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On the newsstands only days before the Liberal
Republican National Convention opened in Cincinnati, this cartoon presents the
Liberal Republican movement as an expanding snowball. Previously (upper-right),
President Grant, Senator Roscoe Conkling, and Vice President Schuyler Colfax
scoffed at its puny size. Now, it is of massive girth, pushed by its
molders-Senators Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner shouldering it in front and
(l-r) Governor Gratz Brown, Senator Thomas Tipton, Senator Lyman Trumbull,
editor Horace Greeley, and former Interior Secretary Jacob Cox (?) adding their
force from behind-as it gains the adherence of other politicians whose names
appear on it. (In reality, Sumner was ambivalent about the movement, although he
belatedly endorsed the party's ticket.) |
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