Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — SWEPT AWAY. [ARTICLE]

SWEPT AWAY.

The “lengthening shadows” fall to-day, And, like the leaves from autumn trees, Foul wrongs by chill November's breeze Are swept away. The tough old bosses, grim and gray, Torn by their own machines’ big wheels, And.trampled under voter’s bee's, Are swept away. The men who served the State for pay, The men of tricks and trades and deals, Who engineered the jobs and steals, Are swept away. They faced the polls in stern array, But found the voting thousands there, And with the dust th-t filled the a r Were swept away. The quiet people said their say; Their ballots fell like autumn rain, And chaff that claimed the p ace of grain Were swept away. Where now are those who late held sway, The bosse*, proxies, fb 1 geries, The complicated frauds and lies? All swept away. In vain the vultures sought their prey; The surplus fiends that soared so high, Death- tricken in a cloudy sky, Were swept away. New hopes the peop’e take to-day, l or many public rogues and thieves, Like autumn dust or withered leaves, Are swept away. —New York Sun.