Life — June 16, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE “While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XIX. JUNE 16, 1892. No. 494. 28 West Twenty-THirp Street, New York. Published every Thursday, $5.00. year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, st a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by ppl gat ing at . office. aig eo ‘arta oe 1. and II. out of print. Vol. $30.00; Vi bound, Back numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy.” Vols. Ili. to XVI. Se sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed uniess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ISCOURSING at considerable length upon the disabilities of Grover Cleveland, Editor O'Connor, of Rochester, records his belief that “it is fair / to assume that he who prospers on ‘re- form’ is a fraud.” But on that assertion what becomes of Mr. Tilden, who certainly prospered, politically, on reform if any > man ever did. Was it poetical justice in his case that after “reform” had elected him, fraud should have done him out of the fruits of his success? Yet if Mr. O'Connor stamps Mr. Tilden as fraud- ulent, his application of the same mark to Mr. Cleveland is likely to do that gentleman more good than harm. A Q O doubt something is going * on in these June days be- sides politics. The colleges > — usually begin to be stirred up . along about this season, and hold commencements and miscellaneous other exercises of a festal nature. It is likely enough that they are at it as usual, or will be presently, and in any other @ year than this there might be something to say about it. So, too, at this season the city-dwellers begin to extract their stakes, and flee unto the uttermost parts of the earth ; some to remote coasts, some to foreign parts, and the rest to wild and unterrified stations in the country. In any other year than this the flitting of the town-dwellers would call for appropriate remarks. But this year it is different. A month that has contracted to have two Presidential conventions let loose in its midst has only one seasonable topic for discourse, and that of course is politics. “ Whois going to run "is the absorbing question, with the endless supplementary alseoiirse! a tothe consequences, | is one of the penalties of publish- ing picture papers of merit on set y dates that you have to begin betimes, press and the day the reader gets it. For instance, the reader knows whether anyone was nominated at Minneapolis, .. and, if so, who ; but on the day these lines were writ- ten the latest news was still the resignation of Mr. Blaine from Uncle Ben's Cabinet. The construction put on that news was that Mr. Blaine would run if he could. LiFe’s opinion had been that Mr. Blaine would rather be alive than be President, and LIFE went to press with that conviction undisturbed. You know whether LIFE was right about it. Perhaps not. It may be that Mr. Blaine felt that he had been alive a good while, and President never, and that it would be interesting to try a change. Anyhow, whether Uncle Ben got another call, or was beaten by Mr. Blaine’s defection, some important truths that still hold good were evident enough when this was written. One of them was that the internal difficulties of the Republicans were even more ominous than those of the Democrats, To have seeds of dissension sown in February, blossom in May, and harvested in June is bad enough, but not so bad by a jug- full as to have the sowing and the blooming both come in June and the harvest in November. So, briefly, Mr. Blaine’s resig- nation seemed to leave his party in a worse pickle than that in which the silly New York State Midwinter convention in- volved the Democrats, and whatever was the upshot at Minneapolis it won't matter much if only the right citizen is nominated at Chicago. I" is rather gruesome news that the New York University has been swapping sites, and that the old Uni- versity Building must soon give place to a modern structure. New York will miss the Washington Square Bastile. It has been one of the places that were different from the rest of the town. Redolent of romance and crime, it had a whole atmosphere to itself, and it was no great feat of the imagination for a man who dwelt in it to think he was somebody else and not a resident of Gotham at all. comicbooks.com