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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS (Usrrep Staves asp Casapa.) Ove copy, alx months ‘Ope copy, for 13 Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 324, and $23 Pearl St, NEW YORK. CORRESPONDENTS. SW ConnesroxvesTs WiLL PLEASE TAKE SOTICE THAT THEY eesp Maa To THUS OFFICE AT THEIR OWS Risk, WHERE STANTS ferme, wc we DIT :PCDIATE ALL REATONAIMLITY FOR ty evens came Wi JC 18 NOT AFFIXED BY THE WRITER, CONTAIRCTIONS WILL RE ROAR: D xo ecnae. | QUENT CLAIM FOR RE ERATION WILL RE ES AT LAST. WELL, it is all ove mains pretty much wl of bi , and the country. re- re it was before. A shirts been | waved, a good many soiled shirts have been publicly laundried, and any amount of Karl Schurz has been ventilated, the it, Tue Junge Grover Cleveland on his election. puntry us stood atulates | We did man for the ut the American people did, and itis cong not think he was the prop: place, just possible that the American people know | what they want even better than Tue JUDGE can tell them. Now that the serious business is over, the comedy will commence, and we confess to a feeling of amused curiosity as we pause to see how Geo. William Curtis will get along | ; how far the stalwart Republicanism of Roscoe Con- kling will ming with his new political companions je with the theories of South- ern Democrats, and whether the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher really thinks he helped Grover Cleveland’s whether he not secretly jealous of Dr, Burchard’s superior success as a clerical politician. All this will keep us well amused during the reign of King Grover 1. cause, or THANKSGIVING. Tue knell of the turkey has sounded, and good dinners all over the land are now in order, By proclamation of President and Governors, and in accordance with ceremon- ursday is day of thanksgiving. Under these it behoves thinking men to pause and ponder over such special causes for thankful- ness as may exist. The Democrats—those dear Democrats— being very hungry and very thirsty, should et apart as a ircum- | surpassed in history. enjoy their thanksgiving dinner this year. ‘Their candidate has been elected by a micro- scopic majority, and unless appearances belie him, he is not a man to stint himself at a thank y other banquet. Decided- ly, the Democrats have much to be thankful for, After a quarter of a century of wan- dering in the desert, what a pleasant city will Washington appear! Verily, a land flowing with milk and honey. And if they have much to be thankful for, they have also many to be thankful to. They have Schurz—that peculiar genius whose principles never have been suffered to becloud his talents; they ‘e George Jones, the flip-flap editor, who has exhibited a ver- satility in the matter of his convictions un- They have Brother already dried the t wept on Cleveland Beecher, who h: ars he neck, and has adjusted his napkin in perfect content, ready to fall to on the viands which empha giving. And they have Dr. Burchard, whose of head, and partiality for an al- literatively rounded sentence ought, if there be any gratitude in man, to give him a seat very near the throne when King Grover gets to Washington. Yes, it is a high old thanksgiving for the Democrats. And we, of the other way of thinking, have cause for thankfuln our minds were but attuned to see it. crnor Cleveland promis era of reform. ize his thanks- tin too, if Gov- 3 to inaugurate an In sooth, there is abundant room for it, and as reform, like charity hould b at home, the new president’s first step in that direction will probably take the form of a wedding, which is the only ay that occurs to us whereby he can reform long-standing abuse and lay the ghost of an unburied scandal, Heary Ward Beecher would doubtless be pleased to tie the knot. For the rest, the contented mind will find cause for thankfulness in every dispensation of Providence. Tue Jevor feels just as thankful as the occasion demands—neither more nor less; but he very sincerely congrat- ulates his Democratic friends who have been hungry and thirsty solor ally good dinner th: on the exception- waits for them. ACCEPTING THE VERDICT. Ix marked contrast to the violent vapor- of the Independent press, has been the calm, courteous and dignified tone of the Republican journals in the crisis through which the state and country has just passed. While the result was still in doubt the Her- ald and kindred papers violently claimed the election. The Herald had nothing to base the claim on save its own ipse dizit. Itsaid, in effect, ‘we have the election because we know we have it; no matter how the count oes, we are not going togive itup. Blood, rapine, torch, fire, mob, whoop la! Sack the city, but don’t contradict the Herald.” And as the Herald shouted, so the smaller fry, the Worlds, Truths, etc., yelped. “We want this election,” said they all. ‘We mean to have it. We are not going to be robbed. Why don’t the other people give it to us at once!” And all this time the result was confessedly so close that an error of less than two thous- and votes would have turned the scale either way. The official count demonstrated that Cleveland’s plurality was little more than one thousand. His victory hung upon less than one-tenth of one per cent of the votes in New York state. If ever a fair and im- partial canvass of the votes of a state was necessary, this was the occasion for it. The Republican papers stood calmly aside, and said, ‘count the votes, we claim nothing. We are ready to abide the issue and bow to the will of the people.” ‘There was nothing in the attitude of any Republican to excuse or even to call for such incendiary articles as appeared in the Independent press. Neither had that Independent press any better grounds at the time for claiming the state for Cleveland than had the Republican papers for claiming it for Blaine. It re- mained to be determined by actual count, and an error of one tenth of one per cent— one irregular vote in a thousand—would have have turned the scale either w We have little doubt but that, if the actual count had been but a little in Blaine’s favor instead of a trifle in Cleveland’s, those fire- brand Independent papers would have in- cited the foolish people to a riot. Then blood would have been spilled, property damaged, and justice would have had her way next March, and the chosen of the peo- ple would have entered the White House. When Solomon delivered his famous judg ment, the rightful mother of the child cried out that its life be spared, even if it were taken from her. The false mother in- different. If she could not have her way peaceably, she was ready to welcome thesword as a solver of the difficulty, even at the sacrifice of the life that should have been dearest to her. The two women typify the two parties. Democracy once showed that she would rather cut the Union in two than surrender it to its rightful mother. The Herald was the mouth-piece of the copper- heads then, and was only coerced into loyalty by the shot guns of a party of gentlemen who thought the moment ill-chosen for the publication of mob-inflaming editorials. Had Mr. Blaine been elected, the Herald would probably have been read the same lesson over again. We should think that the Bennett family would, in time, get cured of their par- tiality for blood and buncombe. ROSCOE CONKLING. Some time ago Mr. Roscoe Conkling, re- garding himself as a very much injured man, retired from politics in a very apparant man- ner. Ife made his withdrawal as emphatic and protesting as possible. He had not been treated right, and he knew it and felt it, and he wasn’t going to stay any longer. Thus Roscoe the stalwart. But the whirli- comicbooks.com