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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page attacks the trial conduct surrounding **Charles Guiteau**, who assassinated President James Garfield in 1881. The editorial "Remove the Monster" condemns how the Washington court allowed Guiteau to behave theatrically and disruptively during his murder trial—acting as "a clown before a smiling Judge." The satire's point: Guiteau's courtroom antics were a mockery of justice that disgraced the nation's capital, where Garfield had lived and was beloved. The author argues that New York courts, though often lax, would never permit such degrading conduct at a presidential assassin's trial. The piece demands Guiteau be "quickly swept out of sight forever," reflecting public horror that this "loathsome being" was permitted to perform rather than face dignified legal proceedings. The cartoon's grotesque caricature reinforces the message: Guiteau embodied a monstrosity requiring swift removal from public view.

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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, Nos. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. | PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Jf Copy, for Adress Thin Teper Prat ‘oD 1S Park J Remove the Monster. Mveu as the administration of justice has been travestied in this metropoli utterly shameless by comparison as the so d trial in Washin ich who rdered President Garfield has ever been witnessed here. In , it is doubtful wheth- er any other court since the foundation of the Government ever sunk as low, and became so unworthy of the respect of the people. The trial of an ordinary malefactor in New York too often, it is true, is a mockery upon what the bench and the bar are pleased to call ju tice, and too often, perhaps, the audienc a court room here finds relief in laughter, or in deluging the prisoner with bouquets. But | we are proud to venture the assertion that the trial of the murderer of a President would he no matinee performance for the amusement of the court loungers were it to take place in cither of the criminal courts of this ci | The terrible crime committed by this ha- | man monstrosity, Guiteau, was one that made the ple world stand aghast. Across the seas, as well as in our own country, his very name stinks in the nostrils of all mankind and womankind. In the mind of person the deed was one that baffled human ingenui- ty to fitly punish. ‘The horrors of the punish- ments inflicted in other ages for a less crime than that committed by him were pictured inadequate if applied to him. To merely his life on the scaffold seemed so slight a pe alty for his act in slaying the Chief M. of the nation that the ery became univ “Take him away! Remove him as quick as possible!” And as. the pa: his name continued to sicken the peoph continuous appearance in the public prints, the desire that this loathsome being should be quickly swept ont of sight forever grew stronger, and when, at length, the day of his was fixed, the belief that it would soon le men and women breathe more nothing so ton of the wr “i very v. ‘The court was opened, and to the amaze- ment and horror of a yet sorrowing people | the monster posed as a clown before a smiling Judge and jury and a hilarious audience of men and women! This in the city of Wash ington, where Garfield spent the best years of his life, and where the people learned to know and love him! For days the whole country has been shocked by the antics of this most | | this Honorable Court thought w | contentedly back in iis r: THE JUDGE. ‘That such scenes as those described in the daily press should be enacted in a’ court in an Ameri¢ well transfix the people of other astonishment. Growing bold by the freedom allowed Bim by a judge whose head should be bowed in shan most offensive in this bre tiendish of criminals, », the man who is to- dl land to minded persons, makes merry in the | of living men and women with the bone the lamented President! until further submission to kaw and order seems a doubtiul question, the men and women of America who believe in fair play, who believe that every accused pers” al before an impartial ju demand that this most disgusting of far Washington shall brought Would any one on the 2d of last July dared to hav | that the man who shot down the President on that day would to. lowed to exhibit himself as the most inhuman ofall men? Be he sau the sc enacted are none the | in the eyes table and outrageous upon the part of the court esr of Outraged has a right toat es at be to an assert > or insane, horribl of the people, and none the less diser that quietly permits such performa judge and jury who mak possible, and yet men and women who struggle Shame upon th such shame to th for seats in that court, and laugh when they get them! Better far that the shot fired by the man on the white horse had killed Guite than that this farce should last much longer. Tue JupGe has infinite faith in the majesty of the law, and would be a poor counselor in. deed to urge vie that of this murderer, Washington jud poor, and white procees greater att © even in such ae nt appeals to the pterests of and nil black, to present this the jury without unnecessary delay. Guitean be buried with the +h, and no tombstone mark his grave, if the jury shall find that he was sane when he fired the shot that removed the President. Remove him, no matter what the be, so that he shall be banished ht and from the newspaper 000 of persons will utter a that. as in the Let the name of verdict may from our and 50,000,- Thank God for Sample Snobs A TULLING series of pictures is offered by Mr. Worth on a subject that eminently de- serves ventilation and daylight. Why any American far ignore his democrat breeding as to mortgage himself, bo and breeches, to Imported Style, is beyond our comprehension, THe Jupcr Anglo like a thousand of br hodful or two extra, There w ald so. Iv, brains is down on kand a a time when I of its old ring him loll tle-spring vehicle, ifferent to all but the lively roadsters with whom he delighted to have a brush. He despised all parade and affectation, and was comparatively satisfied with himself and his belongings. He found e.tertainment in the broad grins and endless p:anks of his negro stable-boy, who shone resplendently in_ging- ham shirt, patched trousers, gaudy cotton ania friend Thompson, and enjoyed s ind | Let some one devise | Hock, neckerehief and and whose fidelity was as little questioned as ution, But. there when Thompson made a sta tame onsequence, went abroad to ww his intellect. He became saturated with Imitation, and now behold the pitiful There he goes in his heavy English swell with areal live “tiger” to catch on, and make our diminutive great man and his hwfully wedded puppy-fondler the « all noodles who rm to rival a mushroom aristocrat, or, if possible, tot nil his snobbishness, Our full-page illustration is not overdrawn, and, entil his bank a 1 ‘Thomp: And thei to suggest) “a sort.” other attire indescribable, his exterior dilapi ‘ame a day in Wall 1 per outcome! drag and ndon meueery wy of sitin horse sense, re (as the razor-strap orator used few more left of the same An Opportunity for an Inventor. Tur invention of a could not be hier or clerk who * would be a curios: ity in these days whieh would make the ever: lasting fortune of the exhibitor. It is tomary to speak of the dishonest employee as ay, from the fet that onfesses everything” it is discover led astray one led ast when he 1 that nitle- he had sold himself to the long-tail man in black, Why this transact always reflect discredit upon the sonage is something THE JUDGE ut the Is men whose future is . pooksellers, keepers of qu sorts, and other disreputable f ures who shine out resplendently in this world, so true that the daily newspapers keep such h “4 Trusted Cashier's Flight,” “An. other Saint Falls from ( ete., in type, ready for the fast appe persons who handle other people’ nnot at this are full andicapped ne divulge, we of bright youn, nls ‘t ring or disappearing money, method that will pre- interesting class of the community from being led astray, and he will rman than old Bill Vand vent this exceedingly hee hilt mea ‘ric Another One. ly hop elections were ove! {that the Presidential with Il that we have suffered, one. We allude to the coming election of officers for the Press Club. The Smith family comes to the {front, Partisan blood begins to boil, and also comes a Mer man, with the plume of colonel, who has m friends that swear—by him and often- times among themselves, for they are all of age, and the wax begins to warm, Last year the club labored heavily and brought forth a mouse, and it proposes to do better this year if possible. But as between the Smith and the Merriman, and the ‘cracking ” t they speak of, we hope the elub will get the kernel. ora few yea now, in the face of 2 comes anothe ny Arter pledging a veteran pawn-broker, in confidentially assured Tur Jupce that his business had few redeeming featur comicbooks.com