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# Judge Magazine Page 53: Political Satire Analysis This page contains several brief satirical pieces typical of 1880s American political humor: **"A Good Man Anywhere"** praises Democratic Senator Edward F. Reilly despite his party affiliation, crediting him with advocating for lower gas prices, a half-holiday bill, and postal worker protections. The satire lies in Judge's grudging acknowledgment that competence transcends party loyalty—even a Democrat can be worthy. **"These Tears"** mocks Congress's absence as a vacation, sarcastically suggesting the legislature's absence brings "comparative rest" since Congress typically accomplishes little anyway. **"Margaret and the Spirits"** dismisses spiritualist Margaret Fox Kane's revelations, satirizing spiritualists' stubborn adherence to beliefs regardless of evidence. **References to Cleveland and Garland** mock President Cleveland's strategic silence during campaigning and Attorney General Augustus Garland's absence from speeches. The bottom cartoon **"An Unfamiliar Toy"** shows a California uncle sending his nephew a jackrabbit—the joke being the child has never seen such a creature before. The page reflects 1880s Democratic-Republican partisan debates and spiritualism's cultural prominence.
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for the first, since the world began, have moulded, raised and dedicated Labor as its central figure, and crowned the statue of the worker, rather than that of the warrior, with a chaplet of honor. eae A GOOD MAN ANYWHERE. THERE is nothing reprehensible about Senator E Reilly except the fact that he is a Democrat. however, doesn’t interfere with his character as a live man, a good citizen, and a first-rate fellow. The JUDGE wants him elected county clerk for three reasons, 1-—He labored hard as a senator to reduce the price of gas in this city, and finally succeeded in having passed the bill having that end in view. 2—He originated the half-holiday bill. 3—He went to Washington in behalf of the proposition to increase the num- ber and lessen the work of the terribly over-worked em- ployés of the post-office in this city. That is what is the matter with Edward F, Reilly, and he will not only be elected but he will get more votes than any other man on the Tam- many ticket. rd F. ‘That, THESE TEARS. HE ABSENCE of congress increases the vacancy known as a long-felt want, and it is a yawning gulf. We shall miss that congress, It didn’t know what to do, and it exer- cised its authority of judgment to that extent with considera- ble wisdom, ‘The house was in doubt and the senate was in hesitation, There was apprehension as to what might be done, and equally as to what might not be done, It is gone, and there is comparative rest. Peace to its ashes, and speed to the wheels of the carriages that are coming back from the funeral. MARGARET AND THE SPIRITS. HERE 18 NO spiritualist who will not cling to his belief regardless of the revelations of Margaret Fox Kane. Your firm believer in life sticks to his theory through all the centuries that follow his death, and he wouldn't believe any- thing against his belief if he knew it to be true. is not stubbornness, either. It is merely the pretty thing called con- sistency and strength of conviction. And, after all, what is there in spiritualism, except its tendency to free love and a few little things like that, which wasa’t adopted by other religions years and years ago? ‘THERE IS a semi-oficial proclamation that Pr make no speeches during this campaign. that president is! ident Cleveland will Ah, what a wise politician FE, VIEW with pain, not to say with alarm, the fact that Augustus Garland is making no speeches, and has apparently been wiped from the Democratic escutcheon, oe THE QUESTION of the creation is in some doubt, but everybody knows that the Lord hates mugwumps and the various other indivi uals who call themselves civil-service reformers. RESERVING HIS STRENGTH FOR THE HOMESTRETCH. Portty Lapy—" Vou don't seem to be able to carry on a conversation while you are dancing. You this waltz with, MAN (Ireathing hand)—" Oh—yes | can, but Iam saving my wind to finish DURING the closing weeks of this campaign, the Televram says. “everything will be made to hum.” There's protection for you: though indeed the spelling and the grammar are not to be com- mended. HEN MARY, queen of Scots, was about to be beheaded she said in a distinct voice to the executioner, "1 don’t remember much about Darnwell and the rest of the boys, but, thank heaven ! I was never a mugwump or a prohibitionist;" and thereupon the gentleman of the knife, looking at her gentle face, said there were some redeeming features about her after all AN UNFAMILIAR TOY. Uncie George of California has sent his little nephew a pretty pet. Lirtie NErHEW—"' Come, bunny, bunny !” "t afraid of his little Joseph Nice Bexxv—"' | reckon that infant never saw a Cali fornia jack-rabbit before!"