Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-01-30
srAND-pArrER's wooINc.

OF this bleak December evening,
What the meaning of this racket
That we see IN al the papers
What the cause Of all this gab1est,
All these gushing gobs Of talkfest
That we see in every issue
From the home Of the Wy-an-dot Is
Fen to Syracuses wigwams.
Should you ask to know the meaning
OF the reasoning and increasing |
OF the braves Of Grand Old Party
Through their once almighty sa.
chems.
Through the Quaking office-holders.
Through the ANXIOUS pie crust hunt.
Through the one-time politicians
Who had all the tribes Of Kansas
In the pockets Of their breech-clouts?
Should you be from old Mi souri,,
And would fain be shown the reason
;, Why these braves with gaudy feathers
or moluments of office
!. Are so wrought up, are so fused up
In these days of no elections;
Why such pyrotechnic wordstunts
Why such samples of mysteries,
Why such grief-impassioned pow
vows
Should you wonder, I will tell you:
Came brave whom they call Stand
pat,
-, Born IN times Of Tariff soap-fat,
. Bred in wigwams well protected
: By the Doodle Of the 'Barons;'
n Came a brave grown fat and greasy
70 With a home ON street called easy,
4 Came with trinkets heavy laden,
Came to WOO and win a maiden
70 Young, but fair, and called Progressiy,
DtI% =
al Loud he talked, and long palavered-
n. Told Of deeds of skill and valor,
,e Told of vict 'ries of his fathers
] And the Fathers of his fathers
~ Told of scalps he'd snatched In cam
10 paigns
NJ When the G. o. P. united
10 Swept the prairies and the mountain
And of course grabbed all good things
10 Told how ingalls, skinned the Rebels,
i. Told how Ted, plugged Spanish devil
Y. And how Doscoe Stubs grew famou
r. When recountng his adventures
o While contracting on the railroads;
&c Told how White-called William AL
20 len
N Raised aIoft lit since has fallen)
h That Republican gonfalon
WHAT'S the matter with Old Kansas.
R Told how woods were full of Indians
Of the tribe Of Woodrow Wilson,
h How the braves Of Billy Bryan
+ Were increasingly a-tryin'
=. To make medicine and war-songs
d OF the Tango dance Of Cap-per-
q Whispered gently to Progressive
d That if she would come and join him
Come, and bring her furs and knittin,
II He would share with her the yampun
Ne Which together they would gather.
e But the coy maid, nothing daunted,
q Thinks she knows lust what is wanted
And she hesitates to 'mingle'
r. Or to listen to his jingle.
e Long she's hardened to his chatter-
, Chatter of the brave Stand4patter-
And she does not seem to cotton
e To his Establishments so rotten;
" And she does not seem to tumble
s TO his played-out little chatter.
ID
And beside the maiden standing,
In phalanx quite commanding,
Is bunch Of fighting Indians
- With their tomahawks and scalp
&c knives
u Shsrpened ready for the scrimmage-
" Zen to gates Of Armageddon.
y Stands Bill White, Of the Em-porias
u Stands Hank Allen, of Wich.i-tas;
Iroutman. too. Of the To-pe-kans;
: AND methinks that Bob La-follet
, u the tribe Of the Wis-coQ-sins
wiz line up with other me.toos
VINO defy the braves of BilLTaft,
even though Chief Joseph Bris-tow
Got cold feet and turned his bie4oe
BACK t'wardc i,Jnolae ~ 4,