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THE JUDGE. 4 THE JUDGE. 824, $26 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NRW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Dnirep Staves axp Casava) One copy. for 13 weeks, ae terromson vurn ad ‘THE JUDOR PUBLISHING COMPANY. ‘24, ES and 23 Pearl St, New York. EUROPRAN AGENTS. Tua Leraasaional. News Courasy, 11 Fraverte 8t..(Pleet 8t) | Lowwos, ExOLaxn, | NOTICE. Contributors must put thelr valuation upun the articles they send 10 us (subject to a price we may ourselves Axl or otherwise they will be regarded as gratuitous, Stampa should he inctosed | for reture postage, with name and address, if writers wish to regain thelr declined articles, ~~ CORRESPORDERTS. EW ConngsroxDesTs WILL PLEAKE TAKE SOTICE THAT THEY exxp Maa To Tu OFFICE AT THEIR OWN Rink. WHERE eTaura | ARE ESCLOMED WL ATLL RETCRY QEJECTED MATTER as ros. (MOLE, SOT WE OISTINCTLY REFUDIATE ALL REATONSIMILITY Poa stem | fy EvERY CASE WHERE 4 PRICE 1 SOT AFFIXED BY THE WaITER, CONTRIBCTIONS WILL HE REGARDED 48 GEATCITOCA, AXD 80 ECBRE UXERATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED, Most, To xT OXR FEAR FoR $500 | REFCALICAN CLES SHIOCLD SER THAT Jepor” ts KEPT ox FILE 15 THEM ROOMS, AND CROK THEIR FRIESUS TO TAKE IF, CLUB RATES. Tux IJcpoe will be furnished to clubs at the following rates: 1 year. © montha | 5 Coptes (each) sn 2. w ° 10, m ue “ se oun. Single coptes 10 cents each. {BSend for specimen copy. ———— GANG RULE IN NEW YORK. Every city, civilized or uncivilized, has, we suppose, its lawless and rowdy element; but New York is rapidly acquiring a bad | pre-eminence in this respect which calls for earnest attention and prompt action on the part of the makers and enforcers of our laws. Tue Jcpoe scarcely needs to remind his readers, who presumably read the daily papers as well, of the numerous instances of violence and gang rule which the record of every day embraces; nor does an intelligent man need to be reminded that the percentage of euch outrages which find their way into print is altogether an insignificant one compared to the numbers which go not only unpanished, but unnoticed. As a matter of fact the case appears to stand somehow thus. 'Thronghout a large portion of the city, particularly the river organized bands of young ruffians, the pur- poses of whose organization are robberry, drunkenness, debauchery of all kinds, and, us a not unfrequent incident, murder. ‘The law-abiding inhabitants are helpless, and often, as in the case of the notorious Pat Judge, so overawed by the ruffianly clement as to be afraid to testify against the gang in acourt of justice; police protection is inter- mittent and jineflicient, and crimes against person and property are daily and nightly perpetrated with impunity. And the reason for thi Well, in the first place, the police force is inadequate to properly patrol our streets, and, worse than all, political iufluence is allowed to corrupt justice at its very fuuntuin-head, and, when arrested, the rowdies too often escape pun- ishment because they stand well with the boss—usually the principal saloon keeper— of the ward. Under these circumstances there is little encouragement for the police to make arrests, and no manner of use in it. Overmuch politics is the curse of this country. Constantly recurring elections place the administration of the law at the of the very ruffianly element which makes a trade of ward politics and practices and knows no other save robbery and law- Gang rule will prevail in New rk as long as the ward politician has power to bid the police stand aside and force justice to utter his decisions in the spirit which shall be most acceptable to “der gang.” me! ess. Mr. Bust opponents seem to be a nice lot, regarded fr a Christian stand point. Cleveland been convicted of breakin ligan of breaking the ninth, while we can not attempt to list the names of the many who have been playing fast and loose with the eighth all their live Mn. Buatne has expressed a desire that every Republican journal in the land would print the Malligan letters, as their perusal would deprive the editorial comments of partisan papers of their point. The Herald calls this “« Blaine’s effrontery.” Effrontery is good! DESPERATE MALICE. Tne tardy publication of a new series of the “ Mulligan Letters” only serves to. indicate the desperate straits to which the opponents | of Blaine have been driven. There is nothing in them which adds an iota of force to the accusations made against and dis- proved by the great statesman cight years ago. Yes, there isone thing. One of the letters just published proves to be the identi- cal one which Mulligan claims to have given Blaine in ’76, and which the latter has been accused of suppressing. Obviously, it never left Mulligan’s possession, and a fact has been proved which none but Blaine’s enemies wards, we find each street terrorized by ever doubted, 7, ¢. that Blaine told the trath, the seventh commandment, Mul- | and Mulligan lied. Worse than that, Mul- ligan suffered Blaine to rest eight years under an unjust stigma. Convicted of falsehood in one respect, the public will know exactly how much credence to place in the past, present, and future assertions of Mr. Jumes Mulligan, ‘The publication of these letters cannot injure Mr. Blaine. They were discounted long ago. ‘The movement is only a despairing ebullition of disappointed malice, A TOUGH MORSEL. Tuat little eection of the Republican party, headed by George William Curtis, which bolted Blaine immediately after his nomination, and has been endeavoring ever | since to bolt (in another sense) the unctuous morsel which Democracy has offered for its deglatition, is in a very bad w So far, the attempt to swa all that the term implies,” has not been con- epicnously 6 Asa matter of fuct, it is difficult to conceive how a pa formed on Republican viands, could abide the taste of Democracy at all, bat when Democracy offers Grover Clevelind — cer- tainly as unpalatable a mouthful as was ever offered at a political banquet—the wonder only is that the Independents persevered so long in the attempt to swallow him. The effort argues well for their strength of stum- ach and stexdfustness of purpose, Tt looks as though the morsel would not down, however. The oleaginous Cleveland is rapidly proving himself too much for any swallow—even fer that of our Independents Of late, even George William Curtis has found little or nothing to say about him, | and Carl Schurz has talked far more about Carl Schurz than about Grover Cleveland. The boom of the pursy Lothario from Buf- falo has been going steadily to pieces ever since it was first sprung on an astounded and indignant party last July. More ti n two months have elapsed und there is very, very little of it left. ‘There are nearly two months more, and if the disintegration con- tinues there will not be enough left of Cleve- land's boom by November to make a tooth- pick of. indeed. nd “with lato, “ANOTHER VOICE FOR CLEVE- LAND.” ANOTHER voice is raised for Cleveland! There have not been s0 many that this one should find itself lost in the volume of sound; and it is not a still, small voice either, It isa good shrill, resonant, infantile shrick, and it wants to know, ** Where’s my ta Tt saya, “J want my papa,” and it adds; by way of emphasis, “Papa, papa!” till all the land, from Maine to California, has become acquainted with that baby’s position and its wants, and shares in its anxiety to know, “ Where's my papa?” Well, dear, as far as Turk Jcpce knows, your papa is at Albany, or thereabouts, and comicbooks.com