New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-08
THE GROWING OF DAVID b.
HE CROWETH OVER THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESS WHICH HE LATELY DOWNED)

NV name Is David on the GramNsn hills
But more particularly on the hills Of Albany
Also at the Hoffman House, incidentally at Washihg'e
Occupation, boss, great mogul.
Machlnist par excellence,
Slick tin god on wheels.
Elk sig. capital l,
The brains, the Will,
The dominating force.
or the Democracy OF the Empire State;
Including Murphy. Sheehan. Senate. Assembly.
And the state Committee,
Also including Flower
Great scott!
j came rear forgetting Flower
j mould they're moulded;
I'm the potter, they're the clay
I'm the SNUFF takcr, they're the sneezers,
sneezng colncidentally with my snuftakins'
That's i me
As the case may be.
Did the Democratic press know unsI
Why cert'ny,
Knew il long ago knew u well,
But not 80 we'll as they know 1t now
Not so WELL not well
Now in their bones, their respective mnrrowS.
Tbctr spjnaI columns, their bodies concrete.
And their finer frames
which Tamny calls the "astral" bodies.
They feel I'm boss.
Most OF all they feel it in their tempers,
For at last accounts weren't they nadder
Than q hen that has been saturated
They were, they were.
SUSPECT taught them a useful lesson;
More in sorrow than anger. OF course.
But thoroughly.
A very previous convention.
A. premature convention,
A midwinter convention,
convention in the cold, cod blast
As might remark
We're I a poet. which I'm not
That sort Of q convention l wanted WHY
Ny boom needed it. needed II badly.
Fen as my state Board Of Canvassers
Needs whltewasing.
To want IS 10 have with D. B. n.
The cod on whcels-of American tin
Mentioned above.
But the press kicked,
Rising in what it calls
" Its majesty
But called by me {" its enr.'
Each Of the dckers was madder than the resi-
They fought against mld~inter cohVehuoh'
With able arguments.
,rwas against precedent: twas against justice,
Twas bad politics: twas bad morals
A burning shame; cold FLOODED snap.
So they all said
And some Of them loaded
The BREWER in which they said 1t
For the sake of emphasis.
And what did !
i merely smiled. merely sneered,
merely laughed scornfu laugh
In either sleeve OF my Senatorial togn.
Then l called " Ed called Murphy mine,
And said " to work. To work got he,
He and the rest OF them my State Committee
They prompt obeyed
The dictation o. the dictator
Debating the sort OF convention
Above mentioned
The committee hustled. that's what they did;
The deed was done in nineteen minutes
BY stop-wa;ch
Rough on the party press wasn't 1t!
Trying. notifying;
POSSIBLY humillatng, certainly aggravatlnS
They tried a fall with me,
And down they went with me on top. distinctly on IA
With
Both
Feet!
Their pens. their party pens,
Their polished party pens,
Their polished. pungent. powerful party pens,
May mglItier be than the best sword
That e'er Damascus forged
For the Gunmaker Of MOSCOW
This point III not discuss.
Not being up cutlery,
But I'm mighier than they. meaning the pens,
Nv q large majority
Didn't face
A frowning "Word y
Didn't pluck the tail feathers from
"The Brooklyn Eagle?
Didn't black the hundred eyes
OF Albany's " Argus"7
Didn't pay little attention to
"Tie Utica Observer
As though il was O hopeless patient In
It's local asylum1
Didn't ! telescope
And rnuss the track With the rest Of them.
Those engines OF Democratic opinion!
] did did they know did,
know did,
They know know ! did;
know they know did,
Hence ! laugh.
And from my mouth
Emit an imitation
Of the growing OF gladstone cock:
While the Democratic press
Strive Intellectually
To dam their eyes their weeping eyes.
JIouray houp hi
COcka -dOOdle-dO!
My names Hin.
David Bennett HIM.
LATER.
On sober second thought
do withdraw the imitation
OF the growing Of the gladstone cock
withdraw 1T for repairs.
For since emitting il
Two heard, ali me I've heard
Something distinctly Drop
Drop with thud =.
A duh and sckening thud!
What was ii dropped or who?
Oh Murphy mine.
Draw and bend thino ear.
And you, too Croker
more than half suspect
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