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This page from *Judge* contains editorial commentary and sketches rather than narrative cartoons. The text addresses contemporary 1880s-90s political figures and scandals: **Key References:** - Carter Harrison's refusal to sacrifice himself (likely regarding the Haymarket affair) - Oscar Wilde's reputation among Americans as "mean" - Secretary Endicott vs. Philip Sheridan conflict - Dana's abuse of the president; Pulitzer's monopoly accusations - Dan Lamont's suspicious shopping habits - Young Edward, Prince of Wales, and Lady Churchill - Bayard's apology regarding U.S. soldiers and Mexican bullets **The sketches** appear to be generic illustrations rather than specific caricatures. The content satirizes political hypocrisy, corruption, and the vanities of public figures through short, biting commentary typical of *Judge's* editorial voice—mocking both politicians and society figures.

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Siape: Vice-President Art Department Paitor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 1S ADVANCE, One copy, one year, oF £2 11 Single coples Ki centa each, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, POTTER BUILDING, Park Row, New York, No COMPROMISE WITH JUSTICE means no compromise with death, Mr. Czar. Provers—No woman can se the prince of Wales. » two managers, especially if one be CLEVELAND'S ACTIONS speak as loud as Hill's words. ‘Iam nota Democrat,” Grover. WE Do NOT THINK it a foregone ‘conclusion that Murderer Titus will be pardoned before 1896. THE HarRISONIAN PERIOD has the requisite simplicity, but it didn’t seem to help our Carter any. Ir THERE IS ANYRODY that Rider Haggard didn’t steal from let the gentleman put in his claim at once : being no robbery, how would it be to send Englishmen over to Ireland for tri AN ALBANY PAPER speaks of the 1 fe Mr. Saxe as Albany's poet. y was during the closing rs of his life. It ts To BE NOTED that the West Shore express robber has not yet been caught writing articles for the Evening Sun. AFTER ALL, there is no man who has so little liberty as the emperor of Russia. ‘The men he keeps slaves have made a slave of him. Ernest Howarb Crosby ran 400 ahead of his ticket. There must have been some first- rate electioneering, and yet E. H. C. wants high license. Wues Carter Harrison remarked that he needed a rest the entire American public arose as one man and shouted, ‘Give it to i give it to him!” Iv MIGHT BE WORTH WHILE to get upa high license for the radical temperance ag- itator, Here is a kind of intemperance that has not been properly attended to. Lonpon HAS A CRAZE for everything American. A fairexchange is no robbery, but we do hope they won't take to the whole- sale murder of young women over there. “Joy” 1s NOT necessarily a pet name. Design for an Easter bonnet. Thus, when there was a burglary in the eighth ward recently, the Hon Amos Blank Cummings hastily threw the middle portion of his cog nomen out of the window and sat down to his poker ‘vith a look which seemed to say it had never been in his possession. Is CONNECTION WITH Carter Harrison’s refusal to sacrifice himself we may say that we have suspicions not only of the administration but of the late Juhn Calvin. Oscak WILDE Has written a story lampooning Americans; and we must say, remembering their indorsement of Oscar, that he can't pos. sibly say anything too mean of them. A LARGE NUMBER of Philadelphians have been in New York lately; but we feel authorized to say that the closing of the poker dens in the quaker city has nothing to do with it. ‘THE ONLY FIGHT the war department is interested in just now is one between Secretary Endicott and Philip Sheridan, and Philip ©: a bad man to whip, little man of Massachusetts. THEIR EXTRAVAGANT GENEROSITY. The Republicans of the legislature are furnishing lots of fun for the governor, and giving him, with unprecedented liberality, points that will be of much value to him in coming politics. The boysa were good-hearted, but the generosity which robs itself is too drea generous, It 1s THE OPINION of Mr. Pulitzer that Mr. Dana abuses the presi- dent too coarsely and too much. We are to suppose, perhaps, that Mr. Pulitzer claims a monopoly of that business. If 18 NOTICEABLE that Dan Lamont does his shopping toa large extent at the custom house. Of course the little man doesn’t smuggle, but that kind of purchasing has a suspicious look. HIS WAY. The most hopelessly intoxicated man we ever saw was labeled “Prohibition.” He said between hiccoughs that he was a radical. He declared that between sobriety and excess there was no honorable point. They closed his mouth with sealing-wax, marked him “Not to be aroused till after the resurrection,” and laid him away carefully on a shelf. But he will probably be in at the judgment to take the man- agement of the proceedings. Youno Epwarp, son of the prince of Wales, being infatuated with Lady Churchill, has shown a soundness of judgment in connection with an inheritance of foolishness that is quite creditable. A CONTEMPORARY EXPECTS Mr. Bayard to apologize for letting a ed States soldier get in the way of.some Mexican bullets. How absurd that is!’ Mr. Bayard will merely send his regrets. THE WRONG EMOTION. “My boy,” says Robert J. Burdette, ‘‘ God hates a mugwump.” Verily it is not true. This isa new order of creation, knowledge of which has not yet penetrated the celestial sphere. But suppose it has’ Hate, Robert? That isa large word. It de- scribes what may be a dignified emotion. Hate mugwumps, Robert? Hate lizands ? Hate tadpoles? Now by the six-syllabled anathema of the indicted boodler! that is a grossly misplaced word ‘THE LETTERS of “Clara Belle” which are written by men are not as readable as the original documents, but they are so emi- nently respectable as to give one confidence in human nature again. To THE PRESIDENTS of the various railroad companies—Pray, gentlemen, keep your courtesies rigidly at home. What! would you have us violate the inter-state enact- ment? Never, gentlemen—never! LBT US REFORM OUR NEIGHBORS. There is a saloon in the capitol building at Albany. During the progress of the Crosby bill the advocates of it met frequently in this saloon and discussed temperance over their glasses; and it is a fact just worth mentioning that one of the main ar- guments forthe bill was that it applied only to New York and Brooklyn, Ah what comicbooks.com