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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 395 The page contains political commentary and two editorial cartoons from an American satirical magazine. **Top Cartoon ("Better Still"):** Depicts a domestic scene with a man and woman, likely commenting on marital or social dynamics of the era. The dialogue suggests tension about attendance at some event. **Bottom Cartoon ("A Worried Acrobat"):** Shows a figure performing acrobatic feats while holding political rings, captioned as commentary on balancing competing political interests. The figure appears to represent a political performer managing conflicting Democratic and Republican party demands. **Text Commentary:** The editorial pieces critique Democratic Party leadership ("incompetent leadership"), discuss census-taker controversies, farming alliance politics, and the Bennett Law controversy—suggesting this is from the 1880s-90s period of American political realignment. The overall tone mocks Democratic political failures and internal party divisions.
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SAM JONES has made twenty thousand dol- lars in real estate within a year, and of such is the kingdom of earth. ~ LOOKS as if Speaker Reed were not only the czar and the late O. Cromwell, but high, low, Jack and the game. SOME RECENT demonstrations in the house of representatives indicate that absenteeism is a positive virtue. T IS PERHAPS the people who swore at the census-takers that are now growling because of the supposition that the census-takers didn’t get all the names. THE TROUBLE with the Democracy, accord ing to the World, is incompetent leadership. ‘That explains some of it, but what of the scar- city of the rank and file? [* WAS thought by the Democratic editor that there was a lack of interest in T. B. Reed's district, but now there is an impression that there was a great deal too much of it. A WOMAN writes in the Chicago Herale that what women most like in men is force —the horny hand and the chiseled face. Ah, well; here’s another victory for the farmers’ alliance THE RECIPROCITY of Mr. Blaine is men- tioned by the Democratic press as free trade ; yet in the senate the other day every Democrat voted against it. Let us learn, brethren, to suit the word to the action and the action to the word. THE BENNETT LAW and the farmers’ alliance are breaking up the two great parties slowly but surely, and by-and-by we shall have such new politics that the different BETTER STILL. parts of it will have to be labeled and taught “Ab! Don't you wish you had been here to see me get up?” in the public schools. He— Because I'm going to wait and see you come down !" | ANOTHER CZAR. E ARE PAINED to learn from the Albany Argus that the tariff bill as passed by the senate confers upon, the president the right to be a disgusting despot. These days there is too much despoting, and you want to go straight to the polls and put a stop to it. CONSOLATION FOR ALL. ]™ WON'T bother the leaders of the Republican party of Maine and the country to reconcile their ambitions each with another's. The perils of success are at times worse than is the chagrin of defeat; but these things regulate them- selves very well, and are easier to be borne than the loss of a campaign. Meanwhile, however, there is a little consolation for the Democracy in the perils mentioned, and heaven knows they need all they can get. THE MAINE JIBOOSE. ]T SEEMS STRANGE to hedr the editor of the New York Times curse the Democrats for not winning in Reed's district, or at least for not cutting down Reed's majority. Why, man! that’s politics. The means to success are poli- tics. Organization to beat opposition is politics. The Dem- ocrats of Reed's district mugwumped. They didn’t come to A WORRIED ACROBAT. the polls. They were dissatisfied and consequently idle and (Kittley has taken his cousins (0 the club-gymnasium, indifferent. That's mugwumping. Why should you com- and the time for showing his proficiency has arrived.) plain about that? They jiboosed. ‘They turned up their Ne You can never do it in the world, Nervie.” . : : "Dodo what?” noses in contempt of partisan politics. They ought to have “Why, jump through those rings.” your thanks and praise.