Judge — February 6, 1904 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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zz : SSS LE Bh At THe Parken BUILDING, Fo iz BLISHED WEEKLY eran AL ‘® AND NINETRENTH STREET, New Yorn. Westeew Aoventisixc OF TERMS TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, Ove copy, one year. or s2 numbers - ee One copy, Se mon of 6 numbers ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all for Evnornan savis-acnnts—/nternationat Neve Company, Breami's building, Chancery Lane, F.C, Loudon ; Brentano's, Avenue de l' Opera, Paris Tclading the Cwmiststas Juoce. n countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. arkack's News Exchange, Mainz, Germany. The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright n both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and bigorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inclose a stamzed and self-addressed erfoelope with all manuscripts, otherwise return of the Latter when found unavaitable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's fall name and address written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying Joke or descriptive letler-press should in every instance be written upon its indtoidaal pictare, and NOT upon a separate slip of paner. Inclosure of stamps to the full amount of postage is also required, 10 insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. N LOOKING over the long list of Democratic presidential possibilities the conservative, up-to-date prophet gives it as his opinion that the race will be horseless, and also that the prize will be won by a dark auto- mobile. THe HONEY made by the presidential-bonnet bee would be even more cloying and Hymettus-like than it is said to be to the mental palate of the bonnet-wearer if it had not a chronic habit of turning into the gall of disappointment beside which wormwood is simply saccharin. THE DEMOCRATIC PAPERS are never at a loss for something to say ‘on any subject, and if many people took them at all seriously their utterances would have more weight than is usually attached to them. They are now lifting their blatant voices from one end of the country to the other on the subject of the relations existing between the president and Mr. Hanna. The burden of their composite bray is substantially that Mr. Roosevelt and the Ohio magnate are not on good terms. The Democrats always have something to say, whether it be founded on facts or on the pipe-dreams of which they always seem to have a monopoly. It is well that they keep up this custom, which is in accordance with tradition, for the reason that it supplies an endless fund of hilarity and amusement, and does no harm to anybody. These Democratic editors are a mirth-provok- ing lot, and their fun is not any the less spontaneous and health-promoting, because it is unconscious and unintentional. They are certainly unexcelled as the makers of the large, reverberating waves of fat-producing laughter which, considered in the aggregate, is the laugh that is on themselves. THERE IS no other rapacious animal extant that knows the meaning of graft better than does the tiger, whose selection on this account to rep- resent the spirit of Tammany and to pose as its figurehead was a singularly happy one. At the present writing this creature of stealth and low cun- ning has his business eye, which is backgrounded by his insatiable appe- tite, firmly riveted on the city which he rules and which he regards as his jungle. Licking his chops in gilt-edged anticipation, he casts his glances from the cobble-stones to the stars, that everything convertible into graft may swim into his ken; and it is believed by many thinking people that he is developing a curvilinear vision which will enable him to look over the skyscrapers which dot his lair and give him a glimpse of the white- house. The Tammany tiger is omnivorous, and he is never full of any: thing but a wild desire for more. His powers of digestion and assimilation are of the highest order of excellence, and he has a long spring, with which he usually lands upon any object toward which he projects himself. He is now on the rampage, his enthusiasm fairly red-hot and bristling with the tabasco of anxiety for the fulfillment of his dreams, which are the dreams of avarice as seen through the gold-rimmed spectacles of graft. The citi- zens and tax-payers are asking themselves, or at least should be asking themselves, whether it is to be the city or the tiger. These worthies should know and realize what the supremacy of the tiger means, and when armed with this knowledge they should become hunters and start out and never tire in their efforts until the hide of this brute is flapping in the four winds at the top of.a pole, or carefully worked into an artistic rug, that it may be under the feet of the men who realize that it is now over their heads. HE WOULD BE SATISFIED. “You can't fool all the people all the time."* “Lord! I don't want to. If | could only fool my wife for five minutes occasionally /"d be satisfied."" comicbooks.com