The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-24
CROOK ED ZOE.
Bradley the Eighth ms swearer and
Political Gambler.

[Courier-Journal.l
New YORK, Feb. lett is two weeks
since have put pen to paper to let you
know that New York still survives,
even under the absence of William M,
Evarts. the legal apostle Of Republican
ism. During this time 1 have been.
through the .aid Of the telegraph,
watching the movements of Mr..
Justice Bradley, old Joe Bradley, the
only man in America considered
competent to decide the vexed ques-
first decision Of the hybrid Commission
was significant. I could not help ut
tering @ triumphant croak over this
proof of the business Of my prediction,
coupled with an anathema upon old
Joe. In one respect the Republican
leaders are smarter than the Demo-
Gratis. They know how to pick out
man or a tool. They helped to boost
Judge Davis into the Senate, SO they
could have Joe. This pleasing
specimen of a, partisan judge was
for some time the counsel
of the Camden and Amboy railroad, q
corporation that owned the State of
New Jersey In fee simple, including the
nhabitants-men. women, children,
preachers and baseball players. It
was here that Joseph gathered vast ex-
perience in the ways that are dark. It.
was in this official capacity that he
learned to swear. As a 'fcusser" no man
need hope to rival him. 1 heard an an
eedote related by New Jersey politi-
clan illustrative Of Joe's powers, q few
evenings since, which ought to be spread.
Joe was arguing q case before the
Supreme Court at Washington, when In
the midst Of 1t he found he had left some
I'm Mt - IL
and the "court laughed and took
drink" It decided to wait until the
lawyer could go for the documents. Joe
took the train for Newark, and on ar
irving at his office, in state OF worry,
anxiety and fury Of mind that would
have checked the onslaught of q mad dog,
started to open his safe, and found that
he had forgotten the combination. The
more he thought, the more he forgot 1t.
At last, he drew chair squarely before
the impenetrable case, sat down, and
swore at that safe for thirty minutes
consecutigely. After he had cleared his
mind of the perilous stuff, and filled all
Newark with sulphurous odor, the
secret came into his swept and gar
nished chamber. A lady present at the
party where this 'anecdote wes told
clasped her hands in anguish, and,
with eyes swimming in tears. ex-
claimed: ooh! aDhy aCasn't he inside Of
that safe when he forgot that combina-
ton ?" The lady's husband is strong
Democrat. think it is hardly neces
sary to assert that they are harmoni- |
Gus couple. Joseph is certainly won
derful man and it must be admitted,
even by his enemies, few inches taller
than the pyramids Of Egypt. The first
Napoleon, who INDUCED in oriental
figures Of speech, exclaimed: Soldiers,
from the SUBMITS of yonder pyramids |
forty centuries look down upon |
you;" but what Is that compared with |
the forty million Of people who are |
looking mp to Joe? AT a picture sale, a |
few evenings since, saw an excited |
crowd competing for the possession OF |
sixteen square inches Of canvass, which |
fell to one inspired and energetic idiot |
for the sum OF two thousand dollars. /
Put Joe up for sale and no mortal could |
compute the sum he would bring. He
Is enc OF those "Old Masters that
nations compete for.