President Cleveland—No, not the mosquitoes; but that Second District Congressman from Illinois seems to be just as thick as ever.

We've come from Indiany, five hundred miles or more,

Supposin' we wuz goin' to git the nominashin shore;

For Colonel New assured us (in that noospaper o' his)

That we cud hev the airth, if we'd only tend to biz.

But here we've been slavin' more like hosees than like men

To diskiver that the people do not hanker after Ben;

It is for Jeemes G. Blaine an' not for Harrison they shout

And the gobble-uns 'el git us

Ef we