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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS (Usrren Staves asp CasaDa.) One copy, ope year, or & numbers, . 0 1x months, oF 36 numbers 20 : rey copies 19 cents eaeb: Addrem, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 324, 326 and Pearl St, NEW YORK. CORRESPON DEN BO CORREATONDENTS WILL PLEASE TAKE SOT) exp Maa. To THis OFFicR AT THEIR OWN Risk, WHERE eTaxre AAR EXCLOMED WE WILL RETCRN REJECTED MATTER AB FAR AB TOS: EBLE, BOT WE DEETINCTLY REPUDIATE ALL REAPONAIBILITY FOR #CCH (2 EVERY CARE WHERE 4 PRICE [4 SOT AYFIXED BY THE WHITER, CONTRIBCTIONS WILL BE REOARDED AS GRATCITOCA, AxD 8O #CPRE QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION ENTERTAINED, rmuar reer STABBED IN THE BACK. Treact ranks have de y and dissensions in its own It a blow to the Republican party which it will be slow to recover from. A wrong that armed treason twenty-four years ago failed to accomplish, has been at length consummated by a treacherous blow, foully dealt, from within the party ranks. The vipers that have stung The knife that has been treacherous] plunged into Mr. Blaine’s back was forge: in a Republican smithy, whetted on a Re- publican hone, and dri whose strength was nursed under Republi- can institutions. By the aid of this treach- ery Gro Cleveland has secured a narrow plurality in four northern states, and there- by is enabled to bring eno h electoral votes to the South to elevate that region once more to the power which it so long held and so shamefully abused. The closene and incertitude of the conflict show con- clusively that Republicanism has plenty of vitality left, and the party will be all the purer and all the more united now that its renegade clement has shown itself in its true colors and become enrolled under the ban- ners of the Solid South. Be it so. We at least know whom to trust in future. R garding the respective merits of the candi- dates Tue JcpGe has nothing to add to the opinion he has expressed all through this | unusually animated campaign. He can but deplore the fact that the American people has chosen, by ever so close a majority, a person of Cleveland’s antecedents to occupy the chair once filled by Washington, b Lincoln, and by the great leaders of the | great party which saved the Union. Republicanism have been warmed to life on her own bosom. | n homo by arms | WHERE CLEVELAND'S VICTORY WAS WON. solid. That is to say, the white population | of the South—former rebels and sons of rebels—voted for it. The negroes were either forced to vote with their former mas- ters, or not allowed to vote at all. When neither of these plans could be put into operation, the negro vote was simply ignored in sufficient quantity to give the state to the Democracy As the South is entitled to clee- toral representation on a basis of its voting population, without regard to color or party, this system not only disfranchises the negro, but gives to the southern white man about twice the power in the electoral college that the northern mancan exert. That is why the South has 153 electoral votes—on the fond pposition that all voters will be allowed a voice in the choice of electors. It is safe and within the truth to say that fifty out of \the one hundred and fifty-three southern electoral votes were stolen by the Democrats through the s' m of negro intimidation. Now take the North. Cleveland re the sixty-six electoral votes of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, In not one of these states did he have a major- ity of the votes cast, but simply a meagre plurality over Blaine, aggregatin, of them less than thirteen thou: the other hand Blaine h Cleveland in the northern states of 374,691. Compare the following table, for which we are indebted to the Cleveland Leader: | PLURALITIES FOR BLAINE, 10,319 | Nevada 8 Hampshire ves inall four and. On net plurality over on Pennsylvania Rhode Island ¥ Wisconsin Total PLURALITIES FOR CLEVELAND. Connecticut 1,320 | Indiana Total t Republican plurality 374,691 Hence it is apparent that, in the fairly counted states, Blaine obtained an over- whelming majority. Cleveland’s victory was won in the South, the home of the Ku | He has been elected by the states that tried | to secede five and twenty yearsago, and have been dragging the franchise through the mire ever since. The bead rolls of the northern states show whom the loyalty of the country chose for President. REBUKED. Let us stop a moment amid all this clash of conflicting parties;—amid the cheers of exultant Democrats and the misgivings of disappointed Republicans, and consider what moral this impending change of government really carries with it. On the fourth of next Mavch the nation will inaugurate a Tue Democratic ticket carried the South | Klux, the shot-gun, and the tissue ballot. | Democratic president on—a president who, in spite of factions, deals and treachery in the North, ow his election 1 fifty-three him. On the thirtieth of May nextensuing, the nation will celebrate Decoration Day—a day apart for reveren ateful acknowl- edgement of the services of those heroes who laid down their lives that the country might live. Is there not something anomalous in celebrating two such ceremonies in a single year? mainly to the one hundred a votes of the southern sta nd g Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. fHen- rks take their seats as President and Vice resident of th United States by virtue of the votes of those very people whose | treason threatened the integrity of the Union rebellion filled those grave few months the nation Grover Cleveland was one of a hired substitute to fight | his country’s battles; yet his record as Sher- iff has shown that he is not averse to do any | work he takes an interest in, with his own hands. and who: that within will decorate, those who sent Thomas A. Hendricks was a regu- lar southern sympathi that used to be calle copperheads” in the North, Leaving Cleveland out of the question, is not the election of such as Hendricks to the Vice-Presidenc in r—one of the men man y asting- rebuke to the memory of the Union soldiers who perished—to the face of the Union soldiers who survive? The war is over, and thank God it is ove! but a nation’s memory of atitude for favot received should not be measured by a pitifal span of five ars. An insignifi- cant plurality ina northern states h placed the South in power again. We may | strive to forg we may, but they rememt To this day, Repr enough to debar anyone from official trast and honor in the South. ‘To this day the South is eaten up with party feelit g. and race fc . There is no change of feeling down there, ‘They glory in the opportunity that Hendricks and Cleveland have gaine to bid the veterans of the early sixties stand aside and yield the palm to the old “chive” of Mississippi and Alaban is sorry for the veterans the wa er it down there slican nings are g. sectional fee Tur Junge nd sorry for the loyal men of the North, who fought and bled ina noble cause, aye, and conquered, but lived to learn that they had conquered in vain, and that they must step aside into the gutter that a Cleveland and, oh shame!, aHendricks may pass them by. Gentlemen of the Republican party who voted for Hen- dricks, you are welcome to your feelings. Tur Juve does not envy you. THE CASTAWAYS. AMONG all the many anomalies developed y the late canvass and election, there is nothing more anomalous than the bolting Republicans—the Independents as they have loved to style themselves, Well, they are comicbooks.com