Judge, 1892-06-04 · page 2 of 16
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This page contains satirical editorial commentary rather than a political cartoon. The main illustrated piece shows two men at a gambling table labeled "STAGNATION IN THE GAMBLING CIRCLES," depicting financial speculation and market concerns of the era. The text sections target specific political figures and issues: - Cleveland is praised as a favorite son - Senator Hill's political position is criticized - Methodist church debates about dancing are mocked - The Democratic Party nomination process is questioned - Navy strength and American maritime power are defended The overall tone critiques Democratic leadership (particularly around Cleveland vs. Hill), ecclesiastical restrictions on entertainment, and advocates for stronger American naval capabilities. Without clearer date information visible, the specific election or events referenced remain uncertain, though references suggest late 1880s-1890s American politics.
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vhiage- W. J. Ament. Brexnawo Gietan, I. M, Grecoxy. Sditor, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED ‘STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE ‘One copy, one year. or s2 numpers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.10 One e as weds ee including the Ciusratas Judo. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— Teall for- ign countrics in the postal union, $6 a year. THe JuDGe PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce Bun.ninc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street, New York. MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION NUMBER OF THE JUDGE. The issue of the Juvcx of date June 11 will be the National Republican Convention number and in all reapecs wil, be Morty of the oxranion,” Noteltaanding, that we Arranged to print a large extra edition it is feared that the same will be exhausted early in the week. Wideawake newsdealers are alert to the necessities of the times, and always keep an ample supply of the Jupcs, as increasing circulation eloquently testifies. Orders for the convention number will be received up to Saturday of next week, and an effort will be made to accommodate all newsdealers who apply for more—even at the ninth hour. N OHIO LADY pierced her ears and immediately had mumps. She had contemplated only ear-rings. R, CLEVELAND is doubtless a favorite son, and we dare say he can take his pick of New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. sitehis MB. BLAINE having been seen eating peanuts at a circus, we shall doubtless, hear to-morrow that he is again in the ring. MB. SWINBURNE ‘sheds about two hundred lines of regret on the grave of Walt Whitman, and every line spar- kles like a real tear. id K! IN PUBLIC is s to be obsoltte; but we dare say the foreign potentates will continue to practice it until one of them bites another's ear off. THis IS WARM WEATH- Rand if Rudyard Kipling writes another letter every jour nalist in the United States will be mad enough to froth at the STAGNATION IN THE GAMBLING CIRCLES. ‘To get the benefit of this joke the reader will kindly’ place his, hers or is HE ENGLISH are closely interested in the revolution in-Venezuela, as they have been in the troubles in Brazil and Peru and Chili. As the JUDGE has frequently said, this government will bave its next fight with foreign powers which interfere with the affairs of this continent. THE ETHICS OF REFORM. R. PARKHURST IS WRONG. He ought to know that the work necessary to the removal of filth produces a noticeable odor, whereas an undisturbed nuisance attracts very little attention. It is true that the removal.is in time followed by pute air, but nobody notices that at all. ‘The question is, first, whether to choose the lesser of two evils, and, second, which is the least. THE BLESSING OF THE PASS. REE TICKETS to the races have left the house of representatives without a quorum on several important occasions. We cannot too earnestly commend those tickets. But for them the treasury would prob- ably be empty and the country bankrupt by this time. There ought to be more tickets of that kind; though perhaps passes to the gentlemen's homes, the same to expire in seven days, would be somewhat better. THEIR NAMES THEIR STORY. THE BLANCS are persons who came from nowhere, have millions that came from the same place, have personal public quarrels over nothing whatever, and, dying, will leave nothing to show that they have ever been. ‘A bit of thistle-down in the autinin ‘aifjand a puff of wind; the flash of y2a humming-bird through summeé stittshine; a hole in the water that you can’t see—yet the news- Papers are as full of them as a bladder of emptiness. WHAT IS DANCING? A GENERAL CONFER- ENCE of Methodists out west has been asked to permit dancing. The word is compre- hensive. Where does the dance begin and where end? If the conference declines will the chil- dren of the church be prohibited the privilege of the hop-skip- and-jump? Will rope-dancing be prohibited? Shall there be rules as to methods of walking and running? Shall it be in- sisted that in case of a fire a Methodist shall run for a bucket of water at the rate of three miles an hour and no faster? This is a pretty serious question. T've"been, playin”: poker alone, an’ PASTE THIS ON YOUR mgaik Foxy Jastes—'* You look kinder worried, Petie.”” : oe Sty Pkre—" Come round on th’ other side. ‘ht duke 's won all th’ chips.” THE TRIPLE ALLIAN oe seats eStot will hold. All that Italy finger over one-half of the face.” ks is that Germany and Aus- shall pay the expenses of her army and do most of its fighting. OME PERSONS having been smothered in folding-beds, it must be stipulated in life-insurance policies that the insured person. shall never go to bed. ECONOMY 1S GOOD, but it must alw xiso that it be practiced by somebody else. of the existing congress. be suggested with the pro- ‘That, at least, is the view THE CANVASS of Senator Hill is not without encouragement. We observe picture in a Georgia paper that ‘the senator has been elected to a fine head of curly hair. DER ATLAS, Mr. Watterson. What if he should tire and throw us off his patient back? And what,after all, is the Demo- cratic party in comparison with the world? JOA, PRONOUNCES for Boies. They say that: ‘Horace eschews forks, wears a slouch hat, and has most of “his whiskers on his throat. There is material for Democratic enthusiasm there. N ORDER to run for vic come ea president Uncle Jerry Rusk will have to t and grow up with the country, It scems mean, sometimes, that one wasn’t allowed to pick out his place to be born in. SPECTACLES. Ti DEMOCRATIC NOMI- NATION is riot going away from New York. Senator Hill is out of the question, and if Mr. Cleveland is not nominated Governor Flower will stand a fair chance. But Governor Flower is not a great man, and his subserviency to Tammany hall makes him a weak ‘one. The most promising man for the place is William C. Whitney, who is very rich and who, though a strong friend of Cleveland, is not identified with any of the quarrels between the Cleveland men and the Hill men. Mr. Whitney has ‘for a few months been a member of ‘Tanimany hall, but “his business interests" have obliged him to refrain {fom active participation in Tammany schemes and debates, - This is about the. situation—Cleveland probably, and if not Cleveland ‘William °C. Whitney. ie SHALL WE RULE THE WAVE? THE FLAG OF THIS COUNTRY is to have respect abroad as well as at home. It is actually to be seen on the ocean and in foreign ports. It is a lamentable reflection that the most powerful nation’on the globe has been almost wholly without recognition in this respect, and that it Should have had so contemptible a navy that every little South American Tepublic deemed it safe to threaten it. It is the more curious, tuo, because the building of the ship stimulates industry as well as enterprise, and‘a fine representation at sea is attended with the pride'that ends with patriotism. We have money and hands and enterprise enough for the finest navy and merchant service in the world, and they have been kept in retirement too many years. Hurrah for the flag, the American ship-yard, the ability for peace, and the strength for war! » comicbooks.com