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# Political Satire from Judge Magazine: The 1884 Presidential Election This page attacks **Grover Cleveland**, the Democratic presidential nominee, using the rhetoric of the 1884 campaign. The cartoon (top left) depicts Cleveland as a disreputable figure, while accompanying text targets him on moral grounds—specifically alleging he fathered illegitimate children and placed them in almshouses rather than supporting them. The editorial contrasts Cleveland with **James G. Blaine**, the Republican standard-bearer, praising Blaine's service and advocating for Republican votes. It warns women voters to reject Cleveland on grounds of decency and morality. The "WAITING" section expresses anxiety about election results, acknowledging Cleveland's strength in the "Solid South" (formerly Confederate states voting Democratic) while hoping Northern and Western states will reject him. The quote "The mill will never grind / With the water that is past" suggests Democrats cannot escape their Civil War-era legacy of disunion. Judge was openly partisan Republican. This represents period political journalism's aggressive personal attacks on candidates' character and private conduct.

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== = THE JUDGE. | underfoot, and mulct the laborer of as much | spected. Contempt he may inspire, but no || | of his hire as poss That is the man | more positive feeling. By a concatenation —_ | | \| | whose name you will find at the head of the | of the most wonderful accidents, he hi | Democratic ticket. Scratch it! nominated for the Presidency. Ile has no | \| | Good and modest women of America, will | more idea of the high duties and re | you allow your fathers, and husbands, end | bilities of that office than he the | brothers, and lovers to vote for Cleveland Zodiac. He is simply waiting with | | Oe — without a word of protest? Will you sutfer ompanic the of the White | h E your near and dear ones to be instrumental | House, like a grcat schoolboy outside a candy ; THE J UDGE. in electing a libertine, a profligate, a man | store, ready to rush i 324, 926 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square) | who, while living in afluence himself, sends | permission be } NEW YORK his natural children to the alinshouse tot Between two such { PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. | charge upon the county. Every man who | possible that t | TERMS TO BSCRIBERS. | respects the ladies of his family will vote for | the United States can make any mistake. | iifurra Graves aye, Chana | Blaine and deceney, and give to Cleveland | And yet—and yet—Cleveland is backed by One copy, one year - 8 | and bastardy the ringing rebuke they de- | the 153 votes of the Solid South—each vote { One copy, etx me j F ) i |] one copy. te serve, representing a horde sry and as eager | Actress : as himself; well, the die will be cast toe |] ae reese ot 2 and £8 Peart Ot, New York WAITING. morrow, and meanwhile we may rest ina cena iene ; - ill-founded confidenc the t West Tus isrensariosat News Comrasy, 11 Bouverte 8t., (Fleet 8t.) VERYTHING sin suspense. Thecountry | and North, which saved the country once { Lesnce, Eu | stands ready to pronounce her verdict and | and n, and oming ols to- } | NOTICE. have it recorde As she votes to-morrow, | morrow to cast a ballot for and Re- j || contributors must pat their valuation upon the artictes tney | 80 Will she be ruled for the next four years, | publicanism. | | send to wa (subject toa price we may ourselves Axi orotherwise | and, 1 for many years thereafte they will be regarded at gratuitous, Stampe #houtd be Inclowed y year z | return postage, with name and address, If writers wish to On ide stands Grover Cleveland |**THE MILL WILL NEVER GRIND Soanis Ube sections srtiaiat ng on the | WITH THE WATER THAT IS PAST.” | -that section of the country = CORRESPONDENTS. which a quarter of a century ago was banded | ‘Tiey have said their say. All that party || ewrconnesroroerny wnt ruste race sonce rut roxy | together to destroy the Union, That the | spite, vated by malevolence, un- | | | bp icamprit indnel fora eons ait ae pas ae | Union exists to-day is thanks to the unbroken | tempered by the faintest regard for truth or } fiots. ect we dlrriscTLt akFCDIATE auL agarosermurr roascen | front and determination of the Northern | justice could i soon uttered asaiist | QUENT CLAIM FOR REXCNERATION WILL RE ENTERT. we have escaped for the last four and twenty | , even to ring | | years from the coils of a Democratic Federal | new chat nanold one. ‘The Demo- | POR THE CAMPAIGN. government, controlled by the Solid South, | cratic mill of defamation has ceased to work. | fonts reuTsor ruth Woe #14, on Fon owe than ron gem | 18 thanks to the unbroken front and de- | [ts motive power is exhat | stk THAT “Tuk Jovan” ts Kert ox | termination of the Northern s exhibited | enough left of the Mulliz | : met __| at the polls. To-morrow the conflict 18 to be | Joy scandal, and the Hock | CLUB RATES. renewed. May the issue be as fortunate as | all the other lies which have flow | ts iessd Guibas itchesiever’ beet, . | teously throughout the campaign, / meat? FvPe® wt be: farm On the other side stands James G. Blaine, | eyen another half turn to the wheel, 1 the chosen standard-bearer of the party that | mill will never grind with the water t | & saved the Union twenty-four years ago, and | jg | | ‘ has been saving it at intervals of four years} And what effect have these lies had? In| | | * ever since. There is nothing petty or igno- | the minds of hone. Mulligan Let- | ta tend or aes ble about this man. Ile is worthy to be the | ters, read | | chief of a great nation. THe is thoroug! thrown upon the ea | VOTE. | earnestly, and sincerely a Republican, and | actual pecuniary loss which Mr, Blaine has | — | stands head and shoulders above any | suffered from his connection with these peo- | Every Republican who remains away | man of hi He has been foremost in | ple, proves Mulligan, Fisher, & Co. to hi | | from the polls is helping the Buffulo de-| the advocacy of every wise and beneficent | been a gang of blackmailers—nothing more | bauchee to the White House. Every work- | measure which has come before the coun- | and nothing less. ‘The suppression of a cer- | ingman who votes for Cleveland to-morrow, | try during the last thir Ilis hair | tain letter by Mull 1d his assertion | is casting a ballot in favor of the proved | has grown gray in the service of Repubiican- | that the letter w sed by Blaine, was | enemy of his order, and the faithful servant | ism. Well has he won his right to the proud | a dastardly device fortunately even } || of monopoly. Every vote cast against Blaine | position he occupies this day. He is our | among blackmailers. to-morrow is a vote against good wages, good | leader by virtue of his commanding abilities, | ‘The Joy incident puts | government, and low taxation. Worning- | by virtue of his approved constancy, by v Ward Beecher in almost | | men, look carefully at your ballots to-morrow, | tue of faithful and loyal service, cheerfully | One phase of the case is well put bythe Sun | | If they contain Cleveland, scratch him as | rendered to his country and to his party for this city. Mr. Be yeen ine i| you would put your heel on a venomous | more than thirty yea sited'to dine ates has |] | ect. Do not help to elect the man whose | _ Is it necessary to place this commanding | given to the pul of || | vetoes and recommendations have declared | intellect alongside the pigmy, Cleveland, in| what he heard at that hospit nh | | that American workingmen are too highly | in order to dwarf the latter into insigniti- where his hos rr a |} | paid, and should be content with the pauper | cance? We think not. Cleveland is a man | tion that shou he honor || wages of Europe; that sixtecn hours a day is | who can never arouse very violent feelings | of his guest. 1. When his \| | among the m: He is not the stuff that | enterts d the 1 said t | is either loved or hated, or feared, 0} he had been m comicbooks.com