POLITICAL ACROSTICS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 146, 24 July 1880, Page 3

POLITICAL ACROSTICS.

Mr. Grant Dufl", in thn course of ono of his recent addresses to his constituent*, said that sonie years ago, when Mr. Gladstone's Administration waß in power, a clever Tory, who hated both Mr. GlarlEtone and ]lis Administration, wrote tlio following acrostic : G was a urcat man, mountain of mind ; L n logician, expert, and refined; A was ntlopt in rhetoric's art, 1.) was tlio dark spot he hud in his heart.; S wen the sophistry led him astray; T mils the truth that he bartered away; 0 was tho cypher his conscience became; Xtho now lislit that enlightened the same; K was tlio evil one shouting for joy—'""At'iCand down with it, tjliidstono my boy!"; This acrostic was repeated in a drawingroom in the presence, of a young lady of good Liberal principles, and the daughter of a well-known member of Parliament, who, without leaving the room, went to a tablo and wrote this answer to it: - Q in the genius that governs tliu nation : I, are the bonis who require education; A is th« (UlltniU mixed by the great; 1) are the donkeys who fear for the State ; 8 is tho standard that Liberals raise; T are tan Tories who howl in dispraise ; 0 's tho Opposition, wanting n head ; N it the nation, not driven but led ; k U plij shouting tiv ioy—i .. stii'k to the tioveriinvMit, nlad'tbnt my