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# Understanding "The Judge" Political Cartoon Page This page from *Judge* magazine contains satirical commentary attacking Democratic politicians while defending Republicans during what appears to be the 1884 presidential campaign (references to Cleveland and Hendricks). The top comic strip mocks billiards as an "easy" game requiring minimal effort—a metaphor for Democratic governance portrayed as lazy and corrupt. The lengthy letter below attacks Democratic "boot-cleaning," using shoes as a metaphor for moral corruption. It accuses Democrats of ignoring scandals by party members (Postmaster Fowler, Tweed, Beauregard) while hypocritically censuring Republicans. The writer sarcastically suggests Democrats' "souls and boots would be blackened to eternity." The author defends Republicans as "friends of the Government or fighters for the flag," invoking Civil War service as moral credential. He criticizes Democrats for aligning with wartime enemies and Confederate figures. This represents *Judge's* partisan Republican stance, using elaborate metaphors and Civil War nostalgia to delegitimize Democratic candidates through character attacks rather than policy discussion.

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rene mr rene THE JUDGE. cx YES SIR, BILLIARDS INVOLVES TOO MUCH HARD WHAT YOU WANT 15 my You susy pur it Yous EASY CHAIR AND — Easy BILIARD PLAYER Cc ACROSS THE TABLE FROM 2 WHILE A SMALL Boy And act THL WORK You Ov LET ER GO, AND 21P GOFS OPPONENT 13 HAPPY ARDOO-US LABORS 1S TO PULL BACK THE SPRING DRIVER, AND SMCS AS HE moves ANOTHER COUNT THEN YOUR | RESTS FROM Kis WORK LOOK 17 OVER ,CHOLLY + SHALL KNOCK SHALL BE YouR COGNOMEN CHorey , MY O10 CHummy (Exit 85 o¢ ) under Democratic protection. Postmaster Fowler, of New York, went to the tropics for his health, and the Democratic party is boots. Cornelius Buchanan memory, nipulated a million dollars out of the rnment printing office, and his Demo- cratic shoes are not in Gilam’s list. Your old and pious friend, the illustrious Tweed, | and his Democratic patriots, robbed the people of New York out of twenty millions of dollars, and, my pretty Puck, you fail to set his “‘schooners” in the hall for the ar- tistic finish that is given daily by the 7 dune to the daisies of the independent p While you are boot cleaning and manipu- lating mud in the Democratic boots of Beauregard who shot at Sumter, Che mers and Forrest who murdered unarmed men at Fort Pillow, Wirz and Turner who starved and killed Union soldiers at Libbie Prison and Andersonville, and Raphael mmes who plundered and killed on tho | high seas in the name of Democracy—cop- perheads and cowards, who hung innocent | lack men on the lampposts in New Yor! OUT DEAR BOY, AND THE APPELATIVE DENNIS You| Tas mince was ary OFFERING AN “EASY USED .FOR Sac AT THAT COMPLIMENT BUT Semenow OR OTHER Tu SPHING OVERDID NTHELP, AND INSTEAD OF CHOY BEG RNOCHED OUT RO PLAYER’ 34:GuTAY IN PACT AMY PRICE We ARE dark hall to themselves, where their souls and boots would be blackened to eternity by Gillam and his slush scandal mongers. You can see, therefore, that, the little matter of public robbery by party patriots, honors and the darling Democracy say nd make up the books while th other boys are playing the deuce. The array of Republican boots and shoes in your cartoon is very good. ‘The gentle- men who have the honor of your censure were friends of the Government or fighters for the flag when manhood march What delight the old soldie: voting for Clevel and Hendr es of the hom ards! I can i neellorville, burg 4 y rch up to the pol in solid phalanx, with the wounded substi- tutes of the Democratic candidates, and vote for the heroic warriors who fought, « range, in the terrible Indianapolis! Those were men’s souls, and what a record Cleveland nd Hendricks made for their beloved ountry, when treason, with brazen front, city, and introduced poison, disease and firo | to destroy northern citics, should have a battled against its 1i You give my shoes a place of too much Tho ball and J, and appeals to t but. you prominence in your picture, chain is very witty, inde the best ele | should have placed beside th handeuffs, a policeman’s club, sh that Democracy laid over the bare back | of liberty! Iam a little put out about t stub style of the shoes, for you should kne | my precious Puck, that I wear patent-leath- || , the dudiest of the dude Yet, | IL amuse your with my political points, and, by the clo: the campaign, you will stand out to the world without at or sf as an are rant little fraud, without patriotism or prin- | | ciple to place a picture upon. | Pre: nt Blaine will adorn the White House, with the wisdom of Washington, the firmn kson, and the loyalty of Lin- | | coln; and then the independent mugwumps will have a chance to lie forever in the back shed of Deme yand oblivion, The Phari- | seeg must be kicked so far out of the loyal Synagogue that the trump of Gabriel or Gil- Jam will not arouse them from slumbe that honesty and patriotism shall neve: | be troubled with horn-blowers and He hypocrites. of Ja comicbooks.com