Judge, 1900-09-01 · page 6 of 16
Judge — September 1, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page mocks the 1896 presidential election, likely between McKinley (Republican incumbent) and Bryan (Democratic challenger advocating free silver). **Top cartoon**: "The Standard Ratio" satirizes guides' mercenary nature—those favoring free silver are more generous tippers. **Middle cartoons**: "The Candidate" jokes that a politician's head shrinks after electoral defeat. "The Silver Ratio" and "Method in It" ridicule free-silver advocates through absurd comparisons (16 girls to 1 man; politicians serving two terms to exile them). **Bottom section**: The real satire. Judge presents three prominent citizens supposedly switching from Republican to Democratic votes—but reveals their petty, self-interested motives: one wanted a post office, another's wife forces him to oppose McKinley's smoking, a third blames crop failure on trusts. The joke: these aren't principled political conversions but transparent expressions of personal grievance, mocking both the free-silver movement and voters who abandon principles for narrow self-interest.
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THE STANDARD RATIO. First Maing. Guipr—"‘I like to guide a man that's free with his silver.” SI COND GUIDE—"*I don't. THE CANDIDATE. TO-DAY his head is big and round ; But as the season onward rolls, Still like the earth — per- chance ‘twill be All flattened at the polls. AT NEWPORT, Host (to wile, aside) ure not our lly early in And why do nd so around the Hostess—" You dear old stupid ! thi ball since the Van Amberg girls returned from Eu- rope. ‘Their father had to pay fourteen hundred dol- lars customs on their fifty A COMPARATIVE HONOR. ReGInaLp—"* We have torty ancestors hung in our gallery.” I find them free-silver fellers usually shoots sixteen guides to one deer.” THE SILVER RATIO, +e] WONDER if this hotel is conducted by a free-silver man,” said Miss Frocks, who had taken up her vacation quarters at Surfhurst-by- the-sea, “Why 2" asked Miss Kittish, “ The ratio of girls to just about sixteen METHOD IN IT. Englishman—" Why do you give your presi- dents a second term?” American — That's the only sure way to get trunks of new gowns.” Cuuaiz—" Hully gee! And I was kicking ‘cause T had one in jail.” rid of them forever.” * JUDGE'S THIRD INSTALLMENT OF DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS WHO. WILL Hickory Grove, Iutnots.— Henry Hard- wood. a well-known citizen of this town, who has voted the Republican ticket for the past thirty years, says he will vote Democratic this vear. Mr. Hard: wood wanted the post-office here, but didn't get it. BuruiNcTon, lowa.—William Henpeck,M.D., of this city, husband of the well-known lecturer on domestic subjects, Mrs. Ferocia Henpeck, says he will vote for Bryan this year. William's wife says he Aas to because McKinley smokes, BAM : 1) yan Vi VERS MI OY, os) CHANGE THEIR VOTES THIS FALL. Scuenecrapy, New York.—Amos Ricxets, 2 farmer living three miles north of here, an old-time Republican, will vote for Bryan in November. Amos says his cabbage-crop was a failure this year, and lays the cause to the trusts and the present administration. comicbooks.com