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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Ustrep States ax Caxaba.) 1a One copy, one year, or 52 numbers, One copy, alx months, of 3 num One copy, for 13 wee Sie cople Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 924, 326 and $28 Pearl S NEW YORK. CORRESPONDENTS. FW ConnesroxDENTs WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT TuET Wiens «Tanre sex Maa, To THU OFVIcE AT THE OWS RISK. ARE ESCLOSED WE WILL RETURN REJECTED MATTER AB YAR AS FOS CONTRIBUTIONS WILL RE REOARDED AB ORATCITOCA, AND SO SCEEE. QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED. CLEVELAND'S SMILE. Wuen Grover Cleveland came down from Albany to attend the benefit for the actors’ Central for his ride; but this we cz have been in a mos Albany is not s he landed in ed, but from the moment to have done little else. He smiled as he entered his box, smiled as he bowed his acknowledgements, smiled as he caught Ir- ving’s eye, and smiled ag chorus girls looked at him. He he left the house, whence he appears to have vanished like the Cheshire cat in “ Alice in Wonderland,” disappearing gradually till nothing was left of him but the grin. He even smiled when a vendor of holi toys on the sidewalk importuned him to buy a jumping jack, urging that it would amuse the baby; but we fancy this last smile must have been rather forced. ‘‘ Let those laugh who win,” is very good and sound advice, but Cleveland’s victory was such a very nar- row one, a3 furnishing all the hilarity that the occasion called for. And to smile well you should have practice. By all accounts the Governor has had plenty of practice. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR. Tur election of a Democratic President-- stop; that is not quite right. How do we know he isa Democrat? Theelection, then, of a President by the Democrats—stop; that LR, BUT Wi DUETINCTLY REFUDIATE ALL RESPONAIBILITY FOR SCH ts event cane WHERE 4 PRICE [9 SOT AFYIKED BY THE WRITER, heard that he did not buy his ticket for this excursion, but was indebted to the hospitality of the New York | » hardly believe—however, when he came, he seems to agreeable frame of mind. | How often he smiled during the run from New York, and fell under the observant eye of the reporter, he seems in when onc of the smiled as that no doubt he considered a smile | will not do, either; for everyone knows that the Demo did not elect him, — Well, not to put too fine a point upon it, the elec- tion of Grover Cleveland already bids fair to verify the dark forebodings whi i thecontem- plation of his victory excited in conservative minds. Already agnation of trade, ashut- ting down of workshops and discharge of la+ borers is noted all over the country. To be sure, itn auseless; we believe it is, for whatever may be the proclivities of Grover Cleveland, and whatever may be the polic of the Democratic party, Free Trade, with its attendant evi ay be , cannot be brought upon the land instantaneously. But the change of government has made capital timid and distrustful, and labor is the first to suffer. This will be a hard winter for the bread- winners. The wolf has come to the door, and it will be hard to drive him The worst of it is, that the innocent must suffer with the guilty—or, at least, with the ill- advised. ‘The workman whose good sense taught him to vote for his bread and butter, and Blaine, is involved in the same destruc- tion with the workman who was led blind-fold to vote for Cleveland and the reduction and cessation of his own wages, It is to be hoped that wh tration is absolutely chs ple leara that TN in as easily was Cleveland, trust, which is paralyzing | the country, will ¢ n the admini: 1, and when peo- nnot be brought this dis. the industries of Meanwhile, it is none the less pitiable to see a year which should have been one of plenty and prosper- ity, converted into one of famine and suffer- ing by such an untoward accident as the result of the recent ele ng “ret ade on. IRVING AND BOOTH. Mn. Invino recently concluded a four weeks’ engi agement at a city theatre, during which the receipts amounted to very nearly seventy thousand dollars. A great many people take exception to the fact that Mr. Irving can draw more money, in the same length of’ time, than can Mr. Booth, and appear to think that this state of affairs is a reflection upon American patriotism. In reality, the question is not one of patriotism at all, butof value received. Whileit may be a matter of taste and individual preference whether Mr. Booth or Mr. Irving be the greater actor, there is no comparison in the matter of the support with which the two actors bave been in the habit of surrounding themselves. With Mr. Irving the smallest positions are adequately filled. The man who has only a few lines to speak, speaks them as they should be spoken; the dresses are handsome and the scenery is appropri- ate, and the ensemble always fills and satis- fies the eye. With Mr. Booth, the interest of his performances begins and ends with the star. There is no wealth of scenery, no | laborious propriety of costume, and, too | often, only very mediocre talent, even in the principal supporting roles. Mr. Booth plays |“ ‘The Merchant of Venice” with a hap- ha alto ini rd Portia, and leaves out the last act her, because the Jew does not appear Mr. Irving plays Shakespeare, as far ble, in its entirety, in the person of Mis divides popular inte This fairly typic > mi as po: a Portia, ry, who fairly est with Shylock him- gle instance, but it supporting company and ment as nearly complete as may nd goes far to account for the seventy thousand dollars received by the English company during their brief! New York season. ADVICE. “Uneasy lies the head tha crown,” says the bard of Avon, have added, unea inangurated Pre so much t Lhe might lies the head that is to be wears a dent in March, He has vice to listen to, if not to tak He has the satisfaction of knowing that, no matter what he . & very considerable section of the population will believe he has done wrong; he » many frie doe has so many enemics to Is to coneilia If this be true ina general way, how doubly true it is just now, and of Cleveland. close and so fortuitous t and bob-tail of a party may claim to | | that turned the wavering scale, and the claim will have some show of reason, N one man m many henchmen to reward. Ilis election was <0 ny littl ve ‘o small an individual unit as as Dr Burchard has exempli- fied, have been suflicient to change the result. Under the must Cleveland be g 2 cireumst ateful too? itheto the Independents, or Bure or Beecher, or Conkling and the Stalwarts, or shall it be to the mass of the g: Democratic party? Whatever selection he may make, he will make plenty of enemies. Per better consult Mr. Hendricks and let the tail wag the dog for once. ‘To be sure, it is usually the dog which wags the tail, becau the dog nees, who aps he had as Lord Dundreary explains, is stronger than the tail. “If,” his lordship adds, ‘the tail were stronger than the dog, then the tail would wag the last the Democratic ticket h with that lusus natura—a stronger than the dog. It may as well com- mence to wag its attachment first as last, and then hey for race sovereignty and the Solid South! W presented ue tail t which is THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET. Ir begins to look as though the fruits of the Democratic victory would prove, in the end, to be but apples of Sodom, fs pleasant outwardly, but turning to bitterness on the lips that taste them. Tor the Democrats, even while fully prepared to live up to the good old, satisfying doctrine, “to the victors belong the spoils cannot see how the Independents are to be treated when the official loaves and fishes come to | be'dealt around. There is a good deal of | comicbooks.com