Judge, 1912-06-15 · page 14 of 28
Judge — June 15, 1912 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early 20th-century American politics, likely from a convention season. The cartoons mock: **"The Birth of a Progressive"**: A poet complains he can't find hotel rooms because delegates occupy every bed—satirizing the chaos and overcrowding of political conventions. **"The Joy of Attainment"**: References a political figure (possibly a convention chairman) who experiences peak satisfaction chairing proceedings, suggesting politicians' ambitions are petty. **"Head-on Collision"**: A brief joke about Taft and Roosevelt meeting on "a single track"—likely referencing their 1912 split, when Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party challenged incumbent Taft. **"The Cause"**: Politics creates "strange bedfellows" forced to cooperate while competing for advantage; skeletons in closets (scandals) emerge during campaigns. **"Got Her Goat"** and **"Explosive"**: Generic humor about animals and automobiles, unrelated to politics. The overall message criticizes political conventions as chaotic, self-serving spectacles where personal ambition trumps principle.
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wien GOT HER GOAT. Big brother (to little sister, who has just taken her first ride with goat) —“‘ Nice ride, Rosie ?"" Rosie (looking ruefully at whip) —"* Yes. But goodness! I never thought Billy would wear out his whip so soon" Head-on Collision. Hewitt—‘I had a strange dream last The Birth of a Progressive. The Joy of Attainment. A Sad Sonnet of the Convention City, Aman can have a good many triumphs ] GRABBED ny stylo firmly in my fist; in a political career, but whatever night.” “I want a double room and bath!" I heights he attains there is never a repe- Jewett—'‘1 will try to keep awake said. tition of the supreme joy he felt the while you tell it.” The day clerk smiled and gently shook first time he served as chairman of a Hewitt—‘‘I dreamed that Taft and his head, convention and reached that part of the Roosevelt met on a single track."’ And then replied, ‘‘If that’s a joke— proceedings where he puffed his chest 5 Philosophical. desist! out and said, ‘‘What is the further Them things you ask me for just don’t pleasure of the convention?”’ “*When I look around and see the cam- paign banners,’’ said the de- exist— We've nineteen delegates in feated candidate for the presi- every bed! dential nomination, ‘‘I am more But call around again, cos, than reconciled to my defeat, on the dead, and my heart goes out to the You're number ninety on the poor fellows who have to be waiting list!"" disfigured by house painters All day I wandered sadly who:once in: four ‘years: play through the town, the role of portrait painters.” But sought a place to sleep all, all in vain! On the lake shore that night I laid me down, To murder delegates inside my brain. And now at last I know without a doubt We ought to cut these fool conven- tions out! Charles H. Machinsesh. EXPLOSIVE. Chauffeur—" Hang it! another blowout !"” The Cause. “‘What’s this rumpus about?”’ “Oh, it is caused by the strange bedfellows that politics = makes trying to eteal all the coverlids from each other, and the skeletons in the closets ham- mering to get out to take part in the campaign." comicbooks.com