Judge — May 25, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher = = W.J. Arcent, Art Department-—~ Bexxnand Guta Editor > ~~ M. Guecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCR. fone year. or s2 numbers - $4.00 ix months, or 26 numbers - "2.00 neiyweeks == La Te copies, to cents each. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all for ign countries im the postal union, $s a year. THE JupGe PuBLIsHING CoMPANY (Jupcr. BuitpiNc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York. HE JUDGE predicts that Grover Cleveland will turn out to be a fine orator, and that he will learn to ride a horse. TATISTICIANS are not always correct. Several women in a thousand can whistle a tune. We know that because their husbands are dead. soe (COLONEL SHEPARD is right. sinnei It is possible for an editor to be a hough, of course, only in rare instances. Y BOTH Cleveland and Hill —In Tammany hall we've sinned all. N PASSING between Scylla and Charybalis, ¢ enor Hill chips from each rock; but his boat feels like the rat that gnawed the file. eee OCIETY is generally in the habit of riding a high horse, but nobody ever sus- -d it was going to mount the circus one. ISHOP POTTER and the facts of history are at swords’ points, and the bishop doesn’t know how to fight until the enemy has re- tired. pect HIS IS a period of remi- niscence, and there are various persons going about with if they can’t scare up the County Democrac Ie Teac cudgel ACROBATICS ARE NICE, but the base-ball player who persists in sliding to the stopping-places will presently find himself out on the first base, lanterns to se Contans (the justover hostler) — OYAL-TY took no part in the opening of the French exposition; and what a compliment that was to the countries of Washington and Lafayette. A PIVORCE CASE in Chicago suggests that the man who contributes $60,009 to the happiness of A innocent woman has found the queen of modesty, and tha he is the king of the same. U 1S MEAN in the outside press to say that the centennial arch ought not to be put up till the Grant monument is; and certainly, as in the case of the national debt, there are some privileges which must be per- mitted to posterity. GENERAL SHERMAN quarrels with nobody but the newspaper re- porters; and as they, unlike Porter and Butler, are non-comt he always comes out with victory perched on his flag-staff, if he hay to have one. And therein General Sherman is an old soldier worthy « great praise. nts, LITERALLY OBEYED. Yez told me to bang 1 whack at it, an’ Oi'm waitin’ fer him t' cool down a bit, till Oi gets another clump wid th’ OFFICE AND OFFICE - HOLDERS. HERE IS no question but the unseemly clamor for the political com- pensations of office breeds in the unsoliciting public a feeling of nausea. It is the eagerness of heirs for the estate ere the door-knob has been stripped of the black hypocrisy of crape. ‘The knife of partisan decapitation is not a guillotine, but a straw- cutter, severing a sheaf at a chop. No honest objection can be made to Republican claims. ‘The regret is that in place of decent abstentious de- liberateness the pressure seems absolutely frantic. ‘The smallest places an more eagerly sought than the larger. The reason may be that positions de- manding a high capacity are only likely to be sought by better balanced and less hungry aspirants. Camp followers are always more eager than soldiers for loot. The patriotism, however, that fights political battl only stirred by the stimulus of a bounty, and looks through success for no higher reward than a pension, is not patriotism, but greed. Greed knows neither sentiment nor conscience. ‘The rapidly increasing number of gov- ernment employés for consular and other positions; the additional loca- tions for collection of customs; the increased force for survey and super- ion of the public lands, and still more largely for the management of the mails, increase the embarrassment of the heads of departments and the appointments of the executive. ‘The places to be filled are about five times the total of the army of the United States, counting all its officials and the heads of the rank and file. It was said of Ca'sar that he could call every adult in Rome by name, but this apocryphal claim is not possible to be widened to the required ence for the knowing y citizen of the republic. The determination of the president to carry out rigidly the rules of civil service for handling the railway mails is so far following the pledges of his inaugural, and will close the door to incompetence in the most important of public departments. The kindly ap- preciation of the soldiers of the army, by giving them precedence over other claim- ants, is just, but the justice of gratitude should be coupled with a capacity to properly perform the dutics of the place. Coura ice, however commendable, if embarrassed by ignorance, hould not coerce a claim for position, ‘The country de- mands that the in made valuable by the bravery of its sons should not now be jeopardized by incompetence. The blue coat is a badge of honor, and_ is held in kin remembrance. It however, for assume that it carries inspiration for all needs under its coloring. ‘There are departments of the public service. depending on experi and skill, that are and ought to be non-political. ‘The larger part, how= ever, are and should be represented by those working with and in accord with an existing administration. It would be more than a satire to have retained Mr. Lowell as minister to England, who, in the heat of sudden party apostasy, deemed it needful by over-demonstration to beslobber Mr. Cleveland as the greatest American since Washington. In the evolution of our politics it will become necessary to lessen, not only the labor, but the prerogative of the smaller appointments by the president. The postmasterships, outside of the great cities, should properly be left to the selective local suffrage of the party, and appoint- ments follow the expressed wishes of the majority. In such, also, the oflicial term should end only by expiration of appointment, excepting al- ways the right of removal for neglect, incompetence, or malfeasance of office. In the higher and representative position of policy or trust, party y and personal capacity must be a necessary condition. Ar nizing political action and beliefs would be demoralizing, disastrous, and insufferable. The policy of the re: al opponents in the nt of administrative aTTairs would be as ridiculous as if Ge ld officer its army with Frenchmen, and France put the lead of its forces under the generalship of Germans. sor. Oi've had wan its: we; ntion of poli many sho ba comicbooks.com