer bands
Through Southern pastures fair,
While Hendricks, bold shot off his mouth
And thrashed the frightened air;
Though ''smutty tyrants" would not heed
Nor cruel Gov nors care.
We 1nugwumps heard, and now he leads
Us sheep through pastures fair.
When old iconoclasts oerthrew
The South's patrician god
And set the fettered bondman free
Upon his native sod,
Twas he brave Hendricks shouted "Noi"
And spurned the struggling clod,
Then bowed and kissed the unsandaled feeb
OF slaverys odorous god.
And. though the name of slavery seems
little harsh, own,
Yet surely that mugwump seed
Which Tom" almost alone,
Was sowing from the Senate then,
And we the crop full blown
Stalks, blades distended ears and all -
A triae green, own.
But Blaine who leads these working folks
That pirate of equal rights
And Logan heading ruffiap bands
In numerous vulgar fights,
They sickened us. disguised US
And banished our Delights
The blue blood bubbled in veins
And we set things to rights.
But view these matters as we may
This mournful truth is found,
While there's blue blood and tone enough
The cash will not go roundi
And So give officel or we die
And perish from the ground;
Then where, responsibility,
Oh, wherel will it be foundY
We would consent, we do consent
To take sweetness in
And crown with propriety
The party's vulgar sin -.
But oh! it racks souls to see
The 'Johnnies" sit and grin
And hand the loaves and fishes round,
Although we let them in.
g. -, Boston Mugwump.
[Note-The C. in the signature stands for cultured
Iugwumps part their hair aud their names in the
lidue. rule do not feel disposed to violate an
nwritten law of such eminent propriety and to pre-
arve myself from such cruel necessity and at thu
anne time to let the public be fully informed as to tn,
nport of my front name, have condescended to ap
end this note C.B.M.l
The Old Year.
o the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The year which is rapidly drawing to a Close
ill long be remembered as one of hard times
,ilures and disappointments in business. The
reat and unexpected panic which broke out il
lew York in May among the banks and broker:
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