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"What are those, father?" "Statesmen, my child -- / Lacrymose, unparliamentary, wild."
"What are they that way for, father?" "Last fall, / 'Our candidate's better,' they said, 'than all!"
"What did they say he was, father?" "A man / Built on a straight incorruptible plan -- / Believing that none for an office would do / Unless he were honest and capable too."
"Poor gentlemen -- "so" disappointed!" "Yes, lad, / That is the feeling that's driving them mad; / They're weeping and wailing and gnashing because / They find that he's all that they said that he was."