Judge — September 29, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PAWINGS and alt contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's fall name and adiress ‘written plainly on each and every sep tive letler-press should in every instance be written upon tts indtwidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paver. inciosure of stamps 10 the desc insure safe and prompt return of material not accented. 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any eews-stand, the pubi S WE understand it, Secretary Taft is in Cuba simply as the kind, BIG brother of the Cubans, GNOMES possess J. D., says the theosophist, Colonel Henry Steele Olcott, and sylphs, undines and salamanders are the imps that are making the politicians and financiers do disagreeable stunts nowadays. It is just as well that we should know these things before it is too late. THE FUNNY FUSION MIX-UP IN BILLY PENN'S STATE. THE country is missing a lot of fun if it isn’t keeping an eye on Pennsyl- vania politics this fall. Uncle Billy Penn, a little time back, got frisky with an excess of reforming zeal and raised Ned with the politicians in Quakertown. The old crowd was summarily ejected from office and a new régime installed, much to the edification of the country at large. Then came a move which appears to have been precipitate and ill-advised. The new-idea reformers bolted, and it is curious how bolting Republicans always head straight for Democratic shelter. A little reflection on past political history ought to make Republicans chary of such hybrid alliances. A fusion movement inevitably becomes a Democratic maelstrom, in which “good "’ Republicans swim about like blow-whales, making a splash and spouting sublime purposes that come to nothing. Since the fusion compact some unexpected difficulties have developed. The moral element of the state, repre- sented by the Prohibitionists, who were wont to train with the reformers, has taken to the woods, and many Republicans of undoubted probity are grieved. It appears that the Emery robe is not spotless. While he is hammering Standard Oil, hatred of which appears to be the source of all his reforming zeal, he has been something of an octopus himself. Dr. Swallow brings forward the record of a supreme court fraud injunction and the sworn testi- mony of witnesses to show that Brother Emery had the amusing habit of using bogus stencils on his oil barrels. When he appeals for Prohibition support, Bradford citizens bob up with the information that Brother Emery is one of the owners of*their local brewery. The reformer retorts that in the generosity of an ample purse he helped everything that passed along the pike—churches, breweries, hos- pitals, anything that came with outstretched hand. Further to handicap the fusionists, it turns out that some of the head reformers were directors of the Hipple bank, and while they are not charged with any criminal con- nection with the smash, it is shown that they were not more careful and conscientious in the discharge of duties of a public nature than are ordinary mortals. JUDGE always hates to see these fusion mix-ups. Begun in good intent they lead to destruction, The well-known hunger of an office less Democracy for this kind of alliance should have made the Lincoln Republicans wiser. Republicans need not be ashamed this year to stick by the regular organization, at the head of which is President Theodore Roosevelt. A fusion vote in Pennsylvania this fall is a vote for Bryan in 1908. wee N’T Marse Henry getting kind of obstrepery again toward Brother Bryan? ww NE REFORM crowds along after another. Now it’s the button-<down- the-back-waist must go, Says fashion in clarion tone. BRYAN must read Bailey out of the party, says a headline. Bryan hasn't begun to read his speeches, has he? nate sketch. The accompanying joke oF it amount of postage (s also required, to ers will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. ‘THE SOULFUL ENTERPRISE OF THE FOUR BILLS. must have occurred to the public that the main political activities of the day flow out of the soulful energies of the four Bills. It will further ap- pear on reflection that the chief good fortune of these ebullient times is to be found in the fact that the four Bills are not unanimous. Nature represents the poise and balance of opposing forces. If all the winds blew one way we would live in a perpetual cyclone. The four Bills are like the four winds of heaven which meet and mutualize each other. There is Bill Bryan, who may be regarded as one of the fixed trade-winds. While blowing with a steady persistency in the same di- rection, he can be counted upon to shift his course at least once every four years. Bill Jerome is more after the order of the simoon or sirocco of the desert. He belongs to the sultry nominating season, and is apt to spring up with appalling suddenness. His destructive power, however, is modified because we know so well his solstice. Bill Hearst is a frisky and portentous wind whose times and seasons are not yet fully established by the weather sharps. Whether to classify him among the gusts of a day, or to register him as one of nature’s equinoctials, wedo not know. But this we do know, that another steady corrective wind sweeps regularly through the whole politica! firmament. It is big Bill Taft. There is no gust, no fretting rage of the lawless elements. He is all calm atmosphere, meteorologic content, and motion at peace. I" AND WASN'T it remarkable how that revolution headed for the elon- gated timber when it saw Brother Taft coming? Me: NICHOLAS LONGWORTH thinks it’s pretty good politics this year to “‘stick by Roosevelt.” Nothing like having peace in the family. IF MR. BRYAN is going to oust all the people who disagree with him, it seems likely that the next Democratic national convention will be composed of Mr. Bryan, who can, of course, nominate himself by accla- mation. LITTLE OTA BENGA AND THE MONKEYS. THE sad case of the pigmy, Ota Benga, does not stir in us the wrath that it seems to have caused in the breasts of some good Gothamites. Ota is the little African savage who has been ex- hibited in a cage with monkeys in the New York zoo. The little black man, to all outward seeming, is having the time of his life. But since the incident has raised such a furore, we are led to inquire why no outcry has been raised because Pro- fessor Garner and some other adventurous ethnologists have gone to Africa to ingra- tiate themselves into simian society. If it is wrong for a little man to run with little monkeys in New York, how much worse it is for a big man to run with big monkeys in the lonely wilds of the dark continent. It may be that little Ota Benga will make little men of the monkeys. On the other hand, the African monkeys may make a big monkey of Professor Garner. So far as we can see, the incidence of both dangers and benefits about cqualizes, comicbooks.com