Judge — February 4, 1882 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO Noa. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. PUBLISIED A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Ustrep Srares ax ONCE utntere $5.00 ary for 13 weeks AOk FREE “ea Address Tue 3 3 Ov. 13.8 13 Park Kow, N.Y Free Passes. IN one of the Western States they have late- ly been agitating the free pass system, with a w of abolishing it so far as members of the Legislature are concerned, and a very eredit al Joa work that should be taken up from Maine to California. ne whe nd contrary It throws ion upon honest legislators, an > ton tot » spirit of our institutions. gives venial ones. «I managers a power ov islators show at the returr . for if not, why ar ars not h asses to le nitset is to be in they hotels and boarding-houses in all probability, hoarding-houses ne if they did ou ceive free The only reason, at neither hotels nor tion: lly re- 1 any special legis! Solons would undou and brown buck whi rth And why shouid these same their sideboards stock Why should these sami , when they are traveling from point to point, have th parlor-ears stocked with liquors and ¢ ply bee ulers and the manua- facturers of it often require legislation in their favor. Reform it alte our good 1 hash stead of having to pay fi ors 1 with free liquors? legislator use liq her, me as anation ; for ity rit is a blot upon es the rogue and the honest law-maker on the footing before the world; for it destroys hon- esty ‘and indepe and, of course, the possibility of hon ling with corpo and monop e crowding our indus. Final- makes such orgies ame dens dle who a tions too much asit now is, possible as those which marked and disgr: the rece where the train Var ced lent on the Hudson River 1, loaded down with Mr. lerbilt’s deadheads and their free liquors, Dictator Reid’s Audacity. 1 tters and 19 the late M1, in the hope that his own t shape the destinies of the Republic, has just had his inning in squirting a strc mad upon the fair fame of the murdered Chief Magistrate, sident colossal mind mi; jm The unparallel THE JUDGE. all uming to dictate cilrontery which characterized this man—Whitelaw Reid toa President so wi wa worthy of on company with Jay Gould and kindeed spirits, In the hour when churel-vards yawned and zraves gave up their dead, this lank specimen of hum: test bene- factor a hearing when the old man’s brain n fire, and who thus aided in driving him into an asylum for the insane, where he , and in a letter to the | President poured out venom upon those who To the that this ator ne in getting the old man’s shoes on his is head. F Greeley’s hat! ged and who is 1 to keep nity, who refused his g was | at his desk, died, § punted him as among their frie glory of Horace Greeley brazen-faced journalistic diet er sue. | ceede , or the old man’s he | Whitelaw Reid we: | Fancy Guiteau’s name honorably mentioned in history aloagside that of ¢ ton! ‘The Jackal Reid'sadmission that he did assume the role of dictator is a stab at the memory of poor Garfield only equaled by the infamous utterances of Guiteau, ney The Unknown Friend THat membersort like those of the law-making bodies of ini other States, become indebted, before the; ly aware of it, to unknown friends, i Ls notorious that even the politicians who lected to seats in the As ave not the hardihood to deny that ‘The favors wardly received, but the | nd the mouth soon | sla apulous, and bold spe seare smubly and Sen eh is wk: the the case. Y, at first, be ued and the ome trail the timid r is transformed into a eun- uns Tights of his constituents, ning ator in Men who, be ction, swore by all the Gods that they would do their duty by the people, trip into the toils of the “unknown friend” and grace that bespeaks for future among the money-bags of tion The member from nes to Albany with his old | “meetin-house” clothing and ancient plu hat. ile is to look after the interests of the honest farmers of his distriet, but lys rrow county mud from his shoes in the corridors of the Delevan befe the ndclerk, with di trimmings, hands him an envelope from the letter-box. “A gentleman left that for you, i the elerk with a smile, and the Hon, Mr. Backboard te pen the envelope. If his eyes do not ceive him, it contains some- thing green, and he puts it in his pocket for ature re In the quiet of his sky-par- lor he counts out ten crisp $100. bank-notes ‘om the envelope. There is no memoran | dum with it, nothing to show who sent it. “From an unknown friend,” muses the mem ber. hotel, fore e with an ease them a ious seheiaing Phas bare- pal the Sy} House perfiam mond ir,” says Jogging through the parlors of the he meets many men who are always | grinning or slap} on\ the back. ne of them smiingly and Mr, Buckboard into there the member from 5 pmebody They are pi being soci Hon. yarrow county learns as Garfield | for the first time the name of his benefaet om that time his manner changes. The old “meetin clothing and the nit plug hi ced by clothing and hat of modern styles. ember tosses his pipe the window, and smokes strong cigars. He drinks bad whisky at all times and a places, and swears like a ‘Third His bank unt fattens. friends spring up on all sides, Fr on the railroads and steamboats are pok athimthrongh mysterious windows, ‘The un- known friends dine and wine him, and checks made payable simply to bearer float into his boudoir, Ue mixes up with the members from New York City, takes the train with them, and enjoy He might, perhaps, at Spuyten Duyvil, pull the eling with the air-brakes, A nl many whtered; but he has his unknown friends, nd is happy. house ane are re fro venue driver. Unknown passes ed a carousal on the way. rope conn lision might follow, persons Bully for Burbridge We don’t know who much care, eneral Burbridge is, hor ver but whoever he a shown his ge jud ment by returning to no less a fiery and un tamed Kentucky duclist than Julius ¢ Seipio Blackburn, M. C., his recent challenge, he ha I sense and bette with the following indorsement: Returned to the writer as unworthy of notice my conraze, [refer him to the history of my whieh i on his achievements, ‘This is what Touchstorte would probably set down as the “reproof valiant,” and, without knowing any more than we ec! of the case, v if ‘the merits a Ut now remains to be seen what Julius Cisar Scipio Blackburn, M. C., will We trust, that the country will remain as si ts ht be a good w vuld say it was meri do about it, history of the nt upon his future A ood dose of y out of it nt. But, perhaps however, as his past or oil blue-pill, if the case be urg he had better take sveme ora 1 rest. Errata Extraordinary. A SENSE of common ¢ adecent r estate, constrains Mr, Hugh, Has the Commercial rtesy, no less than 1 for the reputation of the third us to call the attention of 18. editor and proprictor of dvertiser, to the unfortunate and really alarming increase of typographical of his otherwise sprightly ining newspaper, It was only the other day that it spoke of Cyrus W, Fiel's double-barreled journalistic wonder as the Snail an? Distress—a very palpable m tt for Veil and Suppress, as ‘This is almost as bad as calling the anded by Hor Pocket Piere, errors int and always e yhody Greeley” Jay Gould's Wuatever els: late in he inay he charged against the id that ‘t meet his fate with resignation, t cannot be Maxie of the short-hand writer: Everything hy turns and nothing long. comicbooks.com