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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The central illustration depicts an allegorical figure of Liberty (identifiable by the liberty pole and lamp) confronting what appears to be a menacing urban scene. The caption "AN ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENON" suggests satirical commentary on contemporary politics. The visible text discusses Republican party politics, mentioning a "blood-curdling feat of swallowing the Republican party" and references to civil service. The cartoon appears to critique political figures or movements of the era, though the specific individuals aren't clearly identified in the readable portions. Without clearer visibility of all figures or access to the publication date, I cannot definitively name the politicians being caricatured or specify which political crisis is referenced. The satire appears to concern Republican party divisions and civil service reform debates typical of late 19th-century American politics.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President Vice President Art Department Raitor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED #TAT wares FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To alll foreign countries in the peatal unten, 8a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CompaNy (Potter BUILDING), Park Row, New York, BP We guarantee advertisers a larger eirewlatum at cheaper rates than any Amer: fean sativieal paper publisher Covoxet Grant isn’t much of a speechmaker, but he does quite as well as his father did at his age. Wnty poy’t the boodl ermen of Montreal come here? A fair exchange is legitimate int TH ‘acations would seem. to indicate an impression that public office is a public bust Tuk Democratic press is fighting T. C. Platt harder than it ever t the southern : remove tunes,” pire, Rerortep THAT Mau- Bernhardt will come here and marry Mrs. Lang: try: but we suspect that the lady and Freddy Gebhardt know bet Brotner the only on who hasn't orated at the but we dare y to potato rly busking. A PRETTY GIRL set up bo ot-bls ‘all street pmpliment to the boys of Wall street greater than they ever received before. IrskeMsthat Ben Butler owes the national home for disabled soldiers something like $17,000. The general ys was the curiousest his ideas AN ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENON, Parrotaiax—"'Hi, there! Move ov. What are you looking at ** ch? Mosh won'ful thing ever saw. See thoah b n+ guest you'd better come with me and Inok at " Ir 18 saip to be the fashion for ladies to paint their ears so t BrLaten ermizxs PaTRotmas. sewer by standing out here.” KEY NOTES. sR The New York Sun, usually so rational and broad inits politics, unwisely sneers at that portion of the Republican platform adopted at Sara regulating national support of the state Is. The Sun says the fed rnment has no! more business with the canals than with av between one and another part of the city of New York. The sewer illustration is nota good one. We all know that for simple state uses the canals have outgrown their purpose. The » of our meadows and the shearing of our forests are es that no waterways each. The second-story ri Justice is always good pol ridiculous when it exacts an enforced tax to maintain c: use and helping of other and distant states. car; but if a man has money and doesn’t spend it he who has no regard for the public and affection only for himself, red into channels of inter-state traffic. Duluth ¢ ered at the foot of Ui as. Why should not sand territories it benefits by direct cheap—or indirectly by restriction—pay their fair and just proportion in the light stipend for their maintenance ? If New York state gives a work tly as a Pacific railroad, should it also be so unjust to its people be charitable forever ? The west is too big and independent to ms. It is time that the government which builds levees on , dredges bayous, and drains for sanitary purpo Potomac flats, should do its honest duty. Before the Erie can built one hundred miles of the Mohawk was Bateaus of freight were pulled or poled up its current. £i that this river parallel length of the canal now is is a stream with the “ carries” mi-navigabse sti put and the spre ers hemmed in by banks to make a and state pride is Is for the Ronert GARRETT is censured for paying $300 a day for a_ palace a mean miser WE ARE REMINDED by the Inter-Ocean that the parties have bexun to point with pride, as well as to view with alarm. It is sweet to be thus reminded of the sacred past; but how about the sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty ? NowaDays ITis the cus: tom whenever a clergyman leaves his pulpit tosay he is to be the successor of Hen Ward Beecher, and se gentlemen have thus the pangs of idleness soothed toa remarkable degree. THE DEMOCRATIC CIRCES. The great coml cireus is again on the road The band will play free trade and protect tari tu according to locality and under the direction of the leader, For months the bill-hoards have been posted with picturesque promises of the wonderful perform nee. The great Democratic tiger is shown in the “blood-curd] feat of swallowing the Republican party, chewing up. the ree: ords of the rebellion. with both comfortabl side him, climbing a hberty pole and snatching from its top the chaplet of victory. amid the glow of red and green fires to symbolize the new political millenium. Bayard is pictured in’ the admit, difficult, and aston- 2 ishing diplomatic feat of wryetre ane total into dumping into the English lion's mouth (pried open by Minster. Phelps) with a codfish in one handvand= the~ American flag in the other; then turning a, Delaware somersault in the interior of the animal, emerging and presenting himself to the American audience, with the fish hand empty, and the stars and stripes metamorphized into the English fla Lor’ Salisbury, announced as tendering his services for the occasion, is to show in the great double act of jumping through the Irish home- rule hoop and in continuous flight breaking through the congressional retaliatory resolution hoop, amid rounds of applause from the cabinet and the Canadian and English spectators present. The civil-service farce is shown as a superb dissolving view. “Driving the rascals out” is pictured by showing the veterans departing before the administra- tion confederate police, who are using Higs clubs. An illustration of the campaign magnifying glass, used to nd other heelers as comicbooks.com