Judge — November 1, 1884 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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} | ii f / \ | t THE WHY AND But affairs would assume a somewhat different shape if gratitude was | the only reward. THE JUDGE. WHEREFORE. the copperhead free trade scales from the eves of deluded emigrants, never again to blind the vision of the patriotic Hibernians whose illustriou: estors fought, bled and died for human liberty on the most renowned battle fields of the Great Republi The English morning and evening journals instruct American citizens to vote for free trade and Cleveland. The true citizens, native and adopted, will hearken to this Tory advise, and for the sake of virtue, honesty, and free cir votes for the brilliant Ameri Blaine. The Independents, as represented by Beecher, Curtis, Jones, Bennett and Co., will find to their sorrow that the personal rancor and vengeance they entertain for President Blaine does not find an echo in the hearts of those honest Independent Re- publicans who gave their money and blood twenty years ago to sustain their flag and country against the burglars and ssins of the solid South. Mr, Blaine may not have all the elements of perfection, but we know that his heart has been loyal and true, he stands on the rock of American Protection against the free trade robberies of British pauper labor, and the trail of the serpent of eighteen rebel and border states that cling to Grover Cleveland as the Moses of their redemption, For myself, I prefer to go down to the gloom of defeat with Blaine and Republican principles, than to sit on the mountain top of success with Cleveland and the cadaverous hungry horde that will rise up and follow | Curtis, und | his free trade fortunes. South” is broken to pice z white and black, unteed one vote and an honest count, there shall be an‘ irre- pressible conflict” as prolonged and bitter as that which broke the bonds of four million ves and established the integrity of the Union. ‘The personal status of Grover Cleveland is nothing compared with the political prin- ciples of the Rebel Democratic party at his 7k, a party that opposed education and ess, and is willing to grope among the igyptian precedents rather than rup into the sunlight of science And breast the blows of circu! Until the ‘¢ Solid and every man, is gu tombs of 8c rasp the skirts of happy cha Jones and Elkins, Barnum and Gorman make loud appeals for funds to elect their respective chiefs, and yet each party rebukes the other for using money to hire lights, banners, halls and vote Every sensible man knows that brains and cesh rule the world, and that men are managed by financial means, that human action turns on a pivot of human interest, and that the patriot with the longest pole will knock the persimmon! nen Why play the hypocrite like Schurz, Beecher and Eaton, who split their bout civil service and honesty, and are antly getting their henchmen in oflice and filehing public plunder according to la Outon su virtue tice vice fh peculating Pharisees who preach nd atriot and 1 in publi seltishn and. pra in private life. They fool the world for atime, but when they fall as fall they must, they “ fall like Lucifer, never to hope again! ” Cheer up for the dawn of a brighter day, when the spindle, the loom, and the mill- wheel will sing in b chorus under the sturdy hand of American labor, and with Blaine at the helm of state, our good ship shall glide over the waters of universal com- merce freighted with the hopes and ambition of a free and progressive people. ls will n the Sing, and the h swer, The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicir nd your frien nd you lose them al lecline your nectared wine, rink life care. Check For Stubbs. Stunns is agenerous fellow when he has plenty of money. In the language of the poet, when he’ is flush, he is very, very flush, and when he is broke he is busted. ‘ow, about three years ago, the hero of our narrative was doing ashing business in Wall street. About this time Tre made a visit to his old mother, who lived at the old homestead not a thousand miles from the shore of Cape Cod. While here, Stubbs astonished the population for miles around by the reckless way in which he handled his money, and before he left he presented the author of his being with a one thousand dollar check. ‘his the good old soul placed carefully between the leaves of the family bible, and there it would have remained up to the present time had not our young man, as we previously mentioned, been doing a smashing business, The smash came last spring, along with the Grantand Ward, and other failures. More by good luck than comicbooks.com