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WHERE oraars L RETURY RAJECTED MATTER AS FAR AS POS {HBLE, BUT WE DUTINCTLY REPUDLATE ALL REAPONAIBILITY FOR AUCH tm eveny case Wi PRICE {8 SOT AFVIKED BY THE WRITER, CONTRINCTIONS WILL RE REOARDED A8 ORATUITOCA, QCENT CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION WILL RE EXTER . FOR THE CAMPAIGN. — | sESD “Tire JuvaK™ FOR SIX (6) MONTHS, TO AXY CLUB RATES. ‘Tue Jevor will bo furnishet to clube at the following rates: 1 year. 6 montha sn <n, Pry MR. BLAINE'S ACCEPTANCE. Mr. Biatne’s letter of acceptance has now been read throughout the length and breadth of the land, and the nation at large has had ample time to discuss it and to arrive at a sound conclusion as to to its statements and arguments. The pop- ular verdict is that no more masterly paper has ever been given to the country in the guise of a campaign document. Broad and comprehensive in its views, irrefutable in its arguments, fortified by statistics, and ani- mated throughout by the steady, loyal Re- publicanism of the writer, Mr. Blaine’s let- ter of acceptance is at once an exposition of the purest views and highest aims of the party, and a platform of political belief on which no true American need be afraid to stand. As the Tribune well says, no matter what result the present contest may have, it has already conferred a lasting benefit upon the country in eliciting from a candidate a doc- ument which would have done honor to any president in our history, which will elevate the standard of public discussion for coming generations and which will raise the nation in the estimation of the wisest and best men of other lands. Mr. Blaine’s letter covers every possible inch of ground to be traversed in this campaign. He shirks no issue, but puts himself squarely on record with regard to every important question of the hour. As Tue Jupce has before remarked, Mr. Blaine was never a man to take refuge in ambiguity or to attempt to evade the logical consequences of his own actsand convictions. There is not a word of uncertain sound in the whole letter. The effect of its perusal upon every unprejudiced mind must be an enhanced feeling of congratulation on the essentially wise choice of the convention that nominated Mr. Blaine. THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. Tue Democratic Ticket is like a tad-polo— its tail is the biggest part of it. It is also like the kangaroo of Anstralia, which, when hotly pursued, gathers its young into its marsupial pouch, and, always with the aid of its tail, skips out of danger. A kangaroo without its tail would be a miserable animal indeed, a fit object for pity and contempt. So would the Democratic ticket. Indeed, many people are unkind enough to say that the Democratic ticket is rather piteous and contemptible anyhow—but how much more piteous and contemptible it would be with- out its tail, Mr. Hendricks once ran in half-way decent company. It is not on record that Mr, Cleveland, during his short political career, has ever attempted to get his head out of the machine collar since the machine first thought it worth while to clap acollar round hisneck. Ah, well! Perhaps Curtis and the dear Dependents will pad it for him, and then it will not feel so galling! LOGAN'S ACCEPTANCE. letter, accepting the nomination for the Vice-Presidency, is man- ly, straightforward and to the point. With- out ambiguous phrases or the begging of any question it places before the people the wri- ter’s position on all the great questions of the hour, and on all General Logan is sound. The letter is a worthy supplement to Mr. Blaine’s masterly document. CLEVELAND'S BIOGRAPHER. Tue World congratulates Mr. William Dorsheimer in that it has fallen to his lot to be the biographer of Cleveland. THE JupGE congratulates him also. Ifever there was a soft billet—an ideal sinecure, as it were, it would be the writing of Cleveland’s political history. We can fancy Mr. Dors- heimer consulting his notes for the forth- Stephen Grover Cleve- land, born—well, such a time. First heard of as Sheriff of Erie County. Hanged a man. (This last feat, as the most dramatic in his career, will probably occupy the largest por- tion of his biography.) Was elected Mayor of Buffalo. Did nothing particular. Was elected Governor of New York. Got tan- gled up with the machine and got himeclt disliked by vetoing popular and righteous measures, and omitting to veto unpopular and unrighteous ditto. Was nominated by the same machine as Democratic candidate for President in July, and was buried out of sight by the vote in November. in pace. “Take back the virgin page,” Mr. Wil- liam Dorsheimer. There is Cleveland's biography all ready to your hand in a nut- shell. coming biography. Requiescat Tur Herald grandiloquently calls Mr. Curtis’ meeting of Dependents ‘A death blow to Blaine.” People don’t die of mosquito bites so carly in the season, “Wat fools these mortals be,” and what an awful lot Puck himself doesn’t know about a variety of things— grammar, for instance. Our vivacious contemporary last week performed the journalistic feat of giv- ing the portraits of the three last speakers of the House. How could there be three last speakers? They didn’t all officiate simultaneously, did they? Maybe Puck knows; but it is a conundrum too hard for mere mortals. “Ye Gods, ye Gods, must I enduro all this?” said Geo. Wm. Curtis the other day when he was formally introduced to the ring of Albany Lobbyists who are running Cleve- land. CUI BONO? Tue wreck of another Arctic expedition has reached our shores. A few brave men, after unheard of sufferings and privations, have been rescued at the eleventh hour and brought back to civilization with the spark of life still lingering. The majority of their companions had already succumbed to the rigor of the arctic winter. And at the sacri- fice of so much brave life what result was accomplished? Lieutenant Lockwood suc- ceeded in penetrating four minutes’ of lati- tude further to the north than his predeces- sor did, and lost his lifeon that inhospitable shore in payment of his temerity. Only that and nothing more. Far be it from THE Junce to belittle the achievement of those brave men. They have done nobly—wonderfully. Science will pre- serve the names of those who have laid down their lives in her service, and the world calls them heroes, But there are broken hearts and desolated homes at home, and the mourners are asking themselves if enough has not been attempted, if lives enough have comicbooks.com