Show EZRA AS A PEAK It is hard to understand how Ezra Thompson has escaped public notice all these years Conventions have come and gone tickets have been named and forgotten parties have risen and fallen but Ezra has always been overlooked over-looked by the clique of leg pullers and wire workers who are sounding his praises today He is an extraordinary man from all recent accounts He ia as far ahead of all competitors to hear his trainer tell it as NanCy Hanks is ahead of a wagon team in a road race He is not only rapid but tall it seems for the Republican organ says that compared with his opponent an Infinite distance separates the two men ds great a distance dis-tance as that which separates the Blue Ridge mountains from the level of Dismal Dis-mal swamp How big was Alexander pa that people peo-ple call him great As big as Ezra Thompson VoUld lie make a rupning mate Is Ezra like the mountains so gosh almighty tall That people flee when he comes neal for fear that he Will fall Tis mighty strange with such a peak tqwering at our door That politicians never saw how big he was before |