Judge — November 7, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PURLISNED ONCE A WERK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Oserep States asp One copy. one y One copy. six One copy. for é 10 centa cack; PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 328 Pearl St., Single cops THE JUDGE SDENTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THEY AT THEI OWS RICK. WHERE STANTS JECTED MATTER, AS PAR AS POs WILL BE ENTERTAINED, WoHERE FD, THAT PART WILL RE VOR FRO RATA ON THE FRICE AOREED CTOS FOR THE WHOLE, CoxsionMEsT. x WHERE 4 PRICK NOT Ai A PYRAMID OF FRAUD. A president who holds his office by virtue of a fraudulent majority in the South can- not afford to be very nice about purity of the ballot, and Mr. Cleveland is fearlessly consistent in that matter. In support of ballot-box stuffers he is a true Democrat, whatever he may lack in other respects. When he made Higgins appointment clerk of the Treasury, and officially approved his record in Maryland asa forger of poll-lists and election returns and an expert corrupter of elections, then Mr, Cleveland inaugu- rated his administration in entire harmony with Democratic principles. In the appointment of a large rumber of conspicuous bulldozers of Southern voters ised the distinctively Democratic to which he owed his seat in the White House. When he pardoned out of jail in Cincin- nati Mick Mullen, languishing there because he actively executed Democratic principles and locked up hundreds of Republican voters until the polls had closed last fall, Mr. Cleveland at once recognized Mullen’s ser- vice in his own bebalf and proclaimed anew the good old Democratic doctrine of rule by violence where fraud will not suffice. Mal- len’s activity for the protection of Demo- cratic ballot-rapers during the late Ohio election attested at once his gratitude to Cleveland and his Demccratic soundness, After all of Mr. Cleveland’s fidelity to good Democratic suffrage-corrupters, he is THE JUDGE. accused by members of his own party of being untrue to Democracy. "Tis painful and discouraging, this ingratitude, while the President is staggering under the load of his party’s shame. OUR “REFORM” MAYOR. ‘The connection of the Mayor of New York and the financial officers of the city that were appointed or controlled by him with the gang of financial footpads headed by Ferdinand Ward, casts an electric light on Democratic professions of reform. ‘The record, as divulged by sworn witnesses before courts and the Senate investigating commit- tee and by Ferdinand Ward himself, relates to Mayor Grace’s connection with the Marine Bank, James D, Fish and Grant & Ward; and to his putting money into the specula- tions and drawing out profits of over a hun- dred per cent. per month. The City Comptroller appears as the agent of Fish and Ward, bondsmet both of whom are his the City-Chamberlain, the May- or’s special agent and pet, poses as the pal of the ring in transferring the city’s funds from the treasury to Ward and the Marine Bank. In four months over eight millions of city bonds were turned over to Ward to shave and the bulk of the proceeds were turned over to Jas. D, Fish (now of Auburn prison). Our too thrifty Mayor seems to have lined his own purse from the syndicate profits, and through his official, financial depart- ments beaten the city out of about a million dollars; and at the same time cut off the evidences to his own complicity. This is Gracefully done, indecd. ‘This is the Democratic reform Mayor! It is into the hands of such that unlimited power is asked to be placed to reform the abuses of municipal government. If this is Democratic reform, what in the Devil's name would Democratic greed and dishonesty be? THE WHITE HOUSE GHOST. It is Hamlet Cleveland, not the Ghost of y, that is the ‘‘ perturbed spirit ” ministration, ‘The apparition of Spoils risen from the rotten past of American politics stands to beckon Hamlet to his doom, _ If he follow, he is ruined. If he refuse, his way is hedged about with pitfalls, strife and enmity, and the end of his attempt to lead his party to reform is doubtfal and dark. Well may he curse the fortune that com- pelled him to try to lead to reform a vast, compact organization of all that is corrupt, disloyal, undemocratic, ignorant, selfish and degrading in his own following. To THE Sunand World.: Mr. Davenport is feeling quite well, thanks, and hopes this will find you enjoying the same blessing. RULINGS. Sixteen AMeERican colleges are looking for presidents. There is one college that never fails to find easily a president to its liking—the electoral college. S or the nominations put the slander resources of the organs to a severe test. A short campaign is, like Silas Wegg’s reading poetry, ‘wearing on the intelle A CORRESPONDENT desires to know the best way of preserving chestnuts. Wrap ’em up in comic papers. ‘They'll keep unim- paired until Democracy truly adopts civil service reform, More acony ror the Democra The department heads have to prepare their an- nual reports and can’t give all their time to substituting active Democrats for offensive partisans in office. ONLY anovt cleven per cent. of the pop- ulation of this country is foreign born, but by voting frequently enough they rule the 89 per cent. of natives. | What the Ameri- can needs is to acquire a European conscience in politics. Secretary Bayann’s grown so deaf that his assistant secretary has lost his voice by straining to make him hear. The whole country has failed to make Mr. Bayard hear its opinion of the mess he ismaking of ama- teur diplomacy. He’s very, very deaf. Pror. Korost aNNounces that rich peo- ple live longer than poor people. It’s just a part of their mean disposition to hang to their money as long as they can, Notwith- standing their short lives the poor do not seem to be the less numerous class. Lamont, the professional gambler from Monte Carlo, who is now in this country, had better drop his scheme of forming a syndicate to beat all the roulette banks. The exchanges offer game as worthy of his skill and—in some parts of this city—they are regarded as more respectable. : ASSISTAD RETARY-OF-THR-TREASURY Coon’s head is in the basket. His retention has heen the stock evidence of the sincerity of civil service reform professions in the Treasury. But it scems that the adminis- tration was really playing ’possom while play- ing Coon on the Mugwumps for a virtue. VisITING CURISTIAN BUSINESS MEN in Canada are going into speculations with local capitalists. We shall probably be able to ‘point with pride” at the superiority of the Yankee over the Kanuck, before long. But, whither will the representatives of American financial genius fly from Canada? comicbooks.com