Judge — October 4, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 828 Pearl YORK. (Franklin Square.) PUBLISHED ONCE A WE TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Ustrep Stares axp Casapa.) Ove copy. for 13 week TWrrostson vane ad Address. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 4, BS and {8 Pearl St, New York. PROPEAN AGENTS Tue ierensarional News Comrasy, 1! Bouverte St. (Fleet 8t.) Lospox, Exataxp, NOTICE. 1m the articles they we may ourselves Mx), of otherwiae they will be regarded as grate Stam for return postage, with Bame and addi CORRESPONDENTS. SORE WILL PLEASE TAK SOTICE THAT THEY Where etaxre WHERe 4 ruice sot ay XRD BY THE WR FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 1 sexu “Tne Jone” vom six FREE, FOR 82% OM FOR ON DRIFTING. CLEVELAND'S boom has struck a blizzard— rather, a blizzard has struck Cleveland’ boom, and is wafting it away, no man knows r. But the g esman from nds still. They eave to him, as it were. Phere isa friend t sticketh closer than a brothe: as the butter remarked of the faith id affec- tionate fly, and of such friends are Cleve- land’s following. ‘They sought him because they wanted him, and now that the fain be rid of him, they can not le fis the fute of flies and soreheads. But they stick to him well, these last, faithful few, who have left themselves nothing else to stick to. They call him their Moses, and say he will lead them to the Promised Land. For Pharisees, witha theo- logian like Henry Ward Beecher among them, they area little off in their Scripture Suffalo has some staunch fi would e him. beveragt | in this country. | before the people then, and people desire THE JUDGE. snever led anybody into the Promised Land. He didn’t even get there himself. Ie only saw it from the top of an exceeding high mountain—just as Cleveland may look at Washington from the altitudi- | nous height of the Executive Mansion at | Alt there. Mos ny. Then he was buried, was Mose no man knoweth his s pulchre unto | this It looks as if it might be a good deal that way with Cleveland, too. The Cleveland machine is drifting away into a very cold and inhospitable clime, and that’s a fact. Its going to a place wor! than the Arctic, for people sometimes come back from there, but Cleveland is going to that undiscovered country, from whose | bourne, ete. And Schurz, Curtis, and the | rest of them, were in such a hurry to be off with him, that they did not even stop to take their overcoats, and yet they are liable to strike very cold weather in November. THE COLD WATER CANDIDATE. CoLp water was never a very popular politics, Whiskey in the ’ beer in the Dutch quarters, and agne in the hotels, has alw in onsumed in time So, largely ment, while sympathizing in many ways with Mr. St. John are inclined to think that he mu with some other expects to catch views, we t fish in or medium than water if he ny vot While most respectable people are in favor of temperance, | and a few go so faras to say that temperance | n only be secured by prohibition, they | very naturally regard the whole question as | one to be legislated on by the community immediately affected, and very sensibly ask in what way a Prohibition President would diminish the sum total of the rum consumed This is one reason why St. John’s candidacy is a and absurd exerescence on the polit- st | and in favor of Prohibition, | there are times when they can and if they can cast a majority of the vot they will make their influence felt, and cure their ends; but such a time is not at a residential election. are other issues among many others needles: ical situation. If people want to vote agai the liquor tru do so, ‘There some higher qualification in their chief magistrate than strict tee-total principles. There will not be many votes wasted on St. John this fall. THE POLITICAL FAIR. WueN our artist el 1 to borrow an inspiration from the State Fairs, which are | just now so prevalent all over the country to elucidate the political situation, he dis- played good judgment. itics, just now, are wofully mixed, and ‘three pen ‘orth of all sorts” would describe the situation as well as any other term. When Cleveland first received the Democratic nomination he would fill | liid at rest years there was a feeling abroad that he would be materially served by the ac Republican bolter: canvass rolls along it become nd soreheads, but as the evident that this faction, although quite ficant in numbers, is by no means a unit for the tleman from Buffalo; while among Dem | crats he is about as unpopular as any De Ilis place in the political fair is an obscure one, and, 4in a market sense, Grover Cleveland would probably crat can be. be rele- gated to a place in the stall devoted to stale lettuce and to cabbage that has outlived its usefulness. Ben Butler figure on the Democratic muking an i is a much more prominent nd vely canvass, he is In what- remains in ign, for, as between the two regu- oni rly fact, to his presence we may attribute ever of excitement and the camy interest lar nomin the two great pu , it walk over for the 1 Ben Butler ha generally man: an from Main a talent for di es to bring out for rsion, and the art comedy in the pity that there net as strong when he is cast great political drama ch oflice I clown is no in the cal gover- Mr. Blaine might be induced to offer the position to General Butl it worthily. John, His position in a thirsty one, and, naturally, his booth at the fair could scarcely be a pop- men and Then we have St. the canv ular one. A host of Kelly down Carl Schurz acroé luminaries, from John Wm. Curti to Hendricks, fi leaser to Geo. — from up the In this than fail- The favorite is too far ahead. There nace, and lend a every way the P timation to contest in ear of grace shows up 1 sir a race. ure, Asa race it is a cons} is nothing else in it, and we cannot hope for as we hi and does not ¢ jer that it as a presidential candi Gov. Cleveland's head is very pretty te look at, and what men lik: fied, and Blaine, vel. He for dignity— ant, and Lincoln, and Gar- isn’t and Tilden could do with propriety, might be very embarrassing to an upstart like Cleveland, A FLASH IN THE PAN. As Tue Jupoe expected and predicted, the publication of the second batch of Mul- ligan Letters awakened only a very 1 and torpid interest, all but forgotten. sought to be rea guid nd the matter is already on which was Thad been detinitely nd man who 1 opinion on tne evidence then Lhad made up his mind on a sub- um of fact, which the machi of Fishers and Mulligans hardly be expected to shake. In fact, the publication of this second se as set at rest the only doubts which could be enter- rhe qu ago, every had formec addues str ions of of a sco! could ies comicbooks.com