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This cartoon depicts a confrontation between two figures over a locomotive engine. The caption "TIMELY WARNING" and the dialogue—"Uncle Zeke: 'Heah, yo' Gasholin, go ride off a dat fry-en-mile! Spec' as how you'll kill us-self wid yo' foolishness!'"—suggests a racial caricature (the dialect and name indicate a Black character) warning another about reckless behavior with an engine. The cartoon likely critiques Democratic mismanagement or dangerous political/economic policies, using the locomotive as a metaphor for governmental control. The "timely warning" appears to satirize concerns about incompetent Democratic leadership threatening the nation's progress or stability, a common Judge magazine theme criticizing the Democratic party's governance.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Wd. Agree Manny ar Hrwsiano Guta 1M, Gurnony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED RTATES AND CANADA, IY ADVANCE, si) FOREIGN SURSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (POTTER BUILDING), Park yy New York, tn the postal union, 850 year Fer We gu fea nativical ya tee auleertioers a larger cirenta ublishes cheaper rates than any Aner STATEMENT OF DOUET by Mr. Carlisle —Thorbe or QUESTION he the won When D. B. Hill makes his presidential tour who will at the bottom of it 7 Saat RANDALL is very popular in Ge for the tariff enemies he has made. JLISHNESS to charge Ben, Butler with being the cl r honorable friend is modest, ins to be merely the Perhaps they love him the: Iris politi wn in 8s HODY SAYS a haby carriage is the worst: nuisance t trian can encounter; but in our opini f pedestrian his mean old self, e pedes 1 the worst nuisance is that Tur Jepar che mulicious ally acquits the editor of the Graphic of the hy unserupulons contemporary that he has thrown t Fred. Grant, and the readily the mud didw't happen to stick nore as If ts A LONG LANE that ho turnin Jay Gould owns t Some edi RECENT political indicate that the is not distant when offi cials will be for pernicious inactivity pre tin punished G Hin very SOR, used that ene lib. erally too; but perhaps. he gave credit for his tilehings in a private note to Mr, Dana. THE CONTEST between and us that when fall out honest mn likely re renntinuls anti-poverty yor less TIMELY GUT by some Saddius: sgit_ rite al confidence in the ability of some 7 and tattered wreteh: who meets aay of a lonely HI blow your hy THE STATEMENT THAT it is a wise ol had better he revised and isa foolish ehild that re father happened to be your mon knows its own fath tie opinion that it particularly if the nizes the relationship, ) ustrions mean A MAN in New Jersey who ry moon was that of a woman has Babel. Perhaps it is trae that New Versey men woman they can't get, but we didu’t think fool as that in the uw to build his tower of always want the anybody would be sacl a for the al th t k fe r would perhaps hi 1 ALDORON soci protection of binds has 40,000 mem barbarous fashion of bird-f ut 1,500 binds of paradis Mrs. Mackay: and but been 3.000, be killed ts a Society the numb Trist.v EWSPAPER is not the worst thi many have been tried in that way and sent to the in the world. How zhest official posi of dat ry an‘mute! liens eneral thing how well they have vindicated the newspaper judgament AN INVESTIGATION into the evils of insane asylums would bring ent to the authorities of the same which could ground of insanicy. DEMOCRATIC NEGATION. reatest_ glory the Demoeratie party It is entitled to its own app tims for itself is that it The pre-election resultant has done nothing, use. Look at my remarkable offspring. but don’t be afraid I shall keep up the supply of the Is it to be supposed that if a Republican executive had been in the presidential chair, any one of the men whose names history will never forget, Ca suld have pushed its impertinent codfish in the face of the republic without resentment and restraint ? It is true the great how] at Mexico for a construable affront was deemed heroic, and it was the heroism of a bully. The diplomatic fog-horn sounded wild and loud and s the danger was revealed as a nasty mist, sucking back its sonorousness and reabsorb: ing its echoes, only to break silence again when sow disturbs the Delaware Talleyrand with an obne pased on. “ Public office is a public trust” has beec nd in view of his putrid v fied in cabinet, ingless sneer and sends boodlers resurrected polic: v New York bolts SI nig Sang. is the one The only overt prope snatched from the rem: confederate constitution, menace of free trade threat to An The only the nd the indus- psolutel y monic ‘ion was the unsolie- ited offer to return to the south the flags she had lost in the internicine conflict Should not the administra: tion also suggest to give to the Thistle the cup, to mollify the chagrin and make pleas: with the loser ? ant p The country fairly prosperous through the am- plitude of its resources, and helpful policy of the party in power, W hile agreat Democratic faction is fighting to open to destruc tion the free-trade switeh, the engineer from the white house <perienced, and depending on his luck, has pply pushed in the throttle nd, leaning out of the exb of the e e, Snarls at a crowd of critics, oblivious of th @¢ financial rocks that threaten to roll down on the track not from new guidance, but from old momentum, atic officials are twisting on the brakes, It will move, so great is the accumulated force, if the time be brief before some Republican hand can take the engine and spur it to the hunder and swift speed of itsold-time glory and strength. not from a in WARN NG. Spee’ as how yo'll kill useff impendi The tr while undisciplined Democ rve awe-inspiri Tur DIME NOVELS in the World are among the best of their miser- able kind AL Grant was never happy in his speeches, but his term: nder were the very soul of business WE MUST ALL BE GAY AND HAPPY. Adispatch says that Mr. Blaine is gay and happy, as everybody ought to be who is in Paris, where Mr. Blaine was when the dispatch was sent, but that it is doubiful whether he will consent to run for president. Well, the Republican party wants to be gay and happy toe nt Mr. Blaine will do as the party says. Let us remind that distinguished gentleman that he is not his own master as much as he was some y Tur “N winks her THE of sur rs ago, who does dete pr goes to sleep. work for Joseph Pulitzer DeMocraTIC PREJUDICE against illustrious fathers should comicbooks.com