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This page contains political satire attacking the Democratic Party and President Grover Cleveland (elected 1884). **Main Cartoon/Article: "Too Rank and Too Much File"** The opening compares the Democratic Party to a mule—once vigorous ("clothed with thunder") but now "loaded down with blunder," braying miserably rather than triumphantly. The satire suggests Democrats expected Cleveland to be a malleable tool for distributing federal patronage ("spoils"), but he instead refused to yield to party demands. **"Encephalic Expansion"** elaborates: Democrats deposited their political "stolen money" with Cleveland, expecting him to distribute patronage to loyal party members. Instead, Cleveland acted independently, keeping power and leaving party operatives ("Hendricks and other practical politicians") frustrated. The piece mocks this as poetic justice—a "confidence operation" backfiring on those accustomed to corrupt spoils-sharing. **Key Point**: Judge ridicules both Democratic corruption AND Cleveland's unexpected independence, suggesting partisan politicians deserve their disappointment. The other items are brief editorial "Rulings" on various political topics of the moment.

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THE JUDGE. TERMS TO e Bs BERS. (Usrrep States axe CasaDay PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 323 Pearl St NEW YO THE JUDGE TOO RaNK AND TOO MUCH FILE. Between the horse di the scrubby ribed by Job, and anal mule, there is not a greater contrast than between the cavortin racy of Democracy of to- Jemoc- two months ago and the kicking Where the neck of that was clothed with thunder, the back of this is loaded down with blunder. He no longer saith among the trumpets, Ha! ha! Ay. He rather brayeth dismally among the un- satisfied. He smelleth the oats, instead of the battle, afar off, and because they in hisn re not -bag, he swalloweth his own fierce- ness and rage. No oats and hatchalin make any well-regulated mule kick. He'd be anass if he didn’t. And when his oats are gobbled up by predatory fowls whose only utility is to cackle and crow, the additional irritation may stimulate him to something more to the purpose than kicking in the The careless groom, with his undemocratic curry-comb, will be fortunate if he be not kicked over the fence, and into the middle of the next presidenti: > vigorous would ir, campaign. LET HER COME. Spring has been grievously maligned. ‘This y, indeed, have been the result of a nat- | ural reaction against the ‘fulsome landa- tions” of spooney writers of all ages, from the youngest up, and from Tompson down. But is she to blame for being puffed When our health author begin to boycott spring, in order to postpone the dis- orders which they tolerate and dirty man- when they pretend that she im- ports in her modest trunk the infections of gutter and cess-pool—the Chivalry and the ¢ of JUSTICE protest. They cannot keep this oun, sen: fresh and breezy lady in perpetual quarantine to cover ect and Must we have iter all year around to save the health own neg! human She has had | trouble enough hoisting clumsy old Winter | off her lap, unk packed Let her in. and we award it, | Besides, to what can the medics if the s prescribing malaria is to be kept back by oflicial red-tape? uuthorities trouble and keep untid environment safely frozen up? etting her | herself to our shores. ‘ourt decree sion resort for a diagnosi ENCEPHALIC EXPANSION. The Democratic party is situated quite like the man who deposits stolen money with a friend only to find that the friend cooly The has committed the tall the profits of it, and placed t the mercy of another. the denies the debt and keeps the spoils. former is helpless; he crime, | himself When ats nominated Cleve- land they thought they had a facile tool to capture federal spoils withal, and that after success with him, Hendricks and the other “+ practical politicians ” could open the grand d figure-head ler that the More and worse. he seems inclined to hold the party to the p tory. Democ distribution scheme for the “very hungry very thirsty.” But the guilel takes to himself all the plan party obtained by false preten omises by which they won the vic- have evidentls 1 the nettle, recess, tar, and from the flower, It is a fine sarcasm upon falsehood in poli- ties, that a great party should thus be the victim of a confidence operation—that upon the first occasion in twenty-four years when they had it within their power to enjoy the ailure, intoxication of Federal patronage, the cup should be dashed from their lips by a cup- bearer of their own choo: As A. Ward says, ‘there’s a moral into this!” It is for politicians and parties: Don’t cheat, Stick to principle. Look out for a small man who seems to be “ avail- ble” and manageable, for a small m: times has gre.t ambition. Promotion is apt to swell his head, and as Falstag’ would say, “What a thing would such an one be when he had been sweYed. n some- Repeating Itself. A New York journalist has made his debut in Philadelphia as Mephistopheles. We be- lieve another New York journalist played the devil in Philadelphia a few years ago, and was indicted for it. Bat the Sun still shines for Philadelphia as for New York! on the unjust and just who are alike. RULINGS. Maxy of the pillars of the church are catarpillars, in active zeal. Wires he comes to female pension agents the new Commissioner doesn’t turn out well. Tue Dew land yet. cypher. kats don’t unders He must and Cleve- be another Tilden’s ‘Tuer Desoctats seem to object to spoils on the installment plan. y of them approve of marr A good ma ge in that way. AN INDIGNANT Democrat wants to know if it is doing the square thing for Mr. Cleve- land to cut off at right angles from his party. Ir things follow the trend that they have at this writing the Mugwumps will soon be- come ‘‘ offensively partisan” to Mr. Cleve- land. “Evan, EYAL laughed a Washington citizen. ‘* Dem Massachusetts Mugwumfs finds Boss Cleveland’s Pillsbary hahd to take. Eben so, eyah, eyah.” Pottceman Conroy g for life—not for his own life, but for the one he took. I!e’ll probably be out to work for another Democratic reform in ’88. es to state prison ‘Tie opening in New York for a Demo- cratic daily is still very wide open. The World is getting as sour on the administration as the Sun, and even the Mugwamp papers are ‘ grouty.”” Tue epitor of a Buffalo newspaper re- cently asked the subscribers to name the ten most important inventions of all time. More than 800 answers were received voting for many different inventions, but singularly enough not one of them named the reformed Democrat. We sre the remark, ‘the legislature is denounced by the League,” in the daily papers. This is worse than we had supposed. We knew that the Legislature was denounced by the square yard in the daily papers, but— a little hyperbole, THE OPINION seems to be that the drive that would do Gen. Grant most good is not a drive in the Park, but to drive his doctors out—into the Park or anywhere. Poetic tions. ICENSE, after all, has its limita- son got swearing mad at the British admiralty, and dropped into poetry in an unfriendly way. Several times he began to rave, ‘‘ You—you—you,” and didn’t dare to finis It is like the incom- plete ‘‘ Go to ——” of Shakespeare. comicbooks.com