Judge, 1882-10-28 · page 2 of 18
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# Analysis: Judge Magazine Page This page from Judge (likely 1880s based on style) contains political satire targeting New York Democratic politics. **Main Cartoon ("The Judge to His Friends")**: Shows the magazine's editor addressing supporters. The text reveals Judge's founding mission: satire "for fun" rather than profit, with humorous goals like making people laugh so they'd buy more clothes, and establishing a "free beanery" (soup kitchen). The accompanying cartoon depicts the editor among well-dressed associates. **Secondary Content**: - "Down Brakes" warns Republicans (via engineer metaphor) against complacency, comparing their political machine to a train needing careful handling - "Celebrating His Nomination" mocks Irish-American Democratic ward politician "O'Haggerty," satirizing the tradition of treating supporters to alcohol after nomination—depicting him treating friends at a saloon **Context**: These pieces reflect Judge's role as Republican-leaning satirical commentary on urban machine politics, ethnic Democratic politicians, and American political culture of the Gilded Age.
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lo” CONGR! WASHINGT © THE JUDGE PUBLISHING 00., B4 and 36 North Moore Street, N. Ys PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Usrrep States xp Casatiay One Cops, one year, of 52 numbers One Copy, SX month oF 26 numbers One Copy, for 13 weeks 128 POSTAGE FREE “Ga Tue JevGk PeALIsMiNe Co., 34 anil 96 North Moore St, N.Y. orice: Contribotors must pat thelr valuat a price we mai wise they will be reganted a mel for retarn pe upon the art urselves x), oF other: senil to as (sutye gratuit Stamps sbould ge. with naiwe apd address, if writers regain their declined articles, Down Brakes. ‘Tue Republican train has run so safely and sily over the same smooth and level road for a number of years that its conductor has come to the conclusion it can run itself, and requires little or no attention from the train hands, This is a mistake. Even th Republican machine requires careful hand- ling, and a gang of determined wreckers can soon raise an obstruction on the smoothest road which will derail any train. And this locomotive drags a good many cars bebind it, and many of them are loaded with very unsavory freight. Down brakes, Engineer Folger; your train is rushing on to destruc- tion. Celebrating His Nomi tion. Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we may —be elected or defeated; in either ¢ spirituous fortification will not come am Mr. O'Haggerty has got the nomination f Alterman from his ward, and, of course, the t by McGovern, ‘a sound. politician and good Dimocrat himself”—1must profit by such an occ Does Mr. O'Hagy friends by playing Amphitryon ? having, assuredly ; but he would ni enemies if he neglected the custom ‘and so the libations flow, in a manner more liberal than ereditable, and fresh arguments are furnished those who criticise our pot- house p. ne and their method of con- ducting the canvass in their wards, The subject is not a savory onc, but every Demo- crat will recognize the life-like fidelity of the picture, and good Democrats will blush, We are a long, long way from the political mil- lennium yet. ack room of the neighboring saloon—kept asion. rly make any ne worth ke many ary rites, Sounp advice on the political question in New York: Don't ask it. AN unfeeling epitaph: ‘Gone to meet his mother-in-law, The Judge to His Friends. Fiety-tTwo weeks o THe JupGe intro- duced himself to his friends in the following words: 8 no ob- Thave started this paper for fun. Ject; let sordid souls seek that. I have got all I want, If money is forced upon me throuzh the enterprise 1 shall found a hospital or a free beanery with it; my only object being to make people lau grow fat, 80 a8 to require more cloth for their clothes, in this yy indirectly helping th ereats of | the country. For my associates I have selected men | who have made yo or pencil, and I trust yon will shake hands with some of them every week and be happy. T have not come into crowd anybody else out, but only to make one | more to aaalst the world to see the joyous aide of lif, and if I fail to please it shall not be for want of try- Money mannfactarin langh before, either with pen That is what THe Jupce said a year ago. and that is what he says still. He hasn't made quite cnough money yet to start the beanery, but he ential agent in Bos: | ton beating down the price of beans, and. be- another y Equal pi leges will be extended to the old friends he has ade and the new fr ake, ‘To the former he says, “Glad to see | in; to the latter, “Glad to make quaintance;” and to all, * Weleome.” fh the jolly old Judge without nile on his countenanc sacon ar—we shall see. vi nds he is going to | you | your You won't ¢ 1, on an occa “Try sion like this, in his cupboard also. suthin’? Frying-Pan or Fire. BeTweeN frying-pan and fire there is not much to choose, and probably none but some of the old martyrs who have sampled both ways would be competent to give advice on the subject. From the drift of the proverb, ‘Tur Jupce would infer that the frying-pan is preferable, and that seems to be Mr. Folger’s opinion, for he is unwilling to leave the fryir pan of the Treasury Department for the fire of New York politics... Tn any case he is sure ofa very suff nt roasting. “Resatved on_ Tue Jude will not be found for sale on the stands of the Manhattan News Co., at the elevated railroad stations. ‘This company has imbibed the principles of the monopoly it serves, and Tue Jupcr declines, now or at any other time, to defer to its exactions, and consequently refuses to pose on its news stands, Passengers on the elevated railroad will find this paper on sale all along the route of the various roads, at the news stands on the avenues. We will not permit THe Jupce to be sold at the elevated railroad stations. A complete list of the newsdealers who will supply Tur Jcpce to his readers on the ele- vated railroad route will be found on the 13th page of this issue. Tue Business Men's Mod has been analyzing beer, and tl it, apparently, all their fancy | something more. ition Society ave found inted it, and For a long time we have been taught to believe that lager beer was Heceitful above all things and desperately wicked. r otherwise. report of According to the the B. M. M. Society, brewers are the most maligned class in the com munity; beer is absolutely pure, cohol in it to speak ¢ quite a Sunda: verage. Now, let tie business men give their clerks beer to rink instead of ice-water in s let the brewers start a fountain near the Post-oflice, with a spray attachment for moistening postage stamps. Beer is whole- somer than ice-water anyway, and we live in a prog has no | and, in fact, is school t mer, and ssive age. Lapy correspondents ‘ike to hear from their mail friends, Favorite resort of the prohibitionists: The island of Ushant. ‘THE party you n polished off by: pect to be A very interesting performance: The play of the comicbooks.com