Although the Republicans were secretly funding the campaign of Greenback-Labor nominee Benjamin Butler, cartoonist Nast views Butler and Republican nominee James Blaine's meeting of the minds on the tariff and British questions as injurious to both. Blaine (right) trips over "Dear Fisher Letters," a reference to his railroad scandal. The "20 Years of Usefulness to Blaine" (on his salesman's satchel) is a play on the title of Blaine's memoirs of his public life, Twenty Years in Congress, manipulated to fit Nast's theme that Blaine used public office for his personal gain.
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