Judge — October 3, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Tey pet THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE. A WEEK, TFRMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usiren States axp Caxapa) One copy, fo 13 week Single ¢ THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., EW YORK TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. Ex-Conaearospests wit, Fur fExp Msa To THs OFNICE AT THEIR Tost Paro vor F comstosaExT. A DISCOURAGED ELEPHANT. When Civil Service Reform got on the track in front of the Democratic train, one of two things was sure to happen, either adam- aged elephant oraditched train, A mussed- up track was a certainty in either event. Tt is not quite settled that Showman Cleveland could not have got his elephant out of the way if he had tried. The show son was ended; the kalsomine was bad]. worn off the ‘‘ only sacred white elephant;” it would cost a good deal to keep it through the coming winter when it could no longer be used as a show, and all agreed ‘it would not work.” Besides, Showman Cleveland had been disappointed in the white elephant’s recep- tion by the public. “The people do like to be humbugged, but not on so grand and conspicuous a scale,” he had been heard to confess. Besides, (No. 2,) he is alleged to have a working interest in the Democratic machine, and it is suspected that if the latter should use up the elephant, the Showman would consider himself the more solid with the Operators of the road. Besides, ( 3,) the engineer of the train that knocked out the elephant was put in the cab by Showman Cleveland himself, and while the latter had professed a desire to have the road officered and manned with well-qualified hands from his ‘* Great Moral * he had really allowed the places, from Superintendent to peanut-boy, to be filled with ‘b-a-a-d citizens ”—jail birds, THE JUDGE. anders, ward bummers, strikers, heelers, 13 and incompetents. Of course, it was useless to try to throw the blame on the directors, Superintendent and train-conductors, so long as they were all put and kept there by Showman Cleve- land himself. It certainly looked as if the Showman put his elephant on the track to get it off his hands, WHY IT AMUSES. The party which has profited by a great wrong naturally objects to have the trans- action referred to, much as a rogue dislikes impolite references to jails and tightening halters. The party that stole the electoral votes and congressmen of the South by de- nying a free ballot, tried to laugh out of court those who complained. It was a good joke, the greatest of the century; and he who raised a criticism on it as fraud was dismissed with an epithet, “ bloody shirt.’ History is fall of battles won with oppro- brious epithets adopted as a proud rallying ery. ‘ Yankee Dood] that was written to ridicule certain rebellious colonists, be- came the national song of a great people. The Bloody Shirt may yet become the ori- flamme of victory for the disfranchised and unrepresented, It seems already not so funny a thing as when it was invented by the Democrats. They don’t laugh at in Ohio as much as they did. In fact, the Bloody Shirt has reached the stage of becoming a red flag to the cratic bull. Shall it become the banner of a great political party, and head another crusade for human right Or, will the South free the ballot and avoid the necessity for the crusade? Demo- WHICH PATH? The negro stands to-day at the parting of the ways. Democracy wooes him; “I am the negro’s best friend! ‘The Democratic party is the only one that can protect the negro.” Ifany onc ever denied the converting power of the ballot, let him now contemplate the white Democrat courting the black voter— slave or *‘damnigger” no more in Demo- cratic regard. If any one ever doubted the saving power of ‘‘cheek,” let him watch the success of the late oppressor, never the benefactor of the negro, in seducing his vote. The ballot has made a grand transforma- tion in the position of the despised black man; bat it has made a greater in the am- bitions white man, It has made him imi- tate a gentleman for a few weeks in the year. So much black voter and white Democrat owe tothe Republican party. But it is a question whether they will long continue to acknowledge the obligation. Such is haman gratitude in a freed race compelled to pro- tect itself in the present, and in a demagogue compelled to be decent and respect. human | rights—till the polls close. RULINGS. | A coup winTER is predicted. tionists Prohibi- reform up money for car-mufllers. 1 believers in Democratic should be savin | ‘To Fisu-commissioner Barnp: Try Pa- litzer, M. C., with loaves and fishes. It is apparent why he declined your ofter of Ger- man carp. Our adopted Teutonic editor is himself dealing out German carp to the ad- ministration, Every May that has been hung in the West this year pr stantially in have no * eub- accord with the Democratic Only the substantialness of the cord prevented their being recognized with a federal office, probably. es to party.”” Heaps oF DEPARTMENTS at Washington continue to complain bitterly that none but Republicans pas examina- tions, and they are in despair of filling pla- The trouble are offen Not referring to Brer either. the civil servic th competent Democrat: to be that the ‘three r. sively partisan. Burchard’s three I Burrato 1s ‘att broke up” over the issue, “Shall soloonkeepers or law-abiders ron Buffalo on Sunday?” For a town that allows a committee of public aldermen to run the public schools, and hasn’t the cour- to institute a board of education like white folks, Buffalo secms to be getting mighty particular. An Un-American Race. They didn’t take much stock in the In- | ternational yacht race Out West because it Was another “blanked New York concern “like the Bartholdi ue and Grant's tomb.” Probably we shall never have a genuine through and-through regatta until it is transferred to the free, expansive West, sailed with prairie schooners, A Well-Contested Race. ‘The strenuousness of the Puritan-Genesta race was slight as compared with the con- tention over the proper pronunciation of the name of one of them, The visiting yachtsmen must have been more taken aback by the philological wisdom sailing through American dailies than the nantical skill of our yachtsmen. When an American “ regular subscriber ” lets himself out on the technical tack he is apt to make the English language—and all who read it— look sick. Nothing at all approaching this contro- over “hard G” and ‘soft G” has been seen since Enropean scholarship was racked as with the throes of an earthquake over the Kickero vs. Sisero contention. 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