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# "The Influence Spreading" - Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis The main cartoon depicts two figures in conversation, likely representing political or social commentary typical of Judge's satirical style. One figure appears to be addressing another in what seems to be a tense or confrontational exchange. The text references various political and social issues of the era, including mentions of Theodore Roosevelt, Republican politics, and urban governance. References to "New York" and discussion of civic infrastructure suggest contemporary New York City politics. However, without clearer visual identification of the specific figures depicted or knowledge of the exact publication date, I cannot definitively identify which particular political figures or events this cartoon satirizes. The style and references suggest early 20th-century American political satire, but the specific context requires additional information to interpret accurately.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher» W. J. Amxene Art Department ~ Bewnnano, Editor : “Bex UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $4.00 One copy. six months, or x6 numbers - *S.c0 One copy: for 13 weeks = ‘Single copies, to cen each. THe Jupoe PuBLisHino COMPANY (Jupcr BUILDING), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York, WAT We cuarantee advertisers a American satirical paper published. wn 44 for tale at Brentano's, cor circulation at cheaper rates than any other Avenue de COpera, Paris, and at Brentane's, \eronaut resembles pride, because he must have a fall. the « 0 THE AT RS—Come home, for all has been for given. * WHEN MR. CURTIS praises Tammany hall his paper becomes a jour- nal of dissimulation. ‘ AN: COLE, father of the Republic * and noblest family of his time. $6 NEW-YORKER in Chicago” Dear, dear! For how long was he sentenced ? NT BOODL n party, has died, leaving the largest is a heading in the Jnter Ocean, QUE THEODORE is doing much for the civil-service law. ‘The man on the tread- mill couldn't take more steps. . BOULANGER remains in London regardless of the danger of being arrested by the London police as Jack- the-ripper. IOHN SULLIVAN is as de- structive with his mouth as ds ; so it i: his priate to mention him a the-ripper. very appro Jack- os THE FALL of the sparrow is noted, but we don’t sup- pose the mean little land-pi is missed except as to the math- ematical necessity of balancing accounts, Vhy, Zebadiah Hawki it back ta th ring, an . them files of N’ York papers ‘bout Sull'van’ an’ EOPLE WHO go abroad for their vacation work so hard that it will be necessary for them to take a long rest when they get home. THE SLU all kno passed. a HERE IS TALK of naming John L. Sullivan for mayor of Boston, It looks odd, but surely he would get all the Democratic and some of the mugwump votes. [F McQUADE is innocent then the boodlers now at Sing Sing are inno- cent. There ought to be many suits for false imprisonment and un- merited disgrace. iGERS say they have drank nothing since the mill, but we that the mill will never run with merely the water that has. FRANCIS MURPHY says prohibition is Phariseeism, fraud, and hypoc- risy. While that is true, let us never forget that there is the virtue of grim and unyielding idiocy at the bottom of it, o. T? MR. JOHN SMITH of the Dasly Blank : Honor and fame from no condition rise. Act well your part, but let up on your lies. HE PRESIDENT is making more friends by doing exactly as he thinks is right, regardless of critics who don't know the difference between right and wrong, than he might make in any other way. THE INFLUENCE SPREADING. THE MAN who tried to kill Dom Pedro of Brazil is the kind of man who shoots his mother because of the mistaken kindness which gave him birth, . Ovr CHAUNCEY is Sir Chauncey over there, and the British are half inclined to think he is the noblest nobleman of them all—which the same it is true. ee ‘THE LAW PROTECTS boodlers, and in fact everybody in New York but the honest taxpayer, And if the latter wants protection all he has to do is to steal. HE CZAR needs and wants to be liberal to save his life. His nobles insist upon being tyrants to save their money and estates. Shall the czar use dynamite? ee QUE FLOODS are so numerous, surprising, and destructive that we shall all soon begin to build arks, leaving the rest to go around with subscription-papers. MARY BRADY of Jersey City having been convicted of being a com- mon scold, the editor of the Chicago 77mes feels as if he had met with a personal affliction. eee HAT GOVERNMENT would like to get rid of Parnell; but it is a matter of national pride not to drop a victim until he is so far gone that he cannot rise to testify to your humiliation. [™JS.NOF fair play for JuDGe to caricature Joseph Pulitzer’s blindness. The loss of vision is a misfortune that offers no proper occasion for artistic brutalities.—Al/a-Californian, San Francisco. This is an absolute misrep- resentation on its face. ‘The JupGE has never caricatured Joseph Pulitzer’s blindness. It challenges any one to disprove this assertion. No one in the wide world regrets the phys- ical affliction that has befallen Mr. Pulitzer more than the publisher of the JuDGE. eee NEW YORK THE PLACE, F IT BE determined, and it certainly should, to hold a commemorative exhibition, open to the world, to celebrate the fourth centennial of the discovery of this continent, the work of selecting should not be biased by local pride, but simply and only for the best convenience of the vast do- mestic and foreign concourse that would make it a worthy success. Thé claims of Wash- ington, as the c: country, are hardly to be considered. While it is the pol it is not equipped for the comfort‘or even the convenience of a continental contribution, Presidential inaugurations, with comparatively scant delega- tions, strain its accommodations. Neither is capital likely to invest in structures and transportation that, after the using, would be absolutely lucless. Remote from the source of liberal supplies, and with limited means of transportation, the project in that direction would be foredoomed as a fiasco, New York, with a population within an hour's reach of the city as large as that of London, would supply a contributive people that of itself would warrant, beyond a question, its selection, The commercial and financial metropolis of the continent, no other city in the country has, even without extra-additional effort, such ample absorbing power of unstrained hospitality. The recent centennial held here packed, in the brevity of three days of celebration, extra sojourners nearly equal to the total population of any large city, without any discomfort. Not only its radial railways, but the contributive coastways, its lines of navigation, not only accessible to the margin of New England, but penetrating the interior of other and ad- jacent states, emphasize it as the one and only geographical point econom- ically easy of access. It is of importance to the financial success of such a vast undertaking that it be so placed as to be reached at the least possi- ble expense, Patronage will be largely dependent on the cost of reaching and returning from the selected point. A circus that would charge two dollars a seat would have a scant audience. The one at fifty cents a ticket ! be you crazy? jon't skulk! Ever sence Isaac sent me len I've b'en jest itchin’ t’ lick some one.” comicbooks.com