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This page from Judge magazine features political commentary and a cartoon titled "Away to the Westward," depicting a woman (labeled "Mrs. Quartz" as "Joan") and a man ("Hank") in conversation about westward movement and domestic concerns. The editorial content discusses contemporary political figures including Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill, and references to Democratic politics and electoral strategy. One section criticizes T. Thomas Fortune, noting tensions around race and authority. The cartoon appears to satirize frontier/westward expansion themes popular in American discourse, though the specific political allegory isn't entirely clear from the image alone. The surrounding text focuses on Democratic Party politics, suggesting this is commentary on late 19th-century American political divisions and personalities rather than a single coherent satirical narrative.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publither —- = WS. Ange. Art Department» Bernard Giitass. Editor = +L M.Grecony. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CAXADA, IN ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year, or s2 numbers = $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers = "3.50 One copy: for 13 weeks = = = 1.35 Single copies, 10 cents each. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To alt for- cign countries in the postal union, $6 a year, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CoMPANY (JupcE ButLDINc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York. UBWe cuarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any ether American satirical paper published. . The Juoce is for sale at Brentano's, 17 Avenue de Opera, Paris, and at Brentane's, 00 Strand, London OU CAN always find seats in the elevated cars, but they are generally occupied. IVIL-SERVICE REFORM—That parties, not individuals, are voted in and voted out. MOCRATS are obliged to talk tariff and therefore they must destroy the conscience that formerly obliged them to keep their mouths shut. see NOTHER MAN has been s tenced to die by electricity. Presently that kind of thing will be recognized as the great clixir of life. THE MAN who prays once a year has beguri to look for- ward with apprehension to Thanks- giving; but the turkey is as bold as a lion. AS BETWEEN Grover and L David with respect to. the Democratic national nomination we suspect it may be necessary to take some other 1 [™ 1S. NOT alarming that Samoa should be still in trouble. If Samoa were not in trouble that would be such a surprise that it would be a greater trouble still ram eee AWAY TO THE WESTWARD. [IS NOT right in a contempo- Aine: Quawre— y to speak of James G, Blaine HAN as “our grand old man.” Why! Mus. Quant im? Injun?* MANK —"* Dead 'r winged ; one ‘r t’other.” Jest look over ‘n see if he’s got Mr. Blaine wouldn't be old if he Mrs. Quartz — y blue beads on his HERE WAS NEVER a more brutal murderer than the young man Mclivaine of Brooklyn, and yet he is likely to ‘ive for centuries because he has been sentenced to die by electricity. eee ‘TRY and Mrs. Potter, it is said, will remain in London for an indefinite but very long period; but as long as America has Mrs. Ray Hamilton and Mrs. Leslie Carter it can get along with some slight eee BARNUM tells the reporters that he would rather live in England than America. There is probably not a more successful liar in the world than Phineas; but his lies are so profitable that one can hardly blame him, HE KING of Denmark has provided so many heads of royal families, chiefly of one sex, that he will live in flesh and blood as the prolific Dane almost as long as the melancholy one will live in play and history. T IS NOT to be believed that Albert Edward is a victim of Bright's dis- case, because if he were the ‘queen would abdicate to prevent Albert Victor, whom she dislikes, being her immediate successor. In selecting evils her majesty always chooses the least. TISTS put themselves in shrouds on the third of this month because they thought the world would come to an end that day. These repeated disappoint- ments are very exasperating, and we should think the adventists would get so mad as to want to come to an end themselves, WE MUST SAY that Amos Jefferson Cummings is fit to sit in the seat of Samuel Sulli- van Cox; and in saying that we pay him a compliment that is wrenched from us to the sacrifice of our partisan convictions, but which is the greater compliment for that reason. Mr. Cox was wrong, and Amos is wrong; but there is a kind of wrong that is so honest and pretty that everybody must ad- mire it. MR. t. THOMAS FORTUN of the Age, the organ of col- ored men, has honesty and ability ; but when he says to the JUDGE and to the world generally “This lived long enough to be his own — moccasins,” I need ‘bout a thimbleful more fer that ‘Peace 'n Good-will’ must stop!” he is trying to exer- grandfather. motter-card I'm worl HEN ANYBODY asks you whether Grover Cleveland is a Tam- many or a County Democrat it will be pretty safe to say that you think he eae O YOUNG LADY can claim to be worthy of notice unless she has written a passion novel; and if she has written a passion novel she is wholly unworthy of notice, THE LEGISLATURE wouldn't know how to get along without Jimmy Husted, and it is barely possible that Jimmy wouldn't know how to get along without the legislature. AK HALL. created to be a circus; but he has never been able to acquire the necessary tents and horses, and must therefore live and die merely as a side-show. Pr RA that the m n to safety-pins is the man who has been longest married? This is not to say that women are careless, but that buttons are scarce. HE CIDER PERIOD is at hand; and one stolen drink of cider through a straw, with the thirst and appreciation of youth, were worth a thou- sand men and that number of wild hu: TIS STATED that Millionaire Huntingdon has purchased a son-in- with a title for cight millions of dollars. That is a fine compliment to his wealth, but what insult it is to his daughter. cise authority like that of the old slave-driver who carried a_ lash, and that is a misfortune for T. Thomas and his race. The JUDGE: is for all justice and all good men, regardless of race, color, and previous or later conditions of servitude. DAVID AND GROVER. T HILL is not in the habit of losing his grip; but he has a hard struggle before him to reach the Democratic national nomi- nation, and if the grip is lost so also will be D. Bennett Hill. It is New against all the other Democratic states, Your friend David can ucus and convention; but Grover and his friends think they can beat David at the ballot-box precisely as David beat Grover, with the help of Boss McLaughlin, in the contest of 1888," So it comes to f the governor wins in the national convention he is likely to lose his own state in the election; and that would be thrice dangerous in view of the additional electoral votes that come from the far west. a general impression that David is smart without being honest, and Grover is honest without being smart, ‘The latter has the strength and the confidence of the Democratic party, but he would be to lose New York than David would. It cannot be said, how- ever, that the governor would lose any Democratic state outside of New York from unpopularity. He certainly is popular with Democrats of other states as far as he is known, though he doesn’t happen to be known, His speeches in Georgia and elsewhere have been discreet, but have not comicbooks.com