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The main cartoon depicts a man being thrown from a horse, illustrating the article "Stuck on the Mugwumps." The piece satirizes reformers who present themselves as apostles of a great cause but are actually obstructionists hindering progress. The text criticizes the "prohibition party" and reform movements generally, arguing they create more damage than benefit. It suggests reformers are self-serving rather than genuinely motivated by principle. References to "Grover Cleveland" and "David Hill" indicate this likely addresses Democratic Party divisions in the 1880s-90s. The mugwumps were actual Republican reformers who bolted their party, making them targets for satirical ridicule about ineffectual activism. The cartoon's imagery emphasizes the chaos and impracticality these political figures supposedly created.
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THE JUDGE. not submit to pull long in the traces with that onary, miscege When tea the ill-matched such noisy, nui 1 mule, Democracy. mster Grover Cleveland hitched r before @ wagon with ‘sas the ‘*boys” that piled in over the tail-board with ” Hill, Mugwump kicked, and by the time they had driven around by his old stables he had kicked himself clean out of his harness and was off—lcaving Grover and the boys stalled in the road. Good enough for ‘em. They do not know how to treat a spirited horse. They ought mr Dave THE JUDGE. PURLISHED ONCE. A WERK, into junk and kindling wood and leave them TFRMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. nothing on which to ride into their offices. (Ustrep States avo Caxapa) and no man knoweth the beginning from the end of a revolution. have learned to go exceeding light when Wicnr « fice Wor arraeoayene wuren walking on the tocs of cranks. quart cLAin Pom a Nevertheless, voters have to deal with present issues, and the way it looks with | 2 PART ost oF ASE TAKE SOTICE THAT THEY x. WHERE STANTS at is to | oe ae STUCK ON THE MUGWUMPS. | | Ove copy, for 13 weeks, ey a Single covtce cents each Of all the expressions of human egotism | THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, that which leads ahandful of reformers to | $24, 826 and $28 Pearl St., imagine themselves the Apostles of a Great | xew york Cause, is one to be condemned or ridiculed | = = ——= with the greatest hesitancy. For all. pio- TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. neers of great movements are “cranks, USERATION WILL RE EVTERTAITED. WHERE STRINETIONS 1% CRED, THAT PART WILL RR PAID YOR FRO RATA ON THE FRUCK AGREED CON FOR THE WHOLE || couusosuase. politics to-day is that the prohibition party, eS asa party, if it have any power can use it BARRICADED. only to harm its own cause. The most — questionable use of a reform principle is to Intelligent, united labor sees its true, make it a mere power for mischief. Favor | interest in co-operation between its mem- bers, or in alliance and mutual support with cupital. Capital is beginning to see also that low wages are not a blessing to it, and that im- ported pauper labor must become a curse to | it as to the whole country. In the same way, labor sees that communism | is a worse enemy to labor than to capital | | that it seems to threaten. For, if the com- | || munist c: n confiscate capital he can put a || stop to occupation, and the two must go + down together. More, the bare threats of these foreign red-flag enemies, intimidate enterprise and paralyze industry. | So the road to good times is barred to) honest labor by the imported barricade. It is the duty of the laborer to clear his own path and drive his enemies into the sea with their red flag of death, misnamed liberty. “Tear down the Flaunting Lie.” procured by making one’s self a nuisance is neither profiable nor abiding. It, in the end, is self-injury. Asa third party, preying on the camps of two great armies, prohibition may create commotion and damage to others and seem of much consequence. One little animal can break up a camp-meeting. But as a cause it becomes, by such guerilla warfare, very small morally. Principles as great as the boundless ocean may dwindle to the proportions of a pitcher of water in the hands of blackmailers. Vanitas Vanitatis—New Version. Man that is born of woman is of few days and fall of trouble. He cometh forth like a Flower and is cut down; he ficeth also as a shadow and con- tinueth not. In the morning he cometh up and is nom- inated; in the evening he declineth and withereth, Yea, and he rolleth his barrel away and his party also withereth, The place that knew him knoweth him no more; in the places of him and his barrel are Jones—J-o-n-e-8, of Binghamton, and his KICKED CLEAR OF THE HARNESS. It is hard to cure a bucking broncho, and a horse that has once learned the efficacy of kicking is liable to have the habit return on him at the most inconvenient moment. The | driver ought to have known this when he selected the worst kickers in the Republican atable to put into his new team. He onght, | scales. espvcially, to have considered that that high | Vanity of vanities, all is wind, saith the to be thankful that it didn’t kick the pung | Historical Utterances. “* God bless you, your candidate I cannot be.” [Horatio Seymour, 1868. “God —— you, your candidate I can- not be.” [Roswell Flower, 1885. RULINGS. Iv seems to be rather a backward fall for bosses. “Jones, or BINGuasTon,” may be a very good man in his weigh, but it is not so good a wi boodle. igh as Flower's, of disbursing rarer declared Mr. Hill to be “a plain, simple-minded man.” Ie is “ playin’ simple-minded” at all the fairs and funerals. A Democratic Tue stiver qvestion—Shall ‘Treasurer Jordan succeed in bulldozing fifty-five mil- lion of people by robbing them of one and two dollar greenback THE PRESIDENT’S DECISION that weighers must pass an educational test knocks ont the Brooklyn boss Democrat for weigher— pounds Sterling, as it were, THE PRESIDENT SUCCEEDS better at de- capitation than at appointments, He is a capital executioner, but a poor executive. This contrast shows the benefit of prepara- tory training for office. Ovr k.c., THE Buffalo Express, says, “The chief purpose of sending representa tives to foreign countries is to preserve and promote friendly relations.” ‘The friendly relations of the politicians, yes. Ir 1s cuancep that the new Turkish Minister of War finds that his predecessor had allowed the army to run down, We perccive, also, that Cleveland is allowing his mugwump allies to ran down IIill. Mr. SpurGeon has completed ‘ The Treas- ury of David.” Since Flower declined to run with David Hill and the president shut down on assessments on office-holders this will be good news to the head of the ticket. Tar PLATFORM oF THE Democracy in New York seems to be chiefly the platform scales-of “Jones of Binghamton.” ‘They are steadier than Flower's if they do not weigh so much with the boys in a campaign. Four HUNDRED THOUSAND signatures were attached toa petition to parliament for the protection of girls. From the ac- counts published we had not supposed so many men in the United Kingdom fav- spirited, fractious stallion, Mugwump, would | Preacher. ored the cause. ‘ZeeH. Ws Wison Ga. comicbooks.com