Puck (8:189), page 108-109, center. By Keppler, title is a play on the word "epizootic," with a sick donkey representing the Democratic Party. Donkey is being treated with elixir from bottle labeled "Butler's Party Killer" and clyster labeled "solid south solution." Also includes barrels labeled "Allopathic" and "Homeopathic." Hansen database #241.
Puck (8:189), page 108-109, center. By Keppler, title is a play on the word "epizootic," with a sick donkey representing the Democratic Party. Donkey is being treated with elixir from bottle labeled "Butler's Party Killer" and clyster labeled "solid south solution." Also includes barrels labeled "Allopathic" and "Homeopathic." Hansen database #241.
Judge (29:733), page 284-285, center. By Gillam, a drowned Tammany tiger from a wrecked ship is laying over a barrel labelled "The Rum Question." A paper on the ground says "Drowned in the tidal wave of 1894." Dana from the New York Sun tries to give the tiger a spoon of "N.Y. Sun Cholera Mixture" while politicians and publishers give advice. Hansen database #42.
Puck (1:22), page 8-9, center. By Keppler. Bergh, wearing a fez and holding a whip, has dogs lounging on a sofa, while editors/publishers and politicians have their legs held in stocks for whipping the soles of their feet. Hansen database #231.
Judge (5:129), cover of complete issue. By Hamilton, "...Dr. Judge--It is my opinion, even in his present condition--with a Payne--he would have an excellent chance." Sammy is dressed as a jockey, belt buckle says Payne. Doctor is holding Sammy's wrist to take the pulse and reading the watch in his left hand. Hansen database #1866.
Judge (16:411), page 336-337. By Grant Hamilton, note the masthead is Judge, not The Judge. On the left side, Dr. Brown-Sequard Randall sits in an upholstered green wing chair, holding a bottle of fluid in left hand and a large syringe with hollow needle in his right. The needle is curved at the end, with its hole on the side just where the curve starts, the syringe is a simple piston. The Brown-Séquard figure is Samuel Jackson Randall, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, who had lost President Cleveland's favor two years earlier. He had been a protectionist since the 1860s despite that position's being unpopular in his party. He is now well supplied with two large tanks of "Protectionism" as an "Elixir of Life." But it's too late, he says, for this rejuvenation juice to revive the Democratic Party and its debilitated Free Trade policy. The central figures are Charles A. Dana (with a tag to identify him as owner-editor of the New York Sun) and Joseph Pulitzer (proprietor of the New York World, apparently recognizable without a label), who have brought a tiger (the Democratic Party, see tag on the tail) in for Doctor Randall's protectionism treatment. At the right, "Free Trade" is being carried in by two men coming from the U.S. Capitol, visible behind them in the doorway: Roger Quarles Mills, Congressman (later Senator) from Texas, and Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Watterson, not "Waterson" (Is the mis-spelling a further joke on this fellow editor?) was an aggressive advocate of free-trade ideas. By chance, Randall died at age 62 in April 1890, less than a year after this cartoon appeared. Sequard appears several times in caption and on the inside, but never with an accent. June (and early July?) issues seem to have several verbal quips about doctors mistakenly thinking a man dead and wanting to bury him. Hansen database #2049.
Puck (7:182), page 456-457, center. By J. Keppler. Hancock (at sight of the Old Bourbon War Horse): "Great Scott! Am I to be Head of That?" Collection of artifacts includes KKK robes, Fugitive Slave Act, and Booth's pistol. Hansen database #239.
Puck (7:182), page 456-457, center. By J. Keppler. Hancock (at sight of the Old Bourbon War Horse): "Great Scott! Am I to be Head of That?" Collection of artifacts includes KKK robes, Fugitive Slave Act, and Booth's pistol. Hansen database #239.
Judge (9:227), page 8-9. by Bernard Gillam, detail of central section: "Pasteur Cleveland Inoculating the Democracy Against Spoils Rabies," in pose of Jenner. In the usage of that era, "Democracy" means "The Democratic Party." Also on sign at far left: "T. Platt--Rags to disinfect!!" Page 2 has 1/2 column about the centerfold, but it's just a list of the names and characters and their poses. Hansen database #31.
