Judge, 1892-12-17 · page 2 of 18
Judge — December 17, 1892 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains editorial commentary rather than a single cartoon. The main illustration shows two men in conversation outside "breastworks" (fortifications), likely referencing Civil War-era politics. The text discusses Cleveland (appearing to reference President Grover Cleveland), criticizing his health and suggesting he shouldn't seek re-election. References to "office-filing" and "office-seeking" satirize bureaucratic ambition. Another section critiques General Daniel E. Sickles, a Civil War figure, regarding his credentials and political conduct—apparently he sought a diplomatic position. The page mixes commentary on American political figures with criticism of ambition, health fitness for office, and military-civilian role confusion. Without dated context visible, the specific election year remains unclear, though Cleveland's political situation is central to the satire.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
age. ys Baxnnarp Gittam. fl. Guncony, Editor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE, One copy, one year, of s2 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.30 One copy, forty wens = has Inclading the Cumstwas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—Teall for cign countries in the postal union, $6.4 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JupGE Burtpinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street, New York. (We guarantee advertisers a larger circulation than any other American satiri« cal paper published. The Juocn is for sale-at Brentane's. 17 Avene de P Opera. Smith, Ainslee & Con, 25 Newcastle street, Strand, London. England: at Saarbach's American’ Exchange, Maine: Germany. and by Ch. B, Alith, Geneva, Switseriand. $27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—All the pictures in the Junce are copyrighted, and must not be reproduced without the permission of the proprietors. Infringement upon this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION—That inflicted on Princeton by Yale. Me. CLEVELAND was brought up as a pet. He must not be dis- turbed. eee [F THERE is any ointment bring it to me. I want to bea fly.—D. B. Hill. oan THANKSGIVING —The day during which the college boys own. this town, M* GERRY is at the head of a society for the prevention of fair play to children. GREAT PROGRESS in France, She can have-a change of government without a revolution. EVERYBODY is filling the various of- fices in the gift of Mr. Cleveland— everybody except Mr. Cleveland. THE DOUBT as to whose cémet that is is absurd, Of course Mr. Cleveland carried it on the eighth of November. eee MBS. LEASE of Kansas enunciates a great principle in the brief remark, “The office should seek the woman.” T LOOKS ODD to see the anti-monop- oly party engineered by Millionaires Henry Villard and William C, Whitney. tere THE KAISER wants a still stronger military government, and judging from several riots some months ago he needs it. cee SOME TIME during the impending four years John Davenport ought to die. It is a duty which he cannot honorably avoid. ones E CANNOT SEE how Howland and Neville can vindicate their sacred honor without killing each other stone dead. eee MB: BIELA'S COMET was not intrusive, but we may as well behave ourselves because we still have Totten’s predictions with us. eae THERE Is AN HON trouble was the lack of a pure heart and an enticing bargain-counter. JOHN in the Philadelphia penitentiary. His THe STATEMENT that the trousers of Chairman Carter bag at the knee is obviously absurd. The trouble with Carter is that he can't get the burdocks out of his mane and tail. TO" REED was to have lectured in Rochester, but nobody came to hear him. How frequently we are reminded of the remark by the late Mr. Noah, “ It never rains but it pours,” cee MORAL—KEEP AWAY FROM SHOWS. Sue—" Jobn, your brother was just in here, awfully drunk, and threw three base-balls at the babies.” He—"* Guess he was trying to get three cigars.” THE ‘INEVITABLE SEPARATION, IF IT IS TRUE, as the Mal and Express alleges, that Senator Hill is about to resign, he will do it, we suppose, in behalf of 4é5 personal comfort. He never did like Grover Cleveland, and if Grover doesn’t resign and go back to Buffalo he feels that he must. “Either you or J must leave this house,” said the master to the man. “Very well,” said the man; “when will your honor be going?” OUTSIDE THE BREASTWORKS. E HAD FORGOTTEN Mr. Callicott of the Albany 7zmes-Union, whose exhaustion at the close of the late campaign created the most painful alarm. Indeed he was almost as far gone as Mr. Dana was. We mentioned the case to Mr. Cleveland, and so far was Mr. Callicott outside of human interest at that time that Mr. Cleveland remarked remi- niscently, “Hum-hum, hum-hum! Who in blazes is Mr. Callicott?” Yet it was merely a case, we feel sure, of temporary nervous prostration. OUR FRIENDS OF FRANCE. THE TROUBLE in France with regard to the Panama-canal business revives an old lesson. The people of that country had better let the people of this continent alone. They never put foot on our soil without simultaneously putting it in the cavernous French mouth. It cost Louis Napoleon a great deal of money and humiliation to get out of Mexico at the demand of Messrs. Lincoln and Seward at a critical period of our history, and his subsequent effort to re-establish himself in behalf of the prince imperial by whipping Ger- many cost him his crown. It is not alto- gether sure that France has benefited her- self by her victory in Dahomey, but the kind of cattle that grow there is the prin- cipal kind of cattle that she is best fitted to conquer and reform. “DO NOT KILL THE FAVORITE. HE PRESIDENT-ELECT is in deli- cate health. His labors have been arduous and he must have rest. He was greatly fatigued by his exertions as a fish- catcher last summer, and a few subse- . - quent letters and speeches; and the work of getting himself elected made it neces- sary to take a rest and incidentally shoot ducks. It is thought by some that the business of office-filling is a part of the work to which he was elected, and there are many who suppose that office-holding is as good for others as for him—that, in fact, office-seeking is honorable enough and not to be necessarily condemned. But he thinks otherwise, and in a procla- mation calmly and forcibly rebukes that kind of ambition and declares that he must be left alone to recuperate and build up his shattered system. Poor man! Great man, with a large, large head! THE MUGWUMP SICKLES. AS A MAJOR-GENERAL on the retired list Daniel E. Sickles draws five thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars a year. As sheriff of the county of New York his salary was also pleasing. As a member of the house of representatives, elected while drawing his pension, it is ques- tionable whether he ought to draw anything; but the house is the sole judge of his credentials, and the constitution is sometimes a “covenant with hell "in the eyes of even the exuberant Democracy. During the Chicago convention General Sickles was very conspicuous in his opposi- tion to Cleveland, drawing his crutch against that anti-pension candidate, and declaring later that he could not carry New York—still later, before a convention of soldiers, that he ought not to be elected. In the light of some subsequent events his devotion to As pension would seem to be excessive. Perhaps it will amuse the president-elect, as well as Richard Croker and General McMahon. It certainly amuses the Rochester Union, which says: The people of this country want no man with a sword or bayonet, no man on horse- back, in their congress, ‘And what is more, no true Democrat, wielding a sword, carrying a bayonet, oF sitting on a horse in the army of the United States would have the pre- sumption to claim and ask to be allowed to hold the dual position of occupancy of two utterly incompatible offices in military and civil service at one and the same time. Right—twice right! And the more right, and just, because the Rochester Union is a David-B.-Hill paper and hates the president-elect almost as much as Sickles does. comicbooks.com