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## Main Cartoons: **"The Office-Seeker Again"** depicts a woman in classical dress (Lady Liberty) at a railroad station in Washington, being importuned by a man seeking federal employment. The satire criticizes office-seekers pursuing political patronage regardless of qualifications. **"An Incident of 1888"** shows a visitor attempting to see President Cleveland at the White House. The dialogue humorously portrays bureaucratic runaround—the visitor is sent back and forth, finally told "walk right in" only to discover he's been deceived. This mocks Cleveland administration inefficiency or deception. ## Political Context: The articles criticize the Cleveland administration for "counterfeiting" Democratic principles by submitting to outside pressure and political compromise. References to "Jeffersonionism" invoke idealized Democratic values supposedly abandoned by Cleveland's policies. The satire targets federal patronage systems, administrative corruption, and perceived hypocrisy of Democratic leadership—suggesting gap between stated principles and actual governance during Cleveland's presidency (1885-1889).
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apes 3 and smiles at the wounds she make p asigh, * With all our skill and all the prog- THE OFFICE-SEEKER AGAIN. return shots penetrate her soul, lett ress that time has given us, we do not beat —__—-. -—-._., sent ever so awkwardly and let them be ever those ancients in the minutest particular. elegy RYO pay so stupid in themselves. They governed mightily, they stole largely. MYO YEH | : ; pir disgrace broke art for they were RSneapae A MAERAULE COUNTERFEIT. jand their disgrace broke no heart for they were - without shame.” at Washington is not genuine. It does not suit the people among whom it is! | designed to circu It is clipped coin. It is| bogus metal. It is assumption without fact. An administration whose Americanism sists in pationtly submitting to snubs from outsiders is a counterfeit, A Democratic ad- ministration that toadies to a third party of no | consequence is not democratic. The simplic- | | people—the Democrats of the hickory | shirt and the straight beverage—will repudiate | everything of that kind, and the coinag be as idle in the Democratic vault as the silve falsehood that accumulates so rapidly in the vaults of the treasury. | A THOUSAND YEARS TO COME, rticle of Jeffersonionism that is being’ AW INCIDENT OF 1838, ¢ hundred years from now what will y be? It will take in all of the ide territory within a circle of forty miles. | wipe out a large portion of New Jerscy visitor anoke boldly up It will include the larger portion of Long Clonciand inane? Island. A thousand years hence it) may| » lackey ad bowe have the entire state for its own; so that Buf- Just wait till T see I nd the inland cities and towns n be, Now Dan and Grover were engaged » been and cannot be again. Is this ‘th Is thi he usher rushed elate, Perhaps it is, but the subject is HB e beamed proudly as he cried, + I've got one in the hall If city government is corrupt commensu- e what?’ quoth Dan. “A Cleveland rately with the size of cities, the boodlers idl Scene; Raitroad Stattin in Washington five hundred and a thousand years to con i will be millionaires. ‘This draws atten- * Well, [swan ! they all told me ter hum thet ||. . . s. They I 1 jnejter hum thet tion to the size of the local prisons. Th very large too, TI will cover ac He galloped back eftsoons. y will be populated chiefly by millionaires * Yes—walk right in. The | ic cas tide cad wiper bavioe been wie Would like your fatal to a desire to hold federal office to be| ‘te Pety thief und burglar having been rele “My na ‘Oh, Jones—Josephus Jones related to the president or Mrs, Cleveland. Gane nal! eveland, O-h Why, indeed, should it be? Nepotism is a iietho nnd noe usw dreadful word, but on the other hand a rela-|E Co vada At that time the great tive of the appointing power has hi rights 88 | tolegraph monopoly of this period well as other people. The question is, Is) will have come to control the courts Constr Bast court And as to that) without much trouble, and the wires Prolaily i ahadow of @ | belonging to it will shut out sky and sensible Heltee Whe nxeet, {tits The harbor will be a dumping ene aa i : Reel] ground, and the Liberty on Bedloc “ ; : s friends as he is) istand will have come to be an ordi- to:Dis enemies y telegraph station, despite the a Ras wonder and indignation — shining ARE THEY BUILT THAT WAY ¢ |through her eyes. ‘There shall be Miss Cleveland will leave Literary Life. sicknosses, If there be not cre- She is disappointed and grieved. Her relatives | "tion, there will have to be “ made" have insisted that she should not earn an hon- | nd, tier on tier, to accommodate y and the newspapers | te dead. The means of travel will dieuled her, Her heart is|P greatly increased. If there be bruised, and her ambition is chilled. not balloons the elevated roads will Wouldn't it be a good idea for women in| tise oneabove the other to the heighth journalism, in medicine, in the pulpit, behind }Of half a mile. And when there the counter, to work after the manner of men, | Comes 4 crash what a crash shall be | forgetting the matter of sex ? Miss Cleveland | there! | was unfortunate in having been conspicuous ;| The excavations of five hundred but men are sometimes equally unfortunate in |and a thousand years hence will turn Fame has its penalties for both sexes, |Up_ curious things. City officials who forfeits the opportunities | Will live in printed records depos: ation in order to escape the | ited in cornerstones; and when the unt portion of the consequences has a | stones are opened much broken glass, heart so faint that it ought never to have been | instruments of brass hewn from their brought into this cruel world. ‘The average |cheeks, the chain and ball, the bur- woman is intensely personal. She takes to|glar’s kit and similar emblems will herself the hard knocks which are visited upon |be disclosed as appropriate to the , the best thing that the work she does. She unloads her pin-cush- | character of th i Then | Tecover heavy damages. ion with vicious ty at this folly and that, !shall the existing off aay with | alert ee nen Beinte omey tobtfaty damages that gi Wonder who in comicbooks.com