Show 1 nti PARODY Suggested by the Last Presidential Election The following parody on Cardinal Wolseys soliloquy on his own fall suggested sug-gested br the exit of the Republican artyJrbm pow f and the coming inaug ration of a Democratic President was handed in by Joe Barker yesterday Republican Party Farewell a long farewell fare-well to all our stealing This Is the luck thieves today they pat forth Their welllaid schemes to prig tomorrow succeed And live like fightingcocks upon their gains Tho third day comes election cold and damp And when they think dishonest rogues full surely Their success is ripening theyre badly left And they fall as we do We have ventured t w ra 1 h l Like little wanton boys who swim on bladders blad-ders These twenty years in pomp and sAnd s-And far beyond control our rottcness At length broke under us and now has left us Weary and old withservice to the mercy Ofthe popular vote that will forever hide us fain root of evil how wo hate you Now we no longer hold you in our grasp We feel our hearts new opened O how wretched Is that party now that hangs on frauddecep tion There Isbetwixt that smile we would aspire to That aspect sweet of tricksters and their ruin More pangs and fears than wars or women have And when they fall they fall like Lucifer Never to hope again |