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    "text": "I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour.",
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    "text": "I lost many friends, much time and money",
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    "text": "Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor Whedon",
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    "text": "Denounced as the candidate of gamblers and anarchists.",
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    "text": "Then Armour started to ship dressed meat to Spoon River,",
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    "text": "Forcing me to shut down my slaughter-house,",
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    "text": "And my butcher shop went all to pieces.",
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    "text": "The new forces of Altgeld and Armour caught me",
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   {
    "text": "At the same time.",
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    "text": "I thought it due me, to recoup the money I lost",
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    "text": "And to make good the friends that left me,",
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    "text": "For the Governor to appoint me Canal Commissioner.",
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    "text": "Instead he appointed Whedon of the Spoon River Argus,",
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    "text": "So I ran for the legislature and was elected.",
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    "text": "I said to hell with principle and sold my vote",
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    "text": "On Charles T. Yerkes’ street-car franchise.",
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    "text": "Of course I was one of the fellows they caught.",
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    "text": "Who was it, Armour, Altgeld or myself",
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