The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-22
THE MuGGYWuMP's PLANT.
By I. H. B.

Grover Cleveland failed to understand
| the greatness of his opportunity. He
| has placed himself in the control OF
| weak and insin cere men. He has turned
| his back upon the men whose work Tor
reform made him possible. He mas de-
| liberately sat down with those who have
made the Democratic party by-woro
and reproach, and who remain his enc
mics. -(From AN Anti-Snapper's s, View"
| in Harper's Weekly
| On the edge of his nest with his head on
his breast
The Muggywump bird sat and sighed,
| The hopes he had cherished had utterly
persisted,
| And SO had his family pride
II have made a mistake he is only a
fake"
He cried to the bold Kickapoo.
He has turned me adrlTt, ana Ghe
| things in his gift
| He bestOws on the shameless CUCKOO.
He has grossly deceived all the men
who believed
| Public office with him was trust.
| He distributes the spolls In manner Ihae
rolls
NV soul with profoundest disgust:
He d1ckers and deals when like it he
feels,
In way that imposes tax on
The patience of all, who in sorrow re-
call
The career of the late Andrew Jack
son."
So the Muggywump sang as with many
pang
OF sorrow. remorse and repentance
He hung low his head as about to be
Like criminal out for his sentence
De- L., Ill III f1,a hoY, oiac
Cuckoo
Got up and sat down there beside him
They ruffied his feathers and loosened his
gathers, a5
And then without mercy they guyed
him.
ooh, mild Muggywump, you are4no such
AS to think that the Muckamuck
meant it.
We knew well enough he was giving you
CUFF.
How foolish in you to.resent-itl
Why get hot in the collar, and sit there
and boiler,
Or why, Muggy dear, should you care
The high Muckamuck deals in places
like truck,
If he sticks to the Muggywump tariff?
"There's a prevalent feeling that he
can't help dealing
In Office and place; and, moreover.
If there's been an assault on Reform. 1T s
the fault
OF somebody else; and not Grover.
If there's been debauch, and you're
anxious to scorch
The man who began it with fire,
We will not deter you. but simply refer
you =.
10 your Muggywump birdlet Josiah"
Then the mild Muggywump said: When
l took the stmp,
We carried the country by storm.
.Twasn't office we wanted when boldly
we Haunted
The banner of Tariff Reform;
We wanted Free Trade, but I'm gettlng
afraid
It is free trade in government places.
And the only excuse for this shocking
abuse
Is it stops kicking over the traces"
Then he said with groan, sob, had
but known
There existed chance for such slump
ing, s,.a1...
I would never have made such a break
for Free Trade
And never INDUCED in Mugwumping.
Had it not been for me, it is easy to see
That the High Muckamuck was defeat
ed.
Now the end OF my tolls is "a revel in
spoils,
Aud see I've been woefully cheated. )"
Then the shameless Cuckoo to the bold
Kickapnoo
Turned somewhat contemptuous leer
AS he jauntily said with toss CT the
head,
ooh, my! isn't Muggywump queer?
And voice said, Get out; know what
Pm about,
You may grumble and threaten and
storm,
I'm the High Muckamuck, and won on
my luck,
And l don't care damn for Reform. !"
This brutal attack broke the Muggy-
wump's back.
And he said, Il will not bear It meek
ly;
will give him roast in tonight's
Evening Post
And corker in Harper's next Week
ly,"
But they say that there amt in the
Mugwump's complaint
Any show of rhyme, logic or reason,
For the things that he told are year or
two old.
With smell of not being in season.
New York Tribune.
CADE ETTZ DEVNH