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cajoled, ridiculed, scared, bought and bull-dozed. Dead 

 men's bones are resurrected from their long-time graves 

 and held up to the gaze of the public to fire their passions. 

 The cries of women and children maltreated by midnight 

 marauders during the years following the war are recounted 

 to appeal to their sympathies. The u bloody shirt" and 

 "rebellion" on the one side, and "reconstruction" and 

 4 ' negro domination ' ' on the other, is sufficient to license 

 men to commit atrocities of the most damnable character. 

 The past with all its bloody deeds is pictured in glowing 

 colors to an already excited public mind, and under this 

 excitement which is wrought up to its highest pitch by the 

 inflammatory speeches of the tools of monopoly, the 

 thieves get in. The following unique production from the 

 pen of R. J. Burdette, graphically describes the situation: 



" The ' boodlers ' came down like the wolf on the fold, 

 And scooped in the silver, and greenbacks and gold; 

 From the town on the lake to the town by the sea, 

 They raked in the ' boodle ' from A unto Z. 



"The people were stupid, and silly and green, 

 And the 'boodlers,' the cheekiest thieves ever seen; 

 In the street, in the office, by night and by day, 

 They grabbed what they wanted and took it away. 



"They laughed when the newspapers gave them a blast. 

 And they winked in the face of the judge as he passed; 

 For they knew while this land should be peopled with men, 

 That 'boodlers' who'd boodled would boodle again. 



" People put them in prison, but then all the same, 

 Elected new boodlers to keep up the game; 



From Tweed to McGarigle who, but believes, 



It's the fate of the land to be governed by thieves. 

 "Pickpockets and gamblers, thieves, drunkards and toughs, 



Ex-convicts and sluggers, bartenders and roughs, 



Forgers, fencers and liars and confidence men, 



We've elected to office again and again. 

 "And we'll do it again; we 11 let people see, 



There's a chance for the thief in the land of the free; 



Long live St. Barrabas! a pledge let us borrow 



To the health of good Sodom and righteous Gomorrah." 



