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# Life Magazine, October 14, 1886 The masthead cartoon shows a classical female figure (likely representing Life or Liberty) in a dramatic landscape, illustrating the magazine's title: "While there's Life there's Hope." The page contains editorial commentary on contemporary political matters, including discussion of Judge Peckham's judicial appointment, Secretary Endicott and the President's handling of General Miles and Apache relocation to Florida, and speculation about Henry George potentially becoming Mayor of New York (with sarcastic references to burning county records). The tone is satirical and critical, targeting political figures and policies. Without clearer visual caricatures or labels identifying specific individuals in the cartoon itself, the exact subjects of ridicule remain somewhat unclear, though the text references real political controversies of 1886.
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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. VIII. OCTOBER 14, 1886. No. 198. 1155 BroaDwAy, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., $1.50 per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vol. III., IV., V., VI. and VII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HETHER you vote for Peckham or Daniels you wont go far wrong. There is some little prejudice against this country is against having the son of a distinguished parent make a creditable showing for fear the family will get | an established position, and help make classes in America. Judge Daniels can be chosen without any risk of this sort, since his parents, though entirely respectable, were obscure. But it | is proper to say for Judge Peckham that his influence with his father forty years ago was slight, and that he ought not to be held responsible for the parental excellence. Further- more, Judge Peckham wants the place, whereas Judge Dan- | iels expresses himself as entirely satisfied with his present | sphere of usefulness and extremely reluctant to move. If he is elected he will have to fetch loose from Buffalo and spend most of his working days in the city of Albany, which will be a trial to him. Peckham being already in Albany need not budge, except to go to Saratoga in the spring. Unless it is | | the wing if he could, and have brought him in ripe and ready to be regarded as excellent in itself to withdraw a human being from the climate of Buffalo, there is considerable force in the argument for Peckham. * * * PROPOS of the Court of Appeals, it is a comfort to | society in this town that their honors, the justices of that tribunal, have found it consistent with their duty and their learning to leave ex-Alderman Jaehne to languish out his full term at Sing-Sing. And their decision may help to | send him company, which is a further source of comfort and consolation to Gotham. The more wicked aldermen New York can board at Sing-Sing, and the longer she can keep them there, the better she will like it. * * * RE we to have Henry George to be our Mayor? And will he begin by burning the records in the County Clerk’s office? LiFE is not a pig. Mr. G.’s other supporters may have the rich pickings down town. All we want for our share is the block propinquitous to this office, one end of which is occupied by Mr. Delmonico’s restaurant. We | are for you, Henry, first and subsequently. And when you take the land from the rich, and distribute it around among the worthy poor, don’t you forget to remember it. We are poor, and we are worthy, and we are rock-bound solid for you. x « + OSWELL SMITH, of the Century, has been telling the American Tract Society that they are behind the times in their literature. He thinks he can tell them a few things which would wake up the market for tracts as a hor- net wakes a sleeping dog. Let the American Tract Society be very distrustful of Ros- well Smith. He knows too much. He will come around to u ‘ ‘ §ainst | the directors and say that no tract that has been written for Peckham because his father was a judge, and public feeling in | half a century can compare for moral force and instructive- ness with a few papers he knows of which relate to the bat- tle of Shiloh. Roswell Smith is long of war papers, and means to close out his collection to the Tract Society before the market breaks. Isn’t he sly! * * * HERE are rumors that Secretary Endicott and the President are displeased with General Miles, because of terms he is reported to have made with Geronimo. Mr. Endicott, who is nothing if not a politician, wanted to hang Geronimo for the sake of strengthening the party in Arizona. It is too bad he should be balked in such a worthy purpose, but it will do no good to hang Miles. Miles is a Democrat | already, so there is no need of stern measures for his conver- sion. He would unquestionably have caught Geronimo on for the halter. If he didn’t it was because he couldn’t. Ger- | onimo in Florida is almost as good as dead. If the winter hotel board does not kill him, he will become such a favorite with the visitors there that he will soon succumb to whisky. The ablest solution of the Indian question ever offered was concealed in the proposal to board them at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The expedient of sending these Apaches to Florida is the next thing to it. * * * UT probably Mr. Endicott’s displeasure has been exag- gerated. That he and the President conceal mild manners behind their formidable mustaches is apparent from their gentle treatment of the fractious cadets for whom LIFE | interceded some time since. It is whispered about that the young men will be permitted to gladden the hearts of the June girls next summer, notwithstanding their late miscon~ duct. Thanks, Mr. Secretary! comicbooks.com