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# "Who Is Handicapped?" — Judge Magazine Political Cartoon This page satirizes **Grover Cleveland's 1884 presidential campaign**. The main cartoon depicts Cleveland as literally "handicapped"—burdened by multiple weights labeled with his perceived liabilities: his opposition to protective tariffs ("Free Trade"), his personal scandals, and his ties to monopolists. The accompanying text attacks Cleveland viciously, claiming he's the "tool of monopolists" and a "libertine" who offers nothing to working men—only job-killing free trade policies that would "shut up half the factories." The article argues Republicans shouldn't fear Democratic victory because Providence won't allow it and Cleveland's own scandals will doom him. The page also includes poems and humorous anecdotes unrelated to the main political content. This reflects Judge's format as a satirical weekly mixing political commentary with general humor and lighter fare. **Context**: Judge was a Republican publication; this represents partisan anti-Cleveland propaganda from the 1884 election cycle.
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who has opposed their welfare in every way, and blockaded the legislation calculated for their benefit by every means in his power. ‘They will not do it. be Demo- cratic in politics, but first—before everything re husbands, fathers—men. Why should they vote for Cleveland? = What has he done for them? He has shown himself the tool of monopolists, the slave of wealth, the stubborn enemy of the people. Such is his public record as far as it goes. In. pri- vate life he isa libertine, and workingmen find nothing attractive in that character. As a Democrat he offers free trade—that is, he threatens to shut up half the factories and workshops of the United States, and throw their hands out of employment. Such is Cleveland, the man the Democrats nomi- nated, and now what reason is there for hop- ing that he will get a single vote outside of those controlled or influenced by the monopo- lies he has consistently truckled to. ‘True, there are a certain class of Republi- cans who admire just such traits as Grover Cleveland is possessed of, but that class is fortunately small. He will gain their votes —say one for every ten Democratic votes he has sacrificed, and where will he be in No- vember. Providence is not yet ready to hand over this country to Democratic rule. They may else—they quatriennial blunder—greater this y ever before—whereby cach Democratic defeat is made to partake so much of the nature of a suicide. Chairman Barnum's Appeal. [vo THe “vippeR” waned.) Wowas, spare G. C.1 Raise not a single row In youth he ill-used the But hy » thee Insane But wom: in oIry now asylum cot; now fo ‘And wealth shall be thy lot His heart still clings to thee— Bove all his female friends! And if elected, he Will surely make a From “Percy F He will remove the blot; He'll wed his boyhood’s flame, — And “Ball” shall tie the knot, sey. 208Lr. ends, paine, Tue son of a politician being asked at an examination to decline the word office, was made to do so, but in disgust sent the fol- lowing palliative exeus * Oftice is 1 Which every loafer wants in town; To decline Un-America common no foolish and absurd.” “ Mama, why does Papa call the door mat “ceremony?’” «* What do you mean, dear? Papa doesn’t.” “Oh! yes, Mama, he does. © When Mr. Brown was rubbing his feet on it, before he came in, Papa told him not to stand on ceremony, and he got off it at once.” When it | is, it will omit to inspire them with their | ar than | Monographs. TOO LATE. Why at the Gilderay made me her slave. Amy head— Ewe And in an | Fact is, old fel | Was drowne Ih so to spe "s tidal wa The events of that evenin Looking back at itn But [remember di seem somewhat confused, ww, with unclouded eyes, ly her last low words We were in the conserv ory, safe from surpri Screened by ‘The breath of ral While strains of orange trees o’ertopped by palms lowers enriching the air, oft music stole in from “twas a dream of the orient there and her delicate face the rose in her hair. choked the burning words back il to speak, but did not dare Her eyes were cast dow ea blush likethe th And my fast beating heart Isow my head," — forgot we had met but the h And swore she was more than the world to me. flash It is late, be u Thust_know—of course you do—T'n married rose to her feet and said nd 1 fear too long we have tarried— Po the cham eh eto your head— already A plumber never refuses the pipe of pi Cleveland’s chance of election is growing every day—growing le The thermometer is in some respects like truth crushed to carth—it shall rise again. Infirm eggs will have market quotations this fall, but it won't be the campaign ora- tors who will buy them. “T'm clearing the deck for action,” gambler said when he took the ace of clubs from the pack and secluded it in his coa sleeve. Cold weather brings out plenty of muffs | on the ball-ground, and lady admirers of the game usually have a hand in them, | nection i: as the | An Hlinois woman has finger-nails an inch long. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that her husband has no use for a hair-brush. Public offices and politicians are not like Mahomet and the mountain, for the moun- tain wouldn’t go to Mahomet, while the oflices will go to the politicians. “Ts the piel ‘ket line inta fence rail,‘ Yes, yes,” « Just stick to your ‘post, will be attended to.” ” inquired the s the reply,” and the garden ‘There are some great fools in this beauti- ful world at is surprising in the con- t that no matter how great the fool you may discover, you will always find some still greater fool to admire him. Belva Lockwood has been inquiring what a‘‘mugwump” is. It is something, Belva, my dear, like a woman who has cut loose from the best beau she ever had, and then goes running around in the vain endeavor to tind some other fellow fool enough to take up with her, in Colorado gouged another fel- ‘seve out, “Do you plead guilty to this charge’ saved ts judge before whom the culprit was brought. ey “That's right,” said his honor, rubbing his hands cheerfully.“ An aye for an eye. Mr. Clerk, fine him &3 to buy a new eye for the plaintiff with.” Its a funny thing, that when a coachman who drives a brougham runs y with a rich girl, society is set by the ears over it but when one of those fellows who drives a tally-ho marries an aristocratic virgin, the girl is congratulated, and the father gives her a big send off. It makes all the differ- ence in the world whether an occupation is followed for fun or funds. Rub-adubdub! ‘Three men in a tub, And how do you think they got there? There's Schurz. a The high-moral And Curtis, of sissified air. comicbooks.com