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This page contains political commentary on the 1888 U.S. presidential election. The main cartoon depicts a figure labeled "THE DISEASE LEFT HIM WITH NOTHING" confronting what appears to be a beggar or poor person, likely satirizing Cleveland's economic policies or the effects of Democratic governance. The text discusses General Sackles, Senator Hill, and references to "Tammany" (the corrupt New York Democratic machine), critiquing Democratic candidates. The right column argues Republicans offer a coherent platform of protectionism and national development, while Democrats offer only patronage and corruption. The satire attacks Democratic economic management and corruption, positioning Republicans as the party of principled governance and prosperity. References to "negro domination" and racialized anxieties reflect the era's divisive political rhetoric.
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hae. mMARD GILLAM ‘diter. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy, forty wees == as Tncluding the Curistwas JUoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— eign countries im the postad @ year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce Burtpinc), Cor Fifth Ave. and 16th Street. New York. ONE GOOD TERM DESERVES ANOTHER. (27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—AIl the pictures in the Jupcr, are copyrighted, and must not be reproduced without the permission of the proprietors, Infringement ‘upon this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. M® HILL is afraid, perhaps, that Grover will try to sit on him. ese THE QUESTION has freqaently been asked, “Is Life worth living?” wee THE TIE between the mugwumps and Tammany is the one that does not bind. THE DISAPPOINTMENT of Judge Gresham is almost as sad as his worms. eee THE THIRD PARTY in Georgia ap- pears to be the tenth with the first figure smashed R, SHEEHAN to be governor of this. state? Look out, you man with a vote, for that legislature. ‘ oe THE WIRES having been butied in this city, Tammany hall will now proceed to put them up again. NO WINE for Grover until the evening of election-day. Then there will be whine for everybody on his side. AMERICA for Americans; yet we must confess that the discovery of the same was due to a truly able foreigner. ve CONGRESSMAN CUMMINGS says Senator Hill will work for the ticket in his own way. To be sure—to be sure. THERE 1S ONLY one way for Grover to get the support of General Sickles. He must go to Gettysburg and lose one of his legs.too. ennythi wuz stolen.” WE CANNOT believe that David Martin would get votes improperly -athithe hofy:example of Tammany before his open eyes. ME:SEEVEFAND gets together with easy alacrity, but D. B. is basy wich some new and solitary communings with his exclusive self. Mesh tee. REDANA\canhot vote for Cleveland, but perhaps he will send ejacu- Tations and a few hymns to him from some portion of the holy land. LOOK OUT FOR PROTECTION! HOW OFTEN do you meet a native Ameti¢an on the streets? We have too much immigration, We must take care of the naturalized as well as the native citizen, but the line must be drawn against the for- eigner who is coming unless he is desirable in every way. it, Character and safety demand it. had better act upon it without delay. Labor demands And the congress of these states WHERE HE DOMINATES. EVERY DAY we hear that negroes have been lynched in various por- tions of the south. In no fight that we can remember have the negroes been successful, and for every white man shot ten black men THE DISEASE LEFT HIM WITH NOTHING. Miss Wasnnctox—" Did de scarlet fevah leabe yo’ wif Mk. Jounsinc—"* No, indeed ; nuffin, Eben mah hen-house have suddenly died. This may be right from the southern point of view, but surely it indicates small danger of negro domination. Perhaps, how- ever, the Democratic press means that he dominates in the graveyard. Well, he does. TAMMANY ROMANCE. PRETTY STORIES are told of Richard Croker rebuking Tammany men who threaten to bolt the national*ticket. Therein is too much protest. They bode contemplated treachery. They are affirmations of love up to the’ point where the crow caws thrice. Think, however, of the effrontery of the man who proclaims his loyalty and virtue by openly de- claring that he will take public office away from those of its holders who exercise their own political judgment and preferences! TWO OF THE BRETHREN. F CLEVELAND carries this state Senator Hill will get no thanks for it. If Harrison carries the state the senator will be blamed for it. There is something pathetic in General Sickles's statement that Hill was blamed for Cleveland’s defeat in 1888, The senator and the general have evidently been shedding tears about it ever since. Bearing in mind their grief and indignation, one is fain to slop his tears in their mutual bowl. Whatever the senator does, and verily whatever he doesn’t do, sours on him like milk in a thunder-storm. He is always mad and always in trouble, and when he is too exhausted to swear the general comes in and does it for him. Yet they talk of a united Democracy and think it pos- sible that that impossible harmony can carry this state. READ THE PLATFORMS AND THINK. [8 THE PRESENT political contest the Republican candidate is the only one who stands on the platform of his party; a platform that is not a quicksand of shifting position or elastic material, re- quiring no labored patchwork, elaborate veneering, or the eclipse of crooked con- struction by daubs of sectional or deceiv- ing paint. The platform is a frank and manly statement of the purpose and pol- icy of its supporters—the same for east as west, north as south, It does not give voice to the ghost of the dead confederacy, or echo European clamor. It is America for Americans. It stands for honest money; it is against wild-cat issues, either paper or limitless silver. It is for protec- tion to the farmer in the field and the pro- ducer in the factory. It is for retaining our own-markets for ourselves and reci- procity in new ones where we can ex- change! to mutual advantage. It is for “free trade” in everything we cannot make or grow. It is for developing and protecting everything we can. It levies the largest tribute on luxuries—silks, satins, diamonds—and exacts from wealth, that can bear it, the heaviest contribution for the expenses of the government. It says tothe foreign.and competing manufacturer, “ You pay no school, county or state tax:for your chances to sell. You are like an unlicensed peddler, who pulls his itinerant cart before a well-equipped store, a store taxed for municipial maintenance, enforcement of order and law, and all the expenses of the state, and undersells to a bamboozled but casb-paying crowd the goods the store keeps ’all the year round and on call for the convenience of ‘the.customer. The store is always with you; the cart shifts to where it pays'best.” The Republican party says to the European cartman, “You are a smooth and sophistical shirk, persuading us you are’ sactificing yourself to prevent overcharge at the store. But at one place we can demand some compensation for the advantage of our market; you must pay a little tariff tax as your partial share of the general expense.” TEtnt: ‘The Democratic candidate. and the Democratic platform are not in accord.’ The platform denounces protection as unconstitutional, a rob- bery'and a fraud. Mr. Cleveland explains that a moderate and carefully reformed robbery is not a crime, and that a judicially administered fraud is constitutional. Tbe Olympian candidate is hypocritically or purposely oblivious to the clamor of the political demigods. Watterson, Vest, Mills, and even candidate Stevenson, trumpet that this is ‘‘a fight against protection and a fight to the death.” It is generally believed that the lesser deities mean business, while Jove is deluded with the sonorousness of his own thunder. JeAe comicbooks.com