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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrep States axp Casapa.) 18 ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or & numbers... ‘One copy, alx months, of % numbers One copy. for 13 weeks, EPrrosrs08 yRER ad Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1, 2 and I Pearl St, New York, EUROPEAN AGENTS Tue Isrensarionat. News NOTIC Contributors must put thelr valuation upon the articles they tend to us (subject to a price we may carselves fx}. oF otherwise they will be regarded a gratuitous. Stamps should be inclosed for return postage, with name and address, if writers wish to regain thetr declined articles. CORRESPONDENTS. EP CONRESPOSDENTH WILL TLEAFE TAKE NoTICI susp Maa. To THs OFFICE AT THEIR OWN RUMK. ARE ESCLORED WH WILL RETCRY REJECTED MATTER IBLE, WC WE DUETINCTLY REPC ty EVERY CASK. eat waar | SAMUEL J. TILDEN. Mr. TiLpew is to-day the pride and hope of the Democratic In his name they recognize the strongest they can hope to put before the people, and their hopes of carry- rty, ing the country at the approaching election are bound up toa large extent in Samuel J. Tilden, Governor Cleveland is spoken of here and there, but he is not mentioned in the same breath with Tilden, In the latter centre all the hopes of his party, and he, if anyone, may be looked to to unite the di- vergent wings of the Democracy and weld its vote into one solid and homogeneous whole. The reasons for Mr. Tilden’s popularity are not far to seek. He is identified with his bar’l—that mysterious and potent factor in politics, and is glorified by it. Wealth is always powerful, and often respectable, and Mr. ‘Tilden has wealth—how much, proba- bly no one knows but himself and his pri- vate secretary, but he certainly has an amount which, magnified by rumor, has en- deared him to every Democratic heart throughout the length and breadth of the land, Then the results of the election in ’76 redounded, in all probability, even more to his credit than a term of office at the White House would have done. We know that a term of office in that must desirable residence does not always redound to the in- cumbent’s credit; we make no reflections. Mr. Tilden might have emerged from office as popular with his party as he is to-day— more popular he could scarcely be. But the result of the election in '76 left a rankling sense of injustice in the popular Democratic breast which has been carefully fomented by the Democratic press ever since, and Mr. Tilden is the living embodiment of that fecling—the martyr to that injustice, as it were. Hence his popularity, great before, was tenfold increased by his defeat, and there is scarcely a Democrat who would not drop the tangled issues of Protection or Free Trade to come solidly to the front for him. He is, ideally, the strongest man in the party to-day. And really? Ah, that is another question. His name is as strong as ever, but his frame isnot. While hi: panded, his phy pended. popularity has been ¢: cal forces have been ¢ It is very doubtful if he could be induced to accept the nomination if it were tendered to him. It is more than questionable if his health would bear the fatigue and nervous strain of acontest. Mr, Tilden may remain to the Democrats ideally the man of men for the Presidency; really, they will probably have to pitch upon another man to carry their standard into the thick of the battle next fall. CITY SWELLS AND COUNTRY COUSINS. Ture season of the 3 when the city, literally and figuratively, stinks in men’s nostrils, and all who can it are eager to do so, The sun pours down rays of intense and living fire and heats the pavements to furnace heat, and they refuse to cool The in the household gas bill is more than counterbal- anced by the increase in the ice bill. Over- worked business men begin, like Falstaff, to “babble of green fields;” excursion boats are r is now upon us again. diminution crowded, and summer board is at a pre- mium. And now city folk begin to remember their country cousins, and contemplate a visit to Uncle Abijah or Cousin Lucinda. ‘Truth to tell, these visits are not always unmerited, for uncles and cousins from the country arc very apt to avail themselves of city folks’ hospitality during the New York season. Vide the communication of a valued con- tributor which will be found in another column, and which Tue JupGe is assured sub rosa is the history of an actual occur- rence, set forth and related just as it hap- pened. But, without impugning the hospi- tality of our country cousins to quite so great an extent as our artist has done, we would insinuate that they do not show quite so much reciprocity in the matter as city peo- ple expect, and it is very hard to blame them for it. The average denizen of the town is, to the average tiller of the soil, a very strange and knotty problem. He (the tiller) is like- wise disposed to make a bonanza of him (the denizen) as far as possible. To the bucolic intellect city folks are all rich and shiftless— a proper prey for the unsophisticated but He is an old man and a feeble one. | shrewd rustic. The city man dresses better than his country cousin: ergo, he must be richer. He does not dig in the fields or otherwise labor with his hands: ergo, he must be idle. So the farmer takes advan- tage of the fact that some parts of the coun- try are cooler than some parts of the city, and advertises summer board. It is his harvest time, and he knows it, Is he then to be blamed ‘if, at such a time, he should resent the visit of his New York relative who brings a large and interesting family to live on him at free quarters; to eat food and occupy space which some one else ight be induced to pay for? Not he. He rds his city relative at such a time as he would the army worm, or the potato bug, or the sshopper—a plague sent to harrass him and to diminish the natural crop he has aright toexpect from his land. ‘That is how he looks at it, and he treats the affliction according! nevil to be grappled with. If he can make it so unpleasant for the to bugs that they can be induced to give s fields a wide berth he will do so, and he di th his non-paying city relatives on precisely the same principle. It is human nature, and let human nature be blamed and not the farmer. Tue Jupee’s advice is an advice to city folks—and it sed on a long life of experi- and ob, enc rvation, is not to visit country relatives at all. your Keep away from You will be much happier al comfortable with strang If you can iford it, go out of town and pay your board —not to your relatives, dien entendu, for they will take your mone stranger, them. 1 more yas if you were a one of the family in the matter of stale eggs, skimmed milk, nd treat you as and hot sleeping accommodations. No, go and board with strangers upon business ples, ‘‘and let the foolish yeoman go.” AW: THE BEST TAP. No people apprec sinews of war” better t alue of ‘the politicians, and no politicians have a keener scent in this direction than Democrats. — It was Tilden’s memorable ‘ bar’l” which first hoisted him into the position of prominence which he occupies in the Democratic ranks to-day, and though other sentiments have sprung up around him, like ivy clinging to old ruins, and have wreathed him with verdure no longer his own, without the ‘bar’l” no amount of sentimentality could make Tilden as popular as he is with his party. But there are other ‘‘bar’ls” in the field—bar’ls of oil, which, in their way, are as good as gold, and possessed of more lubricating qual- ities, and a very potent and well-filled “Flower-bar’l” which has a strong fascina- tion for many a hungry Democrat. Figure to yourself poor Democracy, hungry and thirsty as the typical politician must ever be supposed to be, hesitating before these three barrels, and asking himself anxiously— “Which is the best tap?” comicbooks.com