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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page satirizes **New York State politics**, particularly **Albany legislature** dysfunction and **Governor** (likely Grover Cleveland, based on "William Tell Coleman" reference). The main cartoon depicts a dinner scene mocking legislative incompetence. The text attacks: 1. **"IMPEACH!" section**: Ridicules the legislature's obsession with impeachment theater—specifically impeaching the governor, senate clerk, and others over procedural grievances rather than substantive issues. The satire suggests Albany functions like "school-children with the teacher absent." 2. **Women suffrage convention**: Mocks female political activists, suggesting women voting will worsen politics. References to Mrs. Blake and conflicts between suffragists portray the movement as contentious and chaotic. 3. **Cleveland/Coleman**: Questions whether William Tell Coleman (apparently a candidate) genuinely refused nomination, or whether the *Albany Argus* newspaper fabricated the story for political advantage. The overall message: Albany is dysfunctional, petty, and corrupt—dominated by partisan maneuvering rather than governance.

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fered him by the convention he will feel at liberty t» avoid the struggle ty get its Not any a getting into polities term recall the truly gx man from Buf: falo, and his indifference tw public preferment isin point of fact his strongest point Mark TWAIN ofa clerk of his who went into athletiesand afterward stole 40,00, But this is no eri- terion t We recall the a man who trained only three sand was proented by his wife with a suit for divorce, IMPEACH! Impeach, impeach! ‘That isthe first and last duty of the lyislature at Albany. hi the ernor for impudent: but very special message the ips Mas, CLaymone—" I must say, purpose of which was Waiter bean all over, until — the pettifogger and Impeach the clerk of the senate for the folly that mi refuse to read the messiye; the courtesy was due the go’ ernor if pgardiess of parliamentary pettiness. governor for his impudence in taking the the message would have had the it had first been given to the press nate for the a ex it has gi with regard to his nominations, chool-children with the teacher and the whip absent. bolish the upitol, take Albany off the a ure to Can: hit toadd to the peculiar soc of Quebee and Montreal, and let us have a new deal all around. Lawrence Donovan f ght to bring of Jud Hed legal e him THE INCARCERATION big bridge the jurisdictic the thing e r threatening to jump bout the arrest of every acrobat within Otherwise what's the matter with \ MICHIGAN WOMAN GETS twenty: muddied her floor with his boots, uoticed that she is ve e cents damages of aman who She wanted a larger stun, but it is smiling to all the men around her domicile, and the more so the larger their feet. WOULD THEY ABOLISH MEN? ivention of woman suffragists in this city nearly resulted 1s into the horrors of civil war. Mrs. Blake said, x Mr. Crosby of the assembly, that his high-i which she thereu ved—wa looked the veto th: young Mr. Crosby must be the son of great sons. men who ing of vou are Mrs. Moore afterward spol aldu't tempt women with brains, charge when you come to look at it; but she reas men with the kindly remark, * We don’t want to put their heads on the block,” adding, however, with cruel bitterness, That would show how empty they are.” All this was. bs there was more trouble themselves in private ses: sion, Mrs. Blake. Mrs. Dot nd Mrs. Twitchel at one time n coming to blows. What, on the whole, will be the state of thing: when women vote? We tremble to think of it. If t have no re spect for the parliamen they must certainly ob: those which be! take the stampa asemblymen ai which isa most shoe sured th re ig loe good society nd go to the ballot-box they must re Wore polities thin we have now, Weutpck from some proceedings in the se looks upon himself not only the-fry ate that David B. Hill sident, but king, with Jones-he-pays ight as lord high executioner. De. McGiy SAYS he isn't an orator—he’s merely a jawsmith. y dear, that as a matter of taste Lam, and always shall be, in favor of tips HOPES RAISED AND BLASTED. They're so graceful, you know That is a firstrate word, the sooner the doctor himself ¢ form the better for polities. Wuesx THE Sin presents William Tell Coleman for president William feels as if his small boy had shot the apple about an the level of the same. PERHAPS IT GREW, One little circumstance in anection with Mr. Cle’ and’s alleged refusil to be candidate for renomination is the fact that the Albany Argus recently boomed his ministration and its polic in a eaded article » inspired . Cleveland did y surprised Jar how the inch below Claymony is referring to ustrich tipe as an ee in hat decoration. not when inspire it hie saw it. about. Undoubtedly he And that makes it the more sing: was, icle came SOME DEVELOPED MYSTERIES. For many years there has been doubt as to the man who struck William Henry Patterson. Previous to that event the world was in wonder as to the author of the Junius letters. Since then there h: been the murder cases of Dr. Burdell and Bet i within a few years there have been the mysterious takings off of Phoebe Paullin, Rose Stannard, and the gir reporter was dispatched to Sonoma count: tion passed between him and Will Ir. Rogers, were you guilty of thes anything else of which you would like to unburden your sou! “Nothing, sir. right nam “Vers “Know then, 1 Old Man Bender of K But—stay! perhaps I had better give you my ‘oung friend, that Twas once known as ’ nd you likewise in connection with the man of the iron mas ll. Twill be frank, 1 man in the iron mask was my brother. m merely Casper Hauser, The comicbooks.com