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GALLUS BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 78-79 FULTON STREET N.Y. VOL, V. MARCH stu, 1885. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, to cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vols. II., HII. and IV., at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. i A’ last the hour has come when the Republican Party, after twenty-four years of power, steps down and out, | and the long-struggling Democracy settles itself in the seat of government. : It is indeed fortunate for the incoming party that it has for its head and front a man so unlike itself in many ways. It is a matter for congratulation to the country that when the change has become inevitable, a man of Mr. Cleveland’s stamp has been chosen to fill the highest office in the land. An event of this nature is attended with the gravest of possibilities, and had some man possessing the usual ele- ments of the accepted Democrat been placed at the head of his party instead of Mr. Cleveland, we should have feared the gravest results. In his actions, since the day upon which he | received the nomination for the Presidency, Mr. Cleveland has shown himself to be a man of rare sense and ability. He cannot be too highly praised for his manly and dignified bearing since the later day when the Presidential question was definitely settled. * He has been beset by a horde of office-seekers, and has had to bear the belittling comments of antagonistic newspapers in and out of his party. And these comments have been caused more by the sins and jealousies of the party he represents than by his individual faults. His position has, therefore, been an unusually hard one. We congratulate Mr. Cleveland upon his elevation, and the country upon its bright prospects for the coming four years, . . . HE outgoing President has shown himself a man capa- ble of rising above the pettiness of the politician to the dignity of the statesman. Coming into office under the most trying circumstances, for which he was held to be largely re- sponsible, he has proven himself equal to the demand upon his abilities. He now goes out of office with infinitely more friends than he could have hoped for in the most sanguine moments of the | early days of his term, UDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL SWAIM has been found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and has been suspended on half pay for twelve This practically amounts to dismissal on salary, A reward years. and adds another sinecure to the already long list. of dishonesty, in truth. It is not without its compensations, however. It opens up a new profession for the youth of our country, which will pay better than most of those now in daily use. The law is crowded ; medicine is jammed to the top, there being seven doctors to two patients on an average throughout the country ; journalism is full; the pulpit is hardly a paying institution this side of Jordan, and altogether some new field is desira- | ble. Just what the full salary is for behaving as an officer and a | gentleman should not, we cannot say, but even at half pay it would be better than a law office with only a stair-case; better than a degree of M.D, and a “buttons” to open the door for fitful breezes and naught beside; better even than a pulpit in some missionary field where the sole returns of a | Sunday consist of three buttons, a piece of wampum and a shark's tooth. We recommend it to those in search of a future. * . * OW that our police captains are one by one dropping into the hands of the law we suggest the propriety of trying Capt. McCullough. By his interference a few weeks since with the annual riot between the Anarchists and the Socialists of New York, the Captain has been guilty of an outrage upon the freedom of our city. In this country, the only one in the world where the poor suffering anarchist can have his private anarchy and no ques- tions asked, and where the socialist can tear himself to pieces without remonstrance, any disturbance of such treasured rights on the part of the police should be resented by the people. This so-called minion of justice so far forgot the dignity | of his position as to kick a most estimable Dutch conspirator and thrust a harmless little socialist, Justus Schwab, into jail, simply because he exercised his royal prerogative and incited a few friends to “ pyaralize” his neighbor, Most. Well may Schwab remark that this is a travesty on Jus- | tus, But the Captain is chiefly to be censured for stopping the riot. If the contending parties had been allowed to fight it out there would doubtless have been several dozen less anarchists and socialists in our midst to-day. comicbooks.com