Judge, 1900-06-09 · page 2 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several brief political commentary sections rather than a single cartoon. The main items critique: 1. **Maud Gonne** - A publisher claiming to be a "patent improved spy," asserting her espionage activities are legitimate and transparent rather than secretive. 2. **Political figures and events** - References to Goldwin Smith, Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey, Senator Hoan, and Colonel Bryan appear as commentary on contemporary political debates about populism, vice-presidency, and Democratic politics. 3. **"Orderly Disorder"** - Satirizes populist conventions in the American West and South, mocking their chaotic nature while defending free speech rights. 4. **Bottom cartoon** - Shows a parrot criticized for having "a splendid ear but a very poor voice," likely political allegory. The page reflects early 20th-century American political satire focused on Populism, Democratic Party dynamics, and public figures of the era.
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Sage PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING. Terms to Subscribers. UNCTED STATES AND CANADA IW ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or 52 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy, for thirteen weeks - = = 1.25 Including the Cunistmas Juocs. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. o SALas-acENTs—/nternational newer company, Bream's building, Chancery lane, fom; Brentano's, avenue del Optra, Paris; Saarbach's news exchange, Mains, Evaoreai B.C. Germany, CORNER FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. fB~ NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and yusly prosecut HE CIRCUSES are not doing usually well this sea- son. There are too many populist conventions to call the crowds. cee OLDWIN SMITH is so much in favor of the Boers that he will do everything but fight for them. We feel sure he won't go as far as that. see OOSEVELT says he would rather be a private citizen than vice-president. Very well; haven't all previous vice-presidents been private citizens? cee [t iS GRATIFYING to see that Admiral Dewey is received as enthusiastically as ever; and still more gratifying that there is no politics in the re- ceptions. ead DETROIT HORSE received absent treatment from a Christian scientist, and promptly died. Will anybody say after that that Christian scientists are without influence? cee See R. BRYAN HOPES that Senator Hoar in prai: ing Aguinaldo doesn’t mean to present him as another Democratic candidate, of whom he thinks there are a few too many already. eee ssGcRATCH a colored graduate under the skin and you will find a savage,” says Ben Tillman. This is a poor indorsement of the old argument that slavery was a civ- ilizing institution. THE OHIO newspaper man who has been challenged by a Paris newspaper man ought to borrow an idea from the late Anson Burlingame. Let him in- sist on rifles at thirty paces. OLONEL BRYAN has had a picture painted of himself five and a half times life-size. The public would like a speech with a picture of that size, and surely it is big enough to speak for itself. soe Jack CHINN of Kentucky will go on the lecture-plat- form, That means a popular tour or some dead auditors; and it may be added that Mr. Chinn knows how to handle his name as well as his revolver. A YOUNG WOMAN of Der- by, Connecticut, flourished a hat-pin and drove off four highwaymen. The reader per- haps thinks that she afterward fainted or stabbed herself, but she called for more highwaymen. A PATENT, IM- PROVED SPY. AUD GONNE sues a publisher for calling her a gov- ernment spy. Her oc- cupation according to her own statement is that of a spy, but she wants it understood that her movements are open and beyond suspicion. She is not the old kind of spy, but one for the newness of which she claims a patent. THE WRONG DAY. THE FILIPINOS think that if they FROM OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT. can hold out till the Miss Sophie Uptodate saw in a fashion journal next fourth of July the _ that long pants should be worn while playing golf. Democrats of this country will give them a new lease of life. Undoubtedly their friends so named would be glad to do so; but they would make money and save native and American lives by throwing away their guns at once. The fourth of July is not a good period for encouraging any revolutions except our very-own, ORDERLY DISORDER. HERE ARE NINE kinds of populists in the west and south, “and nary stripe alike. ry. populist has views which differ from those of every other populist, and the few on which all populists agree are worth nothing to the average populist unless they condemn whatever is as the very worst things that could possibly be. At populist conventions women as well as men speak, and the more slang they talk and the shriller their voices are the better the populists like them, In discussions of platforms every plank is riven to splinters, but the fragments are saved and put to- gether. The delegates sing at intervals, and their songs have a coarse humor which sets them into outbursts of laughter. They shout and then quarrel like cats and dogs. And yet those populists manage to agree at times. and actually make tickets and adopt platforms, and get recognition and fusion from parties which are thought to be sane. How is it possible? And is it really a fine tribute to free speech and the rights of the individual man and woman? A CRITICISM. Tue rarrot—'* Say, old man! you have a splendid ear but a very poor voice. * comicbooks.com