Judge, 1887-11-12 · page 2 of 16
Judge — November 12, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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The central cartoon depicts three figures in formal dress examining what appears to be a coffin or undertaker's equipment. The caption reads "VERTICAL" with dialogue about an "upright style" and positioning. The surrounding text discusses political figures and social commentary, including references to Cleveland and Democratic/Republican election dynamics. One section titled "IT MUST BE A MISTAKE" discusses Bishop McQuaid and church political involvement—criticizing a priest for political preaching and suggesting this represents "church tyranny." Other commentary addresses civil service reform, the upcoming presidential election, and various public figures' scandals. Without clear date markers or identifying labels in the cartoon itself, the specific identities of the three figures remain **unclear from the image alone**, though the formal setting and undertaker's context suggest commentary on a political or social figure's demise or decline.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Presiden wis Vice byenident Art bep autor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND ‘One copy ‘One copy m= One copy ‘weeks. = Single coples 10 FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. Ut foreign emuntrica in the yeutal union THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (PoTTER BUILDING), Park wy New York, Ber We gual tisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any Amer: jean mativieal paper published, k out. ‘ite for next There are ar is Jef IT Is so Opp that the condemned a bad a thing for the! ts should think death so nnd so good for ev Ise. IF THIS ELECTION had run two weeks longer there wouldn't have heen a decent man outside of the JupGE office in the whole city of T THAT somebody should have mentioned Thomas F. Robert Acres, because, you know, the name is rumors as to his death and resignation that it y will not long remain to g the hub of the Freneh Bervert-Courrs, if she comes, wi lly received by our best society. There are ob- vious vhy she should not com ed by Mr. M Tur Democratic circus has quarters; but na—weallude, Jupae’s lovely hath all seasons: for hor own THE REFORM NEAT YEAR. Mr. Blaine says the task of removing the Democrats put in ollie Cleveland would atthat he would hesi aptit. Mr. Blaine il service refs Papp: J with those of the JupGe. First turn the out by the usual a ballot-box, doth turn the To the the honors, whoso says differently is treach erous to our systems of election. and government. The task will not be easy, but Mr. i i just the miseals out some more. victors belon lealer’a next dewr)—" UNperTaner ( deceased in a well nod work, A DISPATCH says the ck of his usaal compl there must n Ss still suffering * from a rather sharp The usual complaint being old age, sarily be frequent renewals of the sharp attack. THERE Is A NEW b r that there is a Charla s Dana anda Judas Pulitzer. We merely state the fact, and if that’s plagiarism the authors of the book will please to make the most of it TWO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS, The recent posing of the two presidents in their swirl for popular- has a Japanesque type of what may be considered a double-headed n of Demoers The tycoon, shadowy with political ghostliness, conspicuous at M: the mikado, full fleshed and surrounded vith admiring damios, at Atlanta. Jefferson Davis was as well an acknowledged potentate of the faith in state rights as Mr. Cleveland was the hoped-for idol of free trade. While the powerless northern Detocrat tri gibber id senile the talk over the uncov mbers of the fires of the ‘lost cause.” the serious gray, thre bloody ocratic bossism, Now, by the gods! t of Jetf. Davis. won't let it, McGlynn or anybody else, Bishop McQuaid of Roch his chureh a greater insult than McGlynn ever dreamed of, VERTICAL, Hextry (iho has entered the undertaker's hy mistake, thinking that tt t* the piano Ch want something nice in the upright styte. What bare you got ** plussed, but conl)—" Excuse me, si is inev it happens to be born. man sees something more in the enthusiasm that greets the utterance of the confederate chief than personal sympathy. sentiment that is to be dreaded, exhalations from the grave that twenty-five years of burial has not disinfected. It is the political ing and spreading its poisonous Democratic supremacy, harmful as its y be on our industrial interests, injurious pental pol- its financial theories are likely to be as agitators and disturbers of business, is all the more me northern men with une! and shape the interpretations of the in that court of last resort. gin its power of appointing to the supreme court 1s to construct the edicts: istitution and its amendments There lies the chance of victory for the ged confederate south. The gown of the Justice, r the uniform of faded ens and is likely to threaten all that was won hat nd costly road that led to Appomattox, Ovr Goop FRIEND of the World is the funuiest joke yet. Says THE LATER Solomon—I have lived many years, y I seen the Republicans forsaken or their seed begging bre “Let its honored old age Yes, but it won't—it won't. The people of the south IT MUST BE A MISTAKE. In threatening to excommunicate such men as go to hear Dr. r confers upon What! control the political outgoings and incomings of members of the church? It is possibly not ex ceedingly bad to unfrock a priest for having politiesof his own and preaching the same outside of his pulpit; but to forbid attend- ance at any decent gathering looks--for we x the close of the century—like the most astounding of all church tyranny. Why! it ought to be achureh duty, if the gentleman is correctly reported, to unfrock Bishop McQuaid. THE SADDEST THING of the period is this—you cannot look in the papers and read the electri If you ¢: you do not vote.” words, Mr. I Y NICOLL genuine, but quite frequently that article of goodness fails to pass because of its associations, DINAN MARIA. The world will miss Dinah Maria Muloch-Craik, Sheshowed in her first popular novel that she knew a gentleman at sight, as rlotte Bronte; and, con- dering that gentlemen areson times very much diszuised, th is a discernment of which any re you going to bury the authoress ought to be proud. Occasionally it is not a bad idea fora woman who writes novels to know something of the men she presents or caricatures; and Dinah Maria—though she really did dress Some of her male favorites in pa school ribbons, belongs mostly to school-girls—had an appreciation of manliness in its better phases that indicated study outside of woman appreciation beyond wi fore a remarkable woman. Therein she would have been more successful still. alettes, and ornament them with Sabbath- nd grease their mouths with the bread and butter that impressions and anly suspicion and caprice. She was there- But she should have drawn some pirates. “WILL THE coming race snore 7” asks the Tribune. Ah, yes; it ble—unless indeed the race happens to die at about the time Pernars if you arise early in the morning and take a look at the 1 you will find that the flag and Jacob THE Law keeps as close watch of wealth asof poverty. Jay Gould had a narrow escape from arrest wheu he departed for summer s comicbooks.com