Judge — November 22, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEER. TERMS TO SU RIBERS. asp Casapa) One copy, one year, or 32 One copy, six months One copy. for 13 weeks wr Address, ‘THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, $24, 8 and Bs Pearl St, New York. EUROPEAN AGENTS Tur [reasanioat News Co 11 Douverte 8t., (Fleet 8t.) Loxpos, Exouaxn. NOTICE. Contributors must pat thetr valuation upon the arttcles they send to us (subject toa price we may ourselves ix) or otherwise they will be regarded as gratuitous. Stamps should he tnclosed for return postage, with name and address, if writers wish to regain their declined articlen CORRESPONDENTS. S97 ConnesroxperTs wit, sexp Maa To Tw Orrick 4! RASK TAKE NOTICE TRAY THEY Ik OWN RinK, ame, eT we oI CONTRINCTIONS WILL BE REOARDED 48 GRATCITO CLUB R Tue Jevor will be furnished to rates: clube at the following 6 monthe 8 THE POLITICAL BATTLE ALLEY. , inthe midnight gloom of Battle Alley, the shrill whistle of the leading tough assembleth the gang, fired with ambition and and burning with generous ardor, it proceeds to enliven the neighborhood; then missiles strange and oftimes unmentionable hurtle through the ambient air; then the adjacent slums pour forth their living feculence to join the carnival; then do vagabond cats and dogs flee the nei the too vivacious company; and then, and then only, it may be said, in the language of the unenthusiastic copper, ‘ The having a high old time in Battle Alley. Well, the gang has been thro Alley—the political Battle Alley, means—and a pretty state the} in. zhborhood and eschew gh Battle HE JUDGE have left it George William Curtis, waking up from his Independent debauch of the last three months, is shocked and horror-stricken at the company he finds himself in. June ona Battle Ailey racket, you should think of your head in the morning, Geo. William is sorry for you, but when you goont | Curtis, de: Henry Ward Beecher is dreaming quietly, and is wholly oblivious of the singularly 1 ing aspect which he presents to his fellow men. The other com- batants lie around, and Battle Alley is in its The worst of it is, that no one can tell whether the row is over, or whether it will be renewed as soon as the politically drunken participants have slept themselves sober. And oh, what a row there will be (supposing Cleveland really gets to the White House) when the Solid South and the Pharisee Pha- lanx get pulling wool for the spoils. Nor- thern Democrats, Southern Democrats, Stal- warts, Dudes and devils all pulling at Gro- ver Cleveland's coat tails, and calling for their slice of pic. Donnybrook will be nothing to it. FIREBRAND JOURNALS. Tue election thro has just pas: close and pe gh which the country d has been an unprecedentedly lously exciting one. Popular eer it has rarely been aroused before, and party differences have run high. We regret to say that bad blood Un- what is the plain ‘To endeavor to allay the irritation by every means in its power, and to carefully abstain from any word which might tend to further excite the over-wrought passions of the ms With a few honora- ble exceptions—amongst which we may men- tion the 7ridune and the Sun—the metro- politan newspapers have done the very con- trary of this. The World has fairly revelled in incendiary editorials; a journal, fortu- nately obscure, known as Truth, has pub- lished ‘*a call to arms.” The Herald's frenzy might excite the envy of the editor of La Lanterne. What were these journals saying while the result of the election was illin doubt? They kept reiterating that Cleveland was elected, that, no matter if the official count resulted in Blaine’s favor, that gentleman should not be allowed to take his seat, and hinted, not obscurely, that a mob would take the matter in hend if the decision of the canvassing board should be in Blaine’s favor. These remarks only proved that the jour- nals in ques’ dno belief in their own cause, for the final decision lies with a board made up of four Democrats to one Republi- can; but this is not the point. The point is that the Herald, World, etc., have laid aside the dignity of cool, impartial journal- ism, and have exerted their influence to inflame the passions of the multitude,- and turn over the government of these United States toa mob, What they have to gain by such a course does not appear. ‘The Her- ald, at any rate, is a wealthy concern, and its owner has a large stake in the country. Papers like the World and Truth have not so much to lose, and would probably welcome feeling h: oused a seems to exist between the two parties. der these duty of the pre: cireumstances, s8es, any chang change for the better. But be their object what it may, it is none the less true that every line on the political situa- tion which has appeared in these papers since election, has had but one tendeney—and that is to foster the unhealthy excitement growing out of the closeness of the contest. It is owing to the good sense of the Ameri- can people, and not to such self-constituted monitors as the //erald, that the situation has resolved itself without serious turbulence and bloodshed. JOHN KELLY'S DISCOMFITURE. ire of the illustrious Tam- many chieftain is complete. Tue discomfi Ile has been “left” with an exceeding leafiness alto- gether rare in his checkered care very particularly cold ¢ The fact is, John Kelly, like many man, was just a little too smart, and after all his balancings of the pros and cons, all his dickering, first with the County Democracy, then with the Republicans, and finally with both parties at once, he failed to elect a single one of his nominees, with the This office was probably conceded to ‘Tammany out of a sense of fitness of things, and with a char- itable desire on the part of the voters to give an old friend the task of sitting on ‘Tamma- ny’s corpse. ‘The verdict will probably be something like this: ‘* Died of too much conniving.” The result was unexpected. People had given John Kelly credit for being smarter than events have proved him. The world also supposed he was a good hater, and naturally surmised that he would not let the recent golden opportunity slip to feed fat hisancient grudge on Cleveland. Well, he swallowed sole exception of the coroner. | his animosity, he did his best for the nomi- nee of the Independent Republicans and the County Democracy, and he got left.’ is what is the matter with Kell. And apres? Well, the political horizon is full of ominous clouds just now, and it is not easy to look y far ahead into the future. One thing seems certain: Tammany has re- ceived a severe if not fatal blow, and the polit- ical prestige of the wigwam will probably never again be what it has been. Kelly ha been ignominiously defeated by the allied nd has been ostracized, 80 that he can dono more damage in future. Whether he will perish in his banishment, or bob up serenely at some future ion—whether the site of his seclusion will prove an Elba or a St. Helena — are questions which time alone can answer. powers, He had almost concluded the negotiation with old Moneygrub for the office of family coachman, By way of clincher the applicant disinterestedly remarked; ‘* I assure you, my dear sir, the salary is no object.” There was such an accent of truth in thia utterance that Moneygrub, the suspicious old ¢ pricked up his cars and snarled; “salary object, hah? Then J object. comicbooks.com