Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1872 — THE OLD MAN GOES FOR GRANT. [ARTICLE]

T HE OLD MAN GOES FOR GRANT.

BY JOHN H. YATES.

another mectin’ at the school-house on . . the kill, Tor Grant and Wilson were given with There_were young men, these were maidens, there . . vrtere gray-haired mothers there, andWltaon ailed wit# melody conc^aß^Oß - h* looking matters That pood old Horace Greeley and the TYUvnt are najnore: The Presidential siren sang a very pretty song, pat his whitehat on and followed her ** h trodden^id7° nff BeMey ~* &6w, vnnt*io*?.lle of Graut wlu P rovo 4 2?* of all 4e loads he carries the heaviest, will be The load strapped on at Baltimore, called "evil company." We’re all poor creetnrs at the best, and apt to go temptations And our path and shine v across onr way: t My faith in human goodness grows weak—does almoet fall— When men like Horace Greeley bow down the knee to Baal. We’ve tnck the Tribune many years—we farmers ’round the hill: Once it was law and gospel, but*’tis now a hitter pill: Because one man leaves principle, and everything T . . that’s good, it doesn’t stand to reason that all we farmers should. —Ho, Betsey, we ga in for Grant, the war-tried, peace-tried man; The one who routed rebels can rent this other clan. When Grant went flghtin’ treason he never meant to*fail. And when he hooped the traitor he didn’t go her bail. Hurrah for Grant! hurrah for Grant I—don’t cal) me crazy, wife; I’m marching with Ulysses in the Presidential atrffe. I can’t vote many more times; my days are nearly through: Hurrah for Grant, the leader of the hoys who marched in bluet —ffarptr's Weekly.