The Delta independent., 1894-01-10

A grim old man, called Governor Waite,
Who started out early and came in late
To enlighten the world, who little knew
What a lot Of brains in his old pate grew;
In fact, people thought that he had but
few.
But one morning, way back in 81,
He learned that the governship he'd won.
A more surprised man never saw light,
When he went to bed on election night
Just common old citizen, wrinkled and
gray,
He'd no more idea that the very next day,
That he'd be governor of this great state
Than that "hell would freeze over"-but
such is fate.
And gov'ner he was-and the people too,
Who had made up their minds to have
something new,
When they found what an elephant they
drew
Cried, God protect us, he'll never do!'
But the old man was in, and in to stay
For two long years, and do what they may
They must take their medicine, bitter or
sweet,
They had voted him in and he'd taken
his seat.
And now he was ready to jump with both
feet
On any man who crossed his track.
And had not fully woke up to the fact
That Waite was the greatest statesmen
on earth,
And ever had been from the day of his
birth.
And now the old chap, when he'd got his
grip
Firmly closed on the chair, said "Ill
never let slip
This chance Of my life. I'll show them
trick;
I'll show that I'm the d-m-dest old brick
That ever was heard Of from Bitter Creek
I've just got two years to build up name
To send laundering down through the
trumpet Of Fame.
I'll do something desperate and stir up
sensation,
So they'll hear Of old Waite all over the
nation.
To make the scheme win I must let peo-
pie know
That to poor men I'm friend and to rich
men foe.
Yes, I'll go for the rich men and give
them fits,
And I'll wade through blood to the
bridle's bits
To down corporations-money loaners
I'll smash,
And all that kind of cattle bring down
with crash"
Well, the panic came on and money got
tight,
And the Sherman bill, which caused all
the fright,
Was knocked out at the end of terrible
fight.
Now, Grover desiring to right all the evil,
Brought about by that fearful Sherman
bill devil
Whilst out fishing for cells one day
At his country-seat at Buzzard's Bay,
And studying how the panic to stay,
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things his way.
Now, when Waite saw what Grover had
done,
By an extra session this victory won,
He says to himself, that's the very trick,
He has knocked out silver smooth and
sleek;
II an extra session can knock it out,
By an extra session I'll bring it about
To put silver back to as high figure
As before the repeal, and may be bigger,
And then old Grover II hear something
drop,
And Davis H. Waite will be on top.
The Senate doors are open to all,
And, perchance, the plum to me may fall;
And looking ahead, should get there,
I'll take peep at old Growers chair,
So that when at the next presidential
election,
Should chance to be the peoples selec-
tion,
And everybody should howl for Waite,
/ believe I'll accept, think it's my fate
And now this old fellow concocted
scheme
So strange and peculiar it seems like
dream;
No man that was clothed and in his right
mind,
Would have ever conc eived scheme OF
this kind.
Now in coming our silver he very well
knew,
That here in our state it never would do,
For the law against it, and Uncle Sam
must be beat.
So he fixed up plan which he thought
was complete;
He got up aletter to President Diaz,