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In this cartoon from the pro-Republican Judge, various Democrats try to coax the skittish Democratic Donkey into submission. In the left background, former president Grover Cleveland leaves the field after announcing he will not seek the presidential nomination in 1904. In the left foreground, publisher and Congressman William Randolph Hearst offers his million-dollar campaign fund. On the soapbox behind him stands David B. Hill, Alton B. Parker’s campaign manager, with a halter of political corruption. Republicans considered Hill, the former New York governor, senator, and state party boss, to be a crooked spoilsman. The feather in his cap mocks his famous statement of party loyalty, “I am a Democrat,” which Republican cartoonists changed to “I am a Demagogue.” |
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1860
