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# Political Satire from Judge Magazine This page celebrates the Judge magazine's electoral victory, claiming 300,000 weekly readers. The central cartoon depicts **Cleveland in the soup**—a visual pun mocking President Grover Cleveland's political troubles. The rooster imagery and various caricatured heads reference rival political figures and opposition newspapers. The text ridicules Cleveland's vulnerability, particularly his unpopular stance on tariffs ("what's the matter with Cleveland?"). References to "mugwumping" (political fence-sitting) and civil-service reform debates indicate this addresses late-19th century Republican attacks on Cleveland's Democratic administration. The satire celebrates Judge's influence in opposing Cleveland while promoting Republican candidates. The overall tone is triumphalist, claiming the magazine's cartoons helped elect Harrison and demonstrating editorial confidence in their political impact.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President. s Art Department ‘Editor’: THE JUDGE'S VICTORY. URING this campaign the JUDGE has circulated 200,000 copies a week. That means 4,000,000 readers a week. The JupGe's cartoons have received the com- mendations of the Republican press and of protectionists generally the country through, and its tariff articles by Senator Arkell have been so extensively copied that half the voters of this country have seen and read them. Without a dollar of patronage from the Re- publican national or state committee, the JUDGE has done its utmost for General Har- rison, and believes its efforts have elected him, ‘The JUDGE has opposed mugwumpery of every kind, and not a mugwump favorite has been elected. Put this and that together and sce what comes of it. ~ TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. 5, ‘Single copies, 10 cents ach. FORE SUBSCRIPTIONS —Te all for- countries in the postal union, $5 @ year Tue Jupce PustisHinc Company (Porrer BuiLpiNc), Park Row, New York. American satirical paper publish a F‘ IUR—FOUR—four 7 Avenue de 1. ‘ears less, THIS COUNTRY was sufficiently protected on election day. HE REPUBLICAN isavery soup—soup— THE CONTINENT FOR THE souperior party. “WORLD. ~ MARK THIS! When this country gets up another American party which wants a new-comer to wait twenty-one years be- fore he can vote, it will be a country for the few and by no means for the many. ‘That kind of meanness ought to have been killed thirty years ago; and it is marvellous that a republic should have one man of brains, like Abram Hewitt, to insist upon its revival. When Father Abram goes to heaven—and he is honest enough to go there—we hope he COMPREHENSIVE REMARK by the JuDGE—Whoop! TO DANIEL MAGONE and pack your grip. HATS THE MATTER land? He's all wrong. Accept this tip with Cleve- LL THE OTH against Harrison. R illustrated papers were ‘The JUDGE was the N°. MUGWUMPING. Brother Pearson of that post-office must go. ROVER ISSTILL the man. of destiny; that is to say, he is destined for private Ife. UR COMPLIMENTS. to the mugwump illustrated paper on Houston street, and how does it like things they have gone? s.8' ANDIDATES must. pray hereafter for the opposi- tion of the Herald, the Times, the Evening Post and the Commercial Advertiser ; “their help means death,” say Grover Cleveland and Warner Miller. whens THE THING that did most to beat Grover Cleveland was that snub of D. B. Hill at the Academy of Music. “When a president meddles with state politics he burns his fingers. CLEVELAND IN THE SOUP. will have to wait twenty-one years before putting on his wings or playing on his golden harp. WORSE THAN NOTHING AT ALL. VERY CANDIDATE supported by the mugwumps was whipped out of his boots, Cleveland, Miller and Hewitt are cry- ing. “We ought to have been saved from our mugwump friends!” and Weeping: copi- ously. Harrison, Hill and Grant were op- posed by the mugwumps and all are elected. What's the matter with the mugwump vote? “ Nothing from nothing leaves nothing,” says Jeremy Diddler, using his fingers for an arithmetic. HE PROTECTION TRAIN knocked Grover, the Democratic jackass and the mugwump into a state of the most melancholy astonishment. Observe that picture on the last page. CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. VOTERS of this country have pronounced for civil-service reform. ‘That is to say, the ins must go out and the outs must go in. Grover Cleveland be- xiins the procession, and it is filled in and tailed out wth Democratic office-holders of high and low degree from Washington ALL IS WELL. F THERE is not snow on the ground all around the world. Out with the ins and in with the outs! That is the of the people and that is civil-service reform. ice when this JUDGE goes to press there will at least be the late autumn which is shown in shriveled leaves and hard ground and leaden skies, There are at hand the fatted turkey, What’s the matter with Harrison ? comicbooks.com