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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Candid Candidate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alfred Ebenezer Jackson was a very earnest man,<br>Who aspired to be a statesman, and he consequently ran<br>At a general election as the Candid Candidate,<br>Sworn to tell the truth ungarbled, leaving all the rest to Fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Jackson had a firm conviction that the average M.P.<br>Was not prefectly straightforward as a member ought to be.<br>'They disguise their actual motives,' Jackson said, 'and so they fail.<br>I shall leave no false suspicion that I'm sitting on a rail.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Fellow men,' quoth Ebenezer, in his first campaign address.<br>'My desire to gain election is most eager, I confess:<br>True, some patriotic ardor fills me with its holy fire;<br>But to get a safe and steady billet is my main desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Now, to put the matter plainly, I've no wish to twist or hedge,<br>And I'm quite prepared to stand to all the things that I allege.<br>I aspire to serve Australia in the Big Affairs of State:<br>To that aim all local interests gladly I'll subordinate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I shall give no hasty promise for the sake of votes from you.<br>Roads and bridges you shall have them when they are your right and due;<br>But wre this whole country's interest clashes with your local lot,<br>Then my vote is for Australia and the rest can go to pot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I'll not stoop to curry favor for the sake of your back yard,<br>While the Big Things of the nation call for labor long and hard;<br>For I'm not of those hard grafters whose chief work is turning coats,<br>With their thoughts on next election, and their eyes upon your votes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Party ties shall never hold me when I hear Australia call,<br>Through my service to the nation do I seek to stand or fall.<br>And to talk election piffle in the House, if I be sent<br>There to work, I'll deem an insult to the folk I represent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I shall scheme to drag no railway through the back yard of this State;<br>Nor on any handy dust-heap in this dashed electorate<br>Shall I vote to plant a city, while the fact is evident<br>That abtter site is waiting elsewhere on the continent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I am solid for Protection: but my creed I won't abuse<br>By mean tricks to shift the duty from commodities you use:<br>Nor shall I denounce with loathing Socialists' experiments<br>While I howl for State assistance for my own constituents.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Now, my worthy friends, you know me, and just what I mean to do.<br>As plain people of Australia I am ev'ry time for you,<br>With my eyes upon the future and this great land's destiny,<br>I shall not to 'local interests' sacrifice prosterity.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Alfred Ebenezer Jackson raised a wild, derisive shout<br>From 'intelligent electors.' 'Mad!' they said, 'without a doubt.'<br>And because they knew he meant it - ev'ry work he spoke or wrote <br>Alfred Ebenezer Jackson did not get a single vote!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Who aspired to be a statesman, and he consequently ran
At a general election as the Candid Candidate,
Sworn to tell the truth ungarbled, leaving all the rest to Fate.


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