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THE JUDGE. 824, 326 and $23 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED 0: TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Osrrep Staves axp Casapa.) 1 apvance, One copy, oe year, One copy, six mont! One copy. for 13 wee Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Bi, LH and 38 1 Bouverte 8t., (Fleet 8t.) Loxvos, Exouaxn, NOTIC! Contributors must put thelr valuation apun the articles they tend to us (subject to a price we may ourselves fix), or otherwise they will be regarded a8 gratuitous Stamps should be Inclosed for return postage, with name and address, if writers wish to regain their declined articles. CORRESPONDENTS. W-CORRESTONDESTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE TRAT THEY xp Maa TO THIS OFVICE AT THEIR OWN WINX. WHERE eTAMrS ENCLOSED WL FILL RETCRS REJECTED MATTER AH FAR A POS SIULE, BUT WE DISTINCTLY REFUDIATE ALL REEPONAIRILITY FOR AUCH IN EVERY CASE. WHERE 4 PRICE [8 SOT AFFIXED BY THR WRITER, cosTaiscTiom CEST CLAIM Fo f- We wns. exsn R ¢ > ar “Tae Jeno TAKE IT. Single coptes 10 cents each. EPrSend fo 8 copy THE WHY AND WHEREFORE. bp, by the grace of a split in the Republican ranks, Governor of New York, and by the grace of a miraculous concatenation of events Democratic nominee for President, has had his political bread butte: Nothing can lency save his and that is enough. ‘The country has had more than enough of amateur base-ball umpires and Presidential candidates. Grover CLeve sured] d on both sides, now defeat him for the Pri own innate unfitn RUNNING THE GAUNTLET. Wien first ma he the Democratic nomination was le, Mr. Cleveland’s friends thought would have nothin to contend inst than his own ignorance and incom- petence. ‘That is exactly where Mr. Cleve- land’s friends and the American public at wor: | the full. THE JUDGE. large have been fooled. There are advan- tages, doubtless, in being a nincompoop— there are certain benefits accruing from being utterly unknown, and Mr. Cleveland hus reaped those advantages and benefits to His party was prepared to find his record a blank, a ve mo y smutty page. People looked for | reform in Cleveland, and they found —well, not exactly reformed morals, Mr. Cleveland has to run a gauntlet to reach the White House, and not the least severe blows in his progress will be dealt him by his own frailties. Surely the poet had Grover Cleve- land in his mind when he wrote: “+ Our pleasant vices are made whips to scourge us." HOW BLAINE WAS NOMINATED. Do Mr. Curtis, and his following, who affected so much surprise and disgust when Mr, Blaine received the Republican nomina- tion last June, ever recollect, or try to recol- lect, for purposes of comparison, the history of the conventions immediately preceding thatof’84. In’76, forinstance, when Blaine’s votes were more than double those of any other candidate up to the seventh and last ballot, when, all the elements of opposition uniting against him, gave Haye Blaine’s 351. 384 against That looked as if the Plamed Knight were the choice of a good many Republicans even then, In ‘80, Blaine presented a strength of nearly 300 votes through thirty-four ballots, strength which nominate¢ Grant for a third term. arfield, and beat In the recent con- | vention Blaine’s nomination was decreed as early as the fourth ballot, and by the astounding vote of 541—more than a hun- dred and fifty more votes than Hayes received, and nearly as many more than Garfield. All this looks as if the Republican party wanted Blaine, Messrs. Curtis, Beecher, Schurz & Co., to the contrary notwithstanding. THE LIFE OF BLAINE. Is another column will be found notices of two books which should engage a portion of the attention of every American citizen during the next few months. One is a life of Jas. G. Blaine, and the other is a selec- tion from his speeches and published writings. ‘The one offers the public an opportunity to correct their impressions of the man from his historical acts—the other from his published words. And from the evidence of both Tug Junoe is free to assert that since Webster we have had no abler statesman, since Washington no more patriotic man. Mr. Blaine has been concerned in all the great questions that have agitated the coun- try during the last thirty years, and on all he has thrown the light of his clear, bright intellect. His attitude during the war was consistent with the firm, loyal Republican- ism that has animated him all his life, and the broad humanity that characterizes all | himself very fully and Iie has surprised them with | nd it was his | his views, On the currency question he has placed himself on record us an advocate of honest money—with Mr. Blaine a dollar means a hundred cents, neither more nor less, On the tariff question he has expressed ly. He is deter- mined to protect the American laborer from the competition of the pauper labor of E The same view anima nese question was rope. d him when the Chi- igitated. He boldly stated that he would do his best to protect his laboring fellow-countrymen, alike from pau- per Europe is Mr. Blaine’s record on a few prominent questions, ‘Those who desire to have his views on others would do well to read these books. Another point: the vague slanders which have been cast on Mr. Blaine’s public record— slanders which nobody seems exactly to un- derstand—are here detailed in full. Any man who is not h congre: id from an China. Such amiliar w ional history for the last dozen ye will seek vainly to hear of what Blaineis accused. If he should ask, he would be told ‘ Mulligan letters,” “Rock Island,” but none would gi any particulars. If any one is curious at this distant day to learn what the “ Mulli- gan letters” really were, to hear the accusa- tion against Mr. Blaine categorically set forth, and to read the explicit and disinter- ested testimony of reliable witnesses (the very witnesses cited by his accusers) disprov- ing the charges in every particular, he will find the whole set forth at length under the caption of “Slander” in the fourteenth chapter of Balestier’s Life of Blaine. him The Book of the Tribes of Columbia. Pav. The Democratic robberies of ot left three times; the Su: Sulfilled. MANy years before Arthur, the Ches- ame to rule over the tribes of Colum- the land was in the hands of the Philis- Hoe the Philistines ‘s prophecy; Hue it was 2. But when they came to rule over Colum- bia, they culled themselves Dimmekrats. . And for many years they bode in the city of Washington, and waxed fat as does the leech. 4. For they took unto themselves the shekels of the people; yea, they filled them- selves with the gold of the tribes. They took all those things which belonged not’ unto them, and they did pillage and rob all who came in their way. 5. The gold of the poor Indian was seized upon by the king’s council; the shekels of the warrior were in the handsof Floyd; and Toucey carried the navy in the hem of his garment. But the worst among the Philistines was one who was named by the name of Hendricks; who, even as‘doth the busy bee, did improve each hour that passeth. 7. For in them did he scoop the shekels; yea, in each minute did he crib the boodle. 8. Even in his sleep did he break the mmandment, 9, His stomach was lined with the gold of the people. He tired not day or night. 10, But at last the people rose up against comicbooks.com