Judge — August 28, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Siape: PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President = = = = 2 ee Vice President ~ - Art Department — - Pator - ~~ Manager Advertising Mans TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Ty ADVANCE, J. AwKELL Haney R. Han Single coples THE JUDGE PUB! b2r-Jvoor Is for sale regularly at the American Ex- change in Paris and the American Exchange in London, DEMOCRATIC QUESTION of the hour— Wi h of us next? Mr. Gartanp still lingers. Perhaps his official superior proposes to try the efficacy of prayer. t a mistake, but we THE CRE. i y difficult to account for that find it ex Democrati LyMan TRUMBULL's EULOGY of Mr. Tilden teaches us one impressive fact. It is this— Lyman Trumbull still lives. Boston Has 800 opium-smokers, with two wards yet to hear from. We begin to think there is some chance fe n Butler yet. Mr. WHITTIER’S LAST POEM is very pathetic. It suggests, for instance, the extreme age which the gentle Quaker must have reached. THREE NAD MEN of Gotham went to sea in a bowl. If the bowl had been built according to contract it woul have lasted quite as long. Mr. HeppeN perished of H. O. Thompson's apoplexy. The disease spread out like an electric wire, and there is no telling where it will shock next. _ _ Ir Is PRETTY EVIDENT that Mrs. Cleveland doesn’t believe in the one-term principle, and for our part we hope she'll boss the adminis- tration until the 4th of March, ’89. THE APPOINTMENT of Dan Magone for col- lector shows that there is a ibility of a lit- tle Democracy in this administration yet. Sometimes, don’t you know, we must look for these things in Democratic quarters. Tue JUDGE proposed that there should be no Republican state convention, and this was the conclusion of the Republican state committee. Let the obscure Albany Journal make up its little cigarette with that and smoke it. THE GODS ADVERTISED for three fools who were greater fools than all the other men put together ; and Maurice Flynn put in his pro-| posal and won the contract and the percentage, and his namo led those of the other two, WE REGRET IT exceedingly. Nobody could regret it more. The world is bad enough if everybody does as well as he can, But it does look as if those prominent Democrats who do not die were on the high road to the peni- tentiary. THERE ARE MANY unfortunate things in the methods of this world, and the worst of them all is the fact that Chauncey M. Depew is too much engaged in other business to represent the United States at one of the principal for- eign capitals, Mr. MarTINE must see to his memory. Let us not get so interested in the newly-devel- oped malefactors as to forget dear old Jacob Sharp and the indicted aldermen. They are modest and retiring, but they deserve all they cath possibly get. WE LooK upon Gail Hamilton as the supe- rior of her brother Alexander; and if she had fought that duel with Aaron Burr there would have been a grand moral political opening that no fool joker of this period would have called a chestnut. STORIES FOR FEEBLE INTELLECTS. When the politicians of this country devote themselves seriously to consideration of the temperance question we may believe that the embodied spirit of D. Webster is not above the small business of singing ‘‘The Sweet By- and-bye” to people of limited information by the light and smell of a kerosene lamp and to the accompaniment of an accordion that has sickened of its own wind. We have suspected Mr. Gladstone before now of large private dis- cussion of the subject of corns, and the late Mr. Disraeli occasionally spent hours in ment as to the best method of catch but that little story about Mr. Blaine’s e: ardor in behalf of prohibition, and the on the effect that thunder was invented for the sole purpose of souring milk, are contributions |to human credulity that must be respectfully declined. WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OP IT? It is suspected that Hubert Thompson com- mitted suicide. If he had been a less important person there would have been the investigation that would have set all doubt at rest. But it was not acase of suicide. Mr. Thompson was not the kind of person to put himself out of the way. Ale was not revengeful, and he enj life too well. Still, there was something ve curious about hisdeath. He should not e died of apoplexy at the very time that he was recovering from apoplexy. Of what did Mr, Thompson die ? WHICH OF US 18 SAFE? The JupGE inquired the other day as to the exaltitude of the Flynn-Squire-Thompson vil lainy. Since then the Sun has brought charges, not to say facts, agains O'Brien which look bad. Mr, O'Bri man of the Democratic state committe contractor of the new aqueduct, receiver of the Broadway surface road, and a partner te large extent of Mr. M. B. Flynn. Mr. O'Bri is also a warm personal friend and supporter of Governor Hill—a fact which it is supertlu- ous tomention. The Evening Post says the governor knew of the existence of the Squire- Flynn letter a long time ago. Is it possible that the most promising man for the position of Democratic leader is to be sacrificed to the force of curious circumstance? And if the Democratic party cannot get a little IN THE STYLE. Proprietor—‘‘ So you're the young fellow that robs my orchard 7” Innocence —“‘I ain't been a-robbii ProprietoR—‘ What maxes your pockets bulge so? in’ no one. InNxoceNcr—It's the way the pants is cut.” comicbooks.com