Judge, 1892-01-16 · page 3 of 16
Judge — January 16, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes late 19th-century legal and political incompetence. The top cartoon depicts a court scene where a junior practitioner defends a prisoner pro bono (unpaid), with dialogue mocking the arrangement's futility—"They hang the man." The text below contains political jabs: it references Senator Felton's million-dollar Stanford donation as evidence money matters more than votes; criticizes Senator Pfeffer's limited Washington influence; and mocks the authorities' relief at temporary labor strikes ending. "Now Pick Flints" section discusses potential Democratic legislative gains, predicting political realignment and suggesting Republicans lose courtroom cases through incompetence. The "Dentistry Extraordinary" and "Sarcastic" illustrations appear unrelated vignettes mocking various professions and social pretensions, typical of Judge's scattershot satirical approach.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
UNPROFITABLE SERVICES. Juxton PRACTITIONER —"'I respectfully object, your honor, to being assigned as counsel for the prisoner. The last one I defended at your request never paid’ me a cent. Tue JuoGE—"* Can't you collect your fee?” Justor raactitioner —"* No, your honor. They hung the man.” SOMETIMES the powers get so mad at each other that they fall to and box the ears of Bulgaria with much severity. see FELTON, the new senator from Cali to Stanford's three, nia, is said to have one million We do not allude to votes, but to dollars. Lt NOBODY hug to his breast the delusion that the lengthening of the days puts further off the reckoning for his thirty-days’ obligation. ‘THE INTELLECT of Senator Peffer has been questioned, but they say be has the most powerful and suggestive snore in the city of Wash- ington. : ar HE AUTHORITIES are so pleased over the temporary abridg- ment of the liberty of two notorious dive-keepers that they feel like calling out “ McGlory.” WE INFER from the statement that Gladstone has been black- balled by an English club that the club in question has been inadvertently blackballed by Gladstone. cee HE STATEMENT of the World that Mr. Blaine has cut loose from the money power must not be taken as a reflection on Mr. Pulitzer’s amazing income, for, after all. the honest getting of money is no crime. t eee FAME IS FLEET- ING in most cases; but the head of Muriella, the distin- guished California rob- ber, is preserved in al- cohol and will doubt- less be the delight of some of the coming ages. R. MILLS is as amiable as. the man who has caught a basket of fish and had the fish stolen by his piscatorial rival. But FAS = > DENTISTRY EXTRAORDINARY. Mixe—"I belave ye supply fresh ‘sets o' teeth, an’ I want ye t’ put a few into this ould saw o' mine, yer * Mr. Mills need not despair. sport, Let him not forget that he had the previous NOW PICK FLINTS. A DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE in this state this winter probably means a Democratic legislature for some time to come. There will be a re-arrangement of senatorial and assembly districts involving more or less gerrymandering, and a Democratic senator will succeed Frank His- cock at Washington. ‘That is the partisan outlook now, and whether the partisanism of the courts brought it about or not the victory for Hill is ery significant. Let the Republicans of this state pick their flints, as heretofore in such cases. They lost when they might have won, and if flint-picking suits them better they have a long time for that amusement. SARCASTIC, Miss WALLING —"' Mr. Sharpe, the shrewdest speculator on Wall street, told me to-night that I had the finest complexion he had ever seen.” Miss ELerty—' Well, Mr, Sharpe has the reputation of being a very far-sighted comicbooks.com