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English: The Language of Money |
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“Chorus of Hungry Democrats” |
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Cartoonist: Perhaps A. B. Frost |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
August 28, 1880, p. 557
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
While pro-Republican press left the character of Democratic presidential nominee
Winfield Hancock unsullied, they vilified his vice-presidential running-mate,
William English, in caricature and print. He was placed on the Democratic ticket
in large part because it was assumed that he would use his substantial wealth,
accumulated as an Indianapolis banker, to fund much of the campaign. The quote
from the Buffalo Express, however, reports to the contrary that English was
being miserly with his money. Cartoonist A. B. Frost uses that information as
the basis for this cartoon. A gang of unscrupulous and pugnacious political
thugs, representing Northern and Southern Democrats, shake-down English, who
reaches into his pocket for spare change. Sitting atop his own dilapidated
barrel of money is the retired (note slippers) Samuel Tilden, former Democratic
presidential nominee, who was accused of using his own considerable wealth and
that of his corporate sponsors in an attempt to buy the election of 1876. |
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