By the Clerk and Committee, yet none would go;
Inducements were offered, but all was in vain,
The help of reporters they could not obtain,—
They’d insulted most grossly the “fourth estate,”
And all they could say would not compensate;
Its reporters they forced from their usual places,
(A thing never known e’en at prize-fights and races),
And sent them down stairs till the stuffing was o’er,
And then “This way, gentlemen, to the next floor.”
Why the dirtiest hole throughout all the nation