Judge — March 25, 1882 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Hono the Chinamen inight * eateh on of empathy exieuded to another naté in these days lity, and sneak Was Mayor Grace a Pirate? Tue present Mayor of New York has suddenly become a deep-lycd mystery to politicians, When William R. Grace was embraced in an evil hour by the disturbed Democracy of this city as their candidate for the Mayoralty it was believed by the unso- phisticated Icaders of the various factions, who had, afer much vexation, determined to become united, that in choosing him as their standard-bearer they were in possession of one whose character was above reproach. Ilis narrow escape from defeat is a matter of history. Politicians will remember that the newspaper founded by Horace Greeley, and now edited by the man who was chieily responsible for his confinement in an asylum for the in- sane where the great journalist ended his days, furiously attacked Mr. Grace in the beginning of the campaign as one who had been guilty of scuttling ships in the South ifie Ocean, It will also be remembered that before many day its attacks upon Mr. Grace, and suddenly dis- covered that it was Captain Kyd, or some other elegant gentleman, who was guilty of scuttling ships, and that Mr. Grace was not to be held responsible for the evil deeds of Captain Kyd and his confreres, Mr. Grace might be able to explain why the newspaper referred to ceased its attacks upon him, and how it was that he was so kindly furnished with proofsheets of that newspaper's retrac- tions before the articles appeared. The sus- picion that Mr. Grace's bank account was lessened at that time was prevalent, and time has not removed the suspicion. Mr. Grace with a most distressing majority succeeded in becoming the Chief Magistrate of this city Prior to this time Mr. Grace was known as a Peruvian merchant who had amassed great wealth. He had lived for a time on Long Island, and whether he was a citizen of this Republic or not had been neither thought of nor discussed. His name, among others, had been shaken up in a hat before the leaders of the different factions of the Democracy, and it was the firstdrawn out. This prize, won by s this same alleged newspaper halted in | THE JUDGE. angry men, never became one that was cher- ished by them, and it is more than likely that Mr. Grace will retire from office with more curses upon his head than ever fell to the lot of any otherof New York's mayors. Recently he was forced to admit a fact that would, had it been known on clection day, in November, 1880, have insured his defeat. A Justice of the Supreme Court, who had, as is shown by his own confession, been mainly instrumental in foisting Mr. Grace upon the guileless citi- zens of New York, a short time ago severed the friendship existing between the M and himself, and, like a school-hoy who quar- rels with another, began to tell tales out of school. Justice Donobue, according to Mayor race, caused to be published in certain news- papers the story, backed up by the official documents, that Mr. Grace renounced the Queen of England as his sovereign on the day prior to the election. and became a citizen of the United States. The Mayor, in a bungling tempt to explain this extraordinary event s history, says that hebecamea citizen in there was some doubt in Justice Donohue's mind upon that important point, he consented to go through the formula again. At’this point Tue Jupce is tempted to a: the conundrum, Would any naturalized citi- zen of this country, knowing that he had been properly made so, believe it necessary for him at any time to become naturalized again? The answer would no doubt be ‘“Tardly ever.” Now that the gentleman who occu- pies the seat at the head of the table of our municipal affairs has become-an object of na- tional interest, as a man who was clected Mayor of New York after being a citizen but oneday, Tue JcpGE feels called upon to fur- ther enlighten the scandalized Democracy, and the people generally, concerning other chapters in the life of William R. Grace. At great expense, and after many sleep! ights, we have succeeded in putting ourselves in telephonic communication with one Cap- tain Kod, who is compelled to live in seclusion on the peak of the Chuquibamba, in the An- dean ranges in Peru. This gentleman form- erly ‘followed the sea,” but has taken to the mountains for reasons which we cannot at present divulge. He reports that the weather is very pleasant up there, and we can still hear him chuckling through the telephone, and saying, “You don't say that Bill Grace is Mayor of New York?” We have been assuring him of this fact for forty-cight hours, and Captain Kod has been chuckling and raving all the time. Asked to tell us what he knows of ‘ Bill Grace,” as he familiarly speaks of our chief magistrate, he says, ‘‘ When Bill and I first came to Peru from the banks of the river Liffey we were on our uppers, but we captured an old tub of a ship off the coast near Callao, and as we always carried a black flag, we started out on a voyage of discovery. Within six months we owned the finest sail- ing vessel afloat, had captured thirty-four mer- chantmen, taken $17,000,000, scuttled the ships and murdered seven hundred men. Bill was as mild a mannered man as ever scut- tled ship or cut a throat, for he was an Eng- lishman.” Captain Kod was positively singing with delight, and we shouted ‘“ Helloa” until we turned black in the face, At length the singing ceased, and Captain Kod hearkened to our question, “Was Mr. Grace really a pirate?” ‘Well, I should smile,” replied the frisky captain with a roar, “Give us a few dates and shouted, the captain replied that he intended to visit Lima onthe first dark night, and would gather the facts from the records, and send them to In the meantime we beg the leaders of the Democracy to refrain from removing their linen, and await developments, we and us, Checking John Chinaman. Tue United States Senators who voted for the passage of the bill checking Chinese im- migration deserve the thanks of the American people, A country like China, that has 400,000,000 inhabitants, might casily spare 50,000,000 of them, When we take into con- sideration the fact that there are but 50,- 000,000 of all nationalities in the United States to-day, it does not require much study to arrive at the conclusion that the Chinese might take possession, if not checked in time, of this boasted land of freedom, and transform it into a modern Flowery Kingdom, whose Veautiful valleys would be irrigated with the blood of Americans, Irishmen, Germans, and the peoples of other countries who come here to remain and add to the prosperity of this land. The Two Cremornes. JERRY McCauty has one Cremorne and the devil has another next door on Thirty-second street, this city. 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