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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains two main satirical pieces: **"Dana and Dorsey"** (top left): Critiques Charles Dana, editor of *The Sun* newspaper, for hypocritically accusing James G. Blaine of "poaching" (improper political activity) while Dana himself engages in similar behavior. The piece sarcastically notes no one can accuse Blaine of wrongdoing since he keeps his hands empty—a reference to Blaine's cautious political maneuvering. **"Fishing? Oh, No!"** (main article): An extended metaphor comparing Blaine's political strategy to a boy fishing illegally. Like the boy who hides his fishing rod on forbidden property and claims innocence when caught, Blaine uses partisan newspapers as cover ("a pole stuck in the bank") while maintaining plausible deniability. The satire suggests Blaine is strategically positioning himself for the presidency while appearing inactive. **"Hoadly's Dilemma"** (right): References Ohio political complications facing Judge Hoadly, likely related to factional disputes or the Woodward letter (appears to be a contemporary scandal). The overall theme mocks political hypocrisy and strategic deception during the Gilded Age.

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THE JUDGE. fitable pastime. HOADLY’S DILEMMA. | id meanwhile no one can accuse Mr. — 1] Blaine of poaching. No one can say he is| THE political pot is boiling merrily in He has only to point to his empty | Ohio, and there is every chance that it may ul cite his general aspect of idleness, | Beil over se as to scald the pedal extremit j of Judge Hoadly. The fact DANA AND DORSEY. are a good many issues to bs West in the ¢ concilable as to require very delicate treat- ment, and just as the worthy Hoadly had If a bite comes, well and fishing. hands is that there handled out Aut New York, Long Island and the Je seys know The Sun to be alive and enter- ming npaign; some so irre- 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Fraoklin Square.) | prising paper, and Mr. Dana to be aman | made up his mind, to a certain extent, how SEW YORK. who prides himself on always keeping at to tackle them, along comes the Woodward PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. of, and in cases of emergency a little in ad- | letter and complicates his position amazingly. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. i of, the march of events. We had | But Ohio is a State surprises—it fully (Uxerep Sta Canepa | nearly written “of the times,” butthismight | earned that distinetion when it’ gave us tay | suggest a comparison, for whieh Mr, Dana | Hayes, and it_may have other surprises in ‘ we 3008 ¥ Pearl St, New York. EUROPEAN AGENTS MPAs, 11 Boaverte St, (Fleet St.) Lasbos, Exacaxp, Tue Istexsatiosat. News NOTICE. FISHING? OH, NO! no one will be impolite enough to ask—when Tre Jvc was a little boy, he was very fond of fishing. But the trout-stream which he most affected | was the property—at least one bank of it was —of a man who discouraged little boys in ft, and used to drive them away when he caught them fish- | ing in his waters. So the little boys were ac- customed to stick their rods into the bank on the forbidden side, and retiring to the safety of the neutral territory, watch for a If the proprietor came along they Loxe aco—how lon the pursuit of the gentle nibble. could, with more or less truthfulness, assert that they were not fishing; but when the coast should a fish rise to the tempting bait, how quickly they would be s the stream, and how earnestly they But nobody Certainly not. was clear, aer would try to land their victit could say they were fishing. Ah, those were happy days. ‘Tue Jevce knows nothing of the boyhood of James G. Blaine, but thinks it by no means improbable that he used to enjoy a | © : ¥ | fine grove of cotton tre day’s fishing occasionally under similar cir. cumstances. It is very certain that if he ever did, he has not forgotten the art—and the artfulness— ht by the forbidden trout stream. Does anyoné accuse Mr. g for the Presidency? Like the boy whose rod is stuck in the bank, he can point innocently to his empty hands, and, with more or less truthfulness, rt that he is not fishin; But should a fish rise to the bait, how quickly he will be across the stream, the enthusiastic fisherman! and how earnestly he will try to land his victim. This vicarious fishing, with the pole stuck in the bank of a few partisan newspapers, and the bait deftly cal clubs, is a very safe, and, no doubt, a Blaine of angli | Dana attached by a few politi- | one can see he bas no visible means of suf would never forgive us— tween The Sun and The Dana ha comparison b ve. And, no dou But if Mr. | prised men in the country will be Judge like of | Hoadly. if he comes through the camp able to a | without losing a feather. one of the most sur- mes. a fault—and the most 1 ries have faults—it is trac our sp proneness to discuss any topic he may have of ad nauseam Ile has recently ator I v, of Sta and has opened the chaste and become enamore THE GREAT STRIKE. torun it into the ground. Propancy nostrike in our and ation has attractes strike of the tele for obvious re come cnamored of ex: Route fame. exclusive ances. > much attention as the and that The battle has been a nd in its pre raph operator umns of The Sun to his utter- ts w, Mr. Dorse: ons. man with a grievance; indeed he might be described, without error, as a man of many grievances, | J | toa very and he delights toair them. What man | with a grievance or grievances does not? tion of the telegraph service has been more And Mr. D: r | : s or less felt, for the present day this light- them, and the consequence is, that the first | aie eal | ning method of communication, all unknown page of The Sun is, at intervals, devoted to | ia beosine a a detailed statement of Mr. Dor: f "1 . : than ordinary postal That much-maligned gentleman is disposed Rs a <u Reine The circumstance of the Hae hie tromiles i peculiar connection of the publie with this on long and fierce on ss and results the public ha been directly interested In every of life dd by a partial ¢ the inconvenience te delights to permit him to a though it was to our fathe ne $s wrongs. les: commun’ queruious spirit, and ke the most of them, and a column strike has given rise to some very peculiar more or less being nothing to Mr. Dana, Mr. ei more eing nothing to Mr. Dana, Mr. | theories which have been boldly enunciated Dorsey spreads himself. : Alas for those | BY certain journals, not the least whimsical eee 20F pie of which is the suggestion that telegraph nd | | operators should be regularly enli: But alas for the readers! who glanc over the once sprightly Sun me fing, 7h the too igre nd ominous | that’s sction. Cron: theieinatruniant ing, lorsey Speaks Agains sink ito | their part, should be punished in the a condition of shuddering collay tivel Oh, give us a res' those whose hearts heave and plain- | Alas for | igainst the pesti- . : rs a Pe about as impracticable and unpractical as lential exhalations of decayed political mat- | . 4 * | anything well could be. ter which Mr. Dorsey so persistenly rakes |)" 4 pe a er their very noses. ‘or those over under their very noses. Alas for those | srerators are employ | tion, ‘The operators have no direct concern with the public. The public’s contract is with the corporation, and it is bound to find means of fulfilling that contract; but the right of the operitor to retire from his place when he is discontented with it, or when by so doing he thinks he ean better himself, is as clear and indefeasable as that of any work- man to knock off work when it seems good to him todo so. It devolves upon employ- ers to offer their workmen such inducements as will prevail on them to render faithful and | continuous service. Inthe absence of a con- | tract, no employer has any other hold upon | his laborers than that of money paid for ser- | vice done. To exempt a corporation—the | Western Union or any other—from the in- able law of supply and demand, which | rules in every labor market in the world, || y as the desertion of a soldier from the ranks, ‘This is admirable in theory, but is Ww Soldiers are en- vernment, and telegraph — | sd to serve a corpora- rve the who cannot take a lively interest in such per- Mr. Dorsey has a and is now build- “He has one fence that is thirty miles long "—prob- ably he foresees that an emerg Ly aris in which he will have to straddle it, and de- sires to have room to slide along according to his strength. But, in all seriousness, the sooner Mr, n find some more savory subject to waste his space on, and the sooner he desists from nauseating people with Mr. Dorsey and his grievances, the better it will be for The Sun and the readers thereof. sonal details as thi ing a fish-pond for black, bass.” A VAGRANT with one leg was sent to jail for thirty days; the judge remarking, “any port.” comicbooks.com