Judge — October 21, 1882 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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The Political Caldron. ScENR:—A Commuttee-room. In the mittile a Caldron boiling. Tunre (Enter the Wrrenrs- Dorsey.) Ke Ist Witch Tori 2d Witch. Thrice; and Indiana once. wt Witch Hubbell cries, pay up- Ist Witek the Buckeye State bath called. pay nd about the caldron go, Clerks’ asi U8 in it throw; Recusaut employes sacked, Proxy forged. Convention packed. Half Breed kicker. Folger’s apologetic note, Hubbell, Hubbell, toil and trouble, Grease the wheels and swell the bubt 2d Witch With Brooklyn's Young Men’s Club bezin, Beecher, Talmage, now throw Bloody shirt of Blaine cast next. With Civil Service Reformers text. Curl of Conkling and Me Too, Blind Pool added to t A Star Route Contract beat up fine, And subsidy for Roach’s line, Hubbell, Habbe 1 trouble, Grease the wheels the bubble. 3d Witeh.— River and Harbor veto now With the Pennsylvania row. Key, the Treasury unlock: Repeaters ani stuffed ballot-box, Bogus pensions, nice fat jobs, Contracts that the country robs, Garfield bills for Congress s Sinecures for wealth and ea Appropriation, Indian post, Ohio's ever hungry host Lobby deal and broken state, Money for a doubtful Stat ‘All the politicians’ tricks In oar caldron now we mix. Hubbell, Hubbell, toil and trouble, Grease the wheels and swell the bubble. [Enter Hecate (Hubbelt.) sn Stalwart v« Al— Al— AN.— Hubbetl.— well done! 1 commend yoar pains, And every one shall share {’ the ains. And now about the caldron sing The praises of the assessment ring. (Music and a song, * Black Spirits,” ete. 2d Witch.— By tho pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoover knoe! [Enter Macbeth (Robeson). Robeson.— How now, you secret, black, and midnight haga? What is 't you dot Hubbell.— We fill the money bags Before election, and 'tis understood We place the money where "twill do most good, Robeson. — Tconjure you, by that which you p1 The fature Lo me now reveal, ¢ Hubbell.— By the spell of Tammany That governs every primary, By the tricks of Wall street broker, The whereabouts of little joker, By the proxy forgery By our hopes of victory, Our 0 incantation hear— David Davis, appear, appear ! [Apparition of David Davis rises fess, fess, pbeson.— Jumbo of Congress, I pray you tell, Shall all with Robeson go v Apparitio the earthquake’s near at band, e's wrath who shall withstand ? THE JUDGE. Pray, dismnisa m At last I'm too long I've tarried, ‘0 be married Robeson.— Croaker, begonet I scorn thy tex The people's wrath Baht [Apparition of Colfac rises power. Apparition. — Be warned by my most thee ere Mobilier [ was Forever from the political 1 rievous fate, It be too late [Apparition Robeson. — Away, thou craven, Fl not Who nest! Appea (Apparition of Tilden rises. Thy words, Robeson.— Gramercy! what form ta this ? Speak, phantom! is there angli \pparition.— Tam the ghost of the Great Frand, ‘A power once, bi ed Bat in thy pride and boasts, bew I'm after that Presidential chair. {Apparition descends, nis? now oatla Robeson (starting.\— false wrack! Away ghosts, away, blow wind! come, At least we'll die with contracts on our back (Exit Roteson. Hubbell. — Hark! Lata call’ Awaits me in Ne’ ny little spirit, see, York, and calls for me. (Exit Hutelt, Ist Witch. Blain? 2d Witch. — When the | ‘When th’ election's lost and won. 3d Witch. — Then we Ast Witch. — Where the plac 2d Witch. assessment’s done, eet in Wasbia: The Arling Au— Hubbell ealls:—Anon: Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Where's corruption, we'll be there. fa Domestic Drill. ‘So you have been to the theater again without me?” said Mrs. Merrigoround to her spouse, about 11 P. M. “Yes, my dear. I—I—thonght I would just look in, and then I would take you iv it was good for anything; but it isn “No, I suppose not,” said Mrs. M., shut- ting her mouth with a snap, “Strange that there hasn't been anything worth seeing since six months after we wer ago.” The next evening Mr. Merrigoround came home rather late, and found the moral stuck in the looking: married, eight years followin lass: “Dean Hussy: Gone to the Had supper early; but anything, cleared up the things. Will be home o'clock a. M. Ta, tat Wirry.” Mr. M. has got reserved seats in the or- chestra cirele for the opera. theater with Cous it wasn’t “Manna,” asked a little one, “wh you get the hair that doesn’t hurt when you pull it?” And a quiet smile went round the | embly—a sort of requiem to the dying illu: | ion that used to hang round a much-admired | coiffure. “The Judge” on the Mayoralty. Tur Jeper, s ne much oflice F ce his election to the ractice, and his widely solicited, it is very seldom given. other day tried to JvpGe and wheedle polities, there when a friend the Tut him out of his views on rot into chat with was a few minutes’ ominous silence. the “Tim dl though you're not giving advice, * Come,” said voter, old client, a you m Now, tel t make an exception in-my me. Among the various nominees you have he: neetion with the 1 approve off” Yes, one.” “Who is that?” “Edward Knox.” “Edward Knox! tively young man!” “There is no need to wait ayoralty, are there any you Why, he isa compar ti elect him to anactive man be comes senile bet and responsible offic ‘Very true. But then he is hat is not an objection, and bad Democrats and good 1 publicans. Choose the proper man. izen can have only good politics.” To be sure, he was all right in the war.” “Te served with distinction; fought for the Union, and nearly losthis life for it.” “Wounded?” “Part of his spine shot away; the only man that ever recovered from such an injury There's enough left, however, to furnish New York with a good live mayor, with plenty of backbone. nd that’s what New York needs. “T gness you're right.” “Young man, Tie Jupce is always ave upmaking mis he abandoned cigarett and ot! re yo Demoer There are g bad I ht. kes at the same time smoking and patchouli errors of his youth.” THE Herald feels very bad about the in- carceration of three members of the Salva- tion Army in Calcutta, and wants to know why they are locked up and thousands of na- tives are sutfered to remain at liberty. We will furnish our E. C. with several abundantly good reasons, and it can take its choice. Probably the three members of the Salvation Army broke the law in some way, and thou- sands of natives did not. Three members of the S. A. would occupy less room in jail and cost less to keep than thousands of natives India, the for the natives and less for fi a the S.A. had better get ne mutiny, has been run more mers, in- cluding members of the some ye! wishes recognition it mutiny, justify secure its claim army, and militant, ede in a body to the ¢ better still, let it and instrnet Or, members at hom them in that rare and difficult accomplishment, ye “minding their own b: keep its ness.” A society writer says that much dancing in New ter, be win there will York the comi: From which we infer that many hops © brewing, comicbooks.com