Judge — May 17, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. Annee Editor = + Beexnann Gittass 1. M. Geecony r TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - "2.50 One copy. for 13 weeks Sah te Tncluding the Ciristitas JUDGE. , FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION: cign countries in the post $6 a year. —To all for THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (Jupce bu Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York. DIxa), dvertisers ‘published. ie for tale at Brentane's, 17 Avenue de COpera, 430 Strand, London. cer circulation at cheaper rates than any other rit and at Brentano's, BY FAR the slowest thing at Albany— Rapid transit. To 8 CROKER—Come home, dear boy, and all shall be investigated. E KNOW nothing as to Mr. Cleveland’s vest, but he never fails to pull down the sc (OU WANT to know the name of the new street commissioner, do you? name is Mud, isn’t it? Let's see—why his M8: WATTERSON would fill the chair made vacant by the death of Senator Bec but who in that ¢ fill the chair of the Journal? e would Courier= T IS NOT godehildren or twenty-five thousand dollars . but’ we must remem- ber that Mr, Grant is a good- usual to give ten thousand ap hearted mat HE LESS the hours and the higher the price of labor, the greater the cost of the nec- essaries of life, and it is the worker who pays the most for them already HIS POINT Mrs, Hirscukinp—" You can'd see ohf yo Mr. Hixscuxinp—"'S.sh, Ragechel ! SeTALK to the smokes cig the Buffalo Express- to his common sense. the east wind. boy who ‘0 be sure, to be sure. Whistle a hole into [VE BEEN try jority of the legislature ng for three years to get a ballot-reform law, but the ave been so mean and stubborn as to refuse to look at things through my spectacles. —D). 2. Hill. NEGRO in ius in altimore actually stole a hot stove. pipe and all. Gen- he man ought to he Democrats of New Jersey to carry off the polling- robbery knows no such word as fail be employed 1 places. Tile BARBERS of Rochester have concluded to jose their shops Sunday, and there rises the startling question, who es ‘There's a conundrum for you, n go to church unsh ood, church-going Mrs, Grundy. T COSTS this state an avera; man judicially, It would ne punishment, but perhaps it wou into bankruptey. e of twenty the he safe for soci sand dollars to kill a y to abolish capital I save society the necessity of going R, MEAT-AXE, « people v Shoshone imedicine-man, predicts that the white flood. Our well-meaning friend has evidently shod his heel with a page of biblical history and there- fore predicts backward, be swallowed by FREMONT on the retired list is giving some agitation to the Demo- cratic press, Well, perhaps he was not as great a man as Buchanan, or Floyd, or Jefferson Davis; but we ought at least, to give him the credit of good intentions, T IS THOUGHT by some that the only way to settle the electrocution hanging muddle is to abolish capital punishment; but there is the fear that in the Kemmler emergency the abolishment will be pro- nounced unconstitutional too. AS THE JUDGE has occasionally remarked, tickling itself with satis- faction in view of its judicial superiority and winking its congratu- lations to the distinguished Mr. Kemmler, the law is the pope and the people cheerfully pay their tithes. HE GOVERNMENTS of Europe are thankful for nothing—the nothing that resulted from the labor demonstrations of May-day ; and will busy themselves during the next twelve months in preparations for safety during the next May-day. see HE LAW assuming to regulate the civil service is a stuffed prophet; nd if the house of representatives didn't knock the stuffing out of it it was because of the inadvertent respect for a humbug that most of us indorsed for ten minutes because it looked pretty. F W PAPERS have more ability than the Albany 7imes,; and when that paper calmly discusses the question whether Wilkes Booth is alive one is tempted. by ex- asperation to remark that that most unpardonable of all mur- derers is not only-dead but was never born. LOWEN EAU A, TO NIGHT y PULL UP THE HOLE. HE EFFORTS of the gov- ernor and the legi majority to put each other “in a hole” prevent a great deal of good legislation and make ridiculous some of the good legislation that finally becomes It might be a good idea to see what the people want and secure that without regard to partisan ad- vantage or disadvantage— for. after all, the most profitable par- tisanism is that which serves the people most faithfully and without regard to. temporary party interests. We are to have ballot reform, but the means to it have been so ab- surd that the victory is robbed of half its charm. However, this is cer- tain —we get it not because the governor wants it but in spite of his efforts to kill it. lative OF VIEW. noddings, Chacop, mit dot hat in front I vos sadisfiet.” TWO UNHAPPY ME R. CL AND may not be too fat and Mr. Dana may not have paresis; but there are indications that the editor is trying-to give the ex-president a sympathetic Democratic nomination for president, and that the latter in wn a larger circulation, The professions of both gentlemen are in opposition to these results, and they speak their honest sentiments fer all, there are both fatness and paresis to be lamented, and there is slight hope that their victims will ever be any better. mii return is trying to give the GROVER’S BALLOT +6 AND BESIDE: A “the Republi that fine old corpse t Harte. ‘The dead man was laid ou up on his peaceful breast. A Chi on a portion of land not staked. REFORM. ays Grover Cleveland, speaking of ballot reform, ns have twenty dollars to our one.” There was got posthumous fame through the pen of Bret d the mourners aman had been hired to dig his grave Suddenly John came in, wild at the and with a tots of his usual cunning. “Me stlikee gold!" s ' ie stlak ! 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