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The main cartoon titled "JUDGE" depicts a disheveled, aggressive figure—likely a political opponent or critic—in a confrontational pose. This appears to satirize partisan conflict of the era. The text references several contemporary political figures and issues: Henry Labouchère's proposal to abolish hereditary peerages, General Sheridan's remarks about Catholics and public schools, Mr. Bigelow's work on the Panama Canal, and Senator Evarts's composure during Democratic disputes. The section "A TIMELY EXCUSE" (right) shows a figure on stairs—possibly satirizing someone using a pretense to avoid responsibility, though the specific reference is unclear. The overall page mixes political commentary on governance, Irish-American issues, and Democratic Party inconsistencies typical of 1880s American satire.

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Wawa e ae. SSA 8 ———a. a a an Te Se ed de So aP ae y JUDGK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. WJ. ARRRLL Haney 1 Hae ' Beaynand GIL 1M. Gatoony GW. Hours, Je, Punoeaice W. Nosaxp TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. umbers Bo ‘ 20 Ls oples WW cents each. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., vee 7 SATARE, 2.x. JUDGE'S ADVERTISING CONTRACTS. A TWENTY PAGE PAPER FOR TEN CENTS! A large and tmp tant advertising contract has Just been hosed beter ICO, panting to rtlsement, from Mr. A W. Eble of Canajoharte, ta the Haperanza Marble Works of Kutland, pe Granite Works of Rockland, Me., ts for ntracts oblige the JCDOE to increase Its number week at least, and perhaps fora number of 1 to twenty, and Involve the neces Jing as well as advertising matter, present indications, It will not be long before Uhe paper will te enlarged four pages more, though of course the size will vary ding to the demands of Ita advertising patrons Ip go instance will the advertising be permitted to ‘encroach on the reading matter. Gak.anp is looking around for a hole, but he can’t find one small enough to fit. rts were m: to eat his own words the corporosity of David Davis would be nowhere. Dracoy Ric ace kept a little wall- paper store in Albany. Upon what meat hath this our squeezer fed? | RDSON His special message indicates that the presi- dent is thoroughly acquainted with himself and proposes to continue the intimacy. How serenely a good many forgotten states- men will bob up in 1888. There's Ben Butler, for instance. Ben will float on the surface as buoyant! ys! corpse. Lapor can very at this tii sily make a mistake just e that will set it back ten years. By | taking a temperate course it can advance itself | the same length of time. Whatacrime, under | these circumstances, a mistake would be! Tue first year of Groter Cleveland's admin istration does not end happily. It finds the cabinet under suspicion and the mugwumps repudiating the Cleveland flag. At the same time the Democracy are not satisfied, and one indignant gentleman of that persuasion says it will be necessary in 1888 to introduce the A | mornin; } undoubtedly JUDGE, president to th while drifted so far ty, the two having mean apart. The two Democratic dailies of this city are opposed to the president, and there is trouble all around. Grover, Grover! You'll be right glad when it’s all over. Hesry Lanovcuie: proposes to abolish the hereditary house of peers, and the commons laughs at the proposition as a od Is ita joke indeed ¢ One would think it the | most serious proposition that could possibly be | made. G AL SHERMAN says Mrs. Sherman, being a Catholic, would as soon send her children to public bar-room as to a public school. There could handly be a more unfortunate expres ad the time will come when the fri eneral will ery out to him with ex »phasis, * Whoa, Burchard!” sion, of t tre Mr. BiGELow, commissioner of the cham- ber of commerce “to witness the opening pro- ceedings of the completion of the Pani nt return, = Mr, low is some’ ent, but reliable per reports say that tl nal will not be completed in perhaps fiftcen years. This means that it will never be completed—except perhaps by the United States government after | a fair understanding with Franc nd th South American republies; and the display of M. de Lesseps was so manifestly a fraud that it | deserves nothing so much as the laughter of contempt. news} THE IRON GLOVE. The impressiveness of the president in his suddenly assumed author hardly reaches the proportions of t man of the the sen at of Ul ron glove in a similar case a good many years ago. The figure of the new pro. tector presented by our artist is 1 portance but ridiculously small omparison of it with the figures represent- the body he would like to control is v: suggestive. Whether in due tector, his order to remove the bauble te porarily serving as the emblem of power not being obeyed, will bring in his soldiers and disperse the senate, as Cromwell did the pa ment, is a matter that only time will disclose THE NEW DEMOCRACY. ‘The Washington papers are filled with com- plaints about carpet-baggers. The president has sent to Albany for a register of deeds for the district of Columbia, first removing Fred- erick Douglass from that position. Mr. Dou lass naturally understands the real estate busi ness of the district to some extent, having held the place for some years; but he is removed ause,” though the cause is not stated. The new incumbent has the virtue of {being black, but otherwise he is obviously unfitted for the position. We had hoped not to live to see any Democratic endorsement of the carpet-bag business, and this is such a pal- pable infringement on local rights that it starts the unbidden tear. It is bad enough to live in this melancholy world without being shocked to death by such Democratic inconsistency every five minutes. y ove season the pro PAUGH A BALLAGH! The JupGe metaphorically puts on the high hat and the various badges appropriate to the Irish day, wears a sprig of green at the top coat-button, sends out a decorous but an earn- est whoop, and starts in with the procession. It should be the most lively and joyous pro- A TIMELY EXCUSE, Wamo Wire snea it you'd and 80's ut Sow you just th K up stairs with your shoes in your I wouldn't know what time you got hi Scrprisep Hvsnanp (interrupting)—* No, no, my dear; ye see the car men all struck and the walk home blistered my feet so I had to take ‘em off.” There is prospect that the cause of Ireland will be advanced just as far as Mr. Gladstone can safely permit that prog 1 if this does not mean home rule in its larger sense it will at least be the beginning of that result. The Irish skies are bright, and if the enemies of Ireland—men like the Rossas, who apparently wish to preserve the old situation asa means to the stuffing of their private pockets—will pre- serve the silence that becomes them so well There will be such stars set in glory there as | will illuminate not only Ireland but the cause of freedom the world over. | While the procession is moving, the boys are shouting and the bands are playing, the | JupGe presents its compliments to the cause and its representatives, and lifts high the banner which shows Parnell as the modern Patrick. The good saint is, boxing the snake of non-resident landlordism and proposes di- rectly to cast it into the Of all the rep tiles that Ireland ever saw the one with the most poisonous bite is the one in question. It has done its best to murder Irish ambition, It has driven helpless, poverty-stricken women to the sacrifice of that for which good women most want to live. It has turned deserving families from hovels into high It h | provoked assassination and fostered pove and crime. | The Irishman has come to look upon any | part of the world rather than Ireland as his | home. He is everywhere, and accustoms himself with marvelous rapidity to any lo- cality, He helps to fight the battles of all n: tions. He sings the songs and dances the dances of the ‘ious countries which have adopted him as if he were born to them. He fills our offices. He manages our politics. Restless, keen, bright, lively, lovable,unserupu cession the 17th of March ever saw eve comicbooks.com