Judge — October 6, 1894 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Political Cartoon Analysis: "Gov. Flower Out of Politics" This 1894 Judge cartoon satirizes Governor Roswell P. Flower of New York stepping away from politics. The image shows three men operating a "machine lemonade" stand, with one figure squeezed dry at the bottom, labeled "squeezed dry! Croker—Next!" The satire equates politics to a lemonade machine that extracts and discards politicians. Flower appears to be the squeezed-out figure, while the standing men hold signs referencing "for Governor of N.Y." and "Mills's Patent Squeezed Squeezer"—apparently mocking the mechanical, exploitative nature of the political machine run by Boss Croker (likely Richard Croker of Tammany Hall). The cartoon suggests politicians are used up and discarded by party machinery.