Life, 1893-10-19 · page 8 of 18
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# Political Satire from Life Magazine (Page 248) **"A Million Pensioners"** satirizes General J. Bloody Shorte's (a caricatured Southern general) claim that Northerners wouldn't fight—implying the South wounded every Union soldier. The cartoon mocks this as absurdly exaggerated pension claims. **"What Are You Going To Do About It?"** criticizes the nomination of Judge Maynard for New York's highest court. The text argues an honest judiciary is essential for fighting corruption, but Maynard—connected to Tammany Hall and David B. Hill's political machine—mixed partisan politics with judicial duties, raising serious integrity concerns about his fitness for the bench. The cartoons attack political patronage and corruption in the Gilded Age.
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LIFE an impertinence and an affront to the people of this great State. It is the arrogance of successful Tammany Hall carried almost to the extreme limit. No honest man, no true patriot, should vote for him. A PRESS dispatch is authority for the following news about the candidate who heads the Republican state ticket in New York: “Capt. Palmer, while worth something over $150,000, still con- tinues to draw a pension of $30 a month from the Government, ie he secured under Corporal Tanner's rerating. His pension is given for injury to his spine, although there is not a man in Albany who walks more erectly than he does.”” What an excellent opportunity Capt. Palmer's nomination gives the voters and tax-payers of New York State to turn down a pension-grabber. THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE. A MILLION PENSIONERS. General J. Bluddy Sherte: YOU SOUTHERNERS MAY BE FIGHT- ERS, BUT YOU COULDN'T LICK OUR NORTHERN ARMIES, Colonet Starzon Barres (who ts familiar with our pension system): MAYBE WE COULDN'T, BUT IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE WOUNDED EVERY MOTHER'S SON OF ‘em! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? —_ AN honest judiciary is the strongest bulwark of our system of government. So long as our judges are honest it is always possible to fight and punish corruption in other branches of the public service. And not only must they be honest, but above suspicion. The Tam- many tiger and the Hon, David Pot-house Hill have, as a fruit of their unholy al- liance, nominated Judge Maynard for a place on the bench of the highest court in New York State. There are more than grave doubts as to his honesty. There is no doubt that he has mixed up partisan polities with his judicial duties. His nomination is comicbooks.com