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“QWhile there is Life there's Hope.” XXVIII. OCTOBER 1, 1896. 19 West Tuirty-First Street, New York. VOL. $5.00 Postal Union, $1.04 @ year extra. Single coptes, to cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in LA¥E are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- without spectal arrangement with the publishers. year in advance. Postage to foreign O* September 17th a lot of New York Democrats, four- fifths of whom believe in the ex- i pediency of honest money, met in convention at Buffalo ___ and endorsed the Chicago =. platform, with its declaration _ in favor of silver coinage and all its other enormities. z Then they nominated John Boyd . #._ Thacher for Governor, filled out a their ticket and went home in low spirits. Mr. Thacher is the same citizen who was temporary chairman of a Democratic convention at Saratoga last spring and made a very definite and unequivocal speech in favor of sound money. He does not believe and does not pretend to believe in free silver coinage, the packing of the Supreme Court, mob rule in labor disturbances, or any of the more destructive demands of the Chicago convention; yet he declares that he will vote for Bryan and Sewall. I" is quite true that the Chicago plat- y form relates to matters of national = politics with which the governor of New York will not be officially concerned, never- ~- theless a sound-money Democrat, who will run on a free silver State platform, is not the sort of citizen whom conscientious, hard-money New York Democrats will be willing to vote for. No Mr. Facing-Both-Ways will get the votes of honest-money Democrats in this State this year, or any other year, Turn Mr. Thacher to the wall. He will not wash; he will not do. A better man will be nominated presently at Brooklyn, for whom Democrats may vote who are not willing to follow what seems to be the wiser course and help elect Mr. Black. Mr. Thacher promises to enjoy the distinction of being the worst beaten candidate who ever got the regular Democratic nomination for governor in New York State. T is possible, ae that if we — are unwilling to violate our poli- tical traditions - and help Eng- vy land regulate = the proceedings of the “/ Turkish assassin, we ought not to criticise her too violently for her reluctance to undertake the job alone. The responsibility for the Sultan’s existence, however, is hers, not ours; and our refusal to meddle with what is not our business does not excuse her from neglecting what is hers, e * * EANWHILE, and while she hesitates, it is some satisfac- tion to learn that there is hope that she will give her attention to some atrocities which have been occurring under her nose at home. It gives us a very unfavorable notion of British humanity to have Irish prisoners, released from her political jails, brought to this country with minds shattered by the hardships of their confinement. It is reported that the prisons, where the dynamiters have been shut up, are to be made a subject of Parlia- mentary inquiry. The inquiry should be thorough and fruitful. It does not accord with the sentiments of nineteenth century civilization that men should be driven mad in prisons, however fit it may have been to shut them up. * . * T HE frost being now in the near vicinity of the pumpkin, the horn of the huntsman is heard once more in the kitchen gardens of Long Island, and the back yards of the New Jersey suburbs are enlivened by the activities of horsemen in red coats. . Now again the jumping horse becomes a creature of price; now the Agricultural Horse Show advances in Westchester and the Valley of the Gen- 7 essee; now the mosquito sings its death song; the shores of the Hudson become habitable once more for man; the chrys- anthemum begins to bloom and the chil- dren of the well-to-do come back to town. Bully for October when all the insect pests die, when the air braces mankind for the winter's labors. Weaker grows Populism and the silver madness as the golden fall advances. Please Heaven, brethren, before Thanks- giving comes the spectre of repudiation will have been laid for good, and we shall have more to be thankful for than Thanksgiving has brought us for many a long year. comicbooks.com