Judge, 1882-11-04 · page 3 of 16
Judge — November 4, 1882 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# "The Judge" Page Analysis This page from Judge magazine consists primarily of **political commentary letters** rather than illustrated cartoons. The small cartoon at top left ("Judgments") and the illustration titled "The End of the Big Walk" appear secondary to the text. The letters address various 19th-century political figures—including Secretary of the Navy (likely referencing scandals), politicians involved in the Ohio election, and figures from railroad politics. The writing critiques politicians for corruption, inappropriate behavior, and poor judgment, using sarcastic humor typical of Judge's satirical approach. "The End of the Big Walk" illustration appears to depict someone being thrown out or expelled, likely referencing a specific political scandal or embarrassment, though the exact reference is unclear without additional context about contemporary events. The overall tone mocks incompetent or disgraced politicians while praising integrity, suggesting this reflects post-Reconstruction era political reform debates and party scandals that dominated 1870s-80s American politics.
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a yeNts gunn X po | ror. Tyspats, why do you build an iron house ? Do you not know that it will require lots of tint Skeretany of the Navy Chandler, what are yo doing here in the character of a"longshioreman? Do you know nothing about duff on Thursdays? Why di you go to John DuiT to find how to make it? Secret the Ohio election has swamped you. Do you not know | bilge-water from jig-water? You are not fit to man a prairie schooner, much less a schooner of beer. Mx. Rowesoy, it were better for your party if you were ont of politics. Perhaps some of the hard things said against you have never been sustained. But your | election would demoralize the publie mind, because inst you. As soon as a man Is 6¢ suspected as you have been, he his party, step down and out if you thin people to be wrong, you sbould not seek justitiea! It is better that n sutfer than that the pe should sustain what they consider to be immo: that a party should die, There was someth about Belknap, who has recove deal in yy lic estimation by his brave bear But he has not ‘nt public office. Mr. Jouy Ketty, whatever may be said of yon, the article in your paper, the Star, on the Prescott trial, does you great eredit. It Is hi that every loafer who happens to have ey enough to pay a theater ticket should be checked ar notion r3 Filet that oes upon tt he is to be leered at and r in a trifing way ——, == believes that women who go upon great sacrifice to the public. If they suc show that tt ve superior intelligence. Ulackguarls cease to traduce actresses at wholesale they will bezin to look with respect upd who walk the street or show themselves THE END OF THE BIG WALK, hefore the vulzar-minded fools. _ Homage to Tieneniee Rostysos, your proper name, Tne hows, is William E., but years ago you wre Peunsylvania Railroad were nc s favor. | Perhaps you anticipate the downfall of the Republican pught It, and it knows his. stron: Jes, | party on account of the irretrievable break between f his friends gave the vote which led to the elec: | the Stalwarts and the Half-breeda, But itis not prob- 1 of Sewell, and thelatter is not likely to have in- | able, Mr. Blaine, that a vietorious Democratic party atitude laid u sinst him, ° would go into the Republican party for a candi It has had the Greeley experience, and it wou have to go beyond the score of strong men in its own nks whom it could trust. ‘The Democrats do not Jove you, even though your adversaries may admire wr letters over the signature of * Richelieu, which the Tridune ever a In us champion of Ire- son in the world why champion im Congres . Hasrtos, you were a brave man. » Turks and th a Americans, have 1 the South, but m many champions in the Parliament of England, But, Mr, parts of the North, yon are known asa nice man K., sometimes you are too sereechy; you roar tow | Your feelings arv yuod. You are of a Southern kind, much; you do tot secure proper regard for your cause, | which, whether for ill or good, is not yet quite thor- you good-humored, loaferish style to n you, Mr. Blaine, that in which you everted your powers of jean audiences saw that your pow- rather hecause you go too fast, too far, too hotly r in the Tuk Jepax knows winds are not the best for blowing at industrious wind. | and appreciates you and your kind, You nev w mills. Now, a man like Mr, Richard O Gorman, whoso | too old to be “a good fellow." But you must not Irish blood ¢ far enough, so that the | think that you can bave it all your own way, and still > sometions alm compel people to like 3 Your doctrines were wh ped in the war, heory of the war was ‘ause he wisely | correct; and now you aru branding everybody as a Howsko Carrot, young politicians, like new . sweep clean. After all, you are a breezy Robinson, you | traitor to a § who is not with the old Bourbon bs Aud IU wad never “Hey faaltiol yours ty but you have the warning that That doctrine is believed by many B MrsHt anit ite i oe nowepayrer men, you will do Ireland the most good by a little more co: even oth, to be a dried-up, cobwebbel Micians were :£0 ietnall shi), Contempulbie: tht uld not discover you until you were a rich "s son-in-law. You are brighter by far th men who are taken up by the politician | nominated the Astor, who was richer than you. aL tell Tae Jener, Mr. Howard Carroll, whether you did not first of all perceive that your daddy servative mode of action of speech, Why shall such peop! be permitted to exist? ; . In New Jersey, ) Mr. Wietiase Ware Pieters, you are ambitious to i aise ths Ualiad Siaies Goniats trom the Slate St Nee | the parties are pretty evenly divided, the Dem: Dition is not unworthy of you, First, ected to Congress, But, Mr. Phelps, Hf you wish to gu to the Senate, you must defeat two strong men. Tue Jupar thinks that you t have 1 even chance with Frelinghuysen; but neither you hor Frelinghuysen is as strong as Hobart. The latter isa shrewd, skillfal man of the world, who says little | j and does much. The Pennsylvania Railroad will not | all ew Hampshire and Connecticut ve a few opinions of their own, Your poning style would not fast a minute in those States, General, thes hi wider than South Carolina—the Nation; something was the stepping stone to polities. Tell him t see it before the politicians did. wider than the Nation—the worl b didn All that Tie: Jupae on this oe to you Mr. Janes G, Buarye, you are charged with enter- | is that you be not too fresh. Do not bounce into the into a conspiracy by which you are to make an | arena ikea Humpty Dampty with all your pai nce with the Democratic party, which ts to give | powder, You are not the only living oppose him. In fact, we think it would aid him, to | you the Presidency, provided that yon will foster, com- | affonl to 2 are young and untried, cause it has a great interest in New Jersey, anid . | mand and administer a scheme by whic There wen while we do not think it owns him, it considers him a | Southern States are to have their debts paid out of the | before you skillful business man, while you are a little literaryand | Treasnry of the United States. You ha’ en some a 10 ever There were ¢ theoretical, and Frelinghnysen is too much of a Grant | justifieation to this notion by the interview whieh you | s one Darwin, one Bonaparte, man. Besides, Hobart has a strength among working | accorded to a reporter in Chicago, and the amount of — one Washin: aps there is only one Howard politicians, while you have not. He could be elected | discussion that it raised may have turned your head, | Carroll, But last one to say 80. comicbooks.com