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THE JUDGE. 4 328 Pearl St NEW YORK (Franklin Square.) PURLISUED ONCE A WEEK. hecrsok Fein dt MIPANY, aba PuBLIsHIN. RUROPEAN AGENTS Twe [srrasariosas, News Comrasy NOPICE. FContribators must put thelr vatuat CORRESPONDENTS. THE REPUBLICAN SHIP OF STATE. THe g a pretty d ship“ Republican ” has ran apon ad reef out in Ohio, and hia yin her bottom which will tak murces of her crew to tinker up. she is not tinkered up aie I the And if mehow, how is the As long ago as last No. 80, of this paper, Tu P what we si 1 under the * has be- | re ship to float next year May, in Vol. IV Jepar our reshadowed this result. jers would Li! atv rhaps for w 3 then foreshadow guise of a ‘Sunday School Sto come an actuality of political history now. We extract from ‘Tu Jupee of May Sth: ‘There was an angry whistle in th darkness which was’ gathering fast make the scene more terrible. On one was the ty ocean, lashed into fury hy the tempest, and the other was the white line of breakers that ked the rocks of a low-lying and treacherous Anil close, perilously close to the cruel stony he good ‘ship publ battled with icane, and strove to claw off the lee shore lestruction. On her deck all mawling to the obedience to the wind, and the tributed to | m shore beach, the h that n was confi men half-h was i thither i liet a rer to the dre captain? Me after message had been brought to him’ in his cabin, but whether he refused to realize the imminence of the or whether, sunk in the apathy of despair, he had lost faith in the bi d rocks hip nearer But where was the the howling of the tempest, e mainsail was blown from its bolt-ropes, and vanished like a white cloud in the darkness to leeward. The captain started ; at the same instant the door of the cabin was dashed open and ex-pilot C—k—g entered. “Captain Arthur,” he said, firmly but respectfully, | | Brooklyn’s “you have thoug put of my ers if acid t proper to ands. Te nt befalls is ret that 1 used my influence cure you the appointment t thanifestly u while, however, Land my f ship. not propose witl ot bel you You not down bere so bad, then 1” » to pieces ave her. Rouse good sailor. Your Are tain “They are as bad as they can be nil see for yourself In another moment the captain was on the bri we horizon.“ There w Come on deck his is the first intimation he the pilot sung out the look ht as much,” said the pilot at is I, and if we strike it there won't be a in this ship fit to swim again.” But what am T to doy plan the captain, help. mand of your own ship rd whol weathered ip was the pilot the manif you have ve Dal pid ich at ms as this Mt verin = his ke took in orrors of the situation, ever did her into such a box t Who was the ver of the watch 1 ant Chandler,” answered the captain That thes it.” Well,” began the eaptain—but a terrific shock which threw both from their feet, interrupted him moment. The ship had LOW OF BROOKLYN. Tue bold, base have sublicans of Brooklyn, taken the wind out of the Democratic This is 1 severe shock to the Democrats, who were fully prepared te while affiliations sails by their endorsement of Low. endorse him themselves, his were, in their eyes, omparatively clean ; but a Republican bant- ling—faugl disgusted, the ‘The Brooklyn Democracy is whether their disgust will life—physical or political—of young Mayor, but shorten than is more doubtful. MR. HATTON AND THE RURAL POSTMASTERS. Ter Jeal of talk about the beauties but tho: and gra who ially in a position to enforce its doctrines practically are the very people for whom it seems t Oftice-holders, civil service reform. they? ‘They : the sole their own nests pmpletely possible, From their point of observation their view of the sit 0 charms. as a rule, cannot see much in Mer all, why should (they imagine) for of featherin have ino purp peedily and ion is, we must admit, and rational. ‘The outspoken language of the Democrats—* to the victors belong the an echo of secret assent in the breast of every, or almost every Republican office-holder. The man who is in office knows how he got there ; he is fully conscious that he underwent the ordeal of a difficult nomination, an expensive canvass, a candidature in which all his own faults and ilings, as well as those of his ancestors to both ical Is "—find inquired the cap. | ut in | of civil service reform, | the third and fourth generation, were held up to public reprobation and abhorrence. While running for office he pri covered that his grandfather was hi horse-stealing, and his grandmother e with the hired man. formed that all | come of successful peculation does not prevent his bein ably dis- 1 for He is apt to be in- his own wealth is the out- a fact which called upon to disburse it liberally during his canvass and ndidature; and, after all this trouble nnoyance, suppo no, that is too terrible ! rather suppose he is duly clected. | having been electe nd —but Let Well, direct he is defeate thought us to an offic and legitimate _pecur whos ary returns are in an inverse ratio to the opportunities it offers for plunder of vurions kinds, the average holder is tom if he can, He will look him for his trouble and expens pretty poor offie _ oi his office pay him to it to reimburse . and it will if he cannot make it although he may only hold it for a few years, ‘This is what the aver ge office-holder will do every time, and does do whenever he gets the ch all the talk about eivil ser- vice reform to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Frank Hatton, first a ter general, is tant y gentleman whose methods le ahead been brought under THe far. Mr. Hatton is », in the postal depart- is the owner of anews r. Hatton, ed ion stmas- of making his oflice pay are just of anything that ha JUDGE'S cognizanc supreme, or nearly ment. Ie als Some people say he owns two, So M exceptional facilities offe by his position for booming the circu nizing th of his paper, and conceiving that his tenure of oflice might not be perpetual, grasped time by the forelock, He directed the rural postmasters throughout the United States to t up clubs of hp tenn of removal. rural f State we seribers for his paper. quired to send at least (tacit and implied) thres When we reflect how many there are in the United and multiply their number by ten, Hin idea of th s boom which Mr. Hatton will give to his news paper. But, as if it were not hard enough for the poor postmasters to drum up ten subscribers apiece, Mr. Hatton, by a refinement of ern- at the ten shall be those of ** good Republican: Is this condi- tion ny vy? Tie Jupce thinks not. Tue Jepeer thinks Mr. Hatton will be in- clined to reconsider it. Is not Demoe oney as good as Republican, or, if he is not disposed to view the question from so sordid a standpoint, might not his paper occasion- ally convert a Democratic brother from the error of his ways, A man who has the check ud ingenuity to pervert the machinery of a great National Department to hisown aggran- dizement, ought surely to be able toturn out avery good paper—ingenious and sophistical cnongh to turn even a staunch old Jacksonian Democrat from darkness unto light—from the rugged orthodoxy of his political creed jto the pleasant pastures of Republican | statesmanship. tmaster nes under stmasters pme jormo: elty, requires t ame comicbooks.com