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Tilden and Tammany Hall |
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"Democratic Presidential Candidate of 1876 to Democratic Presidential Candidate of 1872" |
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Cartoonist: A. B. Frost based on a George Colt design |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
September 2, 1876, p. S725
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Click to see a large version of this cartoon |
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
During the 1868 presidential election, Samuel Tilden served as campaign manager
for the Democratic nominee, Horatio Seymour, and as chairman of the New York
State Democratic Committee. A year later, New York Tribune editor Horace
Greeley, then a Republican, wrote a public letter to Tilden accusing him of
allowing the New York Democrats to commit vote fraud. Resurrecting the 1868
charge of vote fraud eight years later was one way that Republicans sought to
paint Tilden as politically corrupt.
In this cartoon, Greeley, who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee in
1872, appears as Banquo's ghost, accusing Tilden, who answers as a guilty
Macbeth, of wrongdoing. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the title character murders
Duncan, the good king of Scotland. When Banquo, one of Duncan's generals, voices
suspicions that Macbeth has gained power through an evil deed, Macbeth orders
him murdered as well. Banquo's ghost then manifests himself to Macbeth,
persistently condemning the new ruler for his sins. |
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