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The Cleveland Leader must be getting ready for the campaign of 1888. We / find upon its editorial page quite a pretentious poem, entitled "Alpha / and Omega," and here is a sample stanza:
"Whose name will stand for coming time / As hypocrites in prose and rhyme, / And be despised in every clime? / The Mugwumps."
Well, may be so, but may we be permitted to add a stanza which seems to / us to be very pertinent just now?
And who next year, we'd like to know, / Will feed the Cleveland Leader crow, / Just as they did three years ago? / The Mugwumps.