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"The Cincinnati Snowball—It Grows As It Rolls"

Topic:
Liberal Republican Movement
Source:
Leslie's Illustrated
Cartoonist:
Matt Morgan
Date:
May 4, 1872, p. 121
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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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