Judge, 1910-10-29 · page 4 of 21
Judge — October 29, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This is Judge magazine's birthday issue celebrating its twenty-ninth year. The header illustration shows a chaotic celebration scene typical of Judge's style. The main content discusses Judge's political impact, particularly its support for Republican candidates and causes. The text explicitly mentions the magazine's role in McKinley's election and Bryan's defeats, claiming Judge contributed more to Roosevelt's 1904 victory than any other publication. The cartoons appear to satirize political opponents and social issues of the era. One shows a figure riding a large apple or sphere labeled "FUN," likely mocking an opponent or ideology. The "To Judge" poem praises the magazine's role in fighting "sham, corruption, and demagogism," positioning Judge as a champion of progressive values and honest governance during the Progressive Era.
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Judge’s Twenty-ninth Birthday. ITH this issue Jupce celebrates the twenty- ninth anniversary of his birth. In the cartoon field Jupce has done a grand work for political progress and civie purity during all those years. As a cham- pion of straightout Republicanism he has been on the firing line of all the party's bat- tles in this period. Born just after the death of Garfield and the accession of Arthur to the presidency, he has seen many changes in the country’s politics and public men. From the beginning he has stood for adequate protection to home industry, for money based on the gold standard, and for fair, honest treatment for labor and capital alike. HEN Jupce was born, the Greenback party had just attained the height of its strength in the 307,000 votes which it polled for General James B. Weaver for Pres- ident, and then began itsdecline and fall. In 1888 the Union Labor and the United Labor parties appeared on the scene and immedi- ately vanished. The Soc! 8 and the Popu- lists appeared in 1892, and the former have steadily increased ever since, but even their most sanguine chiefs have long since re- alized that they have no chance to ever con- trol the government. With their 1,000,000 votes for Weaver, the old Greenbacker, the Populists in 1892 made the largest demon- stration ever shown by any minor political party in American history. Asan annex to the Democratic party and as a fragment of their former selves, the Populists lingered through a few campaigns, and then passed out, under Watson, in 1908. The Independ- ence League, too, strutted its little hour on the stage and then disappeared. UDGE saw the culmination and extinction of Conkling, Sherman, Blaine, Allison, and many others whose names filled a large place in the thoughts of the people in their day. When the first number of Jupce was being printed, Cleveland was making his can- vass for mayor of Buffalo and was unknown outside of Erie County, with his future honors undreamed of by himself or anybody else. Jupce has seen the whole career of Roose- velt, which has contained more marvels than that of any other American, and helped to shape much of that career. JupcE wit- nessed the entrance and the exit of Bryan, and saw the political birth of Parker, Hearst, Harmon, Gaynor, and the other celebrities of the present or the recent past. As the readers of the first number of Jupce were turning over the pages, Mr. Taft was receiving his appointment as assistant pros- ecuting attorney of Hamilton County, and BIRTHDAY NUMBER PUBLISHED BY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Beunswice Bunn co Tex, oan a John A. Sleicher, President. Reuben P. Sleicher, Secretary. Arthur Terry. Treasurer. James Melvin Lee, = Managing Editor. Grant E. Hamilton, =~ Art Editor. with the presidency far beyond the scope of his wildest imaginings. Jupce did valiant but unavailing work for Folger for Governor of New York in 1882, and for Blaine for President in 1884. In appropriate setting Jupce pictured that puncture of the spell of imagined Repub- lican invincibility which brought the first defeat for the Republicans for the presidency which they had suffered since 1856. Harri- son declared to many of his friends that JupcE contributed more to his election in 1888 than did any other publication in the country, daily or weekly. Jupce was the first publication to mention McKinley in connection with the presidency, and did much toward his election in 1896 and 1900. In the defeat of Bryan in his three can- vasses, Jupce was a powerful factor. ‘His Honor” aided materially in organizing vic- tory for Roosevelt in 1904 and Taft in 1902. ND now, on the eve of his entrance into his thirtieth year of honorable activity, JupcE, with all the vigor of youth combined with the poise and the clearness of vision which experience brings, is better equipped than ever to battle against sham, corrup- tion, and demagogiem, and to champion sane, progressive, stalwart Americanism. To Judge. By ROY K. MOULTON J LOVE your smite, So free from guile. I love your optimistic styl That I love your jokes, Your funny pokes That tickle all us sober folks Clear through and through. what I do. I love your dope Of wondrous scope That peddles out eternal hope When problems vex. That much I vow, But must allow That you will ne’er know how, oh, how I love your checks ! Pen Points. HE only “‘safe and sane’’ candidate these days is the one who is not ashamed of his past. Some who think they are in the political swim will later be grasping at straws. ‘An Englishman carried off nearly all the honors of the recent aviation meet over at Boston, but there is nothing remarkable about this. The British always were the best flyers in the vicinity of Concord and Lexington. No woman ever has anything to wear, but she always manages to get to the party just the same without freezing to death or being arrested. It may be true, as some do say, that Love is blind; but, all the same, it is interesting to note how he sort of chirks up when an- other pretty girl comes on the scene. comicbooks.com