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# Judge Magazine Political Satire Analysis This page satirizes the 1888 presidential race, particularly mocking the Democratic nomination of **Frances Folsom Cleveland** (wife of President Grover Cleveland) as a joke candidate. Judge presents her "qualifications" with heavy irony—praising her honesty and appearance while acknowledging she never actually accepted the nomination, highlighting the absurdity. The cartoons and text mock **James G. Blaine** (Republican rival), depicting him as a perpetual traveler avoiding the race. The "Swingin' Round the Circle" poem ridicules a political tour, referencing Blaine's whereabouts and behavior. The page also satirizes women's activism: **Elizabeth Cady Stanton** and **Susan B. Anthony** are quoted sarcastically supporting Cleveland—but with reservations, mocking their political inconsistency. This reflects real tension in women's suffrage movements of the era. The cartoons show working-class figures, typical of Judge's satirical imagery representing common folk observations of elite political theater.

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there had been such a lamentable event as that Henry is too good a newspaper man not to have sent the very earliest information of it. IT 18 REPORTED that the young women of Wellesley college exceed in canoeing. Considering that only one person can ride in an ordinary canoe at a time, that js an inexcusable outrage. OUR LOVELY CANDIDATE. From the entire country come the warmest indorsements of the JupGE’s candidate for president, Mrs. Frances Fol- som Cleveland. The candidate herself has not signified her desire to accept or refuse the honor; but that is modesty which the more shows her ability to fill the position both ably and satisfactorily »re assured that she has the requisite ions from the Jeffersonian and all the other legitimate standpoints. She is honest. She is capable. She is faithful tw the constitati She believes in pro- tection, at the same time that she advo- cates a scaling down of the war tariff. She is not a mugwump, as her devotion her husband amply testifies. She advo- cates such a reform of the civil service as will respect the will of the majority, no matter who goes out and who goes in. She is democratic in her simplicity, having temporary hand for any square inan, whether his hand is white or soiled with the honest soil of labor. She has per- haps a sweeter and more ij smile than that of Mr. Blain dignity is far beyond that of Uncle Ea- munds—partiy for the reason that it is always natural, is never assumed, and is SWINGIN’ "ROUND THE CIRCLE. They tell me that old Grover Has become a sort of rover, And is swin Whar Dave Hill in p e condition Puts himself on exhibition With the squashes, punkins, apples and the pears. But, b’gosh ! in gittin’ prizes Thar is heaps of sad surprises, And some mighty fine exhibits come tew grief. that ain't Still may furnish 1 And a failure at a fair may make good beef. ’ ‘round the circle of the fair-, 3 pitch into him for the same all-sufficient reason. There is but one wholly satisfactory poet among the living writers. We refer to Mrs. Wilcox. You know exactly what she means every time; and if you shouldn't happen to be thus fortunate you know that nothing is lost as to the which you have an unutterable yearning for information. It WAS ANNOUNCED that Mr. Blaine would return home at once. He will— he will. He will perhaps take the route which runs all around the world, and will get here some time in 1888. UNION, CLEVELAND AND HARMONY! The responses to the JupGE’s nom- ination of Mrs. Cleveland for president are numerous, and most of them grat ying. There are, of course, dissenting voices. We anticipated as much. But the weight of public opinion favors the nomination, and as soon ¢ few natural doubts are removed and a few questions swered there will be unanimity of opinion in her behalf that will shake the country from centre to cir- nference Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton cables us from Panis, ‘Goon, go on! ‘Consider my bonnet in the air, and never give up the ship.” “With one voice, solid and indivis- ible,” writes Miss Anthony, ‘Tsay “A. Jetfe emocrat” writes, I'm with you, but first divorce her from. veland.” Mr. Blaine cables us from Edinburg, er ruffled by the creases of dislike or prejudice or uncharitableness. ** What in thunderare you about? Pray see to it at least that I have She has spit-curls one glance at which were worth a thousand men; and _ the second place on the icket.” the dimple in her chin, not to mention the one on her cheek, has been “Do you think, sir es Mr. G. W. Curtis, “that she would mentioned as a declaration of independence and the very essence of give the mugwumps two-thirds of the offices? That is all th loyalty and purity and the rest of the virtues in one bricf but compre- and that they will have before g her their indorsement. swoop. Once more—cheers for Frances Folsom Clevelandt\/) suy that so far as my personal feelings go I prefer her to any other on for the rights of woman n as embodied in the looks and character and example of our first lady! Let the band play and let the press proclaim * that there is a new era of good feeling, and one tl will last pretty nearly forevermore. THE ACTRESS doesn’t lose her diamonds now. She falls heir to an estate in England worth any where from $200,000 to half a icks to the stage because — merely because she lowes it. A MAN WHO saw one of the photographs of a Boston young lady attired only in her specta- eles said sadly, ‘* That settles me. Thave a change of heart, I feel just like joining the church. THE QUARRELING POET: Swinburne turns upon Whit- man and rends him. He objects tothe “unhealthily demonstra- tiveand obtrusive animalism of his work.” Presently he will condemn it for incoherency, and then Walt will be ruined forever. Or perhaps he won't. He may fear that somebody, Robert Lrowning for instance, will ‘ANIMATED LUNCHEON. MeGuery (achome son has been putting wp a job on him)—" Sather me fer a haythinar denunciation. That was ungrate- thot pie ain't alive lady candidate yet mentioned.” “Young man,” writes Se ator Edmunds in his oracul: way, ‘have you ever read the constitution of your country, and if so what’s the matter with you?” “You shameful thing!” tel- cgraphs Mrs. Belva Lockwood. “Have I, after all, wasted my sweetness on the desert Treacher;;, thy name is Jup¢ “You stop that!” writes the Hon. John Sherman. ** Don't you know any better? You're making the meanest of all - chief. If you don’t withdraw the ation Tl insist upon a investigation and ve you impeached It We shall upon it with due modesty but unimpeachable firmness. Bring out the banners, load the columbiads, and let us celebrate the dawn of the new era’ of good feeling. THE Late GUITEAU cursed his enemies—that is to say the world—and died; and even his lawyer, who recently attempted ici share of the ful and unfair.