Tie. evolution of .ludgo from tho woak’ln-’i
wm in I'oil to the power it has now become,
furnish • nn ItiViiwling Htudy. Tlio crude,
wonk attempts at enrtooria in tho paper which
ai tho loading pictorial organ of tho re
publican party, puled into itmfgniiicanco when
compared with the strong, living cartoons of
I’uck artists.
Four years ago Judge in jured rather than
helped republican chatie.ea. it. is different now.
TltK KQI AI. ok puck.
In itii eartoona, Judge is at least tho equal
of Puck, ami many people consider It the best
of all pictorial journals. It Is not that, but. its
cartoons tiro wonderfully strong.
It in tu one mini, < ill un, that tho change In
tho positions of I’uck ami Judge is duo. Gillam
was ono of the most powerful of Puck’s car
toonists iour years ago. It was ho who con
ceived and executed the "tattooed statesman”
of the republican party, and many otlmrs of
those pl lures which wero laughed at all over
tho country.
Gillum is now with Judge, and the pages of
that paper show that ho has lost nano of his
cuumng.
In This Cmnputgn.
Tho campaign of 1888 is young yet, but it
has already been productive of a number of ex
cellent cartoons.
IN puck.
Puck has lost Gillam, but still Ims Keppler,
Oiipiu. Hamilton, Elirhart, Dalrynwplo ana
other able artists.
