"MADDY PURPHY" ON THE POELITTYCAL CITZCHEASHIN.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1276, 25 May 1883, Page 2

"MADDY PURPHY" ON THE POELITTYCAL CITZCHEASHIN.

Our genial friend Paddy Murphy was asked by the Government to put in a good word f6r their candidate in the recent Inangahua eleefion, and this i& what he

Me Mother's cousin, Dan Magee, to me haa lately wrote,

Just axin me opinion as to how the boys should vote.

They've got a man o' paper, an' they've got a man o' law, An' for a third, bedad, I'm tould, they've got a man o'sthraw.

It's hard to chues, upon me word, betchume the dacint mm, But Misther Wakefield takes the laid with voice as well aa pin.

Some think there's not a single pin to chuse betchume the two,

But still I've wrote to Dan to vote for Ted o' Timaru.

The lawyer, with his quips and cranks, is known upon the Coast, He used to grace the binch, for there he held a judge's post;

He's mighty plastic in our hands, he'd stick to us so bould.

And stand to Watty Johnston's back — begorra, so I'm tould.

He lives among us, too, begog, I meet him ivery day,

A, sthrollin 1 up through WUliB sthreet, or else upon the Kay ; But m we shortly inane to give to Watty J. the slew,

The Major an' mesilf will plump for Ted o' Timaru.

We want a man among us with a paper at his back,

And so we mane to give Toui Dick and Connoly the sack ; The Major, Bolleston, an ? Bryce, faix they're the boys to fight, We'll git the Coleridge number too, an' then we'll be all Wright ; We want a man among us who can use his pia an' tongue, A nian whose politics will spring, although \ he don't got sprung. * A man: with brains who can discoorsej will suit Inangalioo, . i hat's why I wrote to Dan to vote for Ted o' Timaru.

Paddy Murphy.