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# "The Judge" Political Cartoon Analysis This page contains two satirical pieces mocking American political figures and social scandals of the era. **"On to Washington!"** mocks a political candidate (likely from Massachusetts, based on text) and his supporters' enthusiasm for his presidential ambitions. The satire suggests his campaign will sweep through states with grand promises, building a cult of personality that will eventually elevate him to the White House—implying his rise is based on spectacle rather than substance. **"Dentist Davis' Dilemma"** ridicules a Portland dentist named George H. Davis facing ten breach-of-promise lawsuits from women. The joke: Davis defends himself by claiming he was merely taking his "proper ratio" of one man per ten women—essentially a polygamy argument. The satire exposes the absurdity of his defense while also mocking the women's desperation to marry and a Chicago woman allegedly juggling four husbands. The final quip about "sauce for the gander" suggests gender hypocrisy in marriage expectations. Both pieces use exaggeration to critique social climbing, legal absurdity, and romantic desperation in Gilded Age America.
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of howd 15 2 bholograbh mhich the had te he’ hero of Tewksbury will drive a four-in-hand through every State in the Union, and the clarion notes of his tally ho! will sound in every hamlet. The Plancus Ring will follow him, swell- augmenting in numbers. praises of their General a and his name will become a hold word in every hamlet of the land. After a stump speech has been delivered ‘ymphia they proceed, hou is to circulate some written pled to those 1 by the tempera id true men will sign, i for Presi- less of consequences, nia is in cestasies. She says the t in this last election for achusetts, will be the step- stone to his success as President; then he exchange the silver spoons of N. Or- aan for the spoons of the White-hous ON TO WASHINGTON ! Dentist Davis’ Dilemma. have breach-of-promise Ten ladies of Portland, preferred Ce against George H. Davis, the principal plain- Oregon, tiff in the case bei Miss Minnie Wood, a blue-eyed blonde the other young ladies took the stand in his own defence; a that his intentions had been wilfally misin- terpreted by the fair ones. The only trouble in the vas their too great anxiety to get husband. As there marriageable man to ten or a dozen women, he was only taking upon himself about the proper ratio. I ide glances at the young ladies he above sentiment, and » imagined, interrupted many and exclamations of ** brate,” & Mormon saint,” ‘ Brigham Young,” ete., | bythe indignant fair ones. was only about one | Paltlewas elected on the" Vndehendent Reforw- Gr cow Woe Je shor” Ticker and arvives With, Ale Tdea lhob Ae wall Lon low greatly his sympathy for them would wd with the jury cannot be de- for, before the close of the trial, from Chicago that Davis ady three wives there who were al ata arting for Portland to condole¢ with the es damsels of that question now is, can thirteen di make Davis a happy busband. Iso hear of a woman in Chic | has already four husbands, with p more, if the | is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.” A literary lady of thirty-seven writes to one of the papers that she has just arrived a delightful to marry; but she don’t whether she will take a man with already one | or more wives or no. A boy is called “a young hopeful,” be cause the one hopeful thing about him is that he will not always be young. comicbooks.com