Judge, 1894-05-19 · page 2 of 16
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The main cartoon depicts **"A Composite Photograph of Notable Leaders of Tammany"**—a grotesque composite head representing Tammany Hall, the Democratic political machine controlling New York City politics. The exaggerated features (bulbous nose, prominent teeth, menacing expression) are visual metaphors for corruption. The accompanying text criticizes Tammany's monopoly on patronage and power, arguing the machine rewards loyalists rather than merit. Multiple short editorial items mock Democratic leadership and policies—taxation, railroad regulation, Nicaragua canal completion, and government paternalism. The satire targets what Judge viewed as incompetence and graft in Democratic governance, using the grotesque portrait as visual shorthand for institutional corruption that transcends individual politicians.
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ART WILL SUFFER when Calvé and Eames adopt the Sullivan-Cor- bett style of chinning and acting. pats CARL BROWNE wears pink collars and striped shirts, and the super- Aluous letter on his Brown is real pretty. siete ]OPULISM—Every man’s ‘dea is the best, and no man’s idea is worth a cent unless it agrees with it. THE STORY of “ Trilby” tempts the remark that du Maurier was spoiled as a good writer to make a first-rate artist. rs RAILROAD COMPANIES needn't grow! when their trains are stolen by the ragged Reubens. Is it not done in the name of peace? A QUORUM, according to Czars Crisp and Reed, is that portion of a cemetery which has been staked out for persons who are going to die, QUR CHAUNCEY casts the presidency from him with such great vielence that it may come back, like an avenging boomerang, and hit him in the neck. &6P)UCKS” was the familiar name of the marquis of Ailesbury, possibly because he made that kind of fowl and a few drakes of the family fortune. A compe R. CRISP may not have succeeded in making Tom Reed the next president, as Amos Cummings suggests, but he has put on his back the placard, “ Father of parliamentary law NICHOLAS of Russia, through the good offices of William of Germ: will marry the princess Alix of Hesse. This means peace for Europe with the exception of the contracted parties. ress says the Genesee river takes an This must be remedied, An annual is often enough. T PAINS ONE to think that the English critics cannot be prevailed upon to look upon our Mr. Corbett asa great actor. ‘The next time Henry Irving comes here we shall give him a few fits. THE EDITOR of the Buffalo annual vacation every summer. vacation every three or four yeat R. BAYARD says America ran away from England like a truant, but she always feels at home when with her mother. That is true, and it is the more gratifying because of the mother's inability to whip her. R. WANAMAKER is culogized as a man who adds to the commer- cial greatness of Philadelphia and brings Christ ity to her people. ‘That is sweet. It reminds us of the older eulogy of a noble river: yecticut! Long hast th g PHOTOGRAPH OF NOTABLE OP TAMMANY. ARE THERE WOMEN OF ERUDITION? ELLA STARR, discussing things before a woman's league, assumes that men do not like women of erudition, That depends. If the woman is liked she may be ignorant or wise so far a8 the person of the emotions is concerned; it is a question that comes second—never first. But the man in the case is always generous. lll he asks is that she-shall not know more than he—if she does, that becomes the knowledge that is a dangerous thing. LF US BE JUST. The Democratic party didn’t come into power to make laws, but to state its views. There was an ardent desire to hear what it had to say about silver, the tariff, taxation of a class for the benefit of classes, communism, populism, the various ologies, and the price Of putty; but, bless you! it was never thought that it had enough principle as a union of various opposing elements to repeal a law or make a law. Let us be fair and not expect too much, TALKEE-TALKEE. THE SACRED ERMINE. HE ASSUMPTION that newspapers and persons must not criticise the motives and actions of judges, who are hired and paid by the tax-payers, comes apparently from the idea that the judge, like the king, can do no wrong. Priests used to put up that claim, but it is too late for it now. The law is entitled to respect when it behaves itself in letter and execution, and no longer. Much is expected of a judge, but he is a mere man whether he is a Paddy Diver or a Judge Divver. THE SCOURGE OF THE “INDUS- TRIALS.” HERE IS A SPECTRE on the tail of the rag-tag-and-bobtail beggars of the Coxey- Frye-Kelly armies, It dogs them, nags them, snaps at them. sleeps with them. It has cursed them from the cradle and will follow them to the grave. Whatever congress may do for them, and whatever sympathy may come to them fro! half-witted western farmers and eastern and southern idiots, it will never cease to bite, to threaten, and to snarl. Is it Hunger? Oh, no. Tt is Work. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. THE COMPLETION of the Nicaragua canal is merely a question of time. We needn't be ina hurry about it unless some other power wants to build it, In that case we shall do the work quickly and well, and the power that inter- feres with the enterprise will be afflicted with poor health. There is a good deal of talk about the seizure of the selected ground by, Nicara- guans who are backed by foreign interests and governments. They had better look over the Panama business and reconsider; though, to be sure, the French government lost mere money and prestige in that experiment, and no blood. THE REFORMATORY BUMMERS. THE BALLOT-UOX is in peril at the hands of the Coxeys. If the people can’t trust the men they elect to make laws, but must threaten them with armies, popular suffrage is a failure. The appeal from that and from the mob which breaks it up is necessarily to the old systems which have been reformed out of existence. The Coxeys, the Tillmans, and the other populists and bummers begin by proposing a government that shall have control of railroads and telegraph systems and of the whisky and other private business interests. The only difference is that they would have every man an office-holder and nobody to actually work. Still, they are rational. With plenty of money for everybody nobody will need to work. THE CRAZE FOR LOGIC. Isn't it the duty of the government to support the individual, according to the McKin- ley gospel, which Jupce so cleverly upholds? If we are to.pay a bounty to the sugar- grower and tax ourselves for the manufacturer why not guarantee the farmer his crops, the merchant his sales, the stockholder his dividends, and the lazy man a good living? If paternalism is such a blessed good thing we ought to have lots of it.—Cloversville Stan fard. OGIC is dangerous. Given a bit of steel and a pipe to blow smoke through, and a latter-day communistic, populistic Democratic editor thinks he has a locomotive. Marriage is a good thing; that being so, says this logician, Solomon was the wisest man because he had six hundred wives and an army of concubines. Protection is well; wherefore let us go about knocking all the other fellows down. The editor of the Standard having a fine pucker, why doesn't he whistle down the north wind? comicbooks.com