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“‘Call You That Backing of Your Friends? A Plague Upon Such a Backing!”

Topic:
State Elections
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Bernhard Gillam
Date:
November 6, 1880, p. 708
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In this cartoon the dismal results of the fall state elections (see October Elections in Campaigning) in Vermont, Ohio, and Indiana for the Democratic party is dramatized as a scene from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. Presidential nominee Winfield Hancock is Falstaff, a rotund character (also featured in Shakespeare's Henry IV) known for his bawdy wit and joviality. In Merry Wives, Falstaff seeks to con the two title characters, Mistresses Ford and Page, out of their money, but they outsmart him; hence, Hancock/Falstaff's distemper here. Snickering behind Hancock/Falstaff is the 1876 Democratic ticket of Thomas Hendricks (left), the vice-presidential nominee, and Samuel Tilden (right), the presidential nominee. The artist believes that Hancock's loss in 1880 will benefit Hendricks and Tilden by making them front-runners for the party's presidential nomination in 1884.
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