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This page satirizes late-19th-century American politics through a faux-biblical narrative ("Chronicles of Gotham"). The main cartoon depicts a **telegraph strike's domestic consequences**: a daughter receives a garbled telegram from her father that reads "Tell your mother to wait; I will be home and skin her at five o'clock" instead of the intended message about dining. The joke targets the **incompetence of strike-replacement operators**, showing how labor disruption creates chaos. The accompanying text discusses the Tewksbury Committee's investigation of Governor Butler, criticizing his handling of institutional affairs. Other brief news items mock various contemporary issues: a salt-well venture in New York, Connecticut's singing societies, and various minor scandals. The "Chronicles" framework mocks political factionalism by presenting Tammany Hall Democrats, Republicans, and political figures as warring biblical tribes, reducing their disputes to absurd tribal squabbles. The satire emphasizes corruption, backroom dealing, and the foolishness of partisan politics.

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— a = —— = CHRONICLES OF GOTHAM. CHAPTE ame to pr asthe ti rew near fort ruler over the kingdom the chiefs of the tribe did eall tog following: | 2, And the chief of the tribe | and his follows 1 favor the chief of the tribe of Dim | vor another man; that when the men favored: by the did in nowise know to whieh | to give their offerings, called ve 4, Now the chief men of the tr mikrats did say: We will in 1 with ‘Taemany an name is Khelly, whois called Theb | the people yr in the time gone by did he net ere- ate a trouble the n of this 6. Peradventure will make mo so we will net I ing, « iy the tribes, and wats not ble Split? the n time te come The any of his -many, in our council. " Theboss did hear this thing he was exceeding wroth, and did say. Do ve think, ye foolish Dimmikrats, that ye ean &. Know ve, or is \| and it reaclies to the uttermost borde even f waters in the east to’ the And Twill make my power felt if ve wav: E will woof the differ. | that ye not of, and [will | 10, ‘Now the men of the tribe of Dimmi- | krats were in noway fri 1 by this man, | AWFUL RESULT OF THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE hut did as they thought best in their own | Daughter reads Telegram from her Father—7 skin her at five o'clock. ‘lie CN. BLAU thy : HM your mother to wait ; Fwill be home and it happened, there ws | he names of them were Re ault of the blundering new operator, who should have said, ** will be Jd Stalwarts home to dinner.”) | And they of the tribe of Republica e i i ; . did put forward a man of their tribe, and + from the land of beans, und | | Tue majority report of the ‘Tewksbury Committee deals severely with the course of inst th s of Ta-n t Dinuikr tp 2, Pat me forward as the chief ruler over Governor Butler during the investigation, if the tribes called Politi the kingdom, «nd you people will be happy. | Thi surprising. From the little TH 13. Now there dwelt in the borders oft And these men did make large promi- | JUDGE has read of the ca has made up camp of Ge man of the tribe of S nd they went abroad through the land, | his mind that these Tewksbury folk hay ithe olfarings called Votes. unpleasant way of dealing with cors mid Be ne op old wane snd ve that | how—they deal with them or in them on || 14. And in the tim man | 24. And these things came to. pass: 1 of the tribe of Samuel, was | when the men of the different tribes, of the | Purely business principles. | || Tilden, strive to be ruler over the kingdom | tribe of Ta-many, and of the tribe of Dit — | || of Unkulpsalm. mikrats, and of the tribe of Republicans and pany, composed of Rochester | | 15. And he did have a great follow rts, did meet in alarge gatheri men, with a capital of $300,000, has been or- | | but by reason of trickery was lefeated a-certain number of men f ganized to put down a salt’ well in | yet he was in noway east down in spirit: all the different tribe 16, For did he not have a number of she- | gether and put forward a man unknown, the vena barrel full of the tokens in | whom they called Darkhor: nd Dahlah? 26, And the nameof this Darkhor: ay to the dwellers | known to the dwellers in any of the rruler, for have 27. And now the politicians and the men | join themsel A salting compa- York men, without been organized to put down the ph dudes who haunt the Casino. over-fre in the camps: [not had knowle ays of the law- | of the tril E aloud noise | THe gathering of Connecticut singing so- givers and of the politician of jawing: but the names of the men are not | cieties, at Hartford, closed last week, and the 18, Yea, I have much knowleds told to the people. B. 7. P. | medical officers of the State Lunatic Asylum thi =— “ : say that some of the vietims nj ? “Dispatenes from Shanghai indicate Hartford is badly ur books | that the lower showing great | inhabitants say ‘th that ye honor the old men? for Lam old, y hostility towards Europ And dis- | cholera. nearly four-score years have I lived, and Tam | patches from San Francisco indicate that the | anxious for this honor. | lower classes there are showing great hostil- | AN 0, But the dwellers in the camp did not | ity tow Asiatic | been y recover, nd her pad the and did [not learn th 19, And is it not wri aken, howeve no. longer 1d lady who, in her young! ly disappointed ‘in lo ys, had || hearin k with favor on this man of the tribe of | - some one Say that the mails were very irreg- | | samuel; and they said amongst themselves, |‘ Bak robbers se ular, said ** It was just so in my youngdays | | He has } ; We want younger men. | uable jewelry from the —no trusting on em.” “ l | | 21. Now there were men from the west, | Bank of Cok r, Mich., while the cashier, 3 | from the land of corn; and men from the | was busy.” It'll bea cold day when the rob-| Is a humorous manuscript an M-s-ary of | | | south, from the land of blue-grass; and men | bers take cold water. fun? : \ | | a . a — enti . sania ' comicbooks.com