Judge, 1893-02-11 · page 2 of 16
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The central cartoon depicts two identical figures in formal dress and top hats, labeled "FLATS TO LET. A rare chance. Only couple of stares." This appears to be political satire about Democratic leadership during the Cleveland administration. The text references tensions between Cleveland, Hill, Murphy, and other Democratic figures competing for power and influence. The "rare chance" caption suggests these leaders are interchangeable or indistinguishable—that Democratic positions are essentially vacant despite occupants. The repeated identical figures emphasize the satire's point: that these feuding Democratic politicians lack meaningful differences or individual character. The "flats to let" (apartments for rent) metaphor implies their heads are empty of original ideas, making them vacant vessels rather than distinct leaders.
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CLEVELAND to Tamman: Oh, would that | might call thee mine, but David's not my valentine.” HAT PART of the inaugural ad- dress which is interrupted by Baby \ Ruth will give some persons particular fits. | HAAYTI has had another revolution. { We do not mean the ones that are marked for to-morrow and next week. AN EXPEDITION from the north | pole to this region will never get here on account of the inclemency of the weather. THE, PAPERS have been spelling Sheridan Shook in the past tense —Shock ; but he says he still belongs to the Republican party. WHEN MR. HILL says he will offer no opposition to the presi- dent he prevaricates with a zeal and an enormity worthy of a better cause. HE VALENTINE of to-day is in- spired by malice rather than love, but happily the anonymous libeler is generally too stingy to waste his pen- nies. FLA A rare chance. HE MUGWUMP IDEA—It is disgraceful to struggle for an office, but it is inadvisable to refuse an office that others have struggled to get for us. ITH THE MERCURY at twenty below zero in Tennessee and Virginia, New York will presently be a great winter resort for southerners who want to get warm. 1AN champions Grover's old law partner, Bissell, for -general. He does it with a conciliatory smile, but he car- ries a malicious grin bebind his cars. FE SUSPECT that Senator Murphy, with the aid of Senator Hill, will form plans and originate policies that will be a continual surprise, if not a delight, to the national executive. F MR. CLEVELAND gets tine with two donkeys on it, and th the animals the inquiry “When shall we three meet can make up his mind that it’s a love-token from Brothers Godkin and Anderson. HE VELOCITY with which Leon Abbett came down at the request of James Smith, jr., will be a delight to the Smith family as long as the world goes round; but Mr. Cleveland, who was ardently supported by Abbett, must bave the larger part of the glory of it ‘STO LET. Only a couple of stares. OUR IRISH KINGS. THOMAS B. REED walked out of the Russian district on the east side of this town to Broadway. He felt as if he were in a strange coun- try for a time, but when he saw the signs of the O’Sullivans, the O'Har- ritys and the O’Mulligans he thanked God that he was in America. Look over the names of the office-holders, the controllers of our local and larger destinies, and astonish yourself. SOME GRAY-HAIRED HORROR. “THERE IS A WAIL to the effect that four men rule the legislation at Albany. It is extremely sad, but it is an old wail over a venerable fact. Political as well as other power must have its centre-point, as a large army must have its one supreme authority. It has always been so and always will be. We do not love the big four of the Democracy of this state, but the people have voted out the big four on the Republican side. THE OLD STORY. JERRY RUSK says he longs to get back to his dry-goods box on the stoop of the leading grocery of a Wisconsin village and chew tobacco and talk horse and politics with his bucolic neighbors. It is the old story. We get away from the humble old places with delight, but it is not half the delight that attends the return to them. And yet Jerry cannot help but dwell on the double satisfaction he would have if he might postpone the return about four years. CHURCH AND STATE, HE CATHOLIC CHURCH has occupied a large portion of the daily newspapers for several weeks back. There are McGlynn, Corrigan, Satolli and other quarrels. by the dozen—almost as many as there are in the various denominations of the Protestant church. But the Romans settle their troubles without damage to the church itself; and now that we have a deputy pope—who, by the way, is not familiar with the English lan- guage—perhaps our politics will be- come holier and more advat to public morals as dictated by the religious authorities. “BEAST” BUTLER. GENERAL BUTLER made an im. placable enemy of the Nashville American when be said that the women of New Orleans who spit in union sol- diers’ faces should be treated as women of the town plying their vocation. The American revives the term “Beast” and applies it with industrious malice to his corpse. It is not worth while to revive the bitterness of the war, but what would have been a proper course for Butler to take in view of the gross insults offered his men at the time in question? Certainly no lady would spit in the face of a soldier who offered her no insult. THE TYRANT WOMAN, A STRONG PROTEST is being made in England to the revival of the crinoline. The old protests as to matters of dress, that against the corset and that against the theatre-hat, are still in vogue here and every- where else, and they effect no change whatever. It will be so with the crinoline. Fashion is greater than common sense, and a woman will sacrifice a husband or a sweetheart—if those gentlemen choose to make ninnies and martyrs of themselves—sooner than give up her mean and foolish little whims or any article of garment which she thinks becomes her. THE IMPENDING CRISIS. HERE IS A KNIFE in the boot of every Democrat. Croker finds it advisable not to oppose Cleveland, but is apprehensive as to Hill. Murphy is in doubt as to whether his self-interest or his affections or his dislikes ought to control him, McLaughlin is on the Democratic fence and ina most painful position. Bourke Cockran doesn’t know whether he wants to be combative or quiescent. The anti-snappers are itching for office or for gore, or both, and the mugwump Democrat is stabbing right and left regardless of propriety. Presently somebody will shoot a shot or stab a stab, and then for a Democratic war and Republican delight that it ide of the arena comicbooks.com