Judge — May 21, 1904 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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At THe Parke Bortpixc, Fourrm Av Wesramy Apvextisinc Orrice— 1373 Mary TERMS TO SURSCRIFERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, one year, orsenumbers- =e One copy, for thirteen weeks FOREI International News Company SURSCRIPTIONS—To Bream's building, Chancery Lane, F.C, London Jone. 20 countries in the postal anion, ue del’ Opera, Paris: S includ The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this conyright will be promotly and bizorously prosecuted, CONTRIBUTORS must inciose a stamoed and self-addressed ertoelone with all manuscripts, othefivise return of the Latter when found unavailaNe cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Devartment should have the sender's fall name and address written plainly on each and every separate sketch. descriptive letler-press should in dbery instance be written upon its individual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of parer. insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. The accompanying joke or Inclosure of stamps to the fall amount of postage ts also required, to —_—_—_—_— ‘HE DEMOCRATS might have some kind of a fighting chance if they were but half as full of life as of hope. ILL MAY BE head and shoulders over Bryan as a political fox, but when it comes to ornate noise it cannot be denied that the Nebraska blatherskite is mouth and jaws over dear old Uncle David. HE RUSSIANS said what they were going to do not many moons agone, and now they are suffering that which must be the keenest kind of humiliation, while the Japs compel them to eat the said words as they descend the toboggan-slide of Mars. F THERE IS anything bearing the faintest resemblance to a basis of truth in the assertion that we should glean wisdom from defeat, the Democratic party ought by this time to have sufficient wisdom not to do any of the picturesque things which it is always doing. HE MANY METHODS and machins Hill, be they underhanded or above-board, or both, are now gracefully acknowledged by all competent and impartial critics to constitute that which they are pleased to call the very perfection of boundless peanutship. [TIS QUITE LIKELY that the Democratic farce-comedy which is slated to take place in St. Louis in the near future will scintillate and ripple with fun of the side-splitting, button-bursting variety. With such a com- pany of thought-tinkers and fun-carpenters as the Democratic party has constantly on tap much is to be expected. The tariff will be juggled in ions of old Uncle David Bennett fine style, and there will be an ocean and a war of words on the subject of Jeffersonian simplicity, while the traditions and ideals of this mob that was once a party will be highly interesting as examples of pyrotechnic philoso- phy and red-handed rhetoric. There will be anything and everything but concordance, if we may judge by the condition of affairs that at present exists in the Democratic ranks. The leaders have their hatchets and razors out, and the expert scents the battle from afar. May the joy be unconfined while the razors and hatchets fly and clash and mingle and mix in that wild, strident fashion which is the nearest approach to the rare quantity known as Democratic harmony. | T THE PRESENT TIME, while the air is full of Parker and the Defn? ocrats think, dream and breathe Parker; and while there are Parker cigarettes, Parker trousers-stretchers, and everything else that can be made to savor of Parker, with possibly the exception of a Parker microbe, it is not to be wondered at that the urbane bench-builded candidate should be out hunting for the votes of the delegation, In this important quest it is quite natural that he should be accompanied and assisted by the sage of Wolfert’s Roost, that ancient dream-carpenter who has reduced peanut politics to an exact science. Mr. Parker will find an expert booster in the Wolfert’s rooster whether or not he succeed in boosting him sufficiently high to enable him to grasp that which he seeks. The combination of Hill and Parker is certainly one that is a trifle out of the ordinary, and how far old Dame Democracy will let them proceed in their efforts to corral the various delegations is not easy to say. She is a pretty wide-awake damsel, and it is not likely that old Uncle Peanut can succeed forever in keeping his trousers seat beyond the range of her switch. In point of sagai he is quite as old as the Democratic Ann, and therefore quite capable of mak- ing the situation an extremely interesting one. Y Toy ter DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE TERM. Farmer Jones. Farmer Suita — So your son Josh wrote from Yale thet he thought he would make the nine?” Yes; an’ | wrote right back, ‘If yer do send me five—I kin use it.” comicbooks.com