Show PUCKS AND COMMENTS tha new york JW comes with splendid cir toong in bis num berof may on which he makes pungent and impartial comai menta the frontispiece show skeleton in the democratic closet in the shape of S J jildeh sitting deep in tho barl out of which the dollar of our fathers oozes in pro cadaverous legs are chained to a fraad Fra Sd and cipher dispatches Des patches and hungry rats of lico seekers are sneaking over the thur roan field and bothers pothers peep in tho doors with looks of ter an d dismay to picture tile editor makes tho following incisive re mr S J tilden is evidently going to make a struggle and a pretty severe struggle too to be president pre aident of tho united states during th four years all his have been made with and he is going to fight on the panic ular line he has marked out for himself if it takes all summer there are many very worthy people in the democratic part who do not like mr tilden and would be rejoiced if he would with draw from the contest but they cant help themselves for mr tilden is a democratic hard fact and there is too touch burning the afore worthy democrats lo 10 permit them boldly to repudiate clr tilden and put up a better and a stronger man yh atwith his barl and his fraud grievances mr tilden i literally skeleton in the closet Which almost has the act of making him a candidate in of himself to which we would simply throw in that these frauds have never been more than mythical while samuel ja a solid reali tyas hard a fact as will be his nomination and election but puck is nothing if not bial to hi u butlers words so justice while she winks at crimes stumbles betimes can not ace applied in the inside double page cartoon the strong government of 1869 1877 and the weak government of 1877 1881 are placed in the most telling antithesis on the left side the solid south a poor barefooted woman trudges painfully over a rough corduroy road groaning under the heavy burdens of a well stuffed carpet bae supported by two boys in blue with hayo nels and topped by US grant who amirata bristling ahead of bayonets the inextinguishable cigar 10 the right corner of the silent mouth the cavalry sword in his crossed arms and a hat a la napoleon bonaparte on the bead in the halls of guetice are guarded by cannon and sentinels while the seats of industry the workshops of peace lie in ruins and ashes and the dilapidated steamers on the river arc half immersed in the slug gish waters on the right of this delineation 11 aits nits true its a pity w veltsa pity ita true l hii see the weak government of a sw ora the handle two guns turning up a and covering the carett bag bloody shirt and all the accoutrements of atio strong 11 government ern ment in tho background the ho factories send up Theu smoke men aro busy in the bogar cane fields gale of cotton are asden anto abo boats and fu rowel by numerous steamers M freighted with the produce of labor aal thrifty tho moral of this cartoon crops following comm crit this Is not the with tf eueral arant ai third term candidacy is entirely in ats own hands he could withdraw i he chose ata at a moments notice general grant vas not a good president lie was a lad president his point with pride to tho wy government that he inaugurated especially dolc it wasa strong government with carpet baas and up portel by bayonets anil grant if ht elul kis jovn way would like to be t U agaid on ame principle tho add muk and watery fisli rustic mr erford B ilayev Ila yei i credited with ad a weak government in may be weak but it s certainly armach more wholesome style of thing than anything that grant could give io the wont in happily hoisted ills ilie white house for a tarn it w for leaving got in by araud sir does not leave with a record quite as full of fraud borrup ti orLand as his pro did lie tried to be as J girtin the handling of tho southern as it Is possible tor republican to be which Is very very littfe indeed still ut dant vires tamen tit voluntad volun the spirit was willing but the flesh was |