St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-14

Here the roll of cities calling.
cincinnati, where's your boomer2
Cincinnati, do your ''spoutiug."
Billy Ramsey takes the tapis,
Paws the air in mighty effort
Toilette follows, fluent speaker,
Talks about the constitution
And it's kin 10 Cincinnati:
Jefferson" Democracy"
Are the burden of his story.
Now Detroit for an inning,
Maybufy'S to do the honOrs
MartyrdOm, he claims, and no less,
Ihat is what 1t costs Jimmy
To be true to his convictions
Down in old "Michiganny'
Lend your eyes TO Mr.. Chapman
As he MARBLES eloquently
On the beauties of Detroit.
1t were really quite disgraceful
TO put up the prize for barter;
Come 10 us. and if you cannot,
Then to some state that is doubtful"
Turpie. he from Hoosier landing,
Speaks about accommodations,
Restaurants and boarding houses:
Don't forget. where e'er you lead us,
Indiana's sure to follow"
Charlie Jewett now is heard from,
Takes the platform for his CITY,
Every man within our bailiwick
Is wiley politician.
This, because we stood the racket
OF Republican intriguing
Mr. Putnam chants them sweetly.
Not town i'll all the country
Fit to run that big convention
Save his own dear Kansas City.
III the prize would reach Missouri
they could furnish stronger drinking
Than Ohio's muddy water
Vest, fresh from the senate chamber,
Rises now, and Brice presents him
Here's man of reputation,
Ger the hall deep silence settles,
Each one cranes his neck to hear him.
He assumed right from the starting
That the West must get the trophy.
Tam ny Tigers claws of crimson
Had no terrors for the Jimmies
If one dubbed Missouri blue,
He'd admit the soft impeachment.
"Peck's bad boy" that soul of humor,
Peck, the Gov of fair Wisconsin,
Sets the delegates a'laughing,
Laughing till their sides are aching,
Speaks about the colored "gemmen,"
That is kept as luck's good omen.
Giant Peter Somers follows
Pete, the mayor, with splendid presence,
Pete, whose hair falls down in ringlets
All about his msssive shoulders,
Spoke for fully twenty minutes.
Don't neglect the great Wisconsin,
III you want those voteS-a Dozen"
DOnnelly fam would sound the praises
OF his first love. dear Milwaukee.
But the cry of "Timei'' is sounding,
And gaunt hunger stalks the hall through.
Joe alludes to German voters.
And their pull down in Cream City.
LAS they go, so goes Wisconsin"
Let her go.' CRIES some arch joker
New York's claims get proper treatment,
Breslin, Myers and John Fellows
Speak in turn in brilliant flashes,
Though the hour late is growing.
Fellows holds the rapt attention
OF the people there assembled.
81 of ca Two, oic
She. though scarcely yet woman,
Was still willing to be cOurted.''
Last, not least. come Daniel Lawler,
And Winona s son, Judge wilson
ITO our New York friends" says Lawler,
I'VE would like to grasp your methods;
We, out West, are antiquated,
Haven't time to deal III science"
Far removed from observation,
Time, the night before the battle,
In a room with light uncertain.
Where the gas is dim and flick ring,
Three men sit around table.
Three as sleek man as ever
Pulled wire or worked q caucus.
Who. but HILL and Brice ana German,
Talking DER the place of meeting
OF the coming big convention.
"Hast thou sent that telegram, sirl"
Dave inquiries of Brice, the chairman.
Yea, ;" replies the rainbow chaser.
what response?' quoth Arthur German.
''Here it is, %. K. Chicago
''Then," says Hill, Chicago gets it:
Pass the word among our minions.
Have them cast. say fifteen ballots,
Give each town the razzle-dazzle.
Blow them up, then stick pin in,
And when ready, fash the signal
Presto, change. Behold, Chicagor"
v.
After supper, fifteen ballots
Fifteen long and dreary ballots
Who can guess or name the winneri
Who of ali the delegationsl
Hill can do it-Brice or German,
For they fixed the deal long previous.
And they're playing with the suckers,
Giving line enough to each one
Just to satisfy its craving
Now Detroit gets send-off,
And fearful bowling follows
By those ardent Michiganders.
Now Des Moines, Now San Francisco,
Then st. Paul and Cincinnati.
But look outl Here comes the winner
It's Milwaukee. She's got twenty.
Twenty votes and two more added
Hear those boys from famed Beer City;
How they split the air with yelling.
But, alas for human hoping,
And alas for Grover Cleveland
And the town that dearly loved him;
Twas the height of her offending
Twas Milwaukee, fatal error
Thus the combine named Chicago
Robert Doubleday