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Greeley's Campaign Falters |
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"Red Hot" |
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Cartoonist: Thomas Nast |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
July 13, 1872, p. 560
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Click to see a large version of this cartoon |
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
This small Nast plate shows Horace Greeley hunched over a steaming bowl of
"My Own Words and Deeds," doing his best to choke them down. In his
pocket is a paper entitled, "What I Know About Eating My Own Words."
Although there is no direct proof, it is probable that the cartoonist availed
himself of the extensive file of Greeley's past editorials and statements which
was compiled and distributed by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
Organized by Senator Zachariah Chandler and committee secretary James Edwards,
up to 300 staff members and $30,000 were given the task of searching through 30
years of Greeley materials to find the former editor's misstatements and
self-contradictions. The Chandler-Edwards task force adopted the technique of
the modern press agent, publishing a monthly magazine and a pamphlet called
"The Greeley Record," as well as distributing a "clip sheet"
of damning information to newspapers across the country. Nast's cartoon
humorously expresses the difficulty that the editor's erratic record and
sometimes contradictory utterances created for his presidential campaign. |
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