Judge, 1886-11-20 · page 2 of 16
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This page contains political commentary and humor typical of Judge magazine's satirical approach. The main cartoon titled "There's No Place Like Home" depicts a dog labeled "Congress" looking longingly out a window, apparently homesick. The accompanying verse references Constantinople and suggests the dog (Congress) yearns to return home to its seat in Congress. The surrounding text includes several "Questions of the Hour" addressing contemporary political issues: prohibition debates, Democratic majority concerns, and various political figures and proposals. References include discussion of a woman-suffrage bill and commentary on Democratic leadership. The satire suggests Congress members were absent from their duties or distracted from proper governance, using the homesick dog as metaphor for their divided attention or wandering focus from legislative responsibilities.
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| And yet the Democracy ran so good a Repub- PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President ~~ vice: President Art Department W. J. Ament Hany Re ‘Gneoonr | Nosteasp TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Single coptes 10 cents each. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, POTTER BUILDING, Park Row, New York, : $7 Jevor is for sal chan) American Ex: in London, regularly at the tn Paris and the American Exeh $27 An extrasupply of Tie BartHoLpl seaneR of the Jepar now on hand, Call at the counting-room or send ten | cents to this office. QUESTION OF THE HOUR—Does prohibition prohib ¢ Cara Louise KELLOGG won't sleep under a comforter—or with one. nights have 1 an elephant, FREQUENT REMARK at the Battery—‘ And said * Let there be light? and there wasn’t Send to W. J. Arkell at this office the name of the man you prefer for United States sena- tor from this state, And us how he feels with regard to the Is THERE A PROUIBITIONIST present ? will he tell to laying up his treasure To Fraxk Hurp—Little man, are you not aware that as between the two possibilities you should merely be seen 7 Wuat 1s To ue DONE? The politics of Tur- » se dull that itis impossible to refer to t country in connection with Thanksgiv- th ing. Mr. Ma s busy; 3 as if he had adopted the proposition * Let no guilty man be tried.” Her ing of the you have high office some Theodore Roosevelt. iticians, and he shall lay. Here's to y How riicutovs ir is in the Sun to nomi- nate Sam Randall, protectionist, for president !, lican as Horace Greeley once. IT DOES No Goop to sue the Rey. Sam Small for a little bit of jewelry. Mr. Small has taken heaven, and that locality is beyond our jurisdiction. § CONTINUES HEAVY and the surplus in the treasury is reaching appalling figures. Some day perhaps this Democratic federal gov- ernment will tell what it is best to do about it- THE EXPERIENCE of Mrs. James Brown Pot- ter seems to show that when one wants to be advertised he must declare with great earnest- ness that he will submit to nothing of that kind. M. BaRTHOLDI's LARGE GIRL will neveragain grieve over the uselessness of her hands as she did when Chauncey Depew had concluded his oration. She wanted to applaud but couldn't. Mr. BLAINE DID a good deal of canvassing for his little boom in this town recently; though we believe there was a report that he pr the purpose of interviewing the Bar. tholdi statue. cam ANYBODY TELL what the Democratic rity of the house of representative done to indicate that they have been in power nd that they have had a Democratic president at their back ? J. SANBORN has been elected dent of the schools of Brule county, Dak. This indicates, if we mi not, the introduction of the slipper in the institutions ning in that locality. Voice SPEAKS of Frances Willard’s man. wement.” The Voice mu not have thickness of tongue, but its meaning is so involved that it ought to be hiccoughed down, BEFORE ELECTION there were a good many. prohibitionists with their brows wrinkled and their mouths flecked with foam and blood. If there are any left will they kindly report to this office whether they have recovered from it? IT IS NOT PROGRESS. The lower house of the Vermont legislature has passed a woman-suffrage bill, 135 to 82. The women of Vermont needn't get nervous and apprehensive, however. The upper house will not pass such a bill for ten years to come, and then it will take the lower house ten yeaus to ratify it. Woman never is—she is to be —blessed in this particular; and on the whole she is glad of it. TRE ANNUAL DREARY DOCUMENT. Grover requires two months and perfect soli- tude to write his annual message. Grover ought to have some experience on a daily paper. Having had that, he could write his old message in a couple of nights, and it would really be worth reading. The great affliction of this period is the fact that we select our presidents without regard to the work they have doue for the newspaper press. Some day this will be reformed. AGONY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. “If I'm drafted,” remarked Artemus Ward one day during the war, “I shall resign.” The boodle alderman of the period has not so happy achoice. As between the lunatic asylum and the penitentiary he would perhaps like to cut “ THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME,” [S. S. Cox was elected by a large majority.) “To Constantinople though I may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home, An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain— Oh, give me my old seat in Congress again,”