The following parody appeared in BuckeyeLand and Bohemia by William Henry Taylor Shade (Hillsboro, Ohio: The Lyle Printing Co., 1895), page 89:


THE CANDIDATE.

He ran for office; and, alack, it really was a sin
That one who had “a perfect cinch” at last should fail to win.
His head is big to bursting; his appetite is gone;
And so his “boodle' is; and more, his diamonds are in pawn;
The shouting of his rival's gang grates harshly on his ear;
He swears he's done with politics for many a long, long year;
He murmurs oft a wicked word beginning with a “d,”
For “one of his legs is longer than it really ought to be."