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Show THE RED-HEADED FLOPPER Chief JuBtico ScbaeUer finds a worthy follower of his doclrineB of inconsistency in-consistency in the red headed editor down the street; or, it may be, the judge is a convert of red-head's. The flop of the ort;an in regard to the case ot the chief justice is almost a parallel to the Trib's great feat of journalistic tumbling on the morning of No vein bur 8th, 1876. It will be remembered that red-bead's politics had been of the genuine bloody-shirt republican type up to the very day of the presidential presi-dential election, and even until 2 o'clock of the tulluwiug morning At that hour, it appearing that Mr. Til-den Til-den had been elected, the Hayes phiwo of the paper was lifted out, and a second edition struck off, with Til-den Til-den as the great and good man. The Tribune evoluted in a single hour from a fiery republican organ to a Bourbon democratic sheet. Tho returning board and the seven to eight commission again led brick top I (back to the republican fold, but took a little time about it, the change not j being to violent on the second occasion. Policy iB everything with our neighbor. When the Herald asked for the removal of Bchaeffer on the grounds of ignorance, incompe-.: incompe-.: tency, prejudice and glaring favoritism on the bench, the Tnb flew lo his honor's rescue, and con tinced to bolster the old man up until; the movement against him became' .'so formidable as to m. ko his removal ta matter of apparent cert -inly. Then j'the red headed tidik-r ffi! mtu hnf, j signed a petition to the pre-idnt lor the appointment ot a suufjr 10 ois boner, and in the columns of his paper Bpared not the old man's gray hairs. Now the outlook has changed somewhat, and the Trib iB again the warm friend of the judioial ignoramus who aits on the Third district bench. 1 Oue of its correspondents who appears i to have little cense, and lesB discre tion, is taken to task for blundering upon the truth by intimating that Schaefler is not fitted for the place he occupies. The trouble with the correspondent is that the Tribune's flops are so frequent he cannot keep j track of them, and fails to right about j jwith the readiness that a well j regulated correspondent is expected to manifest. Tue horizon has assumed another lace within the last few hours and it now looks as il the redhead red-head would have vo again (urn a 'double-Bomersault on the chief justice question. |