Judge — August 16, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE, scandal which has been associated with Grover Cleveland’s name are too revolting for us to publish. ‘Tit: J ence goes to many households and has many ladies among his readers and admirers. Ie does not propose to insult them. We should not have referred to this un- gavory matter at all—even thus indireetly— had not certain Democratic papers forced the issue on the Republican Press. They have threatened to overhaul Blaine’s private life and show up some terrible misdoings on his part, if the attacks on Cleveland’s private | character were not discontinued at once. Now let us quote from our able contemporary, the Rochester Post Express. ‘Reputable Republican newspapers,” says the Post Express, “have no desire to publish or dwell upon the scandalous charges against Cleve- land. It is not to their taste, and they are confident he ci ted without them. But see in what a corner the Democratic threat of retaliation putsthem. Should they ny allusion to the scandal, Democratic newspaper in the n be defea refrain from there is not a land but would set up the cry—and most of them would believe it—that the Blaine organs had been frightened off from their attack on Cleveland’s private character through fear posures in the private life of their own candidate. This is no business of Republican seeking. It started with Demo- crats who strove to defeat Cleveland’s nomi- nation by exposing his private life. His friends should have known that in ‘case of his nomination, no power on earth could pre- vent its creeping into the canvass, and prob- ably influencing many votes. ‘They disre- garded the warning and are now on the de- fense. ‘The only thing Republican newspa- pers can do in the premises is to keep their columns as free as possible from the whole business, and at the same time so trea of worse e it as to leave no room for the slightest suspicion that they f y measure They invite the closest scrutiny of their own can- cter and life, while they walk backward with averted gaze from the career of Grover Cleveland.” didate’s ch: THE DEMOCRATIC CANVASS. Democratic difficulties increase. It found that a very large section of the party will not halloo for Grover Clevela the unanimity that the bosses could desire. It is found that this section is so very large and far-reaching ss to embrace nearly the whole Democratic party, with the exception of the New York “ County Democracy.” Of course, Cleveland will not lose the entire vote of this dissatisfied majority, for there are Democrats of the stamp of Grover Cleve- land himself, who would vote for the devil himself if he were nominated for the presi- dency. There are plenty of good Democrats whose entire record is identical with Cleve- land’s own—a servile following of party leaders, an utter dearth of independence or Don’t mosey VT VHE GuguosimE sry Novieg? A STARTLING DISCOVERY. Nast— Well, Pm blowed! Latways thought that thing was alive. originality, and a faithful voting of the Democratic ticket anyhow and on all occa- sions. But even with the comfort derived from the certainty of support from such Democrats as these, Cleveland’s managers have a hard task before them. The man they have nomi- nated for the presidency is almost unknown throughout the country, and, where known, is very generally looked down upon. ‘The best his friendscan find tosay for him is, that there no great harm in him, which, though good enough praise for doubtful water, or even milk, is not the kind of description we want of the medicine we ure asked to take in a dangerous illness, or the President we are invited to elect at a grave political cri Mr. Cleveland may mean well, and intend to do his duty if he should be elected, but we cannot afford to take chances in the mat- ter. We know he did not do his duty as Governor, and people are apt to argue from the known to the unknown. On the whole, the Democratic canvass can scarcely be said to be in a flourishing condition. An, Richelieu was a great villain,” the elder Dumas makes one of his characters observe, “but he was also a great man, Ie was greater every way than is Mazarin.” How casy to imagine a Democrat of to-day saying these words; one who has looked with admiration on the colossal villainy of Boss Tweed, and turns with a sigh to contemplate the petty—well, statesmanship of Hubert | 0. Thompson. | The New Intoxicant. Dedicated to ALDERMAS Thomas Siirts € heant of the viper that lurks in th ; And perhaps he and you, sir, no strangers have been; But a deallier Mast ‘Tis the venomous reptile that lurks in Quinine! ¢ has been hatched now; O, Satan, thou fell and insatiate foe, That ever devi ur ills Hadst st increase to snares not enough foro tumbling and That now thou must come and bedevil our pills? Woe, woe to the wretches with fever who burn And alas for the wight with theague who shakes! To once bracing Quinine they no longer can turn it gives the D. T's and ad visions of snakes Sine O, dire posit From the which all my trembling ities crowding my brain, i startles and shrinks! To think that a pill-box may slyly contain of backet-shop drinks! More drunks than three dozen And how shall our judges admeasure the law And sagely discriminate lushes between? For sure, "twere the stran; one ever Ifa man got ten days for a dose of Quin O, well may three-fourths of our Aldermen sigh, future with hearts sore and ebill. As they see in the sot on ur pass the g beyond, to g y by ‘or the drug-sh t drunk on a pill! and Tuckless, hath been — (For thee, who but pity and sympathy feels?}— ‘That Satan should single thee out, of First victim to be, famed foreves What a destiny thine, stran comicbooks.com