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THE JUDGE. | the cheers and shouts which shook Chicago | land, are the best answers to that question, THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 323 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep Staves axp Casapa.) 18 ADVANCE One copy, one year, or S2 numbers, . 5 One copy, alk months, or 8 numbers, . One copy. for Sweekk oe ees Eerrowrson race ad Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. $04, 26 and 8 Pearl St, New York. RUROPRAN AGENTS Taw [evens sional, News Company, 1! Bouverte St, (Fleet St.) Losbox, Rxotasp. NOTICE. Contributors must put thelr valuation upon the articles they send to us (sudject to a price we may ourselves Mx). or otherwise they w'": be regarded as gratultoas. Stamps should be inclosed fh1. cro postage with name and address, if writers wish to revain thelr declined articien, CORRESPONDENTS. EB CORRESPONDENTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THEY sexp Mea To THis OFFICE AT THEIR OWN ROK. WHERE STanre SACLORED WILL RETCRS REJECTED MATTER AS FAR AS POs OLE, AUT WE DISTISCTLY REFUDLATE ALL RESPOSMIBILITY FOR ACCH ts EVERY CASE WHERE 4 PRICE I SOT AFPICED BY THE WRITER, CONTRINCTIONS WILL #E REOARDED AS ORATCITOCE, AND NO SCBAE. QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION WILL BE EXTERTAINED. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES G. BLAINE. tarough the mouthpiece of its convention at Chicago, Tue Republican party, has spoken at last, and has spoken with no uncertain sound. In four ballots James G. Blaine, of Maine, has been nominated as the worthiest man the Republican party could select to ask the people for the highest oftice in their gift. The choice was an eminently wise, and, to all save a few ‘‘cranks” and shameless self-seekers in the party, a most satisfactory one. statesman. for Mr. Blaine isno mushroom He has been before the country the people know him thor- enghly, and in the fulness of their sat- isfied knowledge, years; have nominated him. He has his enemies; what head ever towered above its fellows without becoming a mark for envy and malice. The first half of the political campaign —that which precedes nomination—has been conducted with viru- lence and acrimony, far beyond the usual limits of partisan warfare. Venal pen and hireling pencil have collected all the filth and venom they could muster, and poured it on Mr, Blaine’s devoted head. Has any of the mud stuck? The closing scenes in convention last week, the wild acclaim with which the nomination was made unanimons, | Mr. Blaine is the choice of his political | co-believers—the worthy standard bearer of the grand old party. It is not at such a moment as this that the future president of the United States needs | either defence or justification. Weall know what charges have been brought against him —idle, malicions charges as they have been proven to be. We have all heard the tale and all witnessed its triumphant refutation We have seen the rancor with which Mr. Blaine’s enemies have last Friday at Chicago. pursued him, we have seen the dastardly stab which Puck attempted to inflict, like a noxious insect of night seeking its own sus- | tenance from the annoyance of a being as infinitely superior to Puck or its proprietors We have scen these petty weapone recoil on the hands that held them, leaving James G. Blaine as a good man is toa bad bed-bug. where in right of his God-given talents and commanding abilities, he ought to be—at the head of the Republican party. Tr his nomination as the most triumphant refu- JupGe congratulates Mr. Blaine on tation possible of all that his detractors ‘ave | j whispered. Tur Jepce congratulate Joh: A. Logan on his well-deserved success, and his proud position in the second place of his party’s ticket; and last but not least Tue JvDGE congratulates the Republican party on a wise choice worthily bestowed, and on the best ticket it has given the people since a Chicago convention four and twenty years ago called on Illinois and Maine to head its ticket, and Abraham Lincoln’s administra- tion was the result. Again we have Illinois and Maine on the same ticket—this time in reversed order—and again the ticket comes from Chicago. May the omen be fortunate! THE DYNAMITE ARGUMENT. Tne inhabitants of Ireland have been for many years posing before the world as a people with a grievance. Some years ago they really had a'grievance—several of them, in fact, and very real and tangible they were. Since then, however, the pressure of public opinion and the advancing enlightenment of the age have been working steadily in their behalf; concession after concession has been they are fairly governed ‘and ‘as well off as any other people that the sun shines on. To be sure, they object to paying rent, but people in other count: object to paying rent too—and yet it has to be paid. In point of fact, the Irish rent payers at home are much better off than they are here, inas- much as they have been granted novae tabu- lae, and a sweeping away of their arrears, which no government in any other country has had the consideration or temerity to grant to its embarrassed householders. But the Hibernian mind is filled with vague, restless longings for it knows not what. It wants something—the carth, probably, with the kingdom-to-come thrown in—and it secks it in its sweet, untutored impulsive way, through the medium of dy- namite Now dynamite is an argument more forci- ble than convincing, and its promiscuous application to London public buildings is scarcely likely to incline the British public to grant further privileges to the suffering saints on the other side of the channel. Furthermore, as an engine of vengeance, it is incomplete, owing to its impartiality, A charge of dynamite, though exploded by Irish hands, is just as apt to injure Pat, if he be in the neighborhood, as it is to injure John. In fact, the few people who were in- jured by the recent explosion in London—a hackman, a few servant girls, etc.—were probably, if not Irish themselves, at least Irish sympathizers. Indeed, one of Ircland’s would-be liberators—a gentlemen yclept Kenny—remarked in some trepidation that, f the Nelson monument had been blown up, as seemed to be the design of the dynam- he would have gone up with it. Where uo was at the time he omitted to state. Probably on top of the column, for Mr. Kenny, like other Irish liberators, is a rising young man. ‘Two more of the Hibernian agitators, Messrs. Sexton and Redmond, were almost within reach when the explosion took place. What a pity it seems that truth forbids us to omit the word ‘‘ almost.” To drop badinage and come down to sober fact, this dynamite policy is, as all the world admits, barbarous, wanton, devilish, Also, tt is suicidal to any hopes which Ireland may entertain of further concession. There is nothing to be gained by it, and everything to be lost. If the dynamiters were to suc- ceed in laying London in ruins to-morrow, Ireland would be no nearer the impossible, intangible mark she is aiming at. AN Irish trackman, on hearing of Blaine’s nomination, voiced a sentiment which will not be without weight at the polls, as fol- lows: ‘ Blaine for Prisident! More power to him, be jabers. There’s a man_ big enough for England to see.” AN aspiring young farmer who has read the agricultural journals in vain for an an- | swer, would like us to tell him what are the granted by England, and, on the whole, | main pillars on which the science of agricul- ture rests. We should suppose that it doesn’t much matter what kind, so long as you don’t try to rest it on cater-pillars. “Don’t tee want to regulate your own h rints? as the Irishwoman said when her husband came home with torn pants. comicbooks.com