Judge — March 8, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. $24, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Ustren Starrs asp Casas.) 1 apvasce, One copy. one y 4x months, for 13 weeks Biss ae oo fIrrosrsot rece ad 1St, New York. St. (Fleet St) Fsotaso, NOTICI 1 thet atu Stamps at address, if w upon the articles they reeves fix} or otherwise It be return postage, with name regain thelr declined articles. CORRESPONDENTS. As Fos ron sven fay Tie warren, TTOC, AND NO SURRE. QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION WILL RE ENTERTAINED. THE POLITICAL TRICK-MULE. Some of the tenderest and most cherished | recollections of our early childhood must be connected with the circus. Every small boy loves the odor of sawdust and has thrilled with an excitement that the ring alone can inspire; and it has fallen to the lot of most small boys to visit one or more circuses in their day, whether admission was obtained openly by payment of good coin or bills, or surreptitiously by insinuation under the can- vas border of an imperfectly fastened tent. And in one or other of his many visits it must have fallen to the lot of the average emall boy to attempt to ride the tricky quad- ruped which is one of the most cherished apanages of most circuses. The unrideable beast may be a pony, a jackass, or that most | cross-grained of compromises between the two—a mule. Sufficient that it is a four legged beast, thoroughly trained to reject a two legged rider, and it will answer all the purposcs of its proprictors. It will answer all the purposes of the small boy also, who only requires to be dared to it, to undertake any adventure. Besides, there is generally a prize offered to whoever can accomplish the hitherto unaccomplished feat of keeping his seat round the ring. To introduce the circus into politics may | not be a very dignified proceeding, but it is u very common one. attached to it, which aspirants are invited to | papers exclusively | in the elections of this yeu | who confines his morning THE JUDGE. mount and ride—if th alw: z to try, and many and seri- | ons are the falls that result; more hopes and | hearts are broken in the political cirens than | | ever bones were damaged inthe showman’s | ring. The present campaign, which bids | fair, in the advertising showman’s grandilo- quent language, ‘to outshine all previous | exhibitions,” has two or three intractable beasts attached to it, One in particul which for want of a better name, people Tariff Reform, has such a truculent and ferocious aspect that visitors are fairly and nobody ha yet had the courage to | mount it at all. There is a little half-breed Republican mule too, which has already given more than one candidate an awkward full, and which is liable to givea good many more | before the circus is over. But, “walk up | gentlemen,” says the ringmaster, ‘there is a very fat prize waiting for any cowed | one who can | canter round the course on this little quad- | ruped.” SEE-SAW. Snow us a man who reals Hepublican | ul we will show you a man who entertains no manner of doubt but | that Republican principles—or what passes for such—will be triumphantly successful | Show usaman lite of the Democratic persuasio show you aman that believes no power on the earth or under the earth ean keep the Democrats out of power another year. Show ature to papers and we will Every political cam- | paign has a more or less intractable beast | us a man who reads tke p 1 political complexions, or, better still, who reads Tire | and he will candidly confess that it | would take somebody smarter than Wiggins to predict from what quarter the political breezes will blow during the current year. The fact is, the situation is one of those whose eventuality, inthe words of the lite lamented Lord Dundre: No fellah can tind out.” The whole thing is abig see-saw, and Repub- | licans and Democrats have been balancing | across a log since the parties learned their names, and before that they were balancing under other names. Twenty odd years ago the Republicans got the beam well down on their end, and sent the Democrats flying up, and there the Democrats have staid ever | since, kicking and squirming, but never suc ceeding in bringing theirend tocarth. The Republicans have been weighting their end of the beam all these years, and they have | got it pretty firmly locked; still, of late it | has shown a disposition to shake alittle, and | all the offices and preferments the Republi- cans have been able to pile on it have scarcely been able to hold it steady. You see, the | Democrats have been accumulating weight, | too. Money weighs heavily, and the bar'ls | of Sammy and others have been tapped to some purpose. The beam oscillates; a grand effort will be made on both sides when the real tug of war comes. Something is bound | to happen and somebody will be very much d. Who? Ask Wig ! surpris ins. | that of the Lo: | of crime s CRIME ON LONG ISLAND. Qcite recently Long Island has stepped into the front rank of criminal localiti with an array of outrages ¢: Connecticut to the Llush, and to make Ka Missouri and their heads with shame, gular. Iereto- fore Lo markable for itocs and being a ha w this is ve Island, if it w anything else but mo: hundred m long, was remarkable for its quictude, i al pursuits, and its gen- eral odor of sanctity. Its principal city, Brooklyn, has carned the title of the City of Churches, and sits, like asecond St. Paul, at the feet of those twin Gamalic and But all is cha ‘The churchesand the odor of sanctity re paste Beecher how eal. Ain, but the qu where are they? wl the pastoral pursuits, The former has vanished and the latter are pursued under difficulties which might well appal a stouter heart than Jand farmer, A ems to have be arnival n Tet loose upon the hithe: and there has been more bloodshed on the Ishin in tie 6 peaceful scene last few months than there has been since the British evacuated it. Long Island shares ‘onnectiont this disadvan how- so perilously gtinist it, suffers the ordinary penalties for keepi pany. ‘Thy enous product; export wicked Gotham, Long Island is certa ead of Connecticut, in that it has bro home some of the crimes that have disgr it to the guilty one, but there is much to be done yet. It should have see me of its superfluons chur utilized for this purpose, for, by allaccounts, Rogg’s pursuers hail more difficulty in break- ing into the church in which he had sought sanetnary than the desperado had in break- ing out of the jail in which he had been confined. But we cannot have everything atonce. Long Island's epidemic of crime has been sudden and found the community unprepared to grapple with Let us be thankful that the officials found the criminal and not criticiz Meanwhile the lot of the Lo farmer isnotahappy one, He never secks his barn without a lurking misgiving that a tramp-assassin may be lying in wait for him, He can never leave his family in the morning with degree of certainty that he will find ther he left them when he returns at night. His Ife must be as uncomfortabl that of a seldier on picket duty. Tf this state of th 3 to continue we shall never be surprised to hear that Judge Lynch has ome one of the most vilucd and respected zens on Long Island. Tr a man is killed by a large i on him its an icy kill. comicbooks.com