AMBITIOUS MARINER (to Born Candidate):
Shiver my timbers! you’re a dandy crimp—
That figure-head of yours would scare a shrimp.
INCUMBENT (to Born Candidate):
Let’s try less candid measures to remove him:
Moral dissuasion would perhaps improve him.
We can (when he’s not full of “old October”)
Appeal from Dewey drunk to Dewey sober.
BORN CANDIDATE (to Incumbent):
Said like a lawyer (’tis a grand profession!)