Judge, 1887-09-24 · page 2 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon, titled "On the Chicago and Northwestern," depicts a thin, ragged man (labeled as a tramp) examining a lantern beside railroad tracks. The caption reads: "Sleeping car porter—'Strange ter me folks can't big der wuz 'bout wen de trakt. Hank's smeller body done git ketched past Chicago.'" This is a crude ethnic/class humor cartoon mocking working-class speech patterns and suggesting a tramp has died or disappeared near Chicago. The joke relies on dialect humor and the audience's presumed superiority to both the porter and the transient. The surrounding text contains political commentary critical of Democratic policies, Republican candidates, and various social issues of the era. Without knowing the specific publication date, the precise historical context remains unclear.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President W. J, AwKELL Vice-President Haney R Haat Art Department Beaxnanp OrLiaw Paitor 1. Gaxoory TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CASADA, 18 ADVANCE Que copy one year, or ‘One copy atx monte. or + One copy for ih weeks, Single copies 10 cents each. FOREIGN SU NS $50 war, THE JuoGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (PoTTER BUILDING), Park Row, New York, ER™ We guarantee advertisers a larger cirewation at cheaper rates than any Amer- (ean satirical paper published. Sono By J. Pulitzer—* Grover and I are in How wovw-p it do to call the borough of Newport Marlborough, for short ? ‘Tne STAY in Jacob Sharp's case looks like a general order to have him stay in Ludlow street jail We BELIEVE th resumed his prese Freedom shrieked for joy when M. Halstead on these shores. not ordinarily a comfortable thing to sit on, but Mr. his section padded and will remain right there. Tue FIGHT between Mahone and Riddleberger seems to indicate that where thieves fall out honest men dco not necessarily get their dues. Curtis has Tue TONE of the Democratic pi great need to cry out to be saved from his friends ss is such that the president has REPORTED THAT the queen is in- voluntarily growing chin whiskers. God shave the queen. Tue JvpGe nominated Fred. Grant and behold the convention rat- ified the nomination without delay. It was ever thus. ALWAYS WITH US AFTER ALL. General Butler believes in pen- sions for confederate soldiers, in the eventual redemption of confederate tem of The good old 1 s not deserted the country. § ns to be heard from if he thereby destroys the rem. nant of his reputation for common sense LaBor Day is objected to by labor more than by business. Itisa al rattle that will probably have itself hereafter, A cartoon in the Graphic repre- sents the president going after the mugwumps with a gun; but that gun won't go off, nor the mugwumps either, to ratt SLERPINO-CAR PoRTER— MARLBOROUGH DOESN'T like the when dey trab'l American press any more than the American boodlers do, and thus the press is getting additional com- pliments every day. THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS. It is not a safe time to insist on putting a stop to free speech, and the world looks at the effort to do so in Ireland with amazement. The result must inevitably be to more or less gently lift the existing gov- ernment from power and deposit it in the shelter of retirement, and that will be the signal for more liberty in Ireland than has been had. There is thunder in the air, and, as Paddy would himself put it, if you put your ear to the ground you will hear its majestic tread. * THrow Sam RANDALL into the camp of his friends the enemy!” exclaims, in substance, the Hon. Henry Watterson in an article on the tariff question. That is certainly the place Mr. Randal. most be ON THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN, “Strange ter me folks cain't kip dar wits "bout-tem Heah’s anudder leddy done git kerried past Chicago.” longs in, and he shall be welcomed with cordial hands to a hospitable seat on the front bench. A CONTEMPORARY advises the socialists to strike against the Henry George men. What they ought most to strike for is their halters and their fires. Larry JEROME is very much impressed with the presidential chances of Brother Depew, ‘aud there is one report that Chauncey is a little alarmed himself. Woutos'r ir be well to even up matters out west by hanging a few cowboys? Has it ever occurred to the law that cowboys have no more right to do murder than has anybody else ? A DIVISION of the attention bestowed by Colonel Watterson on the _ Star-eyed goddess and the money devil would so upset the Courier. * Journal that it wouldn't know itself in its own mirror. Mr. GovLp mustn't hang anybody's hide on the fence. This year there are so many hides there, with their legitimate owners occu pying them, that there is room for no additional number. JouN Most has been refused the privilege of citizenship. Wh: remarkable cheek he has, mentally as well as physically, to ask to join an institution that it is his chief business and desire to destroy. ATOR INGALLS doesn't go far enough in idea that every man should shave and shave himself. He should add that eve should cut his own hair, build his own house, and make his own shoes. THE MAN WHO Wi Colonel Grant will lead the Republican forces of this state to vic- tory after the manner of his illustrious father, and that will put the party in good shape for the greater victory of next year. The governor has testified to his excellence and ability very properly though gener- ously, and in that respect has become our friend the enemy indeed. ow R SWEET FRIEND the old article as to how the wanderers “ come troop- ing back from mountain and sea- shore” is unusually vigorous itself this year. ON THE WHOLE perhaps it was the secretaryship of state that Governor Hill. meant to put in the hands of Colonel Grant. He is real good- hearted. 2 “THE DIPORTANCE of the legal questions involved are clearly shown. &c., says the Slar. It should really be one of the first purposes of a family journal to talk good grammar. FERDINAND of Bulgaria won the love of his people in three days and abdicated at the end ofa month. A very gushy individual, or in other words a prince who never reigns but he pours: THE GREAT WORK of nominating Henry W. Slocum to every office in the-gift of the Democratic party has commenced again. It is a nice and harmless amusement, but we should think the general would tire of the awful sameness. THE PARTY OF THE COWARDS. Nobody can say that the president is afflicted with an absence of spinal firmness. He believes in mugwumpery and is as determined on the foolishness that is called civil-service reform as when he went to the head of the government. How far this will affect his chances for @ renomination cannot be predicted with extreme accuracy, but certainly the Democratic party is totally opposed to everything of that kind, If he is renominated it will be the result of a belief that that is a political necessity, and there will be no Democratic enthusiasm over it. We shall have the spectacle of a party supporting that in which it clearly does not believe and shouting for a man to whom it is unal. terably opposed. That is not so strange for a party which has not for a quarter of a century had the courage of its convictions, but it is nev- comicbooks.com