Judge — March 15, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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demning them, privately The hidden genii of the “ Sewer, fed and fattened by their contributions, rise them. who are protects up and interpose between them and danger. | And so the work goes on. Mr. Comstock may be carnest and zealous but hecannot perform impossibilities. Ile is not omnipresent. Hecannot cope with “sewer The immorality of this city does not lurk in the shadows. It walks thoroughfares; it advertises it and music; there is nothing secret or private about it. And yet it is contrar’ is all forbidden by our statut then, this seeming anomaly? I the fact that the law is in the hands of those who administer it, consequently they are n our proudest If with lights to law; it Whence, ises from above the law, and the only number they are willing to take cognizance of is * number one.” And that is why the modern St, Patrick can never be as successful in expelling the ure New York as nal St. Patrick in getting rid of the snakes and toads that infested Ireland. snakes and was the or ARTHUR'S STRENGTH. Cuesren Anrucn reached the presiden- tial chair by one of those flukes which do not more than twice or thric od worker, century g of the boys,” he was A ward politician, and emphatically “on yly as much aston dus anyone else dL his services recognized by tl g of his name second on the Repub can presidential ticket. Once ther naturally carried into office on the flood tide of Republican succe or favor of hi dent, his influenc he was . Without any especial As Vice-Pr was nominal, own. and. his name w other's. ‘The office niti arty, nothing more. But behind that office lurked another, and into that Chester A. Arthur was tired by ana andsome. r¢ bullet, through no fault of his own, but | merely through the working of fate, which sometimes delights in exalting the humble and abasing the proud. the presidential ch good te nee he has filled he has made a fairly He has shown some ability He main asa statesman, and more as an ai has rendered himself popular in. the amongst those with been rdiate contact; but that he was one of his gifts—an whom he has bronght into imu Thi le one toa always did. indispensa He is a bon rivant ward politician. —another important requi- site for a party worker. His administration 1s brought the White House’s wine bill up the average, wowhich it had sunk so lamentubly during the incumbency of Hayes. Arthur is all right; some call him a dilet- tante President—some an wathe none an He is popular enough, and he 1 done fairly well in the absence of a bette But it is one thing to fill the presidential chair acceptably when securely seated in it. e through the 1 of his services | | | | | he carry even h HOW TO SHAVE NE ASL It is resi- 1 election. as Vi ecure the lead- hurly burly of a contes one thing to be nominated It is quite another t ing position on a party ticket. ‘The conven- tion that look for other requisites in the candidate it submits to the dent. nominates will people than bonhommie and ward popularity. It will look for a degree of influence; fora hit of name, and without reference to party success, o1 nt St Iof the gre: ctions is conscious that it must strain every nerve everywhere in the coming contest, and the man whe motu the wavering tide of battle in « befal dd. ds Arthur We may well doubt it. Can own State? Most people power to carry, by sheer we > name State is a man to be consid such a one? think not, the nomination no one doubts. be given to him i New York is a bi electoral college That he would gladly Th far more mooted point tate; its votes in the aecept tit will re numerous, and Arthur New Yor But there are New York- nd New Yorke nd if a native of the Empire State be selected to receive the Re- publican endorsement (which is doubtful), it will be one of a more command tion in his native State t even his tenure s conferred on Arthur, If he could demonstrate his ability to carry that big, big load, New York S Republican camp, his name might head the ticket yet; but it almost looks as if the lift were too heavy for Arthur's muscles. of tho presidency h te, into the ON TO OUR BARBER Diary of Patrick O'Callahan, Car Conductor. [ Nore. ] Begorra oive taken the plidge. ‘The praste an Maggie togither made me do it, bad cess to the loikes uv thim boath, and its nearly shtairved wid the cauld oive bin, a shtandin uthrimblin on the rair platform uv me awl the day long and a part of the night, widout wan dhrop uv the craythure for he shpotters used to be troth they be nothing to the oyes av Maggie, me wife. She do be forivir a comin upon { toimes, and fwhat her eyes can’t her nose do shmill. Redad, if [tuk but wan dhrop uv whishkey and didn’t go home fur two dhays, she'd foind it on me brith before I got inside the door of me apairtmint. Oh she’s a shairp wan, but sow am oi, yes oi, Pathrick O'Callahan, and she'll foind it out some day. Musha, but here she comes wid her pin and her ink fur me dhiar: oi'll be after shlippin this out uy her soight, betwane the other laves uv the buk. February, Acauldday. A bitther canld day, but T regailed mesoilf wid de bafe tay, prowided by me fond an loving woife, and thareboy kipt me plidge and me moind, awl shtraight. Along in the airly aivenin, on wan ay me. down thrips, there were only two or three ladies aboord me cair, whin, as we raiched acertain shtrate, there shtepped on me plat- form two or three av me formair frinds. Since me racint ilivation to the phroud and lofty position I now occupy, oive nivir heen on shpakin tnerums wid’ these same shpalpeens. Whin we all togither belo nuff, but in comicbooks.com