Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-12
Judge Black on 1884.

New YORK, Aug. ga short time
before his death, Judge Black was
questioned in regard to his opinion of
the outlook for 1884 He said he hop
cd the old ticket would not be nomin-
ated unless it were reversed, Hendricks
and Tilden.
He believed that Tilden might fill
the Office of Vice President creditably
and Hendricks would make an admir-
able President; but his choice was
Hancock; he was for Hancock inside
and out, right and left, and under all
circumstances.
IF nominated again, would Han
cock run better than in 1880 ?" was
asked, and the reply was, "He would
have to run better to be elected"
In alluding to the issue of 1880,
Judge Black was very severe on the
newspaper correspondent who gave
publicity to statement respecting the
tariff, alleged to have been made by
Hancock, but which the Judge charac-
terized .as a lie cut from the whole
cloth. He was even more pungent in
his remarks respecting Senator Ran
dolph, of New Jersey, in advising Gen.
Hancock to make written statement
concerning that alleged interview on
the tariff
Randolph is high tariff man, and
that ought to have disqualified him
from giving advice to a Democratic
candidate for President" said the
Judge, taking another dainty chew of
"fne.cut," made from the choicest of
Lancaster county tobacco, and ending
the sentence with the remark: "No
man can be good Democrat who be-
lieves in tariff for protection, and he
has no right to advise Democratic
candidate for President"
"Will the Republicans nominate
General Arthur 2"
The Judge hesitated a full minute,
then replied with an emphatic mo.
If Arthur should be nominated he
would not stand the remotest chance of
an election"
Continuing his conversation, Judge
Black said he considered Blaine the
strongest man on the Republican side,
and if he were candidate, and his
friends concluded to support him for
the nomination, he would sweep them
all down-Arthur, Sherman, Edmunds,
Logan, and the rest-like chaff before
a cyclone.
Judge Black did not consider Blaine
a great statesman-as no man could be
who possessed the loose notions enter
tanned by Republicans in relation to
the rights of the States and the Con-
stitution-but Blaine is by all odds the
best politician in either party at the
present time. He was the only man
Judge Black could call to mind who
had anything like following. Said
he, "Blaine has distinctive. aggres-
sive and decidedly able following in al
most every State, but he is not can
didate He has assured me of this
himself, and in such way that / can
not doubt the sincerity of his state
mentn
"Will not this positive refusal Of
Blaine to be candidate help, rather
than hinder, his nomination 7" asked
the correspondent, and Judge Black
responded: II do not think that is
part of his programme, but whether it
is or not, if Blaine's friends start to
nominate him in 1884, l can see moth
ing that will prevent their being sue
cessful"
The contented tramp is the true
exponent of the summer school OF phi
losophy.
When will callow writers learn
that the valuable paper" dodge is
played out?
There is tied in the affairs Of
wedlock that too often leads on to the
Divorce Court.
A Columbia jeweler has o clock
which, with but one winding, will run
year and thirty five days. The pen.
dulum moves in circle.
An obituary in an exchange
pictures the departed on the other shore
'anxiously watching for the coming of
her loved ones from earth" Are the
blessed in state of anxiety 7"
-Buttermilk has become quite
fashionable drink and is on sale in all
the large saloons in the cities. Its ef-
| ficacy on election days have never been
tested, the politicians are somewhat
skeptical as to it's good qualities as
beverage.
Fifty thousand copies of Mr..
Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress"
have already been sold and the pub
fishers expect total sales to reach one
million. Applications for agencies
have been received from every coun-
try in Europe, and also from India.
A young man named Hogan, re-
siding in Scranton, has entered suit
against several persons for conspiracy
and necromancy. He claims he was
introduced to wizard who cast spell
over him, making him believe that he
was president Judge of Lackawanna
county While in this condition he
was induced to sign certain papers
transferring his property to woman
who was once his wife. Now that he
has recovered his senses he wants the
court to interfere and restore him his
property.
Henry Croft, butcher from Chal-
fant, Pa, met with singular accident
one day last week He was riding in
the rear of n market wagon, and, in
hurriedly alighting, gold ring worn
on his little finger caught on hook.
The weight CT his body in jumping
caused the sharp edge of the ring to
server the finger from his hand The
pain SO benumbed his hand that Mr..