Show GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio in order to bring about a campaign sensation sought out several convicts in the State Penitentiary and published their stories of maltreatment etc thereby weakly imitating the celebrated Butler expose of the Tewksbury Almshouse affair Butler proved that a negro hide had been tanned in Tewksbury and Foraker attempted to show that canes were made from human skin in the Ohio prison The Norse editor ed-itor of the Cleveland PlainDealer translates trans-lates the following from the original Norse by Foraker himself I I am Foraker I am Benjamin I am the Governor Here in my tannery My fastness and fortress Reign I forever l Here amid convicts Rule I the Nation This is my skincane Sherman the Iceberg Women and children Cannot withstand it These are the davits Wherewith I wield it And hurl it afar off These are my convicts Whenever I poison them Strength is redoubled The smell which thou smallest Stream through the heavens In tannery richness Is but my coons skin Blown by the night wind Affrighting the nation Nye is my brother His lies are like lightning The voice of my convict Rolls in the thunder The blows of my skin cane Ring in the earthquake A fool rules the State still Can rule it shall rale it Pardons are michty Skin is triumphant Over the whole earth Still am I monarch Small are my breeches But Ive got the big head I am Foraker I am the Governor 1 Im the Jimdandy Im a whole tannery Gordon |