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# "Just Before Lunch Hour" - Political Cartoon Analysis This cartoon depicts a working-class man (labeled "Jerry") attempting to retrieve his dinner pail from what appears to be a construction or industrial site. A well-dressed figure stands above, suggesting class conflict or labor disputes common in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. The accompanying text references "Coogan" and "Blaine" in brief political jabs, and discusses Cleveland's foreign policy and Democratic/Republican party dynamics. The "No Bribery" section critiques electoral corruption. The cartoon's humor likely satirizes the contrast between wealthy industrialists/politicians and laborers struggling for basic subsistence—a central Progressive Era concern. The title suggests the worker's desperation and time constraints, mocking both labor conditions and possibly political hypocrisy about worker welfare.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publish wed. Art De Beans Editor LM. tment TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. . One copy, one year. or s2 numbers, . $4.00 fod One copy, six months, ar 26 numbers, . 3.00 One copy: f : LT Neo FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To all for a! Ss alyeare Tue Jupce Pusuistino Company (Porrer Bur.pis Park Row, Now York ar We A remittance of $10 will entitle you to the re ensuing thirteen week: Jeoor will sparkle with bright things, will be maile.! you postpaid iar weekly visits of Juoce day season, a period ‘during ‘Send $1.00 to the publishers now, and the paper GIVE US ROOM! 134,200. Sacxert & M as-st Rose street, Ni m1ats Lernocearine Co. November 2, 1888, "f Me. We J Aus The Judge Publishing Company, New York city. Dear sir~ In response to your in. wiry of this date, we bey to state that we have lithograptied this week cartoons for 134,200 Jupces rs truly, Sackerr & Wiciecas Leno, Co, Robert L.. Sackett, Treas, y that our orders for Jooces this week have been 134,200 copies. 'W. J. Muuxitt, business manager he Judge Publishing Company. ‘Sworn and subscribed before me this 22d ay of November, 1888. Bruins L. Clanne, Notary Public, New Vork county. R. COOGAN is going around like Diogenes, look- ing for that $100,000. . Me: BLAID E might have what he wants, but per- haps he doesn’t want it. soe RY GRADY'S NEW OUTH is talking so wildly that it seems to be the old calamit T MS to be unsettled whether Cleveland's foreign tour will include Europe or end in New Jersey. G' SERAL HARRISON can claim descent on his mo- ther's side from Anna Boleyn. That's another point age those bloody English. M®. AND Mrs. ct LAND will, it is said, go to Europe late in March. Grant did that, and on his return he came very near getting a third term in the white-houss, But Grant's was a different case—far different. Kaiser William should have a trouble of the He has walked on that organ a good deal lately. ROVERB—AIl elections that do not suit us are won by the corrupt use of money, and our party ought to have given far more liberally. NO BRIBERY! | IS a Democratic idea now that there must be no bribery at elections. The JUDGE indorses it. It is quite true that both sides are given to bribery to the full extent of their spare cash, the wicked wretches ! and therefore the result is as it would be if there were no bribery ; but that has nothing to do with the principle. Still, it will be a long time before bribery of all kinds will perich from the carth—so long that there will be nobody left to do the electing. th’ dhrill f IS NOT surprising ¢ ear, JUST BEFORE LUNCH HOUR. Focarty—"* Look out fer yure dinner-pail, Jerry. Cotins—" Give it a couple o' ttumps wid th’ shtame, John. been mekin’ me sandwishes out ‘r th’ ould goat that wor killed on th’ thrack.” LESS HASTE—LESS HASTE! OUTHERN ORATORS and editors are in a great state of agitation over the southern policy of President Harrison, and the usually amiable Henry Watterson affects to think that the south is going to be smothered in the bloody shirt, and declares that he will tear the garment to pieces rather than submit. Why be in such such a hurry? What is the use of having the funeral until the corpse is furnished ? PERMANENTLY GONE. GACKVILLE-WEST is put down in English official documents as “Lord Sackville, minister to Washington, home on leave; but we don’t believe he will return under the Harrison administration, because he isn't fond of us and feels real hurt. No; we have lost his lordship. West has gone east to grow up with the country. NEW YORK IN NATIONAL POLITICS. HE GREAT INFLUENCE of the State of New York in past politi- cal struggles, and its weight in future ones, will still retain it for some time ‘to come not only as the Empire state in enterprise and wealth, but politically as the Umpire state. It is a dream of enthusiasm, and’ likely to be a delusion, that even with the addition of the electoral votes of new states (now ter- ritories with Republican predi- lections) it be safe to calculate that the old flagship is not needed in any future contest. ‘The expectation of the Dem- ocratic party is founded on hope for disruption in Republican councils, It knows by its brief experience that victory has haz- ards nearly equal to defeat, and it will be wisdom if Republican party leaders study: witkr soticit- ous shrewdness the hidden as weil as projecting rocks that wrought Democratic wreck. It will be the ambition of General Harrison to transfer at the end of his term the glory of a successful and broad national administration and the support of an unbroken party to his suc- cessor. difficulties of personal ambition to be assuaged or reconciled that lie between its commencement and conclusion, lesmen are compounded of the same stuff as less conspicuous men. Like the mythologic gods, deified by dis- tance, they are very human in their instincts, and are com- pounded of the littlenesses as well as the largenesses of nature. All men have more or less liking to wear the feather and touch off the thanderbolts, The “Big Four’ of New Yorkare for the present conspic- uous figures in national politics. It is a problem of party uneasiness if as between this quartette individual ambitions will be subordinated or in the ascendant, whether in fact the clans of each chief will be consolidated into invincibleness by harmony, or be dispersed or destroyed by personal dynamite. An impartial public is watching with interest the self-presentment of the respective claimants. It will have something to say in protest or indorsement of the award. Mr. Depew, who was by far the most con- spicuous candidate before the Chicago convention, and, equally with Mr. Blaine, could have laid his hand on the nomination, was personally self- sacrificing enough to appreciate that his surroundings might introduce misrepresentable and discordant issues in a critical contest, and declined the earned laurel, now neither asking nor wishing a reward ; and he is greater Without official insignia than any who would wish to pose simply decorated with a’mandarin’s button, Hiscock is evidently at present satisfied with the breadth and solidity of his senatorial seat. These two, presumably with preferences, look with Many, however, are the It's shquare undernathe ‘Th’ ould woman's comicbooks.com