The Judge, Vol. 6, No. 155

This *Judge* cover from October 1884 depicts a scene titled "Simple Simon went a-fishing / For to catch a whale. / And all the fishes that he found / Were in his mother's pail." A woman labeled "Women's Temperance Union" and "St. John" (the Prohibition Party candidate) manipulates a fishing rod to direct a man in a wide-brimmed hat—representing the Democratic nominee—toward a barrel marked "Prohibition." Behind him looms an "Insurance Hall," while a bucket labeled "Colt. Water" sits nearby. The cartoon ridicules the Prohibition Party's spoiler role in the 1884 presidential race, sardonically suggesting that temperance advocates are fishing voters into prohibition's net. *Judge's* Republican editors used such election-season satire to mock third-party challengers and their supporters, deploying caricature and gendered humor typical of 1880s campaign journalism.