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# Explaining This Judge Magazine Page This page from *Judge* magazine contains political commentary on the 1884 presidential race. The main article, "Presidential Ball Players," uses baseball metaphor to mock the Republican presidential candidates—Chester Arthur, James Blaine, and others—comparing them unfavorably to newspaper editors. The piece also critiques New York's state Republican politics, specifically tensions between President Arthur and Governor Cornell over control of the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention. The satirist argues Cornell holds the advantage. The article takes aim at the Democratic Party's dysfunction, particularly its reliance on Samuel J. Tilden (the 1876 nominee), calling him an impediment to party unity—a jab at Democratic disorganization versus Republican discipline. The bottom sections—"The Terrors of the Suburbs" and "The Dog Days"—shift to local New York crime and animal-related commentary, typical lighter fare for the satirical weekly.
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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, 34 and 36 North Moore Street, Nv Ys PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (USTED STATES AND Casatoa Copy, for 13 works Aide Tue Irpoe PemLisurse Co, NOTICE: ators must pat their valuation upou the artic y ourselves fx}, oF other: + gratuitous send bject to a prte wise they will be reganled tnclasel for retarn postage, with name and address, if writers Wish to regain thelr declined articles, Presidential Ball Players. ‘Tue game of base-ball now being played by the newspaper nine against the Presidential candidate nine is becoming very interesting, anid it is safo at this stage of Uh diet that the vaper nine will bi ful, and that the I’ ial candidate nine will be out-batted, out-fielded, and outrun; that Chester A, Arthur, Samuel J. Tilde Horatio Seymour, Ulysses S. Conkling, Blaine, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, George H. Pendleton, and the venerable Peter Cooper will retire with a n gooseeggs to their credit, and th: the newspaper nine will have the satisfaction of beholding new men, with new ideas, aud with unsmirehed reegris, pitted against cach other in the hand-to- 1 encounter for, the Vresidential chair, Poor old Sammy! Even Dana is willing to admit at this time that the p sition to make the Sage of atone the Demoeratic candidate for Governor is jue ul Sammny’s only hope to gain rec- ognition ina Presidential Convention was by making a winning race for the Governorship. of this State. That the Democratic party of New York could ever unitesupon Sammy as their candidate for any office is as improbable as it is silly. ‘Time and again the Republican party has langht its opponents a lesson, but the Dem- uld not heed it. Whatever dissen- sions may exist, in the Republican party bes for nominating convention is held are buried when the convention adjourns, andthe factions are united util the close of the poll tion day, ‘Thus Republicans wi their party. Democrats dis after the rin the back on cle new pside James G, ocrats Ww vie- tories for ee both before an vention, and tion day, y make defeat certain for their party. filden rock is one upon which they will be split so long as that charming old man per: sists in pushing himself to the front as a ean- didate. Fellow Democrats, put Sammy on the The possible candid fora of President Arthur econd term dep | tine ) Arthur and his | population, have come at last. | well as lucrative and legitimate busine: ends in a great measure | we THE JUDGE. upon the result of the struggle in the State Convention this fall between his faction of the party and that of Governor Cornell. ‘The de- feat of Cornell for a renomination for the Gov- crnorship wili more than likely give the party whip to President Arthur, At the present Correll unmistakably holds that whip, and intends to use it for all it he Should he sueceed in obtaining a renomina- tion and re-election there is little doubt that it will be in his power to arrange the complex: of the New York delegation to the Repub- National Convention nest year. It is ident Arthur's hope to deprive Cornell of that pow nd the indications at the 1 ent time are that the President will be com- pelied to surrender to the Governor. Any one who will take the trouble to make in. quiries throughout the State will discover that while Cornell is not the most popular of me the unexpected accession of General Arihur the Presidency added nothing that gentleman's popularity, ‘The disgraceful con. «duct of Conkling and Platt, and the avows approval of their course by ¢ al Arthur, establis him in the minds of those who honored Gartield, and wh memory, as a most undesirable pers¢ time will not eff wo ne ed now revere his And gainst General Therefore we e this feeling companions. say fellow A. Arthur on the ice, inder of the Pre: with the to our aus, put Chester eandi- ible exception of ine, who is liable to rally, will no doubt be ctually disposed of as Presidential ball. ers, Blaine is at present sutfering from too much Shiphe from asunstroke, and | The rew «ential date nine, po rdness, but he once re may pull through bi | latest attliction, The Dog Days. ‘Tue dog days, or more properly putting it, perhaps, the last days of many of our canine The festiv official dog-catecher andthe small boy re- joiceth in view of the harvest, and the pro- prictors of pet pooules, pugs, ani terrie good to weep and gnash their te AWhen that sturdy alderman of years ago, Johu J. Morris, ypade itpossible to have the city‘orpamented with a dog-pound, wher the dags of all nations might be disposed of in a manner at once elegant and polite, the citizens of New York felt grateful to him, and although an alderman no longer, his works LYS Aller Lis Official” career; and we are as- Saved that during this season the removal of @arge percentage of the dog creation of this city Wilt be accomplished in the same recherche niannetas heretofore. And again we beg to enew to Alderman Morris the assurances of our most distinguished consideration. We may be permitted both to praise and blame the small boy who seeks not only to rid the city of dogs, but to add to his supply of pocket- Capturing stray dogs in the great and small thoroughfares and delivering them aus money. | over to the master of the pound for a consid- eration is time, as , but snot refrain from sympathizing with the most commendable ps = e fair sex—God bless “emm—when the small boys, in the wickedness of their nature, sever the strings by which the little poodles are led by them, and when th with the afores such occasion: ¢ same small boys make off” id poodles. Small boys ou should be fittingly denounced, and taken into convenient wood-sheds proper chastisement. While we must deplore the conduct of such small boys in pilfering dogs, yet we are almost inclined to overlook their criminality in the hope that the good work of exterminating dogs shall go bravely for on, The Terrors of the Suburbs. We have heard a great deal about the hum: ble imitators of the late Jes: ames in the West, and of the roaring, murdering cowboys of the Southwest, but judging by the conduct of many who take part in Sunds from this city, we have in our very midst ruf ans with whom the desperadoes of the West and Southwest would be a he recent case of the shooting of an inne villager at Dobbs’ Ferry is but one instance of the manner in which the Sunday excursio ists from New York have shown their ardice and brutality. Mere in this city (to the surprise ment of thousands pectable citizens) police officers 1 maintain something like order at times the unruly inclined, When t ion for wh y excursions cow: and wonde re se to ony orner loafers at they are pleased enjoyment,” and charter a Sunday excursion, the ing the people of the sth. form an associa to call i barge anv first step in terror pvered | Urbs has been taken, It 'y to say that in yuntry place, where the villagers requit uniformed officers of the law to keep them in a state of peacefulness, the scoundrels trom the slums of New York find that they are free and untrammeled in their desire to creat ror, and to do dam is searcely ne ter- e to peaceful humanity and respectable property. — Alre whispers that the villagers along the Hudson propose to give these thugs fron New York warm receptions in the future, and we trust thatthe villagers willdo their work well. If by some ageney the barges drawn up the Hudson on Sundays could be landed atthe yard of the State prison at Sing Sing dy we hear and the excursion $ gathered into that institution for further use, we might well rejoice. Let us hope, however, that the villagers who have sutfered on so many occasions at the hands of the liquor-soaked cowards, who boldly form asso. ciations in this city, and who make excursions on Sundays, will find upon landing at the vil- lages near New York that they have stepped into beds of nitroglycerine or dynamite, Some of John Kelly's interested friends will have it that he is in such poor health that he has got to give up political managing and go abroad a couple of years in order to pull him- self together. Really, the last time we saw John, he didn’t look much like a hospital candidate. In fact, he looked like a man capable of wrestling with his hash, with a good prospect of getting away with it. But the wish is probably daddy to the thought. comicbooks.com