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THE JUDGE. — 326 and 328 Pearl St NEW YOR Franklin Square.) PUBLISHED ONCE 4 WEEK TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrren Starrs asp Ca py. One copy. etx 20 Ove copy. for 13 Te aC Dah PUBLISHING. Twe Isrensatioss Hon upoe the articles they | sfx or otherwise be thelosed If writers with to ALAS! FOR HARMONY. Ir there is one’thing more wanted than another in politics just now, that thing would seem to be harmony. They all want it, and want it badly; not a mere temporary burying of the hatchet under a few inches 1 nd, but a final sinking of it ina x-foot grave. They want a complete, an all-pervading harmony. The Republic want it—they have said so—and their organs have shricked for it; and now the Demo- cracy is beginning to di would be the better for a little harmony them: But will they get it? Have ed far enough towards the mil- it to look for such an acle as would be presented “ans scover t'at they we pri lenium to have any astounding spec by alot of Democrats thoroughly harmoni- ous and in accord? “arce and the split in the party seems to be such an old one—so far as the State of New York is concerned— asto be practically past healing. It is the old story of the County Democracy and Tammany Hall. The County wishes to ig- nore the City, and John Kelly persistently refuses to be ignored. Past experience has | proved him to be a very difficult man to ig- nore. In fact, he won't be sooner than submit to be run a little party all by hin he prefers the and he !y ignored, and upoi he will | elf; very likely excitement of such a course, | hown that he is perfectly ready | adopt it, But the gentlemen with hay- | 1 in their hair, though very loud for har- | ating aptness of allegory, t where the spider wanted the fly to walk | into its parlor, and it would then be sati J out. Al | that most deceptive will- | even protrude their tongues, treating Mr. | ous and sundry people to take their place. lap mony, appear to prefer harmony with Kelly | left out. They will have some trouble to | ure it. Certainly, th point so far; the primaries under th ac but that and a_ political victory is just as far removed as is a defeat from a politic: In fact, Tammany | y have gained a| are to be called spices of the County Dem only a victory | dictionary of Democratic phrases, and explain THE JUDGE. appears to have accepted Mr. Roosevelt’s re- solution as a defiance to mortal combat. Mr. Grady, speaking for Kelly and mnmany Hall, remarked that the Tammany braves do not recognize the authority of the County to call them together for an “He also remarked, with a fascin- Demo purpose, it was ac would never come | . for harmony, when it must bor- | similes from such tied, because the fly inharmonious specimens of entomology as a spider and a fly. Where will it end? Some one row its s in Buf- | falo; but after all that may be only the be- ginning of the end. Is there to be another | split in the ranks of the Democracy? It looks like it. Alas, and alas for harmon; he-wisp of poli- tical marshes! THE DEMOCRATIC BABEL. Mr. Dana, of the Sun, reiterating the words ‘* The Republican Par- ty Must Go:” in fact, so familiar have they become that most people shrug their shoul- ders at them, and arch their eyebrows and | is very fond of Dana’s favorite utterance much as they were accustomed to treat the words “hardly ever” in the days of the Pinafore craze. Yet, with all this, no one seems to tell us where the Re- | publican party must goto. Mr. Dana might say to the —, well, to the lower regions. Our Washington correspondent suggests that they must go fishing, and the facts seem to bear our correspondent out. A Mr. "Dana says the Republi go, he is conside ny rate, as | an party must ate enough to supply vari- prominent among whom is Mr. Tilden, Now, ty which has governed a country with more or less success for twenty years or there- | about does not step down and out at any one man’s dictum—not even at the dictum of gre: It is apt to make | a fight for it, and in the present case it will very probably do so. So the first thing we should advise Mr. Dana to do—even before he reiterates his favorite battle-cry—is to en- deavor to weld his own party into a homo- gencous mass; to get a little discipline into the Democratic ranks, and to advise his fol- lowers to get possession of the spoils before | they begin to fight for them. According to | Scriptural history, the ‘Tower of Babel failed in lifting its builders above their troub! ss, be- cause they could not understand one anoth- er’s language. Will Brother Dana farnish a to us, among other obscure intimations, what is the exact meaning of his favorite collocation of words, “The Republican Party Must | Go”? Cicero said “‘ There is an eloquence in | hardly u silence.” Few women are eloquent. POOR HOADLY. is out of the race. He it. He may not deserve his fate—doubtless he thinks he has been very ; but what is there to. be done olitics are peculiar things, any- how. They embrace so many strange and conflicting elements that we cannot wonder that so many truly estimable men get badly “left” in the exciting and hazardous pur- Poor Hoapiy knows it and feel about it | suit, Political men must be generous when the political pot is boiling—no one disputes that. That elections cost money is an indis- putable fact. Yet generosity must be tem- pered with discretion; the open pocket must | be covered with a flap through which the Ar- gus eyes of the press cannot penetrate, or both money and election will be lost, and the enterprising candidate will find himself in a worse position than ever. In politics, even more than in charity, must the Scriptural adage be observed, ‘* Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.” Ah, well! Perhaps poor Hoadly will be wiser the next time. HUNTER’S POINT. was a big fire at Hunter’s Point the That was all very well so far as it went, but it did not go quite far enough. Some of the malodorous works were con- sumed, and some of the money that has been made out of the detriment of the lungs of long-suffering New Yorkers has been lost; but we want some more. Not a fire; a fire is not, apparent] purifying agent. We want an earthquake, or some- thing as effectual and embracing. Ischia set a good example to Hunter’s Point. Is- chia went under in a very few minutes, and all its buildings vanished. Does not that make Hunter’s Point emulous? Fancy all the bone factories, and oil-tanks, and pesti- ferous-breeding appliances which lie acros the river sinking calmly and placidly down into the abysses of earth, and then the earth closing up and shutting them from our eyes and noses forever. “Tis a consum- mation devoutly to be wished. But in the absence of all probability of an earthquake or similar dispensation, which (if it confined itself to Hunter's Point) New York and Brooklyn would strive to bear with Christian resignation, is there no way such nuisances can be abated by due ess oflaw’ With the mellifluous stench thence emanating we are already all too fam- iliar, but the recent fire discovers new pos- sibilities of peril, As the New York Herald remarked, in commenting upon the conflag- ration, such an occurrence is remind the public that the oi THER other, are a danger as well as a nuisanc Tt was only the very prompt and energetic work on the part of the Fire Department, combined with the fortunately favorable direction of the wind, which kept the flames from the great storage tanks. But the rapidity comicbooks.com