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“Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle”
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The Democratic party personified as Rip Van Winkle awakens to find the ghosts of
the past Democratic presidential nominees and their current standard-bearer,
Winfield Hanacock (with arms raised) floating by him. The Democrats had not won
a presidential election since James Buchanan's victory in 1856, and this cartoon
predicts that 1880 will not reverse that trend. The spectral Democratic nominees
are (left to right): Samuel Tilden (1876), Winfield Hancock (1880), Horatio
Seymour (1868), George McClellan (1864), Horace Greeley (1872), and Stephen
Douglas (1860). Laying beside the Democratic Rip Van Winkle are his
states-rights musket and his flask of bourbon whiskey (representing Southern
Democrats); above him in the tree perch two owls, Benjamin Butler (left) and
John Kelly (right), furtive birds of prey. |
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